THE STORY OF A GENOCIDE

On May 14, 1948, the United Nations decided that Israel had the right to its existence within the framework of the distribution of the British mandate that was then expiring. The Jewish people had suffered the Holocaust and the oppression of German Nazism and other peoples, including Poland.

Israel was thus born in lands that were considered Palestinian. But the first war between Arab volunteers and Palestinians broke out on May 15 in a series of clashes that culminated in the victory of the Jewish army, supplied with weapons by the United States and other powers.

As a result of that war, the exile of the Palestinian population took place in several phases; an exodus that would affect up to 700,000 people, dispossessed of their lands. Isr ael then goes from being an oppressed people to becoming an oppressor people. It has the largest military force in the Middle East, occupying the West Bank and the Golan Heights in Syrian lands.

Today, the Gaza war has its origins in an attack by the radical Palestinian group Hamas in Israel. An act of a terrorist nature that in no way benefits the cause of the Palestinian people. On the contrary, the far-right government led by Benjamin Netanyahu has responded with continuous bombing that does not stop, with more than 25,000 Palestinian victims to date.

What future do the Palestinians have? None, considering that Netanyahu's government rejects the existence of an independent Palestinian state, although since the end of the British mandate in 1948, the United Nations and the entire world maintain that Palestine must exist with the attributes of an independent state.

Israel's position has not changed in the last 75 years: Palestine should not be a Nation and should not have political rights. This means that Israel faces the entire world, including the United States, which advocates a political solution based on two states living peacefully together.

In all these years, Palestinian extremist groups have appeared that do not recognize Israel and carry out terrorist actions. They are called Liberation Fronts, which have obtained support from some Arab countries but which, in short, no longer count on this chess board. Hamas and the Yiadh group are a unique case, but it cannot be stated with certainty that the entire Palestinian civilian population supports them.

The real support they have is a part of the youth, who have not known the wars between Arabs and Israelis, and reject, logically, the military presence of Jewish forces in the West Bank.

  Support that has been growing since Israel responded with genocidal action to the terrorist attack of October 7. South Africa has led the way by denouncing the Jewish state before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for genocide. Turkish President Racip Erdogan has called Netanyahu “another Adolf Hitler.”

Netanyahu is preferring war and does not put the release of the hundreds of hostages that Hamas is still holding first: “Eliminate the terrorists first,” the Jewish prime minister continues to say despite the large demonstrations held in Tel Aviv to negotiate the release of prisoners.

All this creates a circle with no exit. American President Joe Biden seems to be very right when he says: “The war will continue and there will be no ceasefire as long as Netanyahu leads Israel.”

(1948; palestinian exodus)

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