TEHRAN (FNA)- Alberto Garcia Watson, political analyst and activist, says the international community in order to satiate the sick desires of a supremacist project which had the backing of the large financial elites in the murky web of Jewish pressure lobbies, made it possible to European population resident in Palestine to declare unilaterally the establishment of the state of Israel on the soil which still belongs to Palestinians.
Speaking with FNA in an exclusive interview, Mr. Watson described Israeli occupation’s treatment of Palestinians as “brutal massacres and ethnic cleansing” perpetrated by Jewish fundamentalists on the part of the Zionist authorities, which resulted in destruction of more than 500 Palestinian villages and refuge of more than 700,000 Palestinians in the very first years of the occupation.
Alberto Garcia Watson is an activist for human rights. He has participated as a human shield in different humanitarian missions in the Gaza strip as well as participating in the second Freedom Flotilla. He was also a journalist, as well as a contributor to various TV channels and written press as a political expert and analyst.
Below is the full text of the interview:
Q: Why is the day of May 15th 1948 called the Day of Catastrophe (Nakba Day)?
A: The Nakba represents the catastrophe, the disaster for the Palestinian people, who were sacrificed by the international community in order to satiate the sick desires of a supremacist project which had the backing of the large financial elites in the murky web of Jewish pressure lobbies. The complicity of the British Empire made it possible to, on the 15th May 1948 and in a unilateral way, European population resident in Palestine to declare unilaterally the establishment of the state of Israel on Palestinian soil. From this time on, they proceeded to dismantle the Arab presence in Palestinian territory, a brutal ethnic cleansing on the part of the Zionist authorities, the destruction of more than 500
Palestinian villages, their sacking and the brutal massacres perpetrated by Jewish fundamentalists. This situation caused at least half of the Palestinian population to flee from their homes and land, in terror, converting into refugees more than 700,000 men, women, children and elderly, by establishing a climate of terror which exists to this day in occupied Palestine.
Q: Palestinian youth hurl stones at Israeli armored vehicles which enter their land, but receive teargas and bullets in return inside their own land. Which side commits war crime? Who is to be internationally condemned?
A: The Gaza strip, a territory well known to me from my several visits there, is on the point of collapse. The brutal and illegal siege and blockade to which it has been subjected for more than ten years, has plunged its population into a dire situation. It is an open air prison frequently attacked by Israeli forces, causing thousands of deaths among the civilian population. The Israeli regime, as occupation force of the Palestinian territory, is obliged by virtue of the Geneva Convention to protect the civilian population suffering that occupation. On the contrary, that same civilian population in the Gaza strip is habitually the target of indiscriminate criminal attacks by the occupying Israeli forces. In the face of this, the act of a child throwing stones at an armored car, can only be described as an act of heroism and never terrorism as is underlined within the framework of International Rights which determines that all people suffering a military occupation have the right to resist the occupying forces with any means at their disposal. But Israel does not respect International legislation, and resolutions condemning their continued violations of human rights are vetoed in the Security Council of the UN.
Q: The US embassy move to al-Quds in 2018, and the so-called Deal of the Century in 2019; how do you assess the role of the Trump Administration in this complication?
A: Ariel Sharon, the butcher of Sabra and Shatila and ex-prime minister of the Zionist entity, affirmed during his lifetime that “Israel controlled the US and that they, the US, were undeniably aware of that.” In the US, no president, congressman or senator who reaches the top can do so without counting on the goodwill of the Jewish, pro-Israel lobbies. They finance campaigns and dispose of political representatives according to their sympathies or disagreements with Israel, towards whom their politics are designed to favor, even in detriment of the political interests of the US. Donald Trump is, without doubt the most important exponent of this political submission, and has shown it by moving the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem/Al Quds, eternal capital of the Palestinian people and third most sacred place of Islam. Together with the fact that they have denied the funds to the Palestine National Authority, these decisions show the clumsiness of the US Administration with regard to their managing their sympathies in the ME.
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