Endless sufferings and pains of the Palestinian people

Why does the international community, by remaining silent, ignore Israel’s inhuman acts? 

By Our Middle Eastern Correspondent

For many years, the Middle East has faced some major challenges, and it has long been one of the most unstable and crisis-ridden regions in the world.

The Palestine issue and the relentless war against the Palestinians and some other neighbouring countries of the occupied land, namely, Lebanon by the fake regime of Israel is the main and the most obvious root cause of the crisis. Since 1948, when Israel proclaimed its existence on the occupied territories, this regime’s uninterrupted attacks on the Palestinian civilians and territories has been continuing. As the result, millions of the Palestinians have been expelled and displaced from their lands, thousands also taken captive by the Zionist regime while thousands martyred, and tens of thousands also have been injured.

The Middle East turned to become a region grappling with tension and turmoil due to the occupier Zionist regime’s brutalities. In order to signal no change in its anti-human rights politics, the Zionist regime, in the last months, has intensified its brutality and total impunity against the Palestinians; continuing the killing, torturing and assassinating people and Palestinian authorities. In the meantime, it has been carrying on persistent pressures to undermine elections in the occupied lands; and with the influence of the American leaders’ political pressures and lobbies on Arab governments and the Head of Palestinian National Authority, this regime has initiated a ploy to establish a government in Palestinian territories, as per its preference.

Israel is reducing Palestine to ashes. It amplifies the severity of targeting and destroying Palestinian infrastructures and economic facilities, on daily basis, and that creates an unsafe atmosphere for the life of all Palestinians. Can the people around the world turn a blind eye to what has been happening?

Israel can’t tolerate Palestinians’ right to select their government officials. It carries mass punitive measures and tortures; ministers, MPs and those selected by the people of Palestine are arrested from their homes and imprisoned. Thousands of Palestinians are kept imprisoned for a long time in appalling conditions and are subject to harsh inhuman treatment.

It is obvious that the Zionist regime wants to dictate the people of Palestine not only to the type of government but also in terms of appointing appropriate people to that government.

There is no single day that the Palestinian people are not attacked, killed and injured by Israeli barbaric soldiers and its fighter jets. Palestine is the only land in the world where human rights are abused and violated 24 hours a day by Israeli regime but, to our surprise, the flag bearers of claiming human rights have always stayed silent to these crimes. They, particularly the US, encourage Israel to carry on more crimes.

Can the world keep silent to this obvious oppression? Why does the US provide more than $ 3 billion annually to the Zionist regime so that Israel spends this sum of money to pound and kill the Palestinians. Why does the US continuously supply Israel the weaponries for killing the Palestinians? Why is Israel the only major centre for storing and compiling nuclear weapons in the Middle East? Which countries are the targets and going to be destroyed by these nuclear bombs? Why is it that the Palestinians have to be in permanent siege by Israel military and not have any contact with the outside world? 

Why does Israel have such a right to build a huge concrete wall and dare to hold the Palestinians in mass detention within their territories. Why does the international community, by remaining silent, ignore Israel’s inhuman acts and measures? Why should the defendants of Israelis continuous aggression of Palestine who call themselves as the international community, put an equal sign between the occupier and the occupied while they term the Palestinian resistance as terrorism, which is undertaken against the Israeli’s occupation and state terrorism? Is this because they want to justify the occupation?

Similarly, why do they call the supporters of the oppressed Palestinians who have always protested the savagery and uninterrupted Israelis aggressions, as “the supporters of terrorism”?

Why is the US allowed to equip the killers of the Palestinians with the most advanced weapons of mass destruction, cluster bombs, drones, assassination and torture equipment, as well as, to provide them with the most state-of-the-art technologies for production of weaponries? Should one still have to be silent? Do the Palestinians have even no right to shout against the Zionist regime for its continuous oppression of their children and territories? Shouldn’t they organise Intifada and public uprising against their enemy, and furthermore, to use their power and lives for a legitimate and legal resistance?

What solution does the world think of to prevent the constant and unstoppable massacre of innocent Palestinian women, children, elderlies and the youth? Should the Middle East countries always remain supporting the oppression and keep silent against the oppression of the oppressed?

Now that there is no forum and authority in the international system and in global relations to address the rights of the Palestinian people that have been constantly violated by the Israeli authoritarian regime, what tools do exist for expressing dissatisfaction and extinguishing the fire of anger of the people around the globe toward the crimes of the Israeli apartheid regime?

Everyday mass media, radio, television and Western media publish news through which they try to justify the massacre of Palestinians. These media, in support of the Zionist regime’s crimes and atrocities, produce and publish some footages as saying, “some Palestinian terrorist killed by Israeli’s soldiers.” What should we do in this case? From which authority should the innocent and homeless people of Palestine ask the definition of the legal and judicial difference between “irresponsible terrorist”, as the Palestinian are characterised, and the characterisation of their killers as “responsible soldier”?

People in the world ask the US and Israel a major question as to why they and their supporters are busy dealing with concealing the principal necessity of the oppressed Palestinians’ defending their legitimate right?

The oppressed also ask the UN that if its role and responsibility is to ensure peace and security, as mentioned in the charter of the organisation, why after almost 50 years, it could not become a fundamental power to ensure peace and security in the world, influenced by the unquestioned domination of countries with veto power at the security council? And, how is it that all the resolutions passed by the UN Security Council that require the withdrawal of Israeli armed forces from all of the occupied territories are thrown to the garbage with no fear of the UN reaction and no sign of implementation? Why has Israel not signed any of the treaties on the Non-Proliferation of nuclear weapons (NPT) and has not joined the NPT? The answer is clear; because the US gives its full and comprehensive support to Israel as the latter is the US biggest base and military connection in the Middle East for dominance over people of the region.

After so many years under Israel’s continuous attacks and oppressions, Palestinian people came to understand that they no longer could wait for internationally-led actions to de-escalate the enemy’s crimes. They have recognised the necessity to take action by themselves to stay safe from the Zionist enemy’s bombardments and shootings and to send out Israeli military from their homeland. As an outcome, they formed a people’s resistance among themselves based on religious teachings and fought with Israel.

Palestinian people have understood that expecting powerful governments to react or keep an eye on the assistances of Arab states have been useless. They have also understood that the resolutions passed so far by the US security council to condemn Israel’s crimes against the Palestinians, in different times and years, could not get final approval only because of the US’s opposition and vetoing the resolutions. Thus, they began a major Intifada with empty hands in order to take control of their own destiny. Granting that, people around the globe also do not want to stay as an observer, watching the killing and massacre of the unarmed Palestinian people, rather they want to play their important role in supporting the Palestinian people.

Of course, the Muslims have a bigger responsibility and should find a functional permanent solution to end all roots of insecurity in the Middle East; World Al-Quds is the best opportunity for all the Muslims and freedom-seekers in the world, as well as, the Islamic countries to declare, through a ceremony, their international solidarity in supporting the legitimate and legal rights of the people of Palestine, and by joining each other, cut the hands of this occupier regime on the people of Palestine.

World Al-Quds is a day where the occupation of the Palestinian territories is introduced and called as an important “political challenge” and as the Islamic world’s top agenda. It is a day that all Muslims and the oppressed rush to the aid of their brothers and sisters in Palestine with unity and unison in order not to let Israel to continue the belligerent occupation of Palestinian territories aiming at weakening and destroying the Palestinian nation.