On the 1000th day of the horrific genocide currently underway against the population of Gaza, what conclusions can be drawn?

They are numerous, obviously, and impossible to list them all here. But, first and foremost, and what directly concerns us, is the criminal silence of our authorities, which de facto and indelibly places them on the wrong side of history.

In response, there is growing opposition from citizens to the "values" to which our governments have resorted for years, values ​​that are nothing but hypocrisy to mask their duplicity.

On the 1000th day of the horrific genocide currently underway against the population of Gaza, what conclusions can be drawn?

BY Daniel VANHOVE

While this may seem secondary or even trivial to some, the long-term effects are nonetheless significant, because they now discredit the usual moralizing pronouncements of the global West. Palestine thus amply demonstrates the futility of still believing in the "values" of liberty, equality, justice—with their highly variable interpretations—of the West.

Draped in arrogant rhetoric, our governments have been brought back to the realities on the ground by Palestinian resistance and resilience, forcing them to confront their empty declarations. Revealing, day by day, a little more of the bluff, the cowardice, and the lies of a backroom diplomacy that, in reality, relentlessly collaborates with the racist Israeli regime, whose violations of agreements between parties we see everywhere, even before the ink is dry on the documents.

All those working on the ground, all activists, all international humanitarian organizations can only observe the blatant inconsistencies between the official statements of these political leaders and their actions on the ground. The choice is crystal clear: business takes precedence over the most basic notion of justice. A few years ago, what once underpinned the humanist values ​​of a Europe committed to certain inviolable principles has been reduced to the most sordid contracts and financial calculations. Take, for example, this “Association Agreement” between Europe and “Israel,” which should have been denounced years ago given the violation of one of its fundamental principles, enshrined in Article 2: respect for human rights and democratic principles. This is clearly not the case, and the evidence to that effect is extensive. In this regard, the recent visit of the European Commissioner for Mediterranean Affairs, Ms. Dubravka Suica, to Jerusalem with Israeli President Isaac Herzog, where she declared with a broad smile, “I am delighted to be in ‘Israel,’ one of our key partners,” is sickening and should be met with official condemnation and an investigation by the relevant authorities. Economics and finance—like all wars—are the root causes of the genocide we are witnessing. Everything else is just window dressing and propaganda to distract citizens from the real issues pursued by the predatory caste of multi-billionaires who are never satisfied with their hold on power. https://ssofidelis.substack.com/p/les-responsables-de-lue-reaffirment

But to truly understand, we must look back, as always. And to have the courage to recognize the profoundly colonial character that motivated the leaders of the great powers of the time, who, after the trauma of the extermination camps of the 1939-1945 war for Europeans, decided to partition a land foreign to that war, to establish what was initially intended to be a national home for the Jews, but which resulted, on November 29, 1947, in United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181, advocating the partition of Palestine into two separate states: one of 56% of the territory for the Jewish minority, and the other of 42% for the Arab majority, with the remaining 2% reserved for Jerusalem under international control.

By this act, Europeans doubly absolved themselves of responsibility for the genocide orchestrated by the Nazi regime: 1) by imposing the application of Resolution 181 on a population completely uninvolved in the crimes committed against Jews living in Europe at that time; 2) by attributing antisemitism to neighboring Arab countries in the face of their understandable rejection of Resolution 181, when in fact it is fundamentally European in origin. This convenient shift also indicates that this European antisemitism is far from eradicated and can resurface at any moment, as we regularly observe. Yesterday against Jews, today against Muslims.

Yet, the history of Middle Eastern countries teaches us that for centuries, populations of diverse faiths coexisted without major problems in the region. Agnostics, Jews, Christians, Muslims, and other believers lived side by side without conflict, in societies where everyone had their place and practiced their rites. And it was only when Europeans rallied to the Zionist racial ideology, seeing it as an opportunity to atone for their sins against the Jewish populations eliminated under Nazi Germany, that the situation deteriorated so profoundly that it became a matter of taking part

directly and indirectly linked to the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

Without this initial questioning, no explanation holds water. And all discourses are biased. At this stage, and in the eyes of international law, it is not the occupier, "Israel," that should be recognized as having the "right to defend itself," but occupied Palestine and its population, attacked in every way for nearly 80 years by the unjust partitioning of its land and the hell of an endless Nakba.

If, in a true sense of justice, a territory had to be found to resettle the surviving Jews after the Second World War, it should have been in Germany. It was Germany that should have paid for its heinous crimes, not Palestine.

Since this partition imposed on the Palestinians without their consent, media agencies have ceaselessly invented new artifices to emphasize the rejection of Arab-Muslim culture and the division between a West as imagined as the West and an East that supposedly stands in opposition to it. Thus, Western Europe, with its deeply Christian roots, and Eastern Europe, with its Byzantine roots, are both presented as products of Greco-Roman culture. But at this turning point in history, Europe was suddenly presented with "Judeo-Christian" roots, despite having relentlessly fought against anything resembling Judaism for centuries, right up to the Nazi regime's "Final Solution." Consider the deception, the hypocrisy, and the falsification of facts, all designed to make Europe appear more Catholic than the Pope, while simultaneously highlighting the radical break with the Arab-Muslim world. No, European roots have never been and are not Judeo-Christian! This is the product of yet another lie, an attempt to redeem itself and appease "Israel" and the Jews whom Europe has relentlessly persecuted and fought, while they lived peacefully in most of the Arab countries of the region.

Zionist ideology is rooted in a racism and supremacism as deadly as those of the slave trade—which, of European origin, was also a product of that era! And if these heinous crimes were able to persist for centuries, even under the apartheid regime in South Africa, it was largely due to the ignorance and lack of information prevalent at the time. Today, this is no longer the case, and it cannot serve as an excuse for the inaction of our governments, who are aware of the situation but fail to take the necessary steps to end this Nakba of the Palestinian people and to ensure that the perpetrators are tried and punished to the fullest extent of the law.

History never stops. It evolves, moves forward, and adapts to the evolution of its actors: human beings. What may seem possible at one time may no longer be so a few decades later. Thus, the “two-state solution,” still invoked by many actors and stakeholders on this issue, is no longer relevant. It is outdated and no longer represents the will of an overwhelming majority of Palestinians. This is in addition to various ministers in Israeli governments who have rejected the idea on several occasions, both privately and publicly.

In reality, Zionism must be fought and eradicated, just as Nazism, fascism, and all totalitarian ideologies, products of the far right, must be. Palestine must break free from its colonial prison and return to its original borders in order to establish a state where all who wish to live will be welcome, provided they respect its rules and laws, and which will be governed by officials elected by the population living there democratically.

Similarly, international law must be reviewed and revised. It too must adapt to the new paradigms of our time. And we must not become entrenched or cling to an outdated situation dominated by the colonial powers of yesteryear. Laws are always—at least—one step behind the realities of daily life. This is not a problem; they should be amended, transformed, and improved according to the situation and the wishes of the majority of citizens, thus making them malleable tools at their service. All the while respecting an inviolable principle: the rejection of a double standard in justice that has been the guiding principle of the major Western economic and military powers. The law must be the same for everyone and in all circumstances. And "never again" must be applied to every situation that demands it, regardless of the actors involved.

Resistance to change in this unjust order imposed by a few powerful states by force must yield to the principle of equal law for all peoples. The axis of resistance in Palestine, Lebanon, Iran, Yemen, Iraq, and elsewhere is participating in this struggle. And we must support them against the position of our governments, which definitively no longer represent "our values"!

Daniel Vanhove

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