The Israel-Palestine conflict, often presented as deeply complex, is pointedly clear using universal principles, international law, and morality. Author Ta-Nehisi Coates affirms this clarity, charging that U.S. tax dollars support apartheid and segregation in the region. Israel’s violations of UN Security Council Resolutions, illegal occupation, apartheid practices, and Palestinian rights violations support this assertion; complexity, it seems, is a guise to avoid accountability.
By Nasim Ahmed
Don’t take my word for it, listen to one of America’s celebrated authors, Ta-Nehisi Coates describing how he felt after discovering how uncomplicated Israel’s occupation of Palestine is. “It is made to sound as if you need a degree in Middle East Studies or a PhD to really understand what’s happening,” he says, “but I understood the first day; US tax dollars are subsidising apartheid, subsidising segregationist order, a Jim Crow regime.”
Former US President Barack Obama recently stated that solving the Israel-Palestine conflict requires understanding its complexity. But is it really so complicated? Is that really the case? Or is the myth of complexity just another way for world leaders to avoid holding Israel to account and whitewashing their own complicity in what is now the longest illegal occupation in modern history?
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In fact, if we take universal principles, international law and morality as our judge, what you find is not complexity but clarity.
Here are just some facts:
- Israel has violated more UN Security Council Resolutions than any other country. At least 55 UN Security Council resolutions since 1955.
- On every major issue that is contested, there is no complexity, the law is on the side of the Palestinians.
- Regarding the right of refugees to return; the status of Jewish only settlements; the status of Israel’s illegal occupation; the right of Palestinians to self-determination; the status of East Jerusalem, there is no complexity, only clarity.
- On Israel’s practice of the crime of apartheid, here too we have clarity, because every major human rights group has concluded that Israel has imposed a system of racial segregation and domination on historic Palestine.
Don’t take my word for it, listen to one of America’s celebrated authors, Ta-Nehisi Coates describing how he felt after discovering how uncomplicated Israel’s occupation of Palestine is. “It is made to sound as if you need a degree in Middle East Studies or a PhD to really understand what’s happening,” he says, “but I understood the first day; US tax dollars are subsidising apartheid, subsidising segregationist order, a Jim Crow regime.”
So the next time someone says this conflict is too complex to understand, remember that this is an appeal for you to remain indifferent to the crimes committed by Israel and the suffering of Palestinians.
There’s no ‘complexity’ when one side is committing genocide.
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3 responses to “Debunked: The myth of complexity of Palestine-Israel”
Actually quite simple. The UK Balfour Agreement of 1947 which actually stole the Palestinians land and gave it to the Zionist stated “Live in peace, take no more land.”
Simple isn’t it yet not enforced from day one.
It was the agreement between the British Jewish Cabinet Minister Lord Balfour and the Powerful Zionist Baron Rothschild in 1917 when the British were were unable to win the war against the Germans and had emptied their coffers in the war that the Zionist offered the British lots of almost free money to restock their war effort and Also most importantly guaranteed to bring the USA into the war if they would just sign an agreement that the Jews had a legal right to be in Palestine. The British Empire by the way had full control of Palestine as colony . In 1947 in the United Nations Organisation which incidentally was controlled by the American and British Jews and what is little realised is that the Jews also had control of the Bolsheviks Party in Russia so the die was cast the most powerful people in the world agreed that the Jews should set up a State in Palestine and call it Israel and pretend that a poor people without land were to be given a land without people. “Without People?” Sure the fictional doctrine of Terra Nullius was applied as in Australia . Empty Land because the life there was not fully human. Aren’t the Jewish controlled imperial capitalists nice people? Not.
When Zionists white extremist supremacists can steal & make claim on someone else’s country .. why then it is deemed to be impossible in reverse ??? Actually if one is possible, then reverse is surely going to happen… It took (as we hear) 6 million to make one possible, maybe it will take 6 million to reverse it. So be it.. let the dice roll & see for it to happen. Never overestimate your own power & never underestimate your enemy’s power.. invariably all have their own weaknesses.. target those weaknesses & see fruitful results. No one is invincible.. History is written on corpses of them invincibles. ..;