In Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the West was trying to salvage its relationship with the countries of the South that did not believe his rhetoric regarding international law and saw it as hypocrisy, but the Al-Aqsa flood operation on October 7 in Israel and the events that followed in the Gaza Strip eliminated these efforts, becoming a rift between the two parties. Complete and irreversible.
With this introduction, writer Pierre Hase opened his column in Loops magazine, explaining that public opinion in the southern countries, and even governments, embrace the issue of the residents of Gaza who have been dying under Israeli bombing for nearly 3 months, asking Westerners: Where did your talk about the law, war crimes, and justice go?
Thus, the brutality of the Israeli response, and the images of Palestinian civilian victims spread across social networks, create an untenable situation for those who defend Ukraine in the name of the law in the face of Russian aggression, as if opinions in the South and even among some Westerners are saying, “Don’t give us any more.” Moral lessons.
The West should only blame itself – as the magazine says – because for two decades it moved away from the Palestinian issue, which seemed under control, so that the Americans, especially their President Joe Biden, found themselves in an uncomfortable position as the guarantor of Israel’s security without having the slightest confidence in it. Its Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Hypocritical silence
What is strange – as Haskey says – is that the United States delivers ammunition to Israel, uses its veto power twice against the ceasefire request in Gaza, and at the same time criticizes the Israeli strategy and the number of civilian casualties, which makes its position incomprehensible, and makes the rest of the world wonder, if you do not agree. Therefore, why do you give Israel the necessary means to continue it?
Like the United States, the Europeans declare their unconditional support for Israel, in a way that contradicts their assessment that its response is disproportionate, and their timid calls for a ceasefire do not seem to reach public opinion in that south, which believes that Europe maintains its hypocritical silence when the victims are non-Europeans.
Huskey: We cannot condemn Russian expansion in Ukraine, while at the same time turning a blind eye to settlement in the West Bank, because the world is watching us.
The writer concluded that humanitarian aid, although important, is not enough to change the perception of Western complicity in the killing of Gaza’s children, and Westerners will not be able to restore their credibility except through seriousness when they talk about a political solution and two states.
Haskey concluded that the test is not only in Gaza, but in the West Bank, where the issue is not related to the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), but rather to settlement and the bloody struggle for land and space, and we will not be able to condemn Russian expansion in Ukraine, and turn a blind eye at the same time. About settlement in the West Bank, because the world is watching us.
