But even the UK Government, where Zionist tentacles reach right to
the top, appears shocked at the latest atrocities carried out by its
darling racist friend Israel against Palestinian towns in the West Bank.
Those crimes were the handiwork of the new government cobbled together
by Netanyahu and comprised of extremists, lunatics, and criminals who
are even more deranged than before.
To hide their embarrassment Whitehall has issued a collection of
responses to the situation from themselves and some of their buddies in
the international community, in a dishonest attempt to mask the smell of
corruption and win over uncritical members of civil society.
This is what they’re feeding us:
Palestinian Resistance
What is Britain saying?
The UK’s political coordinator at the UN, Fergus Eckersley, says the
UK urges the parties to de-escalate, restore calm and rebuild trust and
opposes all unilateral actions that make Israeli-Palestinian peace
harder to achieve. It calls on Israelis and Palestinians to demonstrate “a genuine commitment to peace and security…. and a two-state solution”.
This, he says, is the only way to end the conflict, preserve Israel’s
Jewish and democratic identity, and realise Palestinian national
aspirations. But this same tosh has been spouted for the last 25 years
to no avail. Only a nitwit would keep saying it. And he misuses the term
“democratic identity”; Israel is an unpleasant ethnocracy.
What will his “two-state solution” look like, given that Israel has
been allowed to create so many irreversible ‘facts on the ground’?
Eckersley doesn’t say. Besides, Israel’s continued illegal presence on
Palestinian territory shows the regime’s utter contempt for both
international law and peace, so how can there be progress until that
presence is removed? Why are law and justice not even mentioned?
As I suggest, Eckersley and his masters are committed to prolonging
the strife until their ‘friend’ Israel has grabbed all the land and
resources it wants. Then they can claim, sorry there’s no way back. It’s
looking that way already.
Last May Eckersley was telling the UN Security Council:
“The fact that Russia is trying to distract us with
disinformation suggests that they know, as well as we do, that none of
their other excuses for invading Ukraine has any solid foundation
whatsoever. The simple truth is that Russia is responsible for this
horrific war, in breach of the Charter, and for the needless deaths of
thousands of men, women, and children.”
Equally, we can say that we’ve been ‘snowed’ with disinformation for decades and we
know, as well as Westminster and Washington know, that their excuses
for supporting and prolonging Israel’s slow and violent annexation of
the Holy Land have no legal or moral foundation whatsoever. The simple
truth is that the US and the UK are responsible for this horrific war,
in breach of the Charter, and for the needless deaths of thousands of
men, women, and children.
Eckersley was awarded an OBE “for services to British foreign policy”.
In a statement, at the UN Security Council on 20 February the UK
ambassador and permanent representative to the UN in New York, Barbara
Woodward, said that while facilitating dialogue between Israel and
Palestine the UK remained firm in its belief that a negotiated
two-state solution was the only way to ensure lasting peace, security
and prosperity between the parties.
UK Barbara Woodward at the UN
Poppycock. No amount of dialogue and negotiation has so far achieved
anything approaching peace, for the simple reason that it doesn’t suit
Israel’s plans nor does it suit the Palestinians to permanently suffer
under the heel of Israeli military occupation and terror.
On 14 February the UK issued a joint statement alongside the US,
France, Germany, and Italy responding to Israel’s plans to expand
so-called settlements in occupied Palestinian territories:
“We continue to support a comprehensive, just, and lasting peace
in the Middle East, which must be achieved through direct negotiations
between the parties.”
It is obvious by now, even to a blind man, that direct negotiations
between two unequal sides – the cruel and grasping nuclear-armed
occupier and the unarmed, trampled, and impoverished indigenous
residents – will never bring a just and lasting peace.
“Israelis and Palestinians both deserve to live in peace, with equal measures of freedom, security, and prosperity,” say those 14 February comedians.
“We reaffirm our commitment to helping Israelis and Palestinians
fulfill the vision of an Israel fully integrated into the Middle East
living alongside a sovereign, viable Palestinian state.”
No way is that the Palestinians’ vision, and it’s their land after
all. And if Israelis and Palestinians deserve equal measure why is the
statement so tilted? Let’s instead hear about a secure,
self-determining Palestine being fully integrated into the Middle East
and an Israel that’s merely “viable”.
They talk about closely monitoring developments on the ground which
affect the viability of the two-state solution and stability in the
region, but if they truly want stability they must first take action to
remove the injustice – like imposing stiff sanctions on Israel until it
complies with international law. But there’s still no sign of that.
What says the United Nations?
The UN has made several appeals to Israelis and Palestinians to
de-escalate the violence. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker
Türk in February urged Israeli and Palestinian leaders to “end the
illogic of escalation” and work towards resolving the conflict urgently.
