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Russia/Ukraine: EU to Face up to 5 Million Refugees in the Fastest Growing Migration Crisis Since World War ll

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The EU could face up to five million refugees in the fastest-growing refugee crisis since World War ll following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

The EU could face up to five million refugees in the fastest-growing refugee crisis since World War ll. On February 24th 2022, Russia orchestrated a full-scale military invasion of Ukraine. The invasion came following months of military build-up on the border. The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) estimates that more than 1.7 million refugees have fled their homes in the first 11 days of the conflict. The United Nations have declared this the “fastest-growing refugee crisis since World War ll”.

Moreover, the invasion has been coined as one of the “most serious global peace and security crises in recent years”. Refugees have crossed into neighbouring countries such as Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Romania, and Moldova. The EU should expect up to 5 million refugees to flee Ukraine if the bombing continues.

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, stated that he has “rarely seen an exodus as rapid as this one”. Furthermore, according to the UN Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, the military attack on Ukraine has opened a new and dangerous chapter in world history.

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UNHRC Establishes an Independent International Commission of Inquiry into Russia

On March 4th, the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) voted to establish an independent investigative commission. Therefore, the inquiry examined Russia’s alleged human rights violations in Ukraine.

In addition to this, Human Rights Watch has reported serious violations of international law and war crimes by Russian forces in Ukraine. There were reports of Russian cluster munitions which hit a hospital in the Donetsk region.

Also Read: Russia-Ukraine Crisis: Russia Committing War Crimes in Ukraine War?

Moreover, 32 members voted in favour of the inquiry, and 13 members abstained. Only 2 members, Russia and Eritrea, voted no. Thus, the overwhelming majority meant that the UNHRC voted to investigate all alleged violations, including human rights abuses and any infringements on international humanitarian law.

Caption: An international commission was established by the UN Human Rights Council to investigate Russia’s war crimes in Ukraine.

Millions Flee To Neighbouring Countries

Unfortunately, millions of refugees are fleeing their homes, hoping to find safety internally within Ukraine or in neighbouring countries. Therefore, the volatility of the situation places those remaining inside Ukraine in a dangerous situation. The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has reported that Russian shelling prevents civilians from travelling safely across the border. The shelling also impacts the ability to deliver foreign aid and supplies to Ukraine.

According to the UNHCR Operational Data Portal, on March 6th, 922,000 people entered Poland from Ukraine. There was a record number of 129,000 refugees entering on March 5th alone.

According to reports by the UNHCR, Hungary, Moldova and Slovakia have each accepted more than 100,000 refugees. However, Moldova is one of the poorest countries in Europe and will struggle to cope with millions more potential refugees. Moldova has warned that they urgently need international assistance and cooperation to deal with this influx.

Luckily, Ukrainian neighbouring countries have demonstrated public and political support for refugees. Volunteers have provided food, water, clothing, and medical supplies at the borders. Countries like Poland and Slovakia allow refugees to enter without passports or valid travel documents. Other EU countries have provided free public transport and communication services to refugees.

Ukrainian Citizens Try to Escape Under Bombardment from Russian Forces

Forces from Russia fire at civilians from Ukraine who were trying to flee. These hostilities left four people dead.
Caption: Forces from Russia fire at civilians from Ukraine who were trying to flee. These hostilities left four people dead.

Source: The New York Times

The invasion has triggered a huge human rights, humanitarian, & displacement crisis that has the makings of the worst such catastrophe in recent European history. Russia is breaching the sovereignty of Ukraine & challenging the global security architecture“.

Agnes Callamard, Secretary-General of Amnesty International

On March 6th, in the Irpin district in Kyiv, an artillery shell landed on an evacuation point for civilians trying to escape. At least eight people were killed, including two children.

Caption: Tweet regarding artillery from Russia which killed civilians in Ukraine and has resulted in a European refugee crisis.

Racial Discrimination Reported at Ukrainian Borders

The Ukrainian conflict raises the issue of racism not only in Ukraine but in the whole of Europe. Many reports of racism and hostility at the border control points suggest that Ukrainians are prioritized first, Indians second, then Africans last. Africans and Asians have reported violence and threats while attempting to flee Ukraine. Other reports suggested Africans were being pushed off trains and told to wait. Ukrainian authorities have been accused of hindering Africans from fleeing the war.

