Luxembourg must finally recognize Palestine
The author is a former LSAP minister and European member.
Every commentator of the war on the war in Israel and Gaza risked to be accused of « anti -Semitism ». Many Jews, including other Holocaust-shocked fellow citizens, do not tolerate the quietest criticism of the Netanyahu government. Which in her eyes only reacts to Hamas’s atrocities on October 7, 2023.
Sure that Hamas is and remains a terrorist organization that strives for the final « victory over the unbelievers » and thus the annihilation of Israel. Hamas, acronym for « Islamic resistance movement », stands for « zeal for faith » in Arabic. Founded by « Muslim brothers » around the sheikh Yasin.
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In free elections, the Hamas supporters, which are less corrupt, often prevailed against the representatives of the « Fatah » founded by Arafat (Arabic: « conquest »). Originally also a terrorist organization. Which, however, recognized the right to exist with the signing of the Oslo Agreement of Israel. In West Jordan with Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the embryonic Palestinian state.
90 percent of all built -up structures in Gaza are destroyed. All hospitals, all schools, all production facilities were bombed. Photo: AFP
Israel was not created by the Bible. But through a majority vote of the United Nations General Assembly. After World War II, the decision in the British Mandate of Palestine provided for a home for the survivors of the « Holocaust ». At the same time, a separate state should be created for the Arabs, Bedouins, Drusen and Arab Christians living there.
The aim of the Netanyahu government is to displace and destroy all Palestinians
The desired peaceful coexistence of the states of Israel and Palestine is underpinned by applicable international law. Nevertheless, there are political forces that are decisive in Israel, which are the only goal of a « Groß-Israel ». In a biblical width that never actually existed. This is the finding of the Israeli historian Schlomo Sand.
Netanyahu and his even more radical allies, such as Finance Minister Smotrich, police minister Ben-Gvir, Foreign Minister Katz as a political objective have the expulsion, even the destruction of all Palestinians to enable the creation of a purely Jewish state.
The desired peaceful coexistence of the states of Israel and Palestine is underpinned by applicable international law.
To prevent the strengthening of the Palestinian state, Netanyahu and Co not only rely on the 160 illegal colonies in West Jordan. Where, like a patchwork to the 900,000 Israeli, Palestinian country increasingly occupied. Already during his first term, Netanyahu followed a strengthening of Hamas compared to the Fatah of Arafat and then Abbas. He released Hamas founder Yasin from prison and allowed him to enter Gaza.
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Especially in his current term, he ensured that the Fatah competitors received billions of dollars support from the Qatar, Saudi Arabia and other donors. With which the Hamas in Gaza put on a network of underground tunnels to ho off weapons and material. The starting point for the terrorist attack on October 7th.
Netanyahu’s reaction to October 7th was « over the top »
It is always the same story. The « enemies of my enemy are my friends ». Because Netanyahu wanted to harm the Fatah and thus the « Palestinian authority », he had Hamas upgraded the Hamas. Just like the United States after the Soviet idea in Afghanistan Osama Bin Laden and its ultra -religious fellow campaigners of the later “Al Quaida” with money and weapons to harm Moscow.
Guest author Robert Goebbels criticizes the reaction of the Israeli government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the Hamas attack on October 7th. Photo: AFP
Israel had to react after the killings and kidnappings of October 7th. But Netanyah’s reaction was completely « over the top », as President Biden said at the time. « Revenge is not a strategy, » said US general David Petraeus about the « total war » of the Israeli in Gaza.
The 2.2 million people living there, like a hunt on a territory, were not greater than the cantons of Luxembourg Plus Remich mercilessly driven. Over 50,000 died, the 200,000 were wounded. 90 percent of all built -up structures in Gaza are destroyed. All hospitals, all schools, all production facilities were bombed. Even fountains and preparation systems for water were destroyed.
It is always the same story: ‘The enemies of my enemy are my friends.’
Allegedly « eliminated » the Israeli army, equipped with the most modern war material in the United States, only terrorists. In addition, tens of thousands of women and children. As well as numerous members of aid organizations, even the United Nations or the “Red Heading Moon”, the Arabic counterpart of the international “Red Cross”. Some 200 journalists were killed.
Isn’t that « terror »? The United Nations General Assembly, the International Court of Justice in the Hague, has repeatedly accused Netanyahu government of the « genocide ». The renowned Israeli journalist Gideon Levy wrote: « It is not easy to be accused of the genocide, which is supposedly committed by a state that was created on the ashes of the greatest genocide in history. » For Levy, Israel « did not go to war to commit genocide. (…) But it is committed in practice … »!
The abolition of the poor and the rich
There are important political voices that want to drive out the Palestinians from Gaza and even the West Jordan. Starting with the « reborn » US President Donald Trump, who pretends to create a new Riviera for rich in Gaza. Which requires the expulsion of the Palestinians. Netanyahu’s colleagues are even clearer. Around 8 members of the Knesset foreign policy commission, who called on to destroy all options for supplying water, food and energy in Gaza.
Macron shows it – Luxembourg should not be missing
This is exactly what is currently under the eyes of the shocked world public. Just as Trump makes the United States a “Ugly American” worldwide, Israel flews the only true democracy in the Middle East, the last sympathy for the Jewish home.
One cannot criticize Putin’s brutal war of aggression in Ukraine, and at the same time spread the coat of silence over the violation of internationally recognized borders and illegal land gains by Israel. Certainly, Hamas, Hisbollah or the Huthi in Yemen are terrorist organizations.
In order to show Netanyahu and its ultras that Europeans take their values seriously, Palestine’s recognition as an independent state is overdue.
But can you kill hundreds of innocent civilians to switch off terrorists? Occupy foreign country? In Lebanon, where Israel’s soldiers now occupy a wide border strip. Or in Syria, where Israel not only controls the Golan heights, but also benefited from the overthrow of the Assad regime to create a new buffer zone in the neighboring country. So far, Israel has taken the freedom to bomb over 700 destinations in Syria. With what right, except that of the stronger? Putin, Trump, Erdogan make school!
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The EU Europeans are proud of their democratic values. Therefore, the EU continues to defend Ukraine. Even if the United States wants to put peace in favor of Putin to the country. To secure the Ukrainian minerals on the side. Officially, the EU continues to defend a two-state solution in Middle East. In order to show Netanyahu and its ultras that Europeans take their values seriously, Palestine’s recognition as an independent state is overdue. Macron wants to take the step for France. Luxembourg should not be missing!
