From Our Special Correspondent
EDITORIAL
Federica Iezzi
Gaza City, December 20, 2024
In the Middle East the war front is just waiting to expand. Netanyahu's delusional plan to create a nuclear power system did not go unnoticed in Cairo Greater Israel. In the name of the delusional reading of biblical texts, it is a state that includes parts of Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia but also eastern Egypt, as well as Sinai.
The horrendous and execrable massacre of October 7 is the inexorable result of 76 years of ethnic cleansing that the Palestinian people have suffered at the hands of Israel since 1948. It is the result of 57 years of Israeli military occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, which it has evolved into the worst apartheid system in modern history.
Assertive politics
It is the result of an Israeli policy assertiveness that led to the demise of the plan to partition Palestine into two states, in which the Palestinians were supposed to build a state on 22 percent of their territory, while United Nations Resolution 181 granted them 44 percent of land, when they actually owned 82% of the land in historic Palestine.
This policy is the result of the law on the nation-state of the Israeli parliament – dating back to 2018 -, which reserves the right to self-determination in historic Palestine to the Jewish people alone – in Hebrew Eretz Yisra'him (Land of Israel).
Sickening statements
They follow this the nauseating claims of Bezalel Smotrich, Israeli finance minister, according to which Israel will illegally fill the West Bank with Israeli settlements until the Palestinians lose all hope of having their own state and will therefore have to choose between immigration (ethnic cleansing), submission to the Israelis (apartheid ) or death (genocide).
The reality is that neither United Nations Nor have Western governments been able to enforce Tel Aviv's implementation of more than 84 Security Council resolutions and approximately 800 General Assembly resolutions supporting Palestinian rights.
Over 84 resolutions
Nor the millions of Palestinian refugees parked in the camps, nor the shipwreck of an entire population in 1948 have ever moved a Europe traumatized by the Second World War. After 1967, global solidarity began to have a feeble voice. But it took the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982 and the first Intifada in 1987 for solidarity with Palestine to play a real role.
The assassination of Stephen Bikostudent and activist, by the South African regime's police in 1977 – a year after the Soweto riots – sparked more outrage than the elimination of thousands of opponents by the Ethiopian dictator Mengistu. But why?
Macabre account
International public opinion he does not measure his reactions exclusively by the yardstick of macabre counts. Because in a specific historical moment, a conflict can express the truth of an era, going beyond the narrow framework of its geographical location, to acquire a universal scope.
The history of the last century saw the emancipation from the colonial yoke as its absolute protagonist and despite the differences, Vietnam, South Africa and Palestine are all on the line of gestation of a new world based on the principle of equality between peoples.
Half a million settlers
The coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is true follows different rules. Indeed, what other example is known of an occupation condemned for more than forty years by the United Nations without results or sanctions? What other case exists in which a country can illicitly install more than 500,000 settlers in the territories it occupies without the international community issuing anything other than verbal condemnations of no effect?
Federica Iezzi
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Twitter @federicaiezzi
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