Also Read: Ukraine War Revealing the Double Standards for Refugees

Race and nationality should not hinder these rights under any circumstances.

The president of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, openly condemned the discrimination and insisted that everyone has equal rights when crossing international borders. Moreover, the African Union (AU) spoke out about these disturbing allegations and held that everyone has the right to cross international borders during the conflict.

Double Standards: EU Changes Response in Comparison to 2015 Refugee Crisis

The EU has marked these recent events as the largest humanitarian crisis Europe has witnessed in a very long time. However, it wasn’t so long ago that Europe witnessed the devastating impact of the 2015 Refugee Crisis.

EU countries have responded in a different manner to the Ukrainian refugee crisis than they did in 2015.

Below are some of the most shocking media comments recorded since the conflict started. Various media outlets compare Ukrainian refugees to those fleeing from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan or Africa.

  • “This isn’t Iraq or Afghanistan […] This is a relatively civilised, relatively European city” – Charlie D’Agata, CBS.
  • “War is no longer something visited upon impoverished and remote populations” – Daniel Hannan, The Telegraph.
  • “What’s compelling is looking at them, the way they are dressed. These are prosperous, middle-class people. These are not obviously refugees trying to get away from the Middle East […] or North Africa. They look like any European family that you’d live next door to” – Peter Dobbie, Al Jazeera.

These comments prejudicially place Ukrainian refugees in superior and civilized positions. What about the millions of refugees who have fled the Middle East, Africa and Asia who deserve our help despite their race, nationality, income status or religion?

During the 2015 crisis, the EU called for detaining incoming refugees for up to 18 months, highlighting the EU’s double standards in its treatment and attitude towards different countries.

EU Activates Temporary Protection Directive

The UNHCR welcomed a Temporary Protection Directive (TPD) on March 3rd from the EU. Hence, this directive provides Ukrainians and third-country nationals with refugee or permanent residence status with immediate protection in the EU. This decision allows the EU Member States to offer “Temporary Protection” to third-country nationals who legally reside in Ukraine and to stateless people. EU countries are urged to put this directive into effect and offer safety to those fleeing the war.

What Will Happen Next?

As an unprecedented refugee crisis unfolds across Europe, now is a serious time for reflection. The death toll in Ukraine as of March 7th is 364 deaths and 759 people injured due to Russian military attacks. The current crisis presents the EU Member States with an opportunity to showcase their hospitality, humanitarian values, and engagement in the global refugee protection regime. This is a critical period to learn from past mistakes.

EU countries must show that they can share the burden and provide all refugees with equal treatment and protection.

World leaders must be willing to show cooperation and solidarity to those fleeing persecution. The UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, stated that the latest developments in Ukraine are currently testing the entire international system, and he firmly believes that “we must pass this test.”

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The World Cup in Qatar and Die-hard Western Racism

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The World Cup in Qatar and Die-hard European-Western Racism

The Western modernity project, which has undeniably accomplished enormous innovations for the entire world, is yet to get rid of major ailments and liabilities still blemishing the collective western mindset. The current World Cup in Qatar has revealed the depth of that morbidity, namely the deep-rooted European racism, and recalcitrant persistence of classical and novel Orientalism in the perceptions of many Westerners.

Likewise, conventional and social media have reinforced negative stereotypes about the East, both Muslims and non-Muslims, as the current World Cup event has revealed to us that Western racism against the others is still active and far from being dormant or historical.

‘I Do Not Respect This Country and I Will Not Go to It’

An interesting comment I came across recently on Twitter from a European woman stated the following:

I am a woman with special needs, and I learned that Qatar does not respect people with special needs, so I do not respect this country and I will not go to it.”

The Western Racism
Comment by a European lady claims that Qatar doesn’t respect human rights including people with special needs.

How did  this lady come to the utterly mendacious realization that Qatar or any other country,  (non-Western) does not respect people with special needs?

How can any country on earth not respect people with special needs and their requirements? This comment by that European lady belongs to a long catalogue of racist comments about Arabs and Muslims in general, backwardness, terrorism, etc.

FIFA WORLD CUP QATAR 2022
FIFA WORLD CUP QATAR 2022

In the final analysis,  the West would go as far as far as saying that Qatar effectively took advantage of the opportunity to organize the World Cup, only in order to vent its frustration and compensate for its utter insignificance! How dare they do this, embarking on such a gargantuan feat, which only Europeans and westerners should be tasked to do? Surely, the Arabs and Muslims have exceeded their proscribed boundaries!

