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UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres never misses an opportunity to illustrate how the international community has failed Palestine and its people. November 29, International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, or to be more precise, the anniversary of the UN conspiracy to allow Israel to establish itself as a colonial project in Palestine through the Partition Plan of 1947, established in Resolution 181 of the UNGA. His introductory comment was: “As the United Nations celebrates its 75th anniversary, the question of Palestine remains distressingly unresolved.”
The date of the UN Partition Plan was chosen for this “International Day …” – according to the organization’s website – “because of its significance and importance for the Palestinian people.” There is no mention of the negative meaning and the importance it has for the Palestinians. In an attack of incomparable hypocrisy, the UN describes Solidarity Day as an opportunity for the international community to focus its attention on the fact that … the Palestinian people have not yet achieved their inalienable rights as defined by the General Assembly, namely self-determination without external interference “.
In the rhetoric of the UN, the Partition Plan does not constitute “outside interference”. Nor did the fact that such UN interference favored Zionist colonialism that turned Palestinians into colonized people and refugees. Decades on, the UN has completely disassociated the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from those responsible and, more importantly, from the international accomplices of such colonial violence.
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With oblivion accomplished, the UN’s duty on this particular day is simply to act as an information booth according to its own admission, with rhetoric to mark the occasion, meetings and film screenings. It shows all the pitfalls of a marketing and public relations agency rather than an international body wielding political power to stop Israel if it really wanted to. Which, of course, he has no intention of doing.
So, as Guterres and his hierarchy preside over the ongoing destruction of Palestine, thus perpetuating the cycle of land grabbing and dispossession of the Palestinian people, it is not time for all who oppose the UN machinations to stop marking this symbolic occasion. as if it were something really meaningful and positive? Stop exploiting the Palestinians by participating in a commemoration orchestrated by an international organization that refuses to distinguish between the colonizer and the colonized, and that has normalized the lack of a just resolution to accommodate Israel’s presence in Palestine, as well as its false “I”. -defense and security ”narrative.
There is nothing honorable about a day when the international community celebrates its complicity against the Palestinian people and the theft of their homeland. For the Palestinians to be truly celebrated, the UN comment on “self-determination without outside interference” must be taken seriously, to the point that November 29 becomes an annual opportunity to hold the international community to account for the commission of significant violations of international law. against the Palestinian people, under the auspices of the same law that they love to cite so much.
Palestinians need the relevant spaces for their narratives to create politics for their own land and people. The UN will not deliver, of course, but there is no reason not to create new initiatives from the Palestinians, for the Palestinians; initiatives that recognize that peace begins with decolonization, not the dissemination of Israel’s colonial security narrative – “without outside interference” – as the UN itself unknowingly stated.
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