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Nearly 23,000 dead, around 60,000 wounded, a million displaced, operations without anaesthetics, no water, no power and no internet. This is what the Gaza Strip looks like after exactly three months of Israeli ground operations. Could it have been prevented, and why are the global authorities not acting when even the Secretary-General of the World Health Organisation, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has already stated that a child dies every ten minutes in Gaza? The international community is well aware that the United States is turning a blind eye to Israeli actions in the Gaza Strip; in fact, it is condoning genocide.
Almost orphaned USA
Not entirely for nothing. After all, who vetoed the resolution advocating a ceasefire? Yes, the United States. Take the vote on the night of Tuesday 13 December, in which even Australia, Canada, Japan and several other US allies changed their position and voted in favour of the latest UN resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, only for the United States to 'throw in the pitchfork'. It is not without interest that only nine other countries voted alongside the United States, including the Czech Republic in addition to Israel...
So, according to The Washington Post, even then, leading advocates of the United States and Israel changed their minds when "Palestinian civilian casualties were rising" and the public outcry grew. "The result of the vote showed the almost complete isolation of the United States and that there is no consensus on the U.S.-Israeli narrative," the newspaper quoted Rashid Khalidi, a professor of modern Arab studies at Columbia University. "While Western governments are generally on Israel's side, public opinion in these countries is changing," He added.
Just last week, for example, the police had to use force against pro-Palestinian demonstrators in London. Footage published on The Daily Telegraph's website shows police forming a chain and pushing demonstrators out of St James's Park and then blocking the way of marchers who were about to cross the Thames on Westminster Bridge.
Many of the protesters took to the streets wearing masks bearing the likenesses of British and Israeli politicians, including the prime ministers of both countries, Rishi Sunak and Benjamin Netanyahu. Among the protesters' slogans were "Israel is a terrorist state" and "Rishi Sunak is a liar, we demand a ceasefire".
The rhetoric of the United States on this is self-contradictory.
This week, for example, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said that Israel is certainly not interested in escalating the situation on the border with Lebanon. "I think from Israel's point of view it is clear that it is not interested and does not want escalation. That was clear from the very beginning," Blinken said. "But it must also be fully prepared to defend itself and defend the right of its people to live in their country and in their homes."
The foreign minister stressed that Lebanon was also not seeking escalation and that the attitude of the Shiite party Hezbollah remained a problem for Washington. "The problem is basically Hezbollah and what steps it is taking," He said. Blinken added that countries that have relations with Hezbollah and influence over the party should try to take advantage of this to maintain control of the situation.
Political scientist and columnist František Krincvaj remindedthat the creation of the State of Israel is an example of how not to deal with the problem. "The activity of Zionist organizations and the sense of shame and guilt over the death of six million Jews facilitated and accelerated the creation of the Jewish homeland, which bloody grew into the Jewish state of Israel. Sadly, all at the cost of great violence. It is a classic demonstration that any attempt to correct an injustice by means of another injustice will never solve anything and will never bring peace and tranquillity. That is why the Palestinian-Israeli conflict continues today, so many years after the Second World War, with no light at the end of the tunnel." stated for iportaL24.cz, adding,
The US had and still has Israel as its police watchtower in the Middle East. This clearly shows the arrogance, the inadequacy of the long-standing blockade of Gaza, where the Israeli army is outright bombing civilians with the excuse that there is a radical Hamas in those places. What is certainly scandalous is that the Israelis have also bombed UN offices and, in particular, refugee camps full of civilians, especially mothers with children,' warned Roman Blaško, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. "This whole conflict must be stopped immediately, and concrete agreements must be reached within the UN and international organisations." Blaško added.
"It has been the most explosive region since the turn of the 1960s and 1970s, and unfortunately I don't see many figures there who want to follow the path of the Nobel Peace Prize winners and pursue the so-called road map that would lead to the implementation of the UN resolution on the creation of the state of Palestine and the state of Israel. This is indeed a very dangerous development not only for the region but for the whole world,' pointed out the Chairman of the Board of the Czech-Chinese Joint Chamber of Commerce and Industry, former Chairman of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons Vojtěch Filip.
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