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NST Leader: Unite against Zionist war crimes

"Israel has the right to defend itself." Like a well-rehearsed line, it echoes around the capitals of the United States, Europe and the United Kingdom. There is an unmistakable ring of a lie in the seven words. It's a pity only Bernie Sanders, the man who wanted to be president and sadly didn't, notices it.

American presidents of the past, with a possible exception of Jimmy Carter, who rightly accused Israel of the crime of apartheid, were apologists for the Zionist regime of Israel. Now President Joe Biden lends his name to the shameful list. Israel has the right to defend itself, he tells the media. Nowhere in Biden's statement are the rights of the Palestinians mentioned. Neither are they in the verbiage that issues from Brussels and London.

Sanders' question in his guest essay in The New York Times is: why not ask what are the rights of the Palestinians? After all, Hamas' rockets didn't start the crisis, he reminds Israel's apologists. Unsurprisingly, the West won't ask the question and here is why.

Firstly, they helped create the fiction that is Israel as a reward for the Zionists in helping the West win World War 1 and as an atonement for their Holocaust sins. The problem with this is that it inflicts a vicarious punishment on the innocent Palestinians.

Secondly, having got what the Zionist regime wanted, and grown powerful in the process, it now is holding the ones who created the monster at ransom. The Zionists have infiltrated every capital that matters. See how the sentence "Israel has the right to defend itself" around the world reads like it was drafted by some Jewish lobby group.

No one should be surprised if it was. Even if the leaders in the US, Europe and Britain wanted to say "Palestinians have a right to defend themselves", they won't be able to because the monster won't allow it. What's worse — and this is the third reason — something more menacing is happening in the West.

Any criticism of Israel and its Zionist regime is treated as a crime of anti-semitism. If this happens in Israel, no one will be surprised because it is an apartheid regime after all. Shockingly, it happens in the West, where people are free to insult Islam but are not able even to criticise the Zionist regime for its crimes against humanity.

The International Criminal Court too isn't spared. The ICC's investigations into Israel's war crimes are now being labelled anti-semitism by Israel to stop it from uncovering the regime's war crimes. Same charges are being labelled at B'Tselem, the Israeli human rights non-governmental organisation and Human Rights Watch which were brave enough to accuse Israel of the crime of apartheid. Sanders' question notwithstanding, how do we stop the Zionist regime's war crimes that have continued since 1948?

British politician George Galloway has an answer that he has been telling the Arabs for 40 years: Arab unity. Instead some Arab nations allowed themselves to be used by the West and the Zionists to the detriment of the Palestinians. Not only the Arabs but Muslims the world over should by now know the duplicity of the West. Remember, it was the duplicity of Britain, France and the US that was the first cause of the Nakba. More than 100 years may have passed but their duplicitous ways haven't ended. It never will.

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