By Ramona Wadi
Never, ever, trust the UN’s concept of human rights. As Israel continues its genocide in Rafah, supposedly a safe zone designated by Israel itself while it hounds out Hamas in other areas of Gaza, the UN held its daily press briefing and made use of its usual jargon, carefully evading any statement that could be interpreted as a reaction against Israel’s war crimes.
One would expect that after Israel has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians and rounded up almost the entire population in Rafah for convenient annihilation, the UN would at least avail itself of stronger words. However, as the UN Secretary General’s Spokesman Stephane Dujarric stated, humanitarian colleagues from the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) “have heightened concerns of an escalation in Gaza’s southernmost city, where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have sought refuge.”
Heightened concerns? It gets worse.
“We saw again Palestinians being killed yesterday. What we need is a humanitarian ceasefire,” Dujarric said in response to another question regarding the situation in Rafah. “The Secretary-General feels it’s extremely important to have this humanitarian ceasefire. We also saw yesterday the release of two Israeli hostages, which we very much welcome the fact that these two have regained their freedom. And it’s important to see the immediate and unconditional release of all remaining hostages.”
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Palestinians are being slaughtered by Israel, and the UN annihilates their presence even from statements that should deal with the genocide they are living and dying through. The Israeli hostage situation is being used as a diversion, not least from the fact that Hamas proposed a plan which Israel rejected outright. The UN is sending a clear message: any humanitarian ceasefire would be tied strictly to the release of Israeli hostages and only if Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agrees to it. So far, Netanyahu has clearly demonstrated that the remaining Israeli hostages are already collateral damage in the genocide inflicted upon Palestinians in Gaza.
Another question was related to Israel requesting the UN’s help in forcibly displacing Palestinians., “We want to ensure that anything that happens is done in full respect of international law, in full respect of civilians,” said Dujarric. “We will not be party to forced displacement of people.” Wrong on both counts. Maybe the UN needs to hear that it is encouraging Israel’s international law violations including genocide, and it is, and has always been, party to the forced displacement of the Palestinian people since entertaining the Zionist colonial ideology and coming up with the 1947 Partition Plan.
Dujarric’s words not only ring hollow in terms of the UN’s purported concern for Palestine, of which it has none, but he also seeks to conceal the UN’s historical role in forced displacement of Palestinians. The UN’s role in creating Israel – a colonial entity on stolen Palestinian land – is equivalent to complicity in forced displacement, ethnic cleansing and now also genocide. And yet, the Palestinians have been forced perpetually by the UN itself to remain subservient to international demands and conjectures. From Israel’s establishment and subsequent international recognition, to the defunct two-state compromise, the result Palestinians have been forced to reap is their own annihilation with the full blessings of the UN. Any official or entity asking Palestinians to abide by international law has always been a hypocrite. At this stage, anyone advocating for less than a permanent ceasefire, full recognition of the Palestinians’ right to anti-colonial resistance and their full political rights to their land and liberation, would do better to remain silent. The colonised have the right to defend themselves against the coloniser. The UN should get that.
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Never, ever, trust the UN’s concept of human rights. As Israel continues its genocide in Rafah, supposedly a safe zone designated by Israel itself while it hounds out Hamas in other areas of Gaza, the UN held its daily press briefing and made use of its usual jargon, carefully evading any statement that could be interpreted as a reaction against Israel’s war crimes.
One would expect that after Israel has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians and rounded up almost the entire population in Rafah for convenient annihilation, the UN would at least avail itself of stronger words. However, as the UN Secretary General’s Spokesman Stephane Dujarric stated, humanitarian colleagues from the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) “have heightened concerns of an escalation in Gaza’s southernmost city, where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have sought refuge.”
Heightened concerns? It gets worse.
“We saw again Palestinians being killed yesterday. What we need is a humanitarian ceasefire,” Dujarric said in response to another question regarding the situation in Rafah. “The Secretary-General feels it’s extremely important to have this humanitarian ceasefire. We also saw yesterday the release of two Israeli hostages, which we very much welcome the fact that these two have regained their freedom. And it’s important to see the immediate and unconditional release of all remaining hostages.”
