Israel afraid of global awareness about its crimes: Author
The Israeli regime says it is going to cut $6 million in this year’s funding to the UN bodies in retaliation for the Security Council Resolution 2334, which demanded the regime to cease all settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territory. About 600,000 Israelis live in over 230 illegal settlements built since the 1967 Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and East Jerusalem al-Quds.
Mike Peled, author and peace activist from Washington, says the Tel Aviv regime’s decision to cut the fund of the UN shows the Israelis are shivering from the wake-up of the world to their illegal settlement activities and crimes against the Palestinian people.
“Israel is panicking obviously [because] for the first time the United States allowed a resolution like this to come to the floor and then abstained,” Peled told Press TV’s Top 5 on Friday night.
“With the advent of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement, with now the US abstaining from a vote and allowing it to pass, the world is waking up to the plight of the Palestinians,” he said.
“Israel is seeing the world closing in ... and “calling on it to stop human rights violations, to stop building on Palestinian land, to stop stealing Palestinian land and depriving Palestinians of their rights and their water and their life,” he noted.
The analyst further pointed to the fact that the Western powers’ support for the Israeli regime shows they are not sincere in their claims about respecting human rights.
“There is a lot of hypocrisy there, because had they really wanted to hold Israel accountable for human rights violations ... then they would have perhaps withheld some of those billions of dollars and withheld some of the weapons but they don’t,” he argued.
“Until now US administrations have said they are against building settlements in the West Bank and they believe in the Israeli-Palestinian two-state solution, but they have done nothing to really help the Palestinians and they have done nothing to punish Israel,” he concluded.
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