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Cameron’s racism is revealed

April 30, 2015 at 3:10 pm

Israel was right to defend itself in the face of “indiscriminate” attacks in Gaza last summer. Those were the words of British Prime Minister David Cameron. This statement is infuriating because it expresses racism on one hand, and is distasteful on the other. Human rights organisations all across the world have agreed that what occurred in Gaza last summer was an “attack” by Israel and that war crimes and crimes against humanity were committed. The evidence of these crimes is still present and the videos of civilian women and children being killed are supported by the statistics being circulated in the media. Some of these videos are produced by impartial and professional parties, while there are numerous photographs that give a detailed explanation of the crimes involving the demolition of homes, institutions, mosques, universities and even UNRWA schools. None of this data and information prevented Cameron from revealing his political foolishness and racist position on the matter in his unfair statement in which he sought to justify all of Israel’s aggression against the besieged Gaza Strip.

Every murder committed by the occupying Zionist state can be laid partly at Britain’s door because it established Israel in the region at the expense of the Palestinian people who were under the rule of the British Mandate at the end of World War Two. Cameron’s attempt to justify Israel’s offensive is invalid, because it is a justification from Britain, which has all too often violated the rights of the Palestinians as a whole, and so is no neutral observer.

Cameron went too far in his statement as he disregarded the spilling of Palestinian blood and the rights of the victims of Israel’s aggression. It seems that he does not give any weight or value to the Palestinian Authority, a helpless onlooker which did not even make a formal protest to the British government. The PA leadership is too busy with internal issues and the foreign minister is not only absent physically from Gaza, but is also opposed to its legitimate resistance to the Israeli occupation. Unfortunately, neither Hamas nor Islamic Jihad, nor any other resistance group, responded to or commented on Cameron’s statement justifying the killings and destruction wrought by the occupation forces while denying the right of Palestinians to resist. Resistance to an occupier is a right recognised by international law under which the state of Israel is supposed to exist; Britain, meanwhile, claims that it is protecting peace and stability and defending the human rights of vulnerable peoples by means of its permanent seat at the UN Security Council.

It is true that none of the Palestinians trust Britain because its then foreign minister’s promise to the Zionists in 1917 led eventually to the Nakba. However, the Palestinian leadership, especially in the resistance groups, should respond to Cameron’s and similar statements; he represents a government which, like its predecessors for decades, have committed crimes against the Palestinians collectively and still deny their rights to freedom, return and self-determination. Neither Cameron, nor anyone else, should be allowed to disregard the rights of the Palestinian people, and we must expose their racist position, which can only be held in order to gain campaign donations from Zionists and the Jewish community’s votes in the upcoming General Election.

Translated from Felesteen newspaper, 29 April, 2015.

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