Genocide Blog 43 - When Palestinian Resistance Fractures NAT0
12.05.2024
The totality of the Palestine Resistance in all of Palestine, and all over the world, has built up so much steam that it has now blown NATO into three camps.
The USA has not been able to hold the NATO military alliance together.
The United Nations General Assembly voted last week on whether Palestine should be accepted as a nation state member of the UN, albeit in form only. The NATO countries voted in three different ways. Of NATO’s 32 members, nearly half said YES they recognize Palestine, very few said NO, and the nearly half said they ABSTAIN. (The figures are based on my quick arithmetic taken from the list of countries voting in those three ways, and on the list of NATO-member countries. If anyone finds a mistake, please let us know, and we will double-check!)
YES – 15 NATO Countries Voted to recognize Palestine
France
Greece
Poland
Turkey
Portugal
Belgium
Estonia
Iceland
Luxembourg
Slovenia
Montenegro
Slovakia
Norway
Denmark
Spain
NO – 3 Voted NOT to recognize Palestine
USA
Hungary
Czech Republic
ABSTAIN – 14 Voted to Abstain
Germany
Albania
Latvia
Canada
Finland
Croatia
Bulgaria
Italy
Lithuania
Netherlands
Macedonia
Romania
UK
Sweden
The USA finds itself isolated. Only Hungary and the Czech Republic voted with the NATO leader, the USA, which has dictatorship powers within NATO. Note that Hungary was one of the three countries that voted with the UK and USA against Mauritius’ decolonization meaning the UK-USA have to leave Chagos, including Diego Garcia.
The AUKUS military alliance – Australia, UK and US, as its name shows – came off just as fractured. There are only three militaries in the alliance, and they each voted a different way on Palestine. Australia voted YES, the UK abstained and the USA voted NO.
This is how the USA’s empire is beginning to destabilize itself, as USA support for the genocide by Israel against the Palestinian people is increasingly exposed to the world.
So, people supporting Palestine world-wide, keep up the pressure! We are doing our best to.
The Palestinian people, especially of Gaza, but also of the West Bank and East Jerusalem, as well as the millions of refugees outside of Palestine, have suffered enough. As I write, the Israeli armed forces are bombing both Rafah, in the South, from which they have forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee, and the Jabalia Refugee Camp for the nth time in the North. Gaza City, too, is being bombed as we go to Press.
The Israeli bombing must stop now. The shelling must stop now. The displacement, and herding and corralling of human beings, must stop now. The USA’s bombs and munitions and airplanes must stop being sent. They must not just be paused, but stopped altogether. The Israeli intentional starvation of Palestinians must stop. The USA Government and European Governments must heed the opinion of their people, in particular their young people. Israel must be boycotted, divested from and placed under sanctions and an arms embargo. The Apartheid regime of Israel must stop its Apartheid. Democracy and equality must rule. The colonization of Palestine must stop and be reversed. The Israeli leaders must be brought to Court at the International Criminal Court. The European suppliers of arms, funds and geopolitical backing must be made accountable for their complicity.
The Pravind Jugnauth government must publicly express support for the South African case against Israel for genocide. The Mauritian Government must build up a coalition of African countries in the African union to support the South African case against Israel for genocide.
Lindsey Collen
for LALIT
