Palestinian uprising: a firm stand against apartheid

Palestine is no more a nation with enough state complexities but what asserts its entity in the globe is its unique response against colonial settlements and state sponsored apartheid.

Once again Palestine has been devastated by death and terror ensued after fatal land and air assaults of Israel security force. The fact is now disclosed to the entire world that the murderous slaughter of Palestinians was not a mere coincidence of a battlefield, either it was a systematic effort of ethnic cleansing by settler groups and security force encouraged by the right-wing Israeli politicians along with their chauvinistic alliances.

The sole responsible reason for the creation of the dreadful atmosphere from Sheikh Jerrah to all of Jerusalem and to Gaza was the ethnic cleansing of Sheikh Jerrah and the rest of occupied Jerusalem followed by illegal construction of Jewish settlements. Literally it was no more a conflict or a dispute or a war in traditional sense, but a unilateral war of Israeli force met with simple but determined resistance of Palestinians. As the result, vigils and protests were aggressively broken up by Israeli security force. At stake the homes of hundreds of Palestinians were long subject to eviction campaign.

The repulsive assaults of Israel army were made upon a well planned conspiracy to ensure the demographic majority of Jews over the Palestinian Arab population. According to UN, transferring civilian populations into occupied territory is illegal under international law and may amount to war crimes, but this activity is going on for decades all the way back to when Israel was founded in 1948. Israeli forces seized around 78 percentage of Palestinian land dispossessing more than seventy thousands of Palestinians from their homes. In 1967, during the six day war, Israel annexed the entire West Bank including East Jerusalem over time as a result of these illegal settlements.

Awful assaults in Gaza

Israel had launched an 11-day brutally aggressive air and land assault on Gaza killing at least 250 and injuring almost 2,000 Palestinians. The attack was followed by Palestinian protest in East Jerusalem over an anticipated decision of the Supreme Court of Israel on the eviction of six Palestinian families in Sheikh Jarrah. The imprisoned and besieged population of Gaza was undergone for another terrific episode of Israel Palestine conflict after 2014. While the siege of Israel upon Gaza strip was ongoing creating air, land and sea blockade, destructive movements from Israel in the past week had generated a troublesome condition for the citizens.

Even the estimated loss of Gaza strip of last week attack amounts $150 million, it is the human cost that is the most devastating. Egypt had already assured of providing $500 million for the rehabilitation and rebuilding of Gaza city. It is observed as awkward double standards that US, France and Britain while having a soft touch with Israel, have also promised financial aids for the rehabilitation. But as per the latest reports, drones are hovering intensively over Gaza even after cease fire in last Thursday.

How pro-Israel concerns emerge?

As usual, US, along with other right-wing nations, had justified the dismantling of human rights of Palestinians by Israel army and supported the Israel’s “right to defend itself” .The justification is ongoing as routine of each US governments from Harry S.Truman to Joe Biden for decades.

Zionist lobbying from the establishment of Israel in 1948 is what inspires US state policy to keep quiet against the brutal harassment of Palestinians’ human rights by Israel forces. Even there had turbulent protests shouting for free Palestine in American streets, democratic leaders just like the republican ones are being guilty victims of Zionist lobbying.

Israel defense itself in United States and especially in European countries by erecting pseudo-facts and circulating it through pro-Israel news media and social media, manipulating the policies of foreign countries and penetrating pro-Israel Ideas covering up the intensive critiques against Israel.

But the lobbying organized by the Zionists has its legal, political and academic dimensions. As John Meyer Scheymar and Stephen Walt state, the Jewish lobby operates in two ways. The first way is to influence the Congress and the Legislature to institute that the “Smart Choice” is to support Israel. Therefore, they could demonstrate the anti-Israel as suicidal one and resist the pro-Palestinian representatives such like Bernie Sanders, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and Keith Ellison. The second way is to fabricate myths about the formation of Israel, thereby to reap the sympathy of whole world and to establish itself as a virtuous state for Jews.

Palestine’s right to self defence

The Palestinians’ right to self defence has been a controversy after the demise of a Kerala women caused by the bombardment of Hamas in Ashkelon as response against Israel’s bombardment over Gaza. Although the controversy is going on, the striking reality is that ultimately Israel is the occupier and the Palestinians are the occupied ones.

While Israel courts allows Israeli Jews to claim Palestinian properties as their own and the illegal eviction campaign was going on, it was Palestinians’ right to resist and repel against it.

Moreover 'The right for resistance' is authorised by international law through Hague regulations of 1907 and the Fourth Geneva Convention as well as in certain provisions of Additional Protocol I and customary international humanitarian law.

If Israel has the right to defend itself by launching air raids that have destroyed Palestinian neighbourhoods, then surely Palestinians have the right to protect themselves from the brutal and escalating Israeli violence which has led to a death toll of more than 250 over the past few days alone.

Blossoming of unlathering unity

Colonialism in Israel remains as state-run project. Benjamin Nethanyahu was determined to implement racist implications on Palestinians in order to grip on the regime of Israel once more. But his apartheid politics was also convenient for bringing together all the Palestinians which acted as bulwark against the invasion of Israeli force in Al-Aqsa Masjid. Palestinians were bringing themselves to the line of unity moving past all the political divisions and factional squabbles. There doesn’t matter any geographic distinctions or religious dissonances, but rather religion was transformed as the source of spiritual unity.

The sublime unity based upon resistance, liberation and internal solidarity was an absolute challenge against all factional ideas, scandalous Arab normalisation of Israeli brutality and more precisely against the colonial efforts of Zionist apartheid state.