Pass the cease-fire proposal! What happens next?
Professor Raihan Ahmed Tapadar :
The Western world seems to forget that Europe is responsible for the genocide of the Jews, while the Arabs, especially the Palestinians, are paying the price for reparations.
On November 29, 1947, the newly formed General Assembly of the United Nations put the last nail in the coffin by approving the proposal to divide the Palestinian territory between the Jews and the Arabs. Meanwhile, the Zionists plan to expel the Palestinians from their territory.
The plan, called Plan Dalet or Plan D, was spearheaded by David Ben Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister. Born in Poland, Ben Gurion immigrated to Ottoman Palestine in 1906 and established himself as a staunch Zionist.
Plan D was the master plan to wipe out the Palestinian Arabs from their land through murder-rape-looting-terror. When this plan was finalized on March 10, 1948, the Israeli terrorist organizations went into full swing to implement it.
Until then, despite being under British rule, the British forces were kept completely inactive, so that the unarmed and unprepared Arabs could not be protected.
On May 14, 1948, when the British Mandate or rule in Palestine ended, Ben Gurion officially declared the independent state of Israel. And all the strategies of the West were with Israel.
This decision to drop food from the sky and open a temporary port to send humanitarian aid to the hungry people of Gaza shows that Biden is now worried about the Middle East strategy.
The US is dropping two things from the sky on Gaza: bombs and food drops. In other words, by providing both death and life, President Biden is seeking balance in an unbalanced Middle East war.
The war began with Hamas attacks on Israeli territory on October 7. Israel launched a retaliatory attack on Gaza that day, which is still ongoing. More than 32,000 people have died in Gaza in months of fighting.
Most of them are women and children. Millions of Palestinians have been displaced. An extreme humanitarian crisis has emerged in the besieged Gaza. There was already international pressure on Israel to propose a cease-fire in Gaza.
However, due to the veto, the resolution was not passed by the Security Council earlier. But this time the proposal was passed by an unprecedented fourteen-zero vote. U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield did not vote or veto the resolution.
The resolution calls for a cease-fire in Gaza as well as the immediate and unconditional release of those held hostage by Hamas. Along with that, there has been a call to increase the relief aid to Gaza.
Five months after the start of indiscriminate killings in Gaza, the UN Security Council finally passed a ceasefire resolution in Occupied Palestine. After the start of the Israel-Hamas war on October 7, there have been several ceasefire proposals. The United States vetoed the proposal three times.
Will Tel Aviv accept the decision of the United Nations Security Council, or will it continue to be recognized as a violent state? Will they ignore this call and continue the atrocities in Gaza? The days ahead turn out to be crucial for the entire region.
The United States voted on three resolutions in the UN Security Council to immediately end Israeli attacks on the war-torn Palestinian territory of Gaza.
As a permanent member, the United States vetoed the proposals for a cease-fire in Gaza. A resolution was again raised in the Security Council calling for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza.
To everyone’s surprise, the United States refrained from vetoing the proposal. As a result, this is the first time that the UN Security Council has passed a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.
The Joe Biden administration’s no-veto policy is unprecedented. According to analysts, it has drawn attention to Washington’s growing frustration with Israel’s leadership over Gaza.
Palestinian rights advocates, however, say the US administration’s fundamental support for Israel needs to be rethought beyond symbolic or rhetorical efforts.
However, Washington says the proposal is not legally binding. Despite this, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reacted sharply.
In this situation, the question of many analysts is whether the Biden administration will apply pressure on Israel to stop the harsh repression of Palestinians in Gaza? This question remains.
The US administration has warned that the operation in Rafah could cause massive civilian casualties. At the same time, this could further isolate Israel from the rest of the world.
The world must remember that the sin that the Zionists started with the establishment of the state of Israel has been spreading for decades through crime and occupation.
For 69 years, the Zionists have not only distorted real history, but have created, and continue to do, a misleading narrative to legitimize their misdeeds with a skillful mix of selected truths and carefully crafted lies.
Hopefully, protests and counter-narratives are coming from within Israel itself. Israeli historians and researchers are analyzing the real history and its nonsense.
Benny Morris, Shalmo Sand, Ilan Pepe, Avi Shlim, Yael Lotan, Yuri Avneri and many others are in this group.
The harsh criticism and indecent attacks of the Zionists did not deter them, nor did the repression of the State of Israel deter them.
Rather, they have taken a strong stand for the freedom, rights and dignity of the Palestinians.
With the direct support of the United States of America and the support of the Western world, Israel continues to thrive despite making millions of Palestinians refugees and blocking them in its own land and not meeting the definition of political science.
Extreme excellence in technology and science fueled the process of Israel’s development.
One of the world’s leading military powers, this country has built up a huge arsenal, including nuclear weapons. But despite all this, the Zionist state of Israel is not at peace.
Peace will not come unless Palestinians are unconditionally allowed to return to their land, end the occupation and return their land, water and resources, and apologize for ethnic cleansing.
The writer is a researcher and columnist
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