United States’ spokespeople never cease to spew nonsense. Secretary of State Antony Blinken continued this unbroken tradition when he proclaimed that the expansion of Israeli settlements, and the constant, ongoing demolitions of Palestinian homes in the West Bank, only make peace with the Palestinians more remote. This would be a reasonable statement, if peace with the Palestinians was something that Israeli wants. And then, in the same breath, he reiterated the ‘iron-clad’ status of the U.S.-Israeli relationship, and U.S. security commitments to that Zionist, apartheid entity.
The Palestinians continue to suffer, as they have for over seventy years, due to the many injustices introduced by the United Nations, perpetrated by ‘Israel’ and supported mainly by the United States, but other countries as well. Blinken’s useless words about settlements being a barrier to peace have no meaning for the leaders of the apartheid, Zionist entity. International support for the Palestinians is strong; people around the globe must assure that their government leaders know this, and act accordingly.
As the United States successive administrations pursued a ensuring the survival and security of Israel and Arab allies, for the past 75 years, they all fail to understand these basics:
• Israel has no interest in peace with the Palestinians; genocidal regimes don’t want peace with their victims. They want the extermination of their victims.
• Saying settlement expansion is a barrier to (unwanted, anyway) peace, and then financing those settlements is counterproductive, to put it mildly.
• The U.S. could solve the Palestine-Israel ‘conflict’ today, by cutting off all funding, and ending diplomatic support for Israel’s war crimes. However, peace in the Middle East is obviously not what the U.S. wants.
• Ignoring international law, as the U.S. does by supporting Israel’s crimes, does nothing positive for the reputation of the U.S. on the international stage.
The people of Palestine are, and have been for generations, deprived of basic human rights. The U.S. is very selective in stating for whom it grants or supports human rights. Allowing and financing the deprivation of basic human rights to one population and granting or supporting them to another is the height of hypocrisy.
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