Palestinians don’t want Israel investigated, they want justice – Center East Monitor

Final week, 80-year-old Palestinian-American Omar Asad was kidnapped, tied up, and apparently tortured by Israeli military thugs within the West Financial institution. He was found dead soon after.

It is the type of brutality habitually imposed upon Palestinians by the illegitimate Zionist regime to take care of a “pure” Jewish state in historic Palestine.

However as a result of Assad held a US passport, his case generated ever so barely extra consideration over there than ordinary. The US State Division and a number of other US lawmakers referred to as for Israel to “examine” itself over the obvious killing.

That is worse than pointless.

For my part, calling for such investigations will not be solely fruitless however actively dangerous. Subscribing to the clearly false perception that the killer must be allowed to analyze the killing permits Israel off the hook.

It provides the misunderstanding that the Israeli police and Israeli military’s inner investigations are something greater than egregious whitewashes.

Totally sickening response.

The reality is that Ali met his finish when Israeli military thugs “clashed” their bullets together with his physique: https://t.co/CC3CJ6QHsH https://t.co/2Rd0EHW6D7

— Asa Winstanley (@AsaWinstanley) December 9, 2020

To take just one instance – cited by my colleague at The Digital Intifada Maureen Murphy in her report on the killing of Assad – you solely want to have a look at the aftermath of 2018’s Nice March of Return in Gaza, when Israel killed tons of of Palestinians.

Starting in March of that yr, hundreds of Palestinians did what whining liberals the world over have been lecturing them to do for ages and took non-violent protest motion towards Israel. In truth, Palestinians have been doing so for greater than a century as a part of their lengthy marketing campaign towards violent settler-colonial displacement.

Demanding probably the most fundamental human rights, younger individuals, ladies, and elders marched in the direction of the boundary fence with Israel and sought to return to their properties in historic Palestine (what’s at present partly recognized by some as “Israel”). Greater than 80 per cent of Gazans at present are refugees and descendent from inside present-day Israel. They had been pushed out beginning in 1948 when Zionist terror gangs expelled nearly all of Palestinians by power to clear the way in which for the inspiration of Israel.

In response to the peaceable resistance marketing campaign, the Israeli navy brutally and sadistically arrange snipers alongside the jail partitions their forces have used to cage Palestinians into Gaza and shot them down useless. Many had been intentionally maimed and completely misplaced the usage of limbs. This was a focused coverage.

Greater than 215 Palestinians had been killed in these demonstrations. But, out of all of the Israeli “investigations” of its personal conduct, solely a single felony indictment was filed. “The indicted soldier was convicted of minor offences and acquired a particularly lenient sentence,” based on Israeli human rights group, Yesh Din.

This is just one of many such examples of Israel’s self-serving whitewash “investigations”. They’re not more than public relations workouts to maintain the navy and political support flowing from the US and Europe.

These Israeli massacres are the price of a Jewish state in Palestine. Western liberals had been oddly silent at Israel’s bloodbath of unarmed males, ladies, and youngsters marching for his or her rights. However even some on the weak-kneed social democratic left had been ineffectual of their responses.

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Main Labour leftist John McDonnell, for instance, referred to as for an investigation or fee of inquiry into the shootings, as beforehand carried out by the United Nations.

This name could have been well-intentioned, however I preserve that it was not useful in any respect. The info about Palestine are well-known. The bloodbath of the marchers in Gaza was carried out in plain sight.

We don’t want an umpteenth inquiry, investigation, or – going again to the British colonial “mandate” interval – white paper or royal fee.

Everyone knows that Israel is a racist apartheid state that murders Palestinians day by day in chilly blood. It’s time to maintain it to account and produce justice to Palestinians.

It’s time for boycott, divestment, and sanctions.

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