The ‘Board of Peace’ established by US President Donald Trump to supervise the temporary governance of Gaza will not overcome the killings in that strip or resolve the deeper crisis that blights the land.
Why? Because it does not address the root causes of the crisis.
What are the root causes? The usurpation of the ancestral lands of the Palestinians and their expulsion by Israel, Palestinian dispossession and the systematic repression and oppression of an entire people for the last 78 years, are the real reasons for the turmoil and turbulence in Gaza and the rest of Palestine, and indeed in much of West Asia.
Elites in the US, Israel and Israeli society do not want to embrace the truth about what has happened in Palestine–Israel since 1948.
Embracing the truth means acknowledging the truth about how Israel was created and how it has perpetuated its power all these years.
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It means telling the world about Israeli violence, about its brutality and bestiality, about its callous cruelty towards the Palestinians, the indigenous people of the land.
It means admitting that Israel rules Palestinians in the West Bank through an apartheid system which regards Palestinians as third-class citizens with hardly any rights.
The world should know all this. This is why the real challenge before all of us is to disseminate to American and Israeli elites and their societies in particular the truth about the actual situation in Palestine and Israel. The new communication technologies should be harnessed to the hilt for this purpose.
Justice will be accomplished only if there is a new consciousness. – JUST
Dr Chandra Muzaffar is the president of the International Movement for a Just World.
AGENDA RAKYAT - Lima perkara utama
- Tegakkan maruah serta kualiti kehidupan rakyat
- Galakkan pembangunan saksama, lestari serta tangani krisis alam sekitar
- Raikan kerencaman dan keterangkuman
- Selamatkan demokrasi dan angkatkan keluhuran undang-undang
- Lawan rasuah dan kronisme
