The Settler Colonialist Entity Revealed
By Sheila MacGregor
March11, 2024
A poll recently circulated on social media asking the question, “Does the government of Israel have a right to defend itself?” Out of curiosity, I decided to scroll down through the comments. An overwhelming number of “yes” responses continued well down the page before, finally, some few pointed out the obvious. What Israel has been doing over the past months to Gaza is not self-defense.
The International Court of Justice has stated that the charge of genocide in Gaza brought by South Africa is “plausible.” Nowhere in its ruling did the court determine that Israel was acting in self-defense.
So, to see this continued support of a self-defense claim is a head-scratcher. I think with all the news coverage, with all the lies that are finally being uncovered, with all the access to the videos and photos from people who are living this nightmare, people who still think this way may very well be either blind, don’t care or are disconnected from reality. This trend to believe in a self-defense excuse to commit genocide stems also from the lies and misinformation that most of the public has bought into.
I think when someone carpet bombs entire neighborhoods when they’ve destroyed the health care system in a country, when they shoot their own escaped hostages who are carrying white flags, when they have the technology to find and pinpoint everyone who lives in Gaza, yet they haven’t rescued one single hostage; when they open fire on starving people trying to get flour off an aid truck and kill hundreds, I think this is not self-defense. When the IOF runs their tanks over people who are still alive, It’s not self-defense.
Thirty thousand civilians have been killed over the past five months. As of the date of this writing, 10,000 have been children.
How does anyone still call this self-defense?
Only, let us look more closely into this self-defense strategy because ever since that Zionist state has existed, it has claimed to be a constant victim and has used the self-defense excuse for every kind of criminal atrocity it has committed!
One must look up international law information to tear down this excuse. And that law states that as an occupying power, “Israel cannot use military force against the occupied Palestinian people because, under international law, the occupier must protect the territory it occupies!” As quoted from an email by Raji Saurai, the director of the Palestinian Center for Human Rights, addressing Secretary Blinken’s claim of that self-defense excuse.
Even as the Biden administration and Zionist Israel continue to claim self-defense, they are hoping to dupe the general public into believing that this action is lawful when it certainly is not.
According to Article 42 of the 1907 Hague Regulations (HR), a territory is considered occupied under a hostile army’s authority.
The ICJ, the UN General Assembly, and the UN Security Council all recognize Israel as the occupying power for the territories of Palestine.
The duties of the occupying power are outlined primarily in the 1907 Hague Regulations (Articles 42-56) and the Fourth Geneva Convention (GC IV, Articles 27-34 and 47-78).
Key principles include:
Protection of civilians: The occupying power must safeguard the well-being of civilians in the occupied territory.
Prohibition of forcible transfers: Collective or individual forcible transfers of population from and within the occupied territory are prohibited.
No population transfers: The occupying power’s civilian population is prohibited from entering the occupied territory, whether forcibly or voluntarily.
Prohibition of collective punishment: The occupying power cannot impose collective punishment on the population.
When armed with these facts straight from International organizations, how can anyone conclude that the attacks on Gaza and the other occupied territories of Palestine meet the definition of self-defense?
The Zionist occupiers who claim to be a legitimate State are nothing but an illegitimate colonialist settler state on stolen land. A military base for the United States in Palestine, and they have no right to claim self-defense of a people who do have the right, also according to international law, to the armed resistance of their occupier and oppressor.
