Israel is a criminal who acts as a victim

MONTREAL – Historian Jewish Yakov Rabkin said the international community turned a blind eye to the attacks Israel to Palestine by simply asserting Tel Aviv’s “right to self -defense”. According to him, the Zionists who occupied Palestine were criminals who acted as victims or playing victim.

Rabkin, a history professor at the University of Montreal, Canada, added that Israel should stop playing with its victims and face the truth about its criminal record.

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He stated that the problems between Israel and Palestine were not new and that there were similar attacks that took place years ago. He stressed the need to pay attention to the lack of balance of power between Palestinian and Israeli military capabilities.

Rabkin, who wrote the book “A Threat from Within: A Century of Jewish Opposition toZionism“, says that the recent escalation of attacks on Palestinian sites is a reduplication of many painful events in the history of Israel and Palestine, when Israel continued its persecution of Palestinians displaced between 1947-1949.

“I don’t know why the Prime Minister [Israel Benjamin] Netanyahu issued orders to attack Gaza, but I know that this situation is not detrimental to him. On the contrary, he is benefiting from the polarization in Israeli society, and such hostility increases the polarizing effect we currently see on Israeli streets, “he continued.

He said it was a grave mistake to describe what happened between Israel and Palestine as a “conflict”.

“We cannot use the term conflict in relation to the current situation, because we are mainly talking about the civilian population facing one of the most sophisticated military mechanisms in the region, of course, such consequences. [jumlah korban yang signifikan di antara orang Palestina] occurs when there is a disparity in the balance of power, “he explained.

On the question of whether Israel’s attacks on civilians constitute war crimes, the Jewish historian said: “I am not an expert on international law, but I can say that there is a very sophisticated military machine that attacks civilians. I think this act can be considered a war crime. “

“But I am not a lawyer to talk about legal descriptions of Israeli acts as racist or as war crimes. What is important here is what is behind all this. When there is an unequal distribution of power between the two sides, you cannot speak. about conflict. It is more about parties attacking the other side, “Rabkin was quoted as saying Middle East Monitor.

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Rabkin emphasized that United States (US) support for Israel has nothing to do with President Joe Biden’s administration, and stressed that the United States has devoted a large part of its foreign policy to making Israel a “state with immunity in its actions while ensuring to maintain and provide assistance. military and economic as well as support from international institutions and mechanisms. ”

As a result, he continued, there was consensus in the international community on granting Israel unconditional immunity for its crimes. “What Israel has done is not much different from what the United States has done in various parts of the world,” he said.

“Ensuring human rights for all, especially for Palestinians living in the area, should be a major concern for the international community, which must focus on human rights and the rights of Palestinians living in areas controlled by the Israeli army,” he added.

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