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Palestinians are being slaughtered by Israel, and the UN annihilates their presence even from statements that should deal with the genocide they are living and dying through. The Israeli hostage situation is being used as a diversion, not least from the fact that Hamas proposed a plan which Israel rejected outright. The UN is sending a clear message: any humanitarian ceasefire would be tied strictly to the release of Israeli hostages and only if Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agrees to it. So far, Netanyahu has clearly demonstrated that the remaining Israeli hostages are already collateral damage in the genocide inflicted upon Palestinians in Gaza.
Another question was related to Israel requesting the UN’s help in forcibly displacing Palestinians., “We want to ensure that anything that happens is done in full respect of international law, in full respect of civilians,” said Dujarric. “We will not be party to forced displacement of people.” Wrong on both counts. Maybe the UN needs to hear that it is encouraging Israel’s international law violations including genocide, and it is, and has always been, party to the forced displacement of the Palestinian people since entertaining the Zionist colonial ideology and coming up with the 1947 Partition Plan.
Dujarric’s words not only ring hollow in terms of the UN’s purported concern for Palestine, of which it has none, but he also seeks to conceal the UN’s historical role in forced displacement of Palestinians. The UN’s role in creating Israel – a colonial entity on stolen Palestinian land – is equivalent to complicity in forced displacement, ethnic cleansing and now also genocide. And yet, the Palestinians have been forced perpetually by the UN itself to remain subservient to international demands and conjectures. From Israel’s establishment and subsequent international recognition, to the defunct two-state compromise, the result Palestinians have been forced to reap is their own annihilation with the full blessings of the UN. Any official or entity asking Palestinians to abide by international law has always been a hypocrite. At this stage, anyone advocating for less than a permanent ceasefire, full recognition of the Palestinians’ right to anti-colonial resistance and their full political rights to their land and liberation, would do better to remain silent. The colonised have the right to defend themselves against the coloniser. The UN should get that.
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7 responses to “The UN is complicit in the forced displacement of the Palestinians”
Well the UN created the racist shithole that is Israel and granted them total immunity from ever having to be accountable
From its first day, the UN was created as an imperialist-Zionist instrument to further advance imperialist-Zionist (Jews) interests. Its major power with vetoes are the U.S., UK, France, Russia and China. Russia and China are symbolic and overtime have shown to protect their own interests when using their vetoes.
I wrote this from the start. How can you aspect that someone responsible for the poisoning, human and social rights depriving protocols and straight up murdering of tens if not hundreds of millions worldwide, would truly care about human rights laws, or of the well being of the Palestinian people?
Both the head of the who and the secretary General of the UN are the very same genocidal criminals which have brought us the scamdemic.
In Gaza, they have allowed the Genocide to take place and covered up the isranazi zionists from the very start of this false flag operation, as they pulled out their international staff members from Gaza along with the status of protectorate from all of their Gaza centers.
Even Yesterday, the secretary General told the camera that the “death of journalists is troubling”, not one word of condemnation, not one word of condemnation for its UN staff members murdering hider, as they are always described as “unfortunate cases” and “dead”, as if their killing should have been the result of natural causes, and not as the one of being murdered by the israeli supremacists’s apartheid wannabe terrorist state.
To tell you the truth all the arguments and evidence about this second event of mass genocide in less than a century, are a total waste of time. The only hope lies in the ongoing attacks against the Zionist entity and its eventual obliteration by its many enemies. The resistance movement must continue to the bitter end, all the rest are useless platitudes. This cancer must be extirpated from the map.
The only hope rests on humanity in it self.
We are the greatest power and our representatives need to be reminded.
Resistance and fight against injustice is the part of humanity’s essence, and is the mean for the activation of our natural immunity system, hence, we must all work together to insure its function.
We are the power we been searching for, we need to realize that in order to be able to use it in the most efficient way.
Apartheid and Genocide are a cancer which must be terminated, we, “humanity”, are the force which must end it.
The UN represents the ‘good cop’ mop up squad to the Nato g£oba£i$€d enforcer of ‘western’ va£u€$, they being, as Dubya announced, that you are either ‘with U$ or against U$’.
Neoliberal totalitarianism uber a££€$$ on the behalf of the white supremacists (with honorary membership for financia££y qualified minorities) who maintain those ru£€$-ba$€d va£u€$.
On the basis of what I have read, the invasion and slaughter in Gaza were pre planned. The Israelis had lots of warning about Oct 7 raid but did nothing to prevent it. They deliberately reduced the troop levels at the border and responded to the attack in a way to maximize casualties. This gave the Zionist regime a perfect opportunity to commit genocide.