Europe: Deep-Rooted Orientalist Racism

In the context of the explosion of this deep-rooted Orientalist racism, there are several quick points that deserve to be evoked and satisfactorily examined regarding the following question:

  • Are we really living in a world of multiculturalism, diverse traditions, societies and religions where coexistence and Mutual respect is the ultimate regulator of relations,
  •  Or do we live in a world that is centred around the West and Europe, directly or indirectly, and therefore must willy-nilly be guided and led by Western values ​​and standards?

This is part of a set of complex questions hovering around the limits of cultural particularism and the horizons of universal human values. But this is a discussion that needs broader spaces and wider contexts, perhaps.

The first note is related to the reported Qatari position of refusing to host gay banners during matches and festivals in the World Cup. This is in addition to preventing public demonstrations or gatherings for this specific category of spectators.

The authorities in the small Arabian Gulf state said that the public celebration demanded by homosexuals contradicts the culture, traditions and religion of the Qatari society, and while the Qataris wouldn’t ask arrivals about their sexual orientation, they prevent the expression of those orientations in the public space, whether those orientations are homosexual or non-homosexual.

Western Countries Are Not in a Position to Give “Moral Lessons” to Other Nations

The BBC declined to air the opening ceremony of the World Cup on television on Sunday but rather mentioned human rights and alleged accusations against Qatar.
The BBC declined to air the opening ceremony of the World Cup on television on Sunday but rather mentioned human rights and alleged accusations against Qatar.

Here, the Western media arrogance manifested itself by claiming or giving the impression that they represent the overall human discourse when in fact they represent no more than one-eighth of the world’s population (Europe and America) – in fact, many Westerners do not actually agree with much of what is published and adopted by that media.

Indeed, neither the Chinese nor the Indian media nor the rest of the world stirred up this “non-conformist” Qatari position, because the majority of countries and societies around the world recognize the diversity of cultures, traditions and orientations of societies and assume mutual respect.

A One-sided Moral Lesson is Just Hypocrisy!

Media exaggerations and insinuations have reached astonishing proportions: Backward Muslim countries are condemning homosexuals to death, and there is a real danger to the lives of those going to the World Cup, and so on.

An amazing thing that calls for an occasional reminder of a historical fact dating back a thousand years ago, when the societies of Muslim countries in Baghdad, Damascus, Andalusia, and India were publishing collections of poetry and literature about homosexuals and boys, Europe considered women a demonic being.

The important thing here is to pay ample attention to the fact that societies shift and change unceasingly and do not move in a unilateral linear direction, but oscillate and turn left and right, back and forth, and sometimes in a circular pattern, according to contemporary socio-economic challenges and pressures which are extremely complex and difficult to predict, and that its cultures and traditions are organized in a changing process, not static or fixed, and Europe is one of the most important examples. Therefore, a distinction must always be made between criticism that is always needed to stimulate new human paths, and another criticism that is part of the problem rather than part of the solution.

The second note relates to the prohibition of alcohol consumption in and around the stands while confining it to specific places as announced by the organizers.

Once again, the Western media is raging, as if there were a “holy book” for football that stipulates the presence of alcohol as part of the sport that has charmed millions. The host country determined the practice, again based on local culture, religion and traditions. Why do many Westerners not want to respect non-Western cultures, while demanding that non-Westerners conform to Western culture sensitivities when others visit or reside in Western countries?

What is worse is that we do not see this brazen bullying of Qatar even in other non-Western cases. Is it acceptable in the West for some Western tourists to congregate in the center of the Indian capital, Delhi, and slaughter a cow, for example? Of course not, but it is required of Westerners and non-Westerners not to prejudice the Indian tradition of respecting cows. No one is required to agree or believe what others believe, but what is required is mutual respect.

The third note is related to the rights of Asian workers in Qatar and the purported violations of their rights, committed by some firms and employers,  governmental or private.

Read also: The 2022 Qatar World Cup of Human Rights Abuses

Here, it has been made amply clear in many cases that violations have already taken place, especially in the first years of construction, and in every proven case, the media deserves a real appreciation for exposing these violations.

