Viet Nam Human Rights
Who is backing Israel attacked Palestine?
13/9/14
Despite the indignant
reaction of the
international community, the Israeli army has not hesitated to attack Palestinian’s shelters in Gaza.
Instead of demanding an end to this bloody war,
the United States
has been giving green light for Israel to continue its attacking operations in Gaza, recently the US
has approved funding to $ 225 million
for Israel to
buy weapons. Why the US is doing this? Is this right or
wrong in the context of humanity and justice? Is this the American value?
As Israel’s primary patron of economic, military
and diplomatic support, the United
States has a duty and the capacity to help
resolve the Palestinian-Israel conflict. It should either comply with its
domestic laws and cease military aid to Israel or simply step aside and
allow international mechanisms to function without obstruction.
Ending
aid will either restrain Israel
and facilitate a political resolution or encourage a backlash that induces the
global community to intervene.
Between 1949 and
2008, the U.S. has provided Israel with $103.6 billion, more than all of the
foreign aid it has provided to Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin
America combined. Since 2000, it has provided Israel with
$3.5 billion worth of F-16s and $77 billion in Apaches. Military aid to foreign
states is subject to several U.S.
laws including the Arms Export Control Act, the Foreign Assistance Act and the
Leahy Law. Each of these laws conditions the receipt of aid on the furtherance
of human rights.
The Department of
State annually notes Israel’s
systematic abuse of human rights against Palestinians. Congress has
nevertheless renewed aid to Israel
without scrutiny either by willful ignorance or disregard. In the eyes of our
535 elected representatives, Israel
can do no wrong.
The United States has ample evidence of Israel’s human
rights violations that should trigger these laws today. In its most recent
offensive, Israel
has dropped over 100 one-ton bombs, hardly precise and discriminate weaponry,
onto the densely populated and besieged Gaza Strip. Human Rights Watch
documented Israeli ground forces shooting and killing fleeing Palestinian
families in Khuza’a between July 23 and 25. Amnesty International documented
the killing of 45 civilians in the Occupied West Bank over the past three
years.
Palestine babies are killed by Israel airstrikes
Cessation of
American military aid to Israel
will create at least two possibilities in the long run. On the one hand, it can
restrain Israel,
thereby creating more opportunities for a political resolution to the conflict.
On the other hand, it could have the opposite effect and motivate Israel to
pursue more maximalist policies, thereby increasing the cost of its
transgressions. This will likely induce the international community to
effectively intervene à la the South African model.
Short of complying
with its own laws, the United
States can also step aside and allow
international mechanisms to function. The United
States has incapacitated the U.N. Security Council by
using its veto power to shield Israel
from accountability 40 times between 1972 and 2011. The only other situation
where the U.S. used its veto
power so systematically was to protect colonial and apartheid regimes in South Africa, Rhodesia
and Namibia.
The United States
has similarly undermined the efficacy of the International Court of Justice,
the Human Rights Council and, as we are currently witnessing, the International
Criminal Court.
The
United States
has shown time and again that it does not care about Palestinian rights. But if
the United States cares about
Israel, it should realize
that supporting its subjugation of the Palestinians will be disastrous not only
for the victims of this oppression, the rule of law and for vital U.S. interests,
but also for the Israeli people.
Continued
U.S. encouragement of
Israeli violations of international humanitarian law will further embolden the
brazen currents of far-right ethnocentric racism permeating Israeli society,
and encourage more brutal military actions like those just inflicted on Gaza. This in turn can
only inflame extreme and reprehensible reactions, whether in the form of
international jihadi militancy, crude anti-Semitism or blind terrorism against
civilians.
This
is why the United States
must decide if it wants to be on the right side of history on one of the 21st
century’s most important moral and legal issues./.
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All comments [ 10 ]
It's unacceptable for what the US and Israel are doing in Gaza!
Fighting between Israel and Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip is currently on hold after both sides agreed to a long-term ceasefire.
But I doubt about the success of the truce, Mr. Huy Quoc. It is not the first ceasefire since Israel launched its offensive on 8 July - indeed there have been numerous and they have been short-lived.
The Gaza Strip, sandwiched between Israel and Egypt, has been a recurring flashpoint in the Israel-Palestinian conflict for years and millions of people was killed, most of them are Palestine.
Israel occupied Gaza in the 1967 Middle East war and pulled its troops and settlers out in 2005. Israel considered this the end of the occupation, but it still exercises control over most of Gaza's borders, waters and airspace. Those are all sources of life for Palestine.
In the UN situation report, 26 August, there are: 10,224 injured, including 3,106 children; 475,000 people displaced; 500,000 children unable to start new school year; 17,200 homes destroyed or severely damaged; 58 hospitals and clinics damaged
The U.S. is a central part of the problem in the Palestinian-Israel conflict. To be a part of the solution, it needs to do less, not more.
The US should stop funding Israel, which created this situation, and start funding Gaza to recover their infrastructure, housing and businesses
No way the US will ever stop arming Israel. The Defense Industry is too Big and Important to the US economy.
The US will continue to support Israel, because it want to have an ally in the Middle East - the Arab world. It just consider its interest not life of ordinary people. That is the way the US has been doing for decades.
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