Analyst: World silence on Israeli land grab marks ‘black page’ in history
An analyst has urged the international community not to merely condemn Israel’s settlement construction activities, but instead take action against the occupying regime, warning that any silence in this regard is a “black page” in history.
Randa Farah, an Associate Professor at the Anthropology Department and Adjunct Faculty at the Centre for Global Studies at the University of Western Ontario, made the remarks on Saturday in an interview with Press TV.
The remarks come as Israel moves forward with plans to build some 3,000 settler units in the occupied West Bank in defiance of global denunciations.
She explained that Israel has never stopped its settler, colonial project and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians since 1948, and even before then.
“Israel is at it again, expanding its settlement on stolen Palestinian land,” she said. “The only thing that changes is the rhythm and scale of colonization.”
Farah also hailed growing international awareness of the realities on the ground in the occupied territories, adding, however, that “this is not enough, actions always speak louder than words.”
“It is totally unacceptable that in the 21st century, this scale and level of brutality against the Palestinians unleashed on a daily basis and for over seven decades is met with barely a whisper from the so-called ‘international community.’ The silence in the world is heard loudly in Palestine and is a black page in humanity’s history, and more so in the history of the Arab-Islamic world,” she said.
Farah further expressed dismay at ties between the oil-rich Persian Gulf countries and the Tel Aviv regime.
She added: “I am utterly dismayed and shocked, although not entirely surprised, by the level and depth of the complicity and treachery of [Persian] Gulf oligarchies. Who would have thought that the oil wealth that could have been used for the development of the Middle East and North Africa and for the well-being of millions of people is today used to empower Zionist colonization in Palestine and to promote US and imperial interests?”
Most of the international community considers Israeli settlement construction illegal under international law and an obstacle to the so-called two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Nearly 700,000 Israelis live in illegal settlements built since the 1967 occupation of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and East al-Quds.
The UN Security Council has in several resolutions condemned the Tel Aviv regime’s settlement projects in the occupied Palestinian lands.
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