The American Veto: A True Partnership in the War of Extermination of Our People

It was not at all surprising that the United States used its veto power in the UN Security Council to abort the draft resolution for a ceasefire in Gaza, because it plays the role of a real partner in the war of extermination and ethnic cleansing that Israel is waging against our Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. In fact, it is the one who directs the conflict in Israel’s favor and controls everything, and from here it is the one who makes the decision that undoubtedly gives Israel the cover and permission to continue the war of extermination and massacres against our Palestinian people.

The United States is repeating its aggressive policies against the Palestinian people, not only when it takes these decisions that protect Israel and encourage it to continue its massacres, war and deprivation of our people of their most basic rights, but also when it supports Israel with weapons, ammunition, equipment and bombs, with which Israel kills all the elements of life for a defenceless civilian people in the Gaza Strip. Thus, it proves once again that it is actually participating on the ground in the crimes of killing children and women, and that it is responsible for the war of extermination, ethnic cleansing, starvation and displacement, in addition to destroying all aspects of civilian life in the Strip.

This time, the UN Security Council intervened with a draft resolution that could have actually led to an immediate halt to Israel’s aggression against the Gaza Strip, and contributed to saving what could be saved from the terrible humanitarian catastrophe, by withdrawing the occupation from the Strip, and giving our people a glimmer of hope with its leadership, in determining their fate and starting the path of reconstruction, and restoring health even after many years. However, the United States decided to continue its policy biased towards Israel, in addition to controlling the will of the international community and challenging it, and from here it is the one who designs the path of wars, death and destruction in the Middle East and elsewhere.

The great condemnation of this decision by the Palestinian presidency, which denounced and condemned yesterday evening the US administration’s use of the veto for the fourth time, considering that it encourages the Israeli occupation to continue its crimes against the Palestinian people and the brotherly Lebanese people, and its defiance of all international legitimacy resolutions and international law, must be coupled with practical measures in an attempt to pressure the world to implement the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice issued in the UN General Assembly resolution, which called for a halt to the aggression, an end to the occupation, and an Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, in addition to the necessity of exposing and laying bare the US role that is completely biased in favor of Israel.

Palestinian factions and forces, most notably Hamas, the Popular Front, and Islamic Jihad, have condemned this unjust decision, which reveals the truth of the hostile American role. The question that arises is: If the United States is seriously and truly concerned with stopping the war, as it carries out daily diplomatic moves and sends its officials on shuttle visits to the region, why does it use a poisoned right that prevents stopping this war?

It simply wants the aggression to end at the time Israel wants and in agreement with it, to truly prove the inability of the international system, which is mortgaged and governed by American and Israeli arrogance and hegemony.

We must assume full responsibility towards our Palestinian people, by working immediately to stop the aggression, massacres, wars of extermination, displacement, starvation and destruction. This is the right of our people to be saved from the clutches of these crimes that have crossed all red lines. We demand that the extermination be stopped forever, and the United States must stop supporting this criminal entity that denies all Palestinian rights.