Randy Short
“The ceasefire is a weak temporary measure because the underlying causes of the conflict have not been resolved. Gaza remains a besieged open-air concentration camp blockaded and harried by Israel,” he added, stressing that “the essential services and needs of Gazans are curtailed by a hostile Israeli government. Likewise, the Palestinian population of the Occupied West Bank endures the incremental dispossession of their land by illegal Israeli settlements and incessant provocations from vitriolic well-armed Israeli settlers who appear to have unconditional governmental support for their criminal impunity.”
Referring to the unprecedented reaction by Palestinian resistance groups, especially Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades in Gaza to Israel’s airstrikes, Randy Short noted that “the Al Qassam bombing of Israeli cities has further angered and radicalized masses of Israelis bombings of their communities has made them feel unsafe and more inclined to desire to see the Palestinians smashed and a final solution to the conflict.”
He also highlighted that recent airstrikes and bombardments in the Gaza Strip “have deepened the resolve of Gazans to resist the Israelis. The greater the anger, hatred, trauma, resentment, and suffering is directly proportional to the determination of opposing forces to resume fighting.”
The American human rights activist said that Palestinians will not forget Israeli crimes.
He then talked about the “unconditional support from the Anglo-American nations and their allies, and the pathic intransigence of Middle East Arab” for the Zionist regime, saying that “peace cannot exist in the absence of justice.”
Randy Short also pointed to the rise of the Internet and “the growth of news outlets such as Al Jazeera and Press TV and RT” as determining channels of informing the world about Israel’s atrocities against Palestinian, and underlined that they “have broken the back of the monopoly of Anglo-American information hegemony that had brainwashed many of the people of the Western world.”
“Demographically, the growth of the Muslim population in Western nations has moved the needle of public support more in the direction of favoring justice for Palestinians. Also, the successful movement of Palestinians to internationalize their cause with the aid of human rights civil society groups has done much to challenge the one-sided narrative of the Zionists,” he added, referring to the widespread support for Palestinian people during the recent 11-day war.
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