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Free Free Palestine!

 

PressTV – Sat Jun 25, 2011 2:27PM
By Porya Mohajer Soltani

After more than 60 years of occupation, genocide and media isolation, the voices screaming ‘Free Free Palestine!’ around the world are now louder than ever before.

When only a decade ago, just a few people, in a handful of cities across the world, rallied to commemorate and express their solidarity for Palestine on Nakba Day, Naksa Day and International al-Quds Day; today, millions rally in nearly all cities across the globe.

Several organizations, small and big, have been established in all corners of the world to raise awareness of the Palestinian peoples agonizing struggle.

Artists of all genres, from Lowkey to Coldplay, have dedicated their music to the cause, with tracks like ‘Long Live Palestine’ and ‘Freedom for Palestine.’

People of all faiths, from Jews to Muslims, and all nationalities, across all continents have joined the resistance movement.

And now, the Intifada is globalized!

The second Freedom Flotilla, with humanitarian aid and construction material, will soon arrive at the impoverished Gaza Strip. Last year’s flotilla was stopped by the Israeli regime’s Special Forces, before reaching its destination. Nine activists aboard the flotilla were shot to death. The Israeli regime released the ‘We Con the World’ music video to mock the activists aboard the flotilla and their failed attempt at breaking the Gaza siege, as well as to describe them as terrorists.

This year’s flotilla however, is nearly twice as large. And surely it doesn’t surprise anyone to know that the United Nations officials have asked the Mediterranean countries to block the flotilla before it arrives at the Gaza coast. Hillary Clinton has also criticized the peaceful activists for seeking to provoke the Israeli regime and “creating a situation in which the Israelis have the right to defend themselves.” Additionally, the Israeli regime has said it stands prepared for the arrival of flotilla, clearly indicating more of the same acts, we all know the Israeli regime would get away with.

After last year’s attack and illegal arrest of hundreds of innocent activists, the people of the world rallied for days until the Israeli regime had no choice but to release them. These people achieved something that the United Nations had on so many occasions failed to do.

This may be why, Israeli officials quickly wrote a ‘master plan’ when it became official that Palestine is to request for a full membership at the United Nations in September. Because, no matter how much you try to erase someone’s history, no matter how many apartheid walls you build around them or how much white phosphorus you use on them, if the people stand united, there is nothing you can do.

Their master plan, as leaked by cables, shows that Israeli has instructed its embassies to lobby at the highest level, to get as many UN member states as possible to vote against a Palestinian membership and, to further increase the publication of anti-Palestine and pro-Israel pieces in the mainstream media. However that is possible, I mean, how much more one-sided could mainstream media get on the Palestine-Israel issue?

So far, more than half of the UN’s member states have already made declarations recognizing Palestine as a state.

But the United Nations General Assembly, where it is decided whether a country can be a member of the UN or not, has a big brother, the United Nations Security Council. And the General Assembly is only allowed to vote on matters such as this, if the Security Council recommends it to do so.

And the much peace-loving, Nobel Peace Prize winner Barack Obama, who in his speech addressed to AIPAC before his election victory in 2008, promised that Jerusalem would forever be “the undivided capital of Israel”, and promised $30 billion in aid to the Israeli regime, once again promised the same crowd that he would veto any Palestinian effort for a UN membership, at the Security Council.

It seems that, a voice, louder than half of the governments around the world, does not matter. Endless international campaigns to break the Gaza siege, masses rallying in support for a free Palestine, are all totally hopeless, as long as one, and only one government can veto against it all.

Is it now fair to say that the United Nations have lost its credibility? That it has failed to actually unite the nations? That it’s about time it dissolved and was replaced?

PM/PKH

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