Donald Trump’s recent re-election took place amid the ongoing butchery and colonial genocide by Israel of the native indigenous Palestinian people. The new U.S. administration has a chance to bring a permanent settlement to the Israeli colonization of Palestine by imposing a fair and just resolution based on recognizing the rights of the Palestinian nation, long abandoned by an international community under the guilt borne out of long-standing Western antisemitism that climaxed in the Holocaust. This concerns an entire region that has been beset by tragedy after tragedy and war after war ever since the European Jewish colony was forcibly established on Palestinian land.
The fact that ultra-religious fundamentalist Israel is a nuclear power does not help because the Samson option with which it threatens everyone else is bad for Israel and for all its neighbors; it further gives a pretext to rogue, equally fundamentalist ultra-religious fake democracies like Iran to pursue their own nuclear programs and, as is increasingly apparent, to drag the United States into wars that failed in the past in the region. Israeli aggression and arrogance have been fed with an absolute laissez-faire western policy of providing Israel with weapons and never asking a question about their use.
Whatever one thinks of Trump, my hope is that his administration will release the Middle East region from the long-standing "triple standard", a term coined by an Israeli diplomat no less, but for a more insidious but habitual Zionist deceptive purpose.
According to this concept, Israel is given carte blanche to seize any territory it wishes, colonize it, terrorize its occupied Palestinian captive population and kill at will, while surrounding Arab countries are dragged like bonded slaves behind the American permissive policy toward Israel and are told to shut up on Israel's barbarity vis-a-vis the Arab Palestinian people or else fear the Iranian scarecrow. Israel is not, and has never been, a "homeland" for European Jewish communities traumatized by the Holocaust. In fact, more than half of the Israeli population come from non-European countries where they had enjoyed centuries of peaceful and productive lives, only to suddenly to told they'd better move to Israel to serve as bulk to increase the minority colonial Jewish population. The European Zionists, with German and east European names run the country, while the Sepharadi Jews are the foot soldiers of the ruling "whites" like the Blacks and Hispanics of America.
Israel is no more than an American military base, a stationary US battleship in the Near East, a US-armed terror militia serving as a baton against whomever asks a question about Palestine and the oil fields in the Gulf. So little is expected from Israel as it continues to prove it has no intention to make friends in a region it claims to want to stay forever, like its predecessor Christian colonial enterprise of a 1,000 years ago, the Crusader Kingdom in Palestine. That one lasted 200 years before it was evicted. with its neighbors. Pretty soon, we will reach the 50th anniversary of the Camp David Accords that were supposed to usher peace in the region; instead the accords pushed Egypt and Jordan out of the Arab opposition to colonial Israel. Meanwhile, the camel Kingdoms and Emirates of the Gulf have been tamed by engorging them with cheap American culture disguised under implanted museums, universities and think tanks.
Much of the global opinion and press narrative has finally recognized the triple standard of barbaric untouchable Israel, tamed decadent Arabs, and the bad Iranians whose Islamic theocracy pales in comparison to the Jewish theocracy in occupied Palestine. Lest anyone forgets, Iran's anger at the US is justified for one simple reason: The US inherited British colonialism and its CIA toppled the duly elected secular Iranian government of Mosadeg in order to prevent him from nationalizing its own oil reserves and destituting the British of their monopoly known as the Anglo-Persian Oil Company. The English crooks tried to do the same with Egypt' Nasser who wanted to nationalize the Suez Canal, but they failed because the US, for once, did the right thing: It opposed the French-English-Israeli coalition and the Suez Canal was returned to its rightful owners, the Egyptian people.
What everyone does not dare touch or question, the sacred cow as it were, is that Israel has violated or refused to implement ALL UNSC resolutions demanding it ends its occupation of Palestine. Except one resolution by the General Assembly, and not by the Security Council: The 1947 Palestine partition plan that essentially created a state out of the illegal Jewish migrants into mandatory Palestine over almost half of the Palestinian territory. This is the triple standard in full action. Why is Israel not required under penalty to abide by decisions of the international community? Why Israel is allowed to behave like an outlaw criminal hiding behind American weapons and terrorizing the region?
