WASHINGTON,
Friday, August 06, 2021 (WAFA) – Some 3,000 pro-Palestinian activists signed an
online petition calling on US President Joe Biden and the US Congress to send a
UN protection force to the occupied Palestinian territories.
The
petition was created by Stephen Brackens Brinkley, who said that it is intended
to “ensure that protection is afforded to the Palestinian people, 50% of whom
are children,” while noting that “the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA)
has thus far failed in its obligation to provide safety for these indigenous
people suffering under illegal, belligerent occupation.”
The
petition urged the US to “stop its indiscriminate and carte blanche defense of
apartheid Israel via its UN Security Council veto and let justice be served,” while
recalling that the US gives “Israel 4 billion dollars a year to maintain this
illegal occupation and this so-called "Defense Aid" is being used
against a civilian population.”
“Our
complicity in this must stop!” the petition maintained.
It
added that “The Palestinian people have been suffering under a decades-long
illegal occupation by Israel. Massive
violations of human rights are committed daily by the Israeli military and
police and they act with impunity.”
“It
is clear that no amount of UN Resolutions will modify their brutality and,
indeed, the violations are mounting, with not only the Israeli military and
police assaulting Palestinian civilians, but the armed illegal settlers
increasingly as well.”
The
petition slammed the US for continuing to shield Israel from scrutiny for its
serious human rights violations.
“Even
with an International Criminal Court investigation upcoming, apartheid Israel
continues its pattern of violations, acting with impunity as it believes that
the United States will prevent any serious accountability by the world
community by using the U.S. veto on the UN Security Council to stop any attempt
to hold Israel accountable for its grave crimes. By so doing, the United States
becomes complicit in the wrongdoing.”
K.F.
