Israel's Ongoing Crimes Against Humanity

Seven simple talking points:

2021-05-14 Gaza City after being bombed by Israel. Photo: facebook/unknown photographer

(OCCUPIED PALESTINE) - EDITOR: Here is some "need to know" information so you may better understand how the Israel-Palestine situation has evolved to the human rights disaster that it is today, and why it is so difficult make change occur.

1. Palestine was colonized via ethnic cleansing

The core of this project (Zionism) is ethnic cleansing which started under British Rule (to fulfill the illegal Balfour declaration) and continued and accelerated under more direct Zionism control and continues today in places like Shaikh Jarrah in Jerusalem and other parts of Palestine (inside and outside the so-called green line).

That is why we have 7.5 million Palestinian refugees and displaced people and 530 villages and towns wiped out.

2. Palestinians' legal rights are ignored

3. Israel has never been a democracy.

Yet Israel also is the power that rules over the lives of 4.7 million more Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza who are not given Israeli citizenship and they are subject to hundreds of military orders that serve as racist laws. For example the denial of entry to our own city of Jerusalem even for religious reasons to visit the holy sites.

4. See through the propaganda

Answer: wrong analogy: If someone comes and shoots your brother, points a gun at your head and tells you to get out of your house and they claim their religion tells them to do so.

Then you are pushed down the street and they besiege you and stop you from getting food and medicine and test new guns on you every few years.

One day you decide to throw a stone towards your old house, in frustration. So, they take an RPG and level your new house. Do you call this "self-defense" or "disproportionate response"? Who is then the terrorist?

International law is clear on this point: colonized/occupied people have a right (and even duty) of resistance.

Colonization is itself violence: ask native Americans and Blacks in South Africa or any other country that went through the experience. Colonization kills 10 native civilians for every 1 colonizer (in Palestine as in South Africa under apartheid).

The answer is simple, ending apartheid ends the violence (exhibit A: South Africa).

5. Colonial struggles never end equitably

Colonial-Native struggles end in one of three scenarios: a) Algerian model (nearly 2 million killed, 1 million colonizers and their descendants left the country), b) genocide of natives (USA, Australia), c) coexistence in one country of descendants of colonizers and of native people (the rest of the world >140 countries).

There is no fourth scenario. Palestine will not be an exception. It is the last struggle and prolonged only because of the resourcefulness and wealth of Zionists and the weakness of their victims with the collusion of corrupt Arab leaders and western governments beholden to special interest lobbies. This explains Israel's impunity from international law.

6. The United Nation's Universal Declaration of Human Rights

7. Together we stand...

RESOURCES:

• Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• B'Tselem - Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories
• Human Rights Watch
• Amnesty International