CATASTROPHE Day, or ‘Nakba’, was commemorated in Palestine recently culminating in the March of Return, which went on for over a month.
It began when Palestinians were robbed of their homeland and the genocide began. It will not stop until the land is rid of the Zionists ensconced in Tel Aviv.
On May 14, the main backer of these Zionists, the United States, opened its embassy in Jerusalem in breach of United Nations resolutions and international law, as if by doing so the crime perpetrated by the West more than 70 years ago will be erased.
The callousness of President Donald Trump to the Palestinian suffering is abominable. His twisted logic argues that this action of recognising Jerusalem as Israel’s capital will quickly resolve the problem. How?
“We have suffered for so long… because of Israel. War after war after war. Bombing after bombing after bombing. You build a house. They destroy it. You raise a child. They kill him. Whatever they do — the US, Israel, the whole world — we’ll keep resisting until the last one of us dies.” This is what Suleiman Zghreibv has lived through for the past 30 years. (From the film Killing Gaza. Quote reproduced by Chris Hedges in his piece of the same name.)
The US embassy drew blood even as it was being opened. Israel killed more than 50 Palestinian protesters and injured thousands while it was being officially opened. Like an ugly opening sequence to the remembrance of a bitter past that refuses to end, the May 14 massacre will be just another episode of Israeli tyranny.
And, US has blocked the adoption of a UN Security Council statement calling for an investigation of this latest massacre. This is mass killing with impunity, encouraged by US.
Israel, the sole nuclear power in the region, harbours hegemonic designs over the Middle East and is couched in fear of victimisation by her Arab neighbours. Therefore, its security can be guaranteed only by more land grabs and conquests.
And, this at a time when her Arab neighbours are openly more accepting of her presence.
But, Iran and Syria have not abandoned the Palestinians. Syria and her allies, including Iran, have defeated the proxy army, terrorists armed and trained by US and her allies, thus thwarting their regime change agenda for Syria and Iran.
While the Russians in the air have been instrumental in facilitating the ground war, Iran on the ground (and Hizbullah) with the Syrian Arab Army, make for a formidable force.
Whereas, once upon a time, Israel would have no compunction about violating Syria’s airspace, after the recent shooting down of one of its fighter jets, air superiority is now questionable. Furthermore, Syria’s implacability is boosted by Iran’s military strength.
Iran, therefore, is what is keeping the region from coming under the control of Israel.
Washington’s neoconservatives have not stopped their agenda for world hegemony.
While oil is a major spoil of war, the globalisation agenda of the New World Order is about a one-world government where US dictates the global order.
The disaster that is Palestine, therefore, is but the beginning of a script the West has no wish to rewrite.
While non-Western leaders have voiced their support for Palestine and the Palestinians, their inaction turns the words into mere platitudes, as if buying time for Israel to complete her ethnic-cleansing exercise.
What then is left to the Palestinians if not to rise as a people against a diabolical tyranny? How about solidarity among peoples? Rachel Corrie, killed on March 16, 2003 while trying to block an Israeli armoured bulldozer, was the finest example. She gave her life for the cause.
The only answer is for us, the people who want a just world, to be united against Zionist and US global hegemony.
Askiah Adam,
Executive Director, International Movement for a Just World