Arrogance
is just one more word to describe the Apartheid Israeli government. This time it involves the United Nations
Security Council veto power which is granted to the five permanent members
(United States, Great Britain, France, China and Russia).
This
week China and Russia vetoed a UN Security Council Resolution against Syria for
the second time in four months. The reaction
from the US and Apartheid Israel was typical.
U.S. Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton called the veto a "travesty". Members of
Apartheid-in-Chief Benjamin Natanyahu’s cabinet were disappointed by the veto
and Knesset members were appalled by Russia's behavior.
This arrogant reaction by the US and Apartheid Israel
comes after a February, 2011 US veto of a UN Security Council Resolution which
would have condemned the settlements as “illegal” and after the US threatened
to veto a proposed UN Security Resolution on Palestinian Statehood in
September, 2011.
Apartheid Israeli supporters point to the Russian naval
base in Syria and to the sale of jet fighters to the Assad regime to state that
Russia has some sort of culpability in the Syrian murderous crackdown of the
Arab Spring in Syria. This position would suggest to any logical person that
the US, which is working closely with Apartheid Israel on military exercises
and sells (gives is a better word) jet fighters to Israel, is then complicit with
Israel in the occupation of Palestine.
The problem with the US foreign policy is that it does
what it will not allow others to do. The US can support the illegal settlement of
Palestine by Apartheid Israel but Russia and China cannot support the brutal
Syrian murderous actions against its own people. Apartheid-in-Chief Netanyahu is conspicuously
silent on the Russian and Chinese veto. However, he did state recently before a
cabinet meeting:
At the end of last week we received a reminder about the environment
we're living in. We heard Iran's ruler talk about Israel's destruction, we saw
the Syrian army massacring its own people. Some leaders have no compunctions
about harming their people or their neighbors.[i]
Zvi Bar’el, the writer
of the Haaretz opinion article in which this quote was taken, then stated:
True, it's a lousy environment. Only one sentence is needed to complete
the picture: "And there are governments that don't mind continuing to
occupy other nations for nearly 50 years.
This arrogance of expressing moral outrage at the
atrocities of other countries while committing atrocities yourself is typical
of how repugnant the world political stage has succumbed. This indignation comes down to the use of the
UN veto by the five permanent nations.
The US cannot use the veto to allow Israel to continue its apartheid occupation
of Palestine and its obnoxious suppression of the Palestinian human spirit to
be free; and then condemn the Russians and Chinese for vetoing the condemnation
of the Syrian brutal suppression of the Syrian people’s human spirit to also be
free. One cannot support the condemnation
of one human suppression and veto the condemnation of another human suppression. It just is not morally right.
While the veto in the UN Security Council is a power that
will not be so easily given up by the five permanent members, it is time to
rethink this awesome power. At this juncture, however, it would be better if
the five permanent members of the UN Security Council would rethink their use
of the veto. Instead of using the veto
to advance one’s self-interest, they should use the veto on a consistent basis
that will advance the human spirit to be free.
I understand that this may be asking too much from China, but the US, as
the sole super power, needs to lead with a moral conviction. The US needs to be consistent in its foreign
policy.
(© Copyright, Fadi Zanayed. Publication or distribution of this material is allowed provided its content is not altered and the source and its author are cited.)
[i] Veto
Morality, Zvi
Bar'el, February 8, 2012, http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/veto-morality-1.411637