And UNICEF says that children are paying the “highest price” given the
numbers killed and injured and many others in need of psychosocial
support.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk
The UN envoy in Jerusalem, Tor Wennesland, told the BBC last month
that increased violence in Israel and the occupied Palestinian
territories had brought the situation to “the brink”, but “active
diplomacy” was now taking place involving the US, UN, and Israeli and
Palestinian officers.
So what can possibly go wrong?
And after the latest violence, Wennesland urged both sides to address core issues that were fueling the conflict.
He said the UN remained committed to supporting Palestinians and
Israelis to achieve peace. What “support” is that? The joke is that the
core issues fueling the appalling situation in the Holy Land were
manufactured by the cack-handed UN in the first place.
The UN’s Secretary-General António Guterres is saying that regional
and international partners need to work together to help Palestinians
and Israelis “break cycles of violence”. The acceleration of violence
during 2022 and so far this year means that preventing further
escalation, reducing tensions, and restoring calm must be top
priorities. What he didn’t say, of course, is that the violence will
never end as long as Israel is permitted (by the UN and the
international community) to remain in illegal occupation of the West
Bank, including the Old City of Jerusalem, and Gaza. It’s up to them,
not the Palestinians who are powerless to do anything except resist as
best they can, which they are legally entitled to do without being
slandered as terrorists.
United States pearls of wisdom
The US has committed itself to encouraging cooperation between Israel
and Palestine, as well as promoting a “comprehensive and lasting
solution” to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. How long have they been
saying that, to no effect?
During a call between US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu on 18 February, Blinken was reported to
have repeated the US’s support for a negotiated two-state solution and opposition to any measures that could endanger it.
Note how the conspirators are all singing off the same hymn-sheet word
for word, sounding like it was composed by Israel’s ‘hasbara’ unit in
Tel Aviv.
And Ned Price, the spokesperson for the US Department of State, said
at a press briefing that recent issues showed the urgent need for both
sides to work together to improve the security situation in the West
Bank. Whose security would that be? Never the Palestinians’ – they’re
not allowed to feel secure.
Ned Price, US State Department
Additionally, he said the US called on all parties to “desist from” actions that could inflame tensions, such as incitement of violence.
What, like desisting from establishing all those hundreds of Israeli
squatter colonies on Palestinian territory which are considered a war
crime? How about telling Israel bluntly to immediately remove them and
get the hell out of the West Bank altogether?
Price, who incidentally is Jewish, said the US and its regional
partners would continue working with the parties to advance the
commitments made in Aqaba. But Israel reneged on the Aqaba agreement the
very next day – that’s how far they can be trusted. Price then
emphasised that Israelis and Palestinians “equally deserve to live in
safety and security”. OK, then use your power and authority, O Mighty
America, to implement international and humanitarian law, instead of
talking endless nonsense.
And the EU…
EU Ambassador to the UN, Olof Skoog, told the Security Council on 18
January about his concern for the deteriorating situation in the West
Bank, saying the EU was committed to a “just and comprehensive”
resolution of the conflict. The EU’s support for a two-state
solution, he said, would result in “the State of Israel and an
independent, democratic, contiguous, sovereign, and viable state of
Palestine, living side-by-side in peace and security and mutual
recognition, and with Jerusalem serving as the future capital of both
states”.
He said the EU opposed the Israeli government’s settlement expansion
and called on Israel to halt it in a bid to prevent an escalation of
violence. Nothing about Israel’s terror attacks on Palestine or the
obvious need for Israel to end its illegal and violent military
occupation.
The EU urges all Palestinian factions to “engage in good faith in
the reconciliation process, to adhere to previous agreements, renounce
violence and terrorism, and recognise Israel’s right to exist and to
commit to democratic principles, including the rule of law”. Nice
to hear the rule of law finally mentioned (which immediately raises
questions about Israel’s right to exist) but when is the EU going to
implement it? Good faith, if they hadn’t noticed, died long ago; and
what reconciliation process is the EU talking about now? As for renouncing violence and terror, Skoog should re-direct his remarks to apartheid Israel.
It’s plain to see…
For 70+ years the Palestinians have struggled valiantly to resist
expulsion and to remain in their homeland. Unfortunately, they are at
the mercy of so-called civilised powers that ought to have known better
but continue weaving a web of lies and deceit to hide their foolish
support for the Zionists’ aim to permanently rob the indigenous people
not only of their right to self-determination but also their lands and
resources.
They have jettisoned the interlocking international laws and
conventions that were supposed to guarantee a fair and decent future for
the nations of the world. There can no longer be any doubt about who is
culpable…. and why.
©Stuart Littlewood, 11 March 2023 VETERANS TODAY
