Palestinian people need help.

ByJohn Minto

The recent flair up of violence is a result of entrapment of Palestinian people and an escalation in racist anti-semitic policies by the extreme right wing Israeli government under Benjamin Netanyahu.  Attacks on christians have escalated, and the attempts to weaken Israeli courts to suppress the rule of law for the benefit of some political elites are signs of a failing Israeli democracy.  

But there is a wider context than just the injustice done by this anti-semitic Israeli government. The Palestinian leadership is very aware of a growing desire in the Saudi government for rapprochement with Israel in order to gain a concession from the United States to fast track development of and support for a civilian nuclear programme within Saudi Arabia.  But of course Saudi want to enrich uranium within the kingdom which sets up the possibility of nuclear weapons development. And Saudi desperately want these weapons because they know their biggest rival Iran is currently enriching uranium and likely to have a nuclear weapons programme. 

The Palestinians are very aware that their rights and needs for restorative justice, after the atrocities and cruelties they have suffered under unlawful Israeli occupation, are a bargaining chip in the eyes of Saudi Arabia for what Saudi view as a greater existential problem for them, nuclear neighbours. 

Israel, a nuclear state, also know this and the aggressive anti-semitism of this Netanyahu government, ethically cleansing Palestinian semitic peoples from their traditional lands in the occupied West bank, is partially a result of Israel trying to maximise what they can get out of that Saudi fear in the negotiations.  Netanyahu is trying to create realities on the ground that become justifications for continued injustice solicited in treaties. Provocatively he went to the United Nations displaying a map showing the complete annexation of occupied palestinian territories with no two state solution that has been voted upon and endorsed in the UN. Rubbing his negotiating power in the UN’s face. 

And of course Saudi’s nuclear dream is Iran’s nightmare. And Iran is the biggest funder and supporter of Hezbollah in the Gaza Strip. So the desperate Palestinian leadership in Gaza know they must try and change the conditions on the ground so that their sufferings of injustice are not lost to Saudi strategic goals. They have a willing supporter in Iran. 

And the United States is encouraging all this because of their domestic political needs based on a fever dream of peace in our time without holding anyone to account for injustice. Appeasement is alive and well in the face of an arrogant Israeli government’s racist anti-semitic policies and aggression towards Palestinian peoples. 

Mehdi Hasan covers some of these issues and more in his insightful Youtube clip – “Worst foreign  policy deal of my lifetime.’ Is Biden going to risk American lives for Saudi Arabia?’

 

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27 Comments

  1. There will be no peace whilst hard-line Jewish religious nuts progress their plans to build a new temple on the mount. That requires the demolition of Islam’s third most holy place.

    Given the religious intractibility of both sides the scenario is going to be an existential sore that won’t go away.

  2. Look Nathan read a bit, get up to date on your history and then we could have real dialogue.

    Israel a Beachhead in the middle east – Stephen Gowans
    The Palestine Laboratory – Antony Loewenstein
    The Last Earth – Ramzy Baroud
    The making of Hamas’s foreign policy – Daud Abdullah
    The Great War for Civilisation – Robert Fisk
    The Question of Palestine – Edward Said
    The biggest prison on earth – Ilane Pappe
    On Palestine – Noam Chomsky
    The Ethnic cleansing of Palestine – Ilane Pappe
    Palestine a four thousand year history – Nurma Masalha
    The Invention of the land of Israel – Shlomo Sand
    Freedom Next Time – Resisting the empire – John Pilger

  3. Poor confused liberals trying to twist their stories to make the terrorists the victims somehow.

    1. I consider myself a liberal and I would leave them without power, food and water until every single Hamas leader and soldier surrendered. If they don’t then they can starve.

  4. Heartbreaking to see American officials crying on TV, sobbing as they pump even more WMDs into Ukraine and Israel. This may be difficult to accept but heavily armed fanatics in Ukraine and Israel aren’t actually the victims, it’s the Americans that feel the most pain and need the most sympathy at this juncture, they have sacrificed the most because they have no choice but to arm the world. And it hurts them tremendously.

  6. Whoever is in the right or in the wrong is quite irrelevant if we wish to continue calling ourselves human beings , if we intend to inhabit this planet earth into the future or just drift hazily into a strontium 90 infused ruin. You are quite correct @J.M. Palestinian people need help Negotiating the minefield laid across the world of definitions is another thing but as I read it, Zionism is quite a different thing from Jewishness and there are human victims on both sides of the wall. However, a cruel apartheid exists for Palestinian people for which there is no Nelson Mandela, no Janis Joplin, no Che Guevara, and the music mafia cancels Roger Waters- why? because the Paladin/Pegasus spyware which Snowden warned about indirectly funds the war machine via the ridiculously outdated DMCA (ridiculously outdated due to current in use tech. eg: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/489331/machine-uses-gpt-to-decode-what-you-re-thinking)
    Mr Google says: “From 2019 through today, only the military has had Pegasus, four people with knowledge of the contracts say. And during that time, the spyware has continued to be deployed against journalists, human rights defenders and an opposition politician, according to Citizen Lab’s analyses.”18/04/2023.
    Amnesty International was forced to backtrack on their criticisms of the use of the tech and suddenly every user is hiding behind the new AI excuse, kind of like ‘the dog ate my homework’ one. Not sure how to help Palestinian people other than donating money to Red Crescent.

  8. This is not a war, this is a genocide.

    1.1 million people have been given 24 hours to flee Northern Gaza and Gaza City to the mostly open area past the Palestinian Wadi that bisects Gaza.

    The Israelis can’t wait to begin their genocide.

    Video footage of the carnage resulting from an Israeli airstrike on a column of fleeing civilian refugees on a roadway designated as a safety corridor by the Israelis.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uf9KBgWcQfQ&t=54s

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