By, O.M. Salih
The goal to prevent war, a truly noble one, was supposed to be what the United Nations seeks to achieve at its inception. Many used to view international law, the international system and the United Nations as the guarantee for global peace and cooperation. Yet in its infancy, the United Nations created one “state” that has long stood in defiance of these principles – the principles of the organisation that created it – and showed recently a monstrous example of what institutionalized terrorism can do when the international system fails to perform its core functions.
Since before its inception, the Zionist regime had become synonymous with oppression and aggression. Its Apartheid internal policy and aggressive expansionist foreign policies have ignited conflicts, destabilized the region and dragged a once peaceful region into wars.
The creation of the ‘state of Israel’ remains a historical anomaly. The international system and its current body were not formed in ideal situations, nor did it operate in an ideal way. Perhaps one of the most notable issues about the circumstances in which the United Nations was formed is that much of today’s world was still under colonization. Such an issue, in addition to post war paradigms and other factors, led the international body’s then majority to adopt the Palestinian land partition plan that ultimately led to the formation of the Zionist state and a catastrophic decades-long suffering for the Palestinian people.
Zionists have long justified their terrorist state’s existence with the United Nations’ partition decision. Interestingly, the state that owes its very existence to the United Nations has been one of the most, if not the most, disregarding to international laws. The dozens of declarations and decisions affirming Palestinian rights, statehood, right of return and calling for an end to occupation and settlement building seem to belong only to the shelves of UN libraries in the Zionist mentality.
The last year has been full of horrific scenes that are the product of a sick genocidal mentality unleashed against Palestinians. But the same year has also shown blowing scenes in the way Zionists confronted the United Nations. With the exception of the Zionist state, never did a state assign a UN body as a terrorist organisation, nor did any country that the writer is aware of declare the UN secretary a ‘persona non grata.’ Mentioning the murdered UN employees here would entail mentioning aid workers, reporters, women, children, elders, healthcare providers and the growing list of thousands who were and are being killed as these letters are written.
The very product of international failure has morphed into a rogue state, threatening global stability and undermining international law. If international law presumably granted the state of Israel legitimacy, the Zionist regime has become its most notorious violator. Regardless of their crimes, the Israeli government’s officials are nearly assured that there would be someone that dares to applaud for them, stops the entire international system from functioning, Vetoes for them and sends weapons to them in a capital far away.
With violence spreading to larger circles and the mass killing actions entering its second year, the global community is now at a crossroads. The United Nations faces a moral and political imperative to act decisively before the situation spirals even further out of control. The fact that the Israeli government, or even AIPAC, has ‘bought’ a seat in the United Nations Security Council should not stop the United Nations from performing its functions. The United Nations General Assembly has the right to and should recommend the use of force against the war criminals obsessed with ethnic cleansing, genocide and expansionist violence.
Before it is too late, taking a collective decision to stop the criminal state of Israel is a must. Failure to contain Netanyahu’s government’s behaviours would not only cause more damage, but could -and probably will- embolden other governments to challenge international law, if not completely disregard it. Destroying whatever is left of the United Nations charter may be the results of such a failure. In retrospect, allowing the United Nations’ Security Council to hinder any action against Netanyahu’s government is a catastrophic mistake. The time has already come for governments of the world to confront this growing menace, to stop the state that has chosen chaos over order and to prevent the further collapse of the rule of law, before the monster that the United Nations inadvertently unleashed upon the world, and upon itself, gets even more monstrous.***
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