Needless to say, this has led to a significant improvement in the laws related to labor and workers, according to the reports of concerned international organizations. But at the same time, there has been a vitriolic black media campaign focusing on unproven data claiming that there have been as many as 6,500 deaths among these workers since 2010. Again, according to international statistics, the size of Asian labor in Qatar is around 2 million workers.

Assuming that the aforementioned death figure is correct, then, from a purely statistical point of view, it is not far from the natural and general death rate for a community of 2 million. On the other hand, the number that we do not hear much about in the black Western media (and this description does not apply to all Western media) is the 29,000 immigrants who have drowned on the shores of Europe since 2014, because the official authorities in more than one European country prevented them. And returning them to the sea, at a rate of more than 4,000 deaths annually, so far, according to statistics and reports of the International Organization for Migration.

Qatar spent more than $220 billion on this World Cup — more than twice the previous eight World Cups combined. They built stadiums and hotels and a brand-new airport

The fourth note is the tendentious Western media focus on the fact that Qatar spent 220 billion dollars on the World Cup, which is a huge figure compared to what was spent by all the countries that previously hosted the World Cup.

However, a quick search of this figure leads the researcher to the fact that this spending went away from direct spending on sports facilities, to building a modern infrastructure that includes whole cities, gathering facilities, streets, bridges, and so on, and that this spending extended between the years of 2010, which is the year  Qatar was designated as the would- be host for the World Cup, and until now, i.e. the year 2022, at a rate of 18 billion every year.

This is more or less a normal figure for a country quite rich in oil and gas.

But focusing on this number in the Western media seemed to insinuate that the Arabs do not deserve the wealth that is in their hands and that they squander it rather lavishly.

Indeed, between the lines of Western criticism of this figure,  an honest observer would detect a certain resentment that reflects a huge amount of envy.  Unseen, this envy consists of two parts:

  • The first is that the wealth of other countries is “misplaced” and should, therefore,  have gone to Europe and the West. How and why did these riches come to them, and why on earth we cannot access them?
  • The second: How does a “backward, Arab and Muslim” country that is the target of constant ridicule succeed in organizing a huge global event on the level of the World Cup? Organizing these events is exclusively our business.

 In the colonial past, Europe arrogated the wealth of others, and plundering it over the course of centuries from Latin America to Africa, to Asia. And now, to their chagrin,  the West does not reach all the wealth as easily as it used to do. Now, too, many countries and societies have acquired self-creating, organizing and innovation capabilities, and are no longer governed by the hegemony of control by European and Western centers.

Finally, there is a contemplative note: If we compare aerial photographs of European cities such as London, Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels, Berlin, with others such as Kuala Lumpur, Delhi, Doha, Dubai, Riyadh, then we can safely argue that the second group (and to which we can add numerous other cities around the world) was built thanks to  the wealth of the countries themselves, whereas  European cities were built historically thanks to the wealth arrogated by the colonial masters. The history of European colonial plundering of continents, which is still going on in the African continent and elsewhere, though indirectly but quite rapaciously, does not qualify Europeans and westerners in general,  to teach moral lessons to the world. 

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The Western Hypocrisy of Russia v Israel Reveals An Outrageous Moral and Legal Duplicity

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The Annexation of Land by Force Under International Law – Western Hypocrisy

Western hypocrisy is ever-present as we see differing responses to the annexation of land by Russia in Ukraine in comparison to Israel’s continued annexation of Palestinian land since 1947. Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on September 30th 2022 that Russia would annexe four regions in Ukraine. These regions are Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia, now referred to as “new regions” of Russia.

The UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned the annexation as violating international law. Therefore, this is a “dangerous escalation” in the war between Russia and Ukraine, which began on February 24th 2022, when Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine, classified as a “special military operation”. Hence, the annexation of a state’s territory by threat or use of force violates the principles in the United Nations Charter.

The European Commission rejected and unequivocally condemned the illegal annexation. However, western hypocrisy is ever-present. The international community condemns Russia’s violations but celebrates and protects those carried out by Israel. Consequently, Russia is creating a global security risk and undermining the leading principles of international law.

Caption: The European Commission has rejected Russia’s annexation of land in Ukraine, claiming it as illegal under international law.

A “Sham Referenda” Executed by Russia in Ukraine

Between September 23rd to 27th, Russia orchestrated a “sham referendum” in regions of Ukraine. Residents voted on whether they wished to become part of Russia. The voting took place in polling centres while Russian authorities accompanied by soldiers went door-to-door with ballot boxes.  

