This truce reflects the failure of Israel’s war on Gaza
JVL Introduction
An early reflection on the proposed truce by Mohammad Alsaafin, a journalist and senior producer at Al Jazeera, has been published in The Nation.
The deal or something like it announced has been on the table for weeks.
Israel accepting it now shows the failure of its attempts to degrade Hamas and of the increasing international pressure on it.
What has been degraded, affirms Alsaafin, is the concept of Western liberal values.
He cites one G7 diplomat telling the Financial Times in the early days of this war, “All the work we have done with the Global South [over Ukraine] has been lost.… Forget about rules, forget about world order. They won’t ever listen to us again.”
RK
This article was originally published by The Nation on Wed 22 Nov 2023. Read the original here.
This truce reflects the failure of Israel’s war on Gaza
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Whilst Mohammad Alsaafin rightly looks forward hopefully to ‘political engagement’ between enemies developing out of a temporarily truce between enemies, I think that as friends of Palestine we must be clear that there can be no enduring peace there without the establishment of a single, secular state in which all citizens have equal civil and political rights irrespective of ethnicity or religious affiliation.
In turn this is achievable if and only if the apartheid state, and the Jewish supremacism enshrined in its laws, are dismantled and consigned to the dustbin of history .
“Netanyahu and Gallant are already promising that combat will resume again.” …………and a few minutes ago: “Israel vows to continue ‘intense’ fighting for at least two months after conflict pauses on Friday”(Guardian 23 Nov). How long, oh Lord (not that I believe there is one), how long? And how long will it be before the world decides to actually do something positive about the on-going massacre? Send another aircraft carrier to Israel’s aid, as like as not. And when will the world’s nations, ‘upholders of international law’ perhaps react to the ‘situation’ with some sense of justice, balance, right and wrong? I’m not holding my breath.