Look at Gaza: Under the pretext of "self-defense", Israel is carrying out the single most barbaric ethnic cleansing and genocide of our time, all viewed by billions of people. Starvation, bombing of civilians in so-called safe zones to which they were directed by their hypocritical savage killers, continuous displacements from one area to another. If you hadn't noticed yet, most localities inside Gaza that are being bombed and obliterated have "camp" in their names: The bulk of the Palestinian population of Gaza is made of refugees that fled their homes in Haifa, Jaffa, Jerusalem, the Galilee and elsewhere in Palestine when the zavage Zionist settlers terrorized them and forced them to leave their homes and their villages. These refugees are again made refugees. And to add insult to injury, the Zionist barbarians want the agency, UNRWA, charged with caring for the Palestinians made refugees by the creation of the aritificial state of Israel. The illogical absurd objective of the settler Zionists is clear: If there is no agency to care for refugees, then there are no refugees. The obligation of Israel to allow refugees to return to their homes and villages has no statute of limitation. Neither have its obligations as a foreign occupying power over the indigenous occupied population.
Nearly 45,000 people have been killed by the Zionist onslaught on Gaza, a figure that is confirmed daily by the rare international instances allowed by the media-muzzling repressive Zionist occupation to see and judge Israel's actions on the ground. Bombing hospitals, churches, mosques, archeological sites, schools... is illegal and criminal, even if enemy combatants are hiding among the civilians in those places.
Israel's violation of every ethical and legal norm is deliberate. It is not that Israel does not understand its obligations; it does. Therefore, the only conclusion one can draw from Israel's savagery and barbarity in Gaza is two-fold: Vengeance for the barbaric Hamas attack of October 7 (which by the way is justified by the context of a foreign illegal occupation), and the real objective of the Zionists is to steal the land and expand the territory of Israel per barbaric anachronistic biblical prophecies from the Bronze Age.
Does anyone today accuse the Algerian government of terrorism today because it perpetrated untold violence on the white Christian French settlers of Algeria in the early 1960s? Did you know that the Algerian FLN (Front de Libération Nationale) was for colonial France the exact equivalent outfit that the PLO, Hamas and Islamic Jihad are for colonial Israel? Did you know that the Algerian "terrorists" of the FLN bombed, killed, raped, mutilated and cut the breasts of colonial French women ... need I go on with more descriptive details of what the FLN did to their French colonial occupiers? Yet, those same "terrorists" became the officials of the free Algerian government and are today respected the world over. When a foreign occupier steals your land and terrorizes your people, what are you supposed to do?
The West must stop been a hypocrite on Palestine and allow the a perpetuation of the Israeli triple standard that is undermining all the rules and norms established by the international community after World War II. Who will be the next savage occupier and invader to tell the UN to go fuck itself next time the UN reminds of its obligations? It will cite the Israeli example to derogate itself from any responsibility to its crimes. The international community is committing suicide in the name of a sentimental guilt complex still infecting the West for the Holocaust. But one savagery cannot be used to justify another. Wake up and uphold a single standard that recognizes that a colonial savage occupier is the ultimate cause for the liberation violence that an occupied, raped, tormented, dispossessed indigenous people might have to resort to.
Israel has no chance of survival in the Near East on the long-term if it does not rejoin the community of decent law-abiding civilized nations. As a foreign colony, it might be accepted in the region as long as it puts an end to its deadend arrogance of a madeup military power whose sole existence rests upon another country's largesse. That is no solution for the long term. The Crusades are a precedent. It'd better learn from it.
If Trump is serious about bringing
an end to the current crisis in the Middle East, the triple standard
needs to be retired once and for all. Not only is it hypocritical, it is
demoralizing and undermining the entire construct of the international community as it was built after World War II. Israel's behavior is setting a dangerous precedent for how we deal with colonialism and liberation movements across the globe. Algeria in the 1960s. South Africa in the 1990s. Vietnam in 1975. What are we waiting for to add a year after the name of Palestine?
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