The Western Hypocrisy of Russia v Israel Reveals An Outrageous Moral and Legal Duplicity. Russia continues in its annexation of land in Ukraine.
Caption: Image obtained from Reuters. Militants of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic take part in shooting drills at a range on the outskirts of Donetsk, Ukraine.

The sham referendum occurred during an active armed conflict in Ukraine under Russian control. Therefore, this is outside Ukraine’s legal and constitutional framework and cannot be classified as a genuine expression of the popular will.

“Unilateral actions aimed to provide a veneer of legitimacy to the attempted acquisition by force by one State of another State’s territory, while claiming to represent the will of the people, cannot be regarded as legal under international law.” 

Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, Rosemary A. DiCarlo.

Annexation is a “formal act whereby a state proclaims its sovereignty over territory hitherto outside its domain”.

Caption: Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, Rosemary A. DiCarlo, tweets condemning the so-called “referenda” held in Ukraine by Russia.

Israel Is Allowed to Annex Occupied Land, But Russia Isn’t

Russia’s war in Ukraine triggered immediate, swift condemnation by several countries and economic sanctions by the United States. Furthermore, many states have targeted Russian banks, oil refineries and military exports. There have been marathon emergency talks at the UN Security Council to deal with Russia’s aggression in Ukraine.

The EU and its member states stand united in their unwavering support for Ukraine, revealing western hypocrisy. There is strong criticism of Russia’s unprovoked and unjustified military aggression. However, it seems it is acceptable for Israel to annex occupied land, but in the case of Russia, it is not.

Read Also: Israel’s Apartheid Against Palestinians Reveals West’s Double Standards.

Israel occupied Palestinian East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the Syrian Golan Heights, and Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. In 1967, Israel annexed approximately 70,000 dunams of West Bank land to the municipal boundaries of Jerusalem and applied Israeli law in breach of international law.

International Communities Differing Response to Israel v Russia Reveals A Western Hypocrisy of Double Standards

The Israeli occupation and annexation of Palestinian territories received a starkly different response in comparison to Russia’s annexation. The international community’s weak response encouraged the Israeli government to continue to annex occupied East Jerusalem on July 29th 1980, and the occupied Golan Heights in 1981. Israel’s breach of international law only triggered temporary international reactions. Consequently, no meaningful change was implemented, as no sanctions or threats were applied.

The West continues to give the Israeli apartheid state unconditional diplomatic, political, economic and military support. The peaceful Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel has even been criminalised in some states.

The Analogy Between Russia and Israel’s Annexations of Occupied Land

Israel has gone to extreme lengths to clear the occupied land of the Palestinian people. This has been done by demolishing their homes, withdrawing residence permits and murdering innocent civilians. Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip have been held in a land, air, and sea blockade for fifteen years. Israel never declared where its borders lay and continued to expand its territory through illegal annexation alongside unjustified impunity. An estimated 62% of Palestinians living in Gaza require food assistance, and 78% of water flowing into Gaza is unfit for human consumption. Unemployment levels in Gaza are among the world’s highest, currently at 46.6%. Youth unemployment between the ages of 15-29 for the same period stands at 62.5%.

Ironically, Israel condemned Russia’s annexation. Israel sent humanitarian aid to Ukraine and expressed its support. However, Israel did not join international sanctions against Russia and refused to give Kyiv anti-missile systems to help counter Russian attacks. The Israeli government’s fumbled response to Russia’s annexation of Ukraine betrays Jewish history and draws attention to Israel’s similarly odious actions. Israel’s brutal annexation of Palestinian territory has been continuing without consequences for a significantly longer time with little consequences.

Comparatively, Russia has annexed four regions of Ukraine that are partially or almost entirely occupied by Russia. With a complete disregard for international law, on September 30th 2022, Putin signed treaties to begin absorbing parts of Ukraine into Russia. Together with Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014, Russia now claims 20% of Ukrainian territory.

Ukrainian Map vs Palestinian Map of Annexations

The map below illustrates the regions of Ukraine illegally annexed by Russia.

The Western Hypocrisy of Russia v Israel. Map illustrates the regions of Ukraine annexed by Russia.
Caption: Map illustrates the regions of Ukraine annexed by Russia. Image obtained from the Institute of the Study of War (21.00 GMT. 9th October 2022).

In comparison, the map below depicts the land forcibly annexed by Israel from Palestinians from 1946 onwards. This annexation was accompanied by the expulsion of 750,000 – one million Palestinians to make way for a Jewish state following World War ll.

 Map illustrates the regions annexed by Israel in Palestine. The Western Hypocrisy of Russia v Israel.
Caption: The map illustrates the regions annexed by Israel in Palestine. Image obtained by Cornell University showing the Palestinian loss of land from 1947 onwards.

Concluding Thoughts: The Undeniable Parallel Between Russia and Israel

Russia continues to deny Ukraine their right to independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity. These are the core principles enshrined under the UN Charter. Similarly, Isreal continues to deny the Palestinian people the same rights. However, as discussed in this article, significant differences lie in the international community’s response to both annexations.

The parallel between Putin’s invasion of Ukraine to fulfil his imperial designs, and Israel’s 70-year history of imposing its will on the Palestinians and neighbouring Arab countries, is also evidently clear worldwide.

Russia and Israel conquered and absorbed the territories of Ukraine and Palestine in defiance of international law. Both states are facing investigations over alleged war crimes at the International Criminal Court and are demanding that their enemies bow to them or face destruction. Both Russia and Israel created powerful militaries to accomplish these goals. However, another striking observation is that no amount of ammunition can subjugate a population that refuses to be defeated or erased. There is strength in the Ukrainians and Palestinians, which cannot be destroyed.

We must acknowledge the western hypocrisy concerning the international response to both wars. Both Ukrainians and Palestinians deserve our unwavering and equal support. We must respect and preserve the integrity of international law.

Read Also: Palestine vs Ukraine: Stark Western Hypocrisy.

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Moving British Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem is huge insult to 2 billion Muslims

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Truss considers moving British embassy in Israel to Jerusalem

The contemplated plan by British Prime minister Liz Truss to move her country’s embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Occupied Jerusalem is the ultimate insult to the Palestinian people and Muslims worldwide.

The evil and morally unjustifiable feat was disclosed less than 24 hours after the conclusion of Queen Elizabeth’s funeral in which several Arab and Muslim statesmen and dignitaries took part out of respect to their historical relations with Britain, which began even before the downfall of the Ottoman empire during the first World War.

Hence, any honest observer would have no qualms viewing Truss’s reported plan to move the British Embassy as a gesture of betrayal and profound ill-will to every Arab and Muslim under the sun.

Blatant act

UK’s Truss told Lapid her government was considering moving their embassy to Jerusalem

It is indeed hard to think of a single logical rationale justifying Liz Truss’s inherently racist insult. 

Indeed, the grave affront is by no means an aberration of British policy toward Muslims in general and the Palestinians in particular. After all, Britain has always embraced, either explicitly or tacitly  Israel’s Nazi-like policies of aggression and expansion against Palestinians, including the disgraceful apartheid regime now enforced in Palestine.

We all know that Britain’s record in dealing with Muslims, whether in the Indian sub-continent or, indeed, in Palestine,  is indelibly ugly, absolutely ignominious and irredeemably evil.

Religious hatred

In 1917, Britain’s timeless hatred of Islam prompted its government to issue the nefarious- infamous Balfour Declaration, which gave the  Palestinian people’s ancestral homeland to rapacious Zionist Jews on a silver platter.  Ever since that time, Britain never flinched from consolidating and expediting the colonial scheme of international Zionism while doing everything in its power to ravage and dispossess the Palestinian people, the ultimate victim of hateful British colonialism.

Read also: Britain is the original sin

Now, the new British premier Liz Truss is reportedly considering another shameless feat to further torment the Palestinian people and perfect the criminal usurpation of its inalienable rights.

The Palestinian people along with many Muslims around the world have been waiting rather desperately for over a century to see Britain take some corrective measures to atone for its gargantuan crime against humanity in Palestine. 

However, to our profound disappointment, Britain shamelessly continued its hostile policies against our people and its legitimate rights.  It is very sad, indeed, that successive British governments proved repeatedly that words such as justice and equity don’t exist in Britain’s lexicon.

Moving the British Embassy : Evil feat par excellence

The Balfour Declaration  is not just a contemptible historical document.

Indeed, despite the passage of