TEHRAN (FNA)- Joe Biden says he would keep Israel's US embassy in Jerusalem if elected, despite calling Donald Trump's controversial decision to move the office from Tel Aviv "short-sighted and frivolous" before the US engaged a peace process. illegitimate
The likely Democratic nominee to face Trump in November's general election claimed on Thursday that moving the embassy to the holy city would impede efforts to strengthen peace efforts between Israel's regime and Palestinians.
This was all expected. While a Senator, Biden supported the congressional authorisation of the embassy's move in 1995, but the move was delayed as parties sought broader negotiations with leaders in the region. He should stop fuelling human rights violations in occupied Palestine and that could happen only through ending institutional impunity.
It is in line with this bipartisan US policy that Israel deliberately continues to provoke Arab states by military operations and covert terrorist actions. It also provokes Palestinians by continued desecration of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, as well as raids, arrests and attacks against their property.
As international human rights groups hold, the current situation cannot be explained, addressed or remedied without a clear-eyed look at US support, which encourages Israel's violations of international law and brutal control of the Occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.
The US should withdraw support from the bloodshed by halting military aid, political backing and institutionalized impunity for Israel. The root cause for all this and more is this: Israel’s continued violations of international law, including its brutal and illegal military occupation of the occupied Palestinian territories that has lasted decades and its racist policies against Palestinian citizens of the Holy Land.
Lest there be any doubt, Palestinians will continue to resist the US policy and Israel’s occupation to tell the world that those in the West Bank joint their brothers and sisters in Gaza since they are no longer willing to remain accustomed to Israel's continued confiscation of their land and the displacement of its inhabitants; the demolition of their homes; the aggressive expansion of settler colonies; settler violence against Palestinians and their property facilitated by Washington; torture and ill-treatment; and increasing numbers of arbitrary arrests and administrative detentions.
To fight back, all US politicians support Tel Aviv, the criminal occupation is intensifying, with Israeli forces sealing off Palestinian neighbourhoods; imposing more severe sentencing guidelines for people accused of stone-throwing; and using excessive force - including live fire - against peaceful crowds of protesters. Unsurprisingly, politicians like Biden and Donald Trump continue to incite further violence by falsely claiming that Al-Quds is Israel’s capital.
The Palestinian civil society is now calling on the international community to take steps to halt this systemic violation of their rights. This needs to be heeded in the United States too. It is American weapons and diplomatic support at the UN that enable Israel to carry out its illegal policies of extrajudicial assassination, collective punishment and colonization of Palestinian land.
Sadly enough, the United States has agreed to conspire in this. It is not doing anything about it, despite the fact that it violates international law and Palestinians’ rights. It is past time for the international community to assume its responsibilities.
They must insist on the inviolability and universality of human rights, and call for an immediate change in Western-American policy toward Palestine. They must call on the US to stop supporting Israel in its illegal and illegitimate move to make Jerusalem Al-Quds as its capital.
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