The final countdown

The 80^th session of the UN Security Council which just concluded was another milestone; not because in the words of its own members it was a failure - which it was, in that it did not resolve anything – but because it succeeded in driving the final nail deeper into the coffin of the post-war order and in demonstrating a few simple truths to observers: Firstly, that the United States of America and Israel are inseparably joined at the hip and should be treated as one entity. Secondly, that the rest of the world, including staunch supporters of both the United States and Israel, are worried about their legacy and a future reckoning, thereby admitting that the Pax Americana cannot be salvaged. Sure, some countries voted in favour of the draft resolution due to a genuine concern for the people of Palestine suffering the worst crimes of our time. Others however, including the ones now rushing, decades later, to recognise the state of Palestine, act in order to equip themselves with a fig leaf when more and more people point a finger at them. Just like during the Arab-Islamic summit in Qatar, their strong statements aimed at the public are intended as a smokescreen obscuring their persisting role as enablers and perpetrators of the crime. Having publicly cleared their conscience, they can carry on trade as usual, including the supply of arms and other essentials for the massacre to continue, although those resources as well as the good will of their own people are nearing depletion.

Hot on the heels of this failure comes the 80^th session of the UN General Assembly which, most likely, will get the coffin ready for being unceremoniously lowered into the ground. It was the Yemenis who stated more than a year ago when lectured on international law with regard to their naval blockade that “international law lies buried under the rubble of Gaza”. The General Assembly does have the wherewithal to override the deadlocked Security Council, but will it? I has the authority to order the delivery of aid by sea accompanied by the peace keeping force, and no, it does not, as is often suggested, require the permission of Israel due to its peacekeeping efforts only being enforceable after the consent of the parties involved, for Israel as illegal occupier has no sovereignty over Gaza or its waterways, hence only the consent of the (theoretically increasingly recognised) Palestinian state would be required. It can also order the Security Council to take specific action based on the 1950 resolution known as “Uniting for Peace”, and an emergency session under that provision relating to Gaza remains open, having been first initiated in 1979 and repeatedly adjourned without having been concluded. Yes, its only been 45 years of futile debate without action and history did not start on 7 October 2023!

It is my contention that there are presently two rival camps within the Zionist elites: the political Zionists who want to retain control of the world through a, potentially reformed, UN and its offshoots, so they can mandate lockdowns and vaccines via the World Health Organisation, introduce government-controlled digital currencies via the International Monetary Fund, maintain their economic stranglehold over resources through the World Trade Organisation, and so on; then there are the religious fanatics, the messianic Zionists who want Armageddon and destroy everything around them. Isramerica belongs into the second camp and, it seems, the first group will be unable to reign them in.

The UN General Assembly will be the litmus test of who runs the show. More likely than not it will be another forum for strong words and symbolic indignation without the courage to stand up to the bullies. And as a consequence, the international order can officially be declared dead without the least chance of resuscitation. And that is not such a bad thing: for a new order to be established, the old order must collapse, and it would be more than foolish to entrust the same people with designing our future after having failed us for so long.

Palestine has already become the rallying cry for everyone on the globe longing for change. Palestine, the very state Israel wants us to forget, has become the centre of the world. Resistance, notwithstanding attempts to outlaw and kill its various manifestations, has become the vehicle of change. As it gathers momentum and unity develops amongst its rank, mature leaders will emerge and rid the world of the evil which is now so apparent. Whether political or religious in flavour, Zionism is doomed. No matter how brutal its attempts to retain control, its days are numbered to give way to universal freedom and justice, and we must thank the people of Gaza, having endured the unspeakable, for this gift.