Palestine needs help – so does Israel. Whilst Palestinians are doing everything in their power to call for help, and everyone except US and most European politicians are trying to respond, Israelis are also making themselves heard now. Some of the October 7th victims are suing their government and the IDF, there is an Israeli citizens’ petition against the genocide, more anti-occupation groups are forming, and the bravest of the Israeli citizens are out protesting.
Despite all this evidence that the citizens of both Palestine and Israel have brains and hearts and are using them, politicians all over the world are pontificating about what they think ought to happen ‘the day after’ – that is, when Netanyahu’s government decides it’s had enough of its current rampage of murder and destruction. Appallingly, most politicians seem to have accepted the Israeli government’s declaration that Hamas must have no part in the next chapter. How dare they! If the Palestinians decide they want rid of Hamas, they will say so.
Our politicians have abandoned both the law and natural justice. Let’s set a better precedent. Sing out your support for South Africa, and the countries now finding the courage to back their petition to the International Court. Email your MP, and ask them to support South Africa’s action.
All war crimes can be dealt with by the existing legal system, so let’s call for investigations and trials wherever they are needed – and that includes the claims against Hamas as well as Netanyahu and his ministers, but it’s not any politician’s job to decide who runs another country, unless they have the backing of a proper court ruling.
It’s for Palestinians to decide who governs Palestine and it’s up to Israelis to decide what Israel does after it has withdrawn from, and paid the price of, its illegal occupation of Palestinian lands. That’s not my opinion, that’s the law, and it’s about time we told our politicians that.
We, the people of the world, have mobilized for peace and justice, and we want a ceasefire now. That has quite rightly been our main focus but we must also deal with this ‘day after’ talk.
It’s very easy to find email addresses for politicians. Let’s add this to our daily to-do list. Every single time Israeli or any other world politicians make their arrogant, inappropriate ‘day after’ statements about Palestine, they need to get a shedload of emails saying ‘mind your own business’. If they want to interfere, for heaven’s sake, let’s see them calling for a ceasefire and urgent, practical help for the homeless, hungry, desperate people of Gaza.
If they want to influence the future of Palestine then they need to support legal measures to get the criminals out of Israel’s government. That’s the beginning and end of other countries’ politicians’ job on that score.
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