Living in hopelessness, that’s what the Gazans must have felt when the United Nations Security Council once again failed to take any tangible action over Israel’s raid on the humanitarian flotilla in international waters and killing humanitarian activists. What comes out of the “urgent UNSC meeting” was a resolution that entails “status quo”. The meeting was being held more to show that they acted due to the outpouring international criticisms. Its more to protect their respective stature in the eyes of the international community and not that they really care for the citizens of Palestine and the Gazans for that matter. The issue of Palestine is lost in the complicity of international politics.
The request by states that show serious concern over the continuous flagrant behaviors of Israel for an international probe team even failed to be passed. It is now up to Israel to conduct a “prompt, impartial, credible and transparent investigation conforming to international standards” into their terrorist acts which killed innocent humanitarian activists. So what outcome could you hope for when the perpetrators of the acts are given the liberty and freedom to carry out their own investigation? If even the Goldstein reports over the Gaza assault in late December 2008 had not led to anything. So what more could we hope from this? What could the international community do? Even the Americans had to tow the line when it comes to Israel. Perhaps only the people and the NGOs of the world, including those from Israel, could alleviate the sufferings of the Palestinian and provide a glimpse of hope and a smile on the children of Palestine. The state actors had continuously failed to find a solution and I doubt it if we could ever reach any meaningful settlement by the end of this century. Because you, Palestine, are not worth the time of the world leaders ……… !
With American's full backing, Israel will continue with their impunity and our leaders would continue to listen, debate and succumb to whatever justification provided, including for the continuous blockade of Gaza. Over time, there would be no more Gazans because that is the ultimate objective of Israel i.e to rid Gaza strip of Palestine and UNSC, willingly or unwillingly, an accomplice to this agenda.
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