World leaders are witnessing Israel's killing of Palestinians in #Gaza with blatant indifference and brazenness. Despite the bleak scene being disturbed by protest demonstrations against Israel from here and pro-Palestine positions from there - even if they are increasing in number and intensity over time in many countries - this does not change the scene of international and regional neglect and inaction that surrounds the globe, in the face of Israel’s killing of an entire people. And accompanied by terrible sadism, the Palestinians are held responsible for what is happening.
The Palestinians feel that the world has abandoned them, and that they are abandoned and defeated. Most of them appeal to God, on social media pages, to grant them victory and avenge them. Yes, it is the deep feeling tinged with regret and resentment this time, that “there is no power nor strength except in God.” One of their poets said it with a suffocating sigh: “It is no longer important today that anyone loves us. It is enough for the great angel to love us in his bright sky.”
Why don't world leaders care about killing Palestinians? In light of the horror of what is happening, the question cannot be posed in a less clear and harsh way.
Before I try to answer the question, limiting myself to thinking about the relationship of these leaders with Israel and the interconnection of their countries’ interests with its interests, let us get to know more about these people, at the top of the ladder of global political power.
They are the descendants of the capitalist system, both Western and Eastern. Private property capitalism in democratic systems, and state capitalism in systems called communism or socialism, and both place profit above every other human consideration, and replace human values and feelings in a way that serves the hegemony of the profit doctrine.
They are the children of the industrial revolution, which has destroyed the global climate and public health, and now threatens the existence of man on this earth.
They are the fathers of artificial intelligence and the promoters of the techniques of human reproduction from the skin, without a love relationship between the woman and the man, which will cause a radical transformation in the composition of the human being and its characteristics, in favor of the machine and its operating rules.
These same people, or their fathers or grandfathers, began to define terrorism according to its historical origins, immediately after the French Revolution, as a practice carried out by the emerging state itself, to intimidate and restrain its citizens at home and its enemies abroad, in order to preserve the state’s security and order. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, other definitions began to appear, describing organizations and groups as terrorist because they confront the state and use violence against civilians for political, ideological, or religious purposes. We have moved from the concept of state terrorism to the concept of group terrorism against the state.
In a parallel line, instead of considering war a terrorist practice that uses violence against civilians before others, the wars fought by colonial-capitalist countries were legitimized in international law, and the latter invented the term “war crime,” as if war was not a crime in itself.
In light of this moral decline in the course of terminology related to violence, in line with the development of the interests of colonial and capitalist countries, it is not surprising that the Hamas operation was classified as “terrorist” because it killed civilians, while the war that Israel declared on Gaza is seen as a self-defense operation. Although it kills thousands of civilians, it is under the name of separate “war crimes.”
What is astonishingly surprising is this complete separation of what is happening, in the speech of world leaders, from the reality of Israel’s occupation of Palestine. The colonial-capitalist countries do not want to recognize the occupation as a founding factor in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and as a continuing actor in continuing and fueling this conflict.
Colonial-capitalist countries derived and continue to derive their influence from the occupation or exploitation of the world's resources. The territorial occupation of other countries is the founding crime of their influence, it is their “original sin.” Also, facilitating, covering up and establishing Israel’s occupation of Palestine is its secondary crime, which it does not want to acknowledge.
In terrorism, there is killing, destruction, intimidation, terror, and restraining individual and collective will, and creating a permanent feeling of insecurity. Is there a situation that generates all these effects, more than the occupation? Terrorism is the mechanism of occupation and the condition for its continuation. The Israeli occupation of Palestine is, in itself, an act of terrorism. The reactions of the Palestinian people, from Hamas, Fatah and other non-violent groups, are nothing but diverse forms of confronting this terrorism and the reason for its existence, i.e. the occupation. This is what the colonial-capitalist countries do not want to acknowledge, to serve their interests and the interrelated interests of Israel on the one hand, and because such recognition constitutes a radical moral condemnation of them. Apparently, killing the Palestinians, by turning them all into terrorists, is less costly to them, economically and morally, than recognizing the occupation. Cost is the opposite of profit, in the capitalist understanding.
During the events of the Ain al-Hilweh camp in Lebanon, between the Palestinian factions, I wrote under the title “Palestinian”: “Kill him. He is a Palestinian. The Palestinian said to the Palestinian. Is there anyone in this world who would care about killing a Palestinian?” The Hamas operation not only opened our eyes widely to the cruelty of the world towards the Palestinian people, but also to the recklessness of some Palestinian resistance factions, both religious and foreign-affiliated in particular, with the lives of the Palestinian people, by undertaking actions, the consequences of which include opening the doors to the Israeli monster, to annihilate the people. Palestinian.
When a Palestinian kills a Palestinian, or adopts strategies that do not care about the lives of Palestinians and their development, do not be surprised then, if the colonialist-capitalist acts as if the life of the Palestinian person has no value. His conscience will not be shaken unless the Palestinian, through his practices, his humanitarian belief, and his liberation project, raises the value of the Palestinian person. Only non-violent, non-religious civil resistance is capable of carrying out this noble mission. It is no longer convincing, after everything that is happening today, to repeat that “Israel only understands by force,” unless what is meant is that its preferred language is violence, which is its sure way to annihilate the Palestinian people and completely eliminate their just cause.
This article was initially published in Annahar,A leading Lebanese newspaper and signed by GH. Salibi the translation is mine through Google. ,
.As always, my many thanks to all.thanks to all
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