Thursday 29 December 2022

New Israeli PM Bad For Human Rights

As Russia is discovering, any nation that invades and tried to steal land from another is rightly castigated but there is one nation that despite stealing land from its neighbours and militarily occupying them for 70 years, seems to get a free pass, Israel.
Considering that Israel was created following horrific persecution, that the same nation has been willingly imprisoning, murdering and occupying its neighbour for 7 decades doesn't seem to resonate with some, especially the American religious Churchy types who ask others to not only pray for Israel but demand that their Government continue to subside them in their efforts to wipe Palestine off the map.
One of the worst Israeli Prime Ministers has been Benjamin Netanyahu who to be sworn in as Israel's prime minister for the sixth time despite facing charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust by him and close political allies but as Israeli law allows a Prime Minister to remain in office until they are convicted of a crime, his swearing in will go ahead.
In the new extreme right wing Netanyahu government are people like Itamar Ben-Gvir who has been convicted of incitement to racism and urged police to shoot to kill during Palestinian protests against their brutal occupation and Bezalel Smotrich who will be the Defence Ministry and who advocates the annexation of the Occupied Territories.
Israel had been condemned in 45 resolutions by United Nations Human Rights Council, almost more resolutions condemning Israel than on the rest of the world combined, and they include condemnation of war crimes and crimes against humanity and there is a responsibility for the international community to take decisive action towards Israel taking a woefully long-overdue steps towards peace with their neighbour.
When a country acts badly, whether its Russia in Ukraine, Saudi Arabia in Yemen, UK and US in Iraq or Israel in Palestine, it should be condemned. When a country continually acts badly, it should be continually condemned and i don't buy the right to defend itself argument, every nation in the World has that right, including the Palestinians and your right to defend yourself is on shaky ground when you are defending yourself against the people you have been murdering and occupying for seven decades.
We should not meekly remain quiet for fear of being anti-Semite while Israel continues to violently colonize  Palestinian land in one of the greatest atrocities since the 2nd World War, and with Netanyahu at the helm, now is the time for the World to treat Israel as the Worlds Pariah.

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