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Why a protective force for Gaza could be a dangerous idea | Israeli-Palestine conflict

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The idea of ​​deploying a force of protective or peacekeeping in Palestine is nothing new. After Israel was established by the horrible massacres and the mass ethnic cleaning of 1948, the United Nations created its organization of supervision of the Truce (UTTSO) to observe the implementation of the Israel-Arab armistice agreements of 1949. In 1974, he sent the force of observer of the United Nations Desegage (UNOD) to support the ceasefire Israel and Syria, and in 1978, the interim strength of the United Nations in Lebanon (UNIFIL) was deployed in Lebanese territory. None of these forces could stop the Israeli aggression.

After the Israeli reinvasion of the occupied West Bank and the massacre in Jenin in 2002, the former President of the United States, Bill Clinton, aroused the idea of ​​an international force in the occupied Palestinian territory.

With the triggering of the genocide in Gaza in October 2023, this proposal started again to obtain diplomatic traction again. In May 2024, the Arab League called for a peacekeeping force for occupied Palestinian territory. The tastes of the Atlantic Council supported the idea, as was various Western officials, notably the genocidal minister of German affairs Annalena Baerbock.

In July of this year, a high -level conference led by France and Saudi Arabia also suggested an “international stabilization mission” in Gaza, based on an invitation from the Palestinian Authority. The idea was bail out following the proclamation of the classification of the integrated food security phase (IPC) of the famine proclamation in Gaza.

Without a doubt, such an intervention, armed or unarmed, would not only be legal under international law, but would also be a means of complying with the international legal principle of the responsibility to protect. The key question, however, is the following: how would such protection be operated in real life?

Looking at geopolitical reality, it is difficult to imagine that it could work without Israeli agreement. Israel has full and unconditional support from the United States and acts with impunity. He has already demonstrated that he would act aggressively against any attempt to break the seat on Gaza; He went so far as to violate the European Union airspace to attack a humanitarian ship linked to Gaza. Any protection force trying to conclude Palestine without Israeli agreement would be attacked before it could get closer.

Therefore, the only option is Israel and the United States to accept it. It is possible, but it would happen in their conditions, which would most likely lead to internationalization and normalization of genocide.

The first step in this direction has already been taken with the deployment of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) supported by the United States in late May. Since then, the mercenaries Israel and the GHF have killed at least 2,416 Palestinians looking for help and injured more than 17,700.

Philippe Lazzarini, general commissioner of UNRWA, called him “an abomination” and “a deadly trap costing more lives than he saves”. UN experts denounced “the entanglement of Israeli information, American entrepreneurs and ambiguous non -governmental entities”. The United Nations Emergency Aid Coordination Organization, OCHA denounced GHF operations as a “deliberate armament attempt”.

The recent revelations of the Washington Post that the plan of the American president Donald Trump to transform Gaza into “riviera of the Middle East” is always on the table gives an indication of the way in which the protective force could become a reality.

The plan, called the reconstruction of Gaza, an economic acceleration and transformation (large), would see a foreign force deployed within the framework of the guardianship sponsored by the United States on the Gaza Strip. The contingent would be formed by private entrepreneurs hired by the GHF, while the Israeli army is responsible for “global security”. This would indeed mean the continuation of the genocide and the ethnic cleaning of the Palestinians under the supervision of foreign mercenaries.

It is certainly not the type of protection force that the pro-Palestinian supporters of the idea would like to see, but it is the only possible way possible.

We all want that the genocide stops and that the Palestinians are protected from the Israeli aggression until its apartheid, ethnic cleaning and illegal occupation diet ends. A protective force should have been deployed a long time ago – when the Zionist movement began its genocidal project in Palestine in 1947.

Today, the promotion of the idea of ​​a protective force not only opens the way to the realization of the Trump plan, but also distracts the most strategic and impactful form of intervention: put an end to international complicity and imposing sanctions in Israel. This is what is possible and real. This is what states arranged to protect Palestinians and defend our rights and international law must do and can do, without depending on any other player.

Twenty years ago, we started calling boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) and the Sanctions path. Now we are about to see the sanctions become real and punchy.

Last year, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution engaging the Member States to partial sanctions against Israel. If we can implement it, this will effectively compromise Israel’s ability to continue to feed its genocide machine.

Meanwhile, BDS action takes effect. We are starting to be able to interfere with the genocide supply chain. We have prevented steel expeditions and military supplies from reaching Israeli buyers.

In August, Colombian President Gustavo Petro published a second decree prohibiting coal exports to Israel. Shortly after, Turkiye announced a complete judgment to all commercial links and the closure of its sea ports and airspace with Israeli ships and planes; The country was previously the fifth import partner of Israel.

Israeli businessmen admit in the local media that “a reality of a silent boycott of Israel in the field of imports has taken the form of suppliers in Europe, and in particular neighboring countries like Jordan and Egypt”.

If South Africa, Brazil and Nigeria stop providing energy to feed Israel, it would have a huge short -term impact. China could prevent its companies from exploiting the port of Haifa. The world South has the power alone to stop the chain of global genocide supply by blocking the continuous flow of raw materials and components.

Even in Europe, certain bonds of complicity are starting to detach themselves. In the Netherlands, five ministers, including the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Deputy Prime Minister, resigned after the cabinet was unable to agree on the sanctions against Israel, plunging the government into crisis. Slovenia and Spain have announced weapons embargoes. Workers’ mobilizations in Mediterranean ports and beyond have made maritime transfers of military equipment to Israel increasingly difficult.

Popular pressure rises to governments to comply with their legal and moral obligations and impose sanctions in Israel. Now is not the time to put pressure for impossible or insidious projects that could give them an excuse so as not to act.

We have all seen how Israel Genocidaire shredded Oslo’s plans for a solution to two states in pieces. These agreements have never been more than an effort for Europe, in particular, to feel better in its role in our dispossession.

Let’s no longer fall into the same trap by supporting initiatives that would only make the world feel better in the genocide of Israel. Concrete pressure and sanctions remain the most effective measures at hand that the American-Israeli axis cannot handle as much.

Strengthen global multilateral initiatives, concrete support for Palestine law and international law, such as the Hague group. Let’s go to the United States to implement sanctions and cut the genocide supply chain.

The pressure must be supported until apartheid and colonialism of the colonists are dismantled between the Jordan river and the Mediterranean Sea.

The opinions expressed in this article are the own authors and do not necessarily reflect the editorial position of Tel Aviv Tribune.

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