Dora McPhee (VIC) responds to Koutsoukis’ “Israel to rely on US veto” The Age, 19Oct09 October 19, 2009
The Age: “Israel to rely on US veto” by Jason Koutsoukis, 19 October 2009
From day one of the war on Gaza it was clear that civilians were being targeted and war was a misnomer for the massacre that was unfolding, yet the US, which had supplied Israel with the weapons being unleashed, and the rest of the world sat on their hands using delaying tactics in the UN and even defending Israel’s actions as self-defence. As 1400 were killed, 5000 injured (of whom 1900 became disabled) and 1,346 children became orphans compared with barely a handful of Israeli fatalities it was clear something was not right. And indeed the Goldstone report confirmed the findings of all the other reports written by human rights groups that war crimes were committed in Gaza against the Palestinian civilian population that are still to this day suffering a medieval siege and blockade – a collective punishment which is a war crime in itself.
Yet Israel’s powerful allies will once again deflect criticism and the legal means to bring Palestinian suffering to an end by using their veto power in the UN. The arm-twisting that preceded this in the attempts to prevent the report from reaching the UN Security Council, whereby the US tried to get the Palestinian leadership to act against the interests of their own people in order to protect Israel, shows how little has changed in the US. These machinations expose the new Obama administration as far from neutral peace brokers in the Israel/Palestine conflict. The silence and lack of moral outrage in the world indicates a similar complicity with Israel’s crimes against the Palestinian people, which is why Israel’s relentless colonisation and accompanying apartheid practices, which are also crimes against humanity, are allowed to continue unchallenged.
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Current trends seem to suggest that the future of Israel will be that of a binational state. While this is not something most Israelis want, even many conservative Israelis have concluded it may be inevitable.
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