Yesterday, November 29, was the day approved by the UN General Assembly to declare solidarity with the Palestinian people. It was the same UN which in 1977 declared solidarity with the Palestinians every year, as the Arabs of different races, who had committed no crime except being born in that country, were mercilessly thrown out of Palestine and the Jewish community hunted down by Hitler’s Nazi Germany and other Western powers were settled there. 29 was selected – it was then that the UN passed the Palestinian partition resolution. At that time, only half of Palestine was given to Israel, but in the 1967 invasion, the lion’s share of Palestine became part of the Jewish state. Not only that, but the Jewish army also occupied the neighboring West Bank of Jordan. Later, the UN Security Council asked Israel through many resolutions to withdraw from the occupied territories and leave them to their rightful owners, but that country was not ready to give up an inch. In 1993, Israel’s prime minister signed the Oslo Accords with Yasser Arafat, the leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the West Bank of the Jordan River and the Gaza Strip. When that was not followed, it was the turn of Saudi Arabia’s two-state plan. The Saudi plan was for the Jewish people and the Arab people to agree to a peaceful coexistence. But even that was rejected by the Zionists. In 2020, Bahrain, UAE and Sudan recognized Israel and established diplomatic relations according to the Abraham Agreement, but Israel is moving forward with an aggressive plan to establish Jewish settlements there by occupying only 13 square kilometers of land allotted to the Palestinian people by the UN. Only six square kilometers of land in the West Bank remain inhabited by Palestinians. Israel’s army and police are busy establishing Jewish settlements there by force. The youths who are resisting this cruel injustice are shot dead every day. But neither the United States nor the European countries or the outside world are ready to raise a finger against it.
Meanwhile, the citizens of Israel had to vote in the fourth general election within five years. This is because none of the right-wing, far-right and far-right political parties get the majority to rule alone. It is a common occurrence in Israel, which is held up by the civilized world as the only example of democracy in the Middle East, that governments fall into the fold of united fronts. History has repeated itself in the elections held on November 1. The Avial Front, led by former Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party, has 64 seats in the 120-member Knesset, so Netanyahu could be prime minister for a third term. The price he has to pay for it is remarkable. Netanyahu has agreed to replace Itamar Benguir, a staunch anti-Palestinian minister, with control of the West Bank’s police force and associate position in the finance ministry as security minister. Benguir is a far-right activist who advocates that Jews should be allowed to pray in the courtyard of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, which is revered by the world’s Muslims as the third holiest site. His stated demand is to drive the Palestinians out of the country. Netanyahu, on the other hand, has declared Israel a Jewish state. America and the world have no compunction when such a far-right coalition takes over Israel. The Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan are religious nationalists who are dangerous to them and a threat to peace. and a pure secular democratic model in the Binyamin Netanyahu-Benguir coalition. A big salute should be given to this idea of secular democracy that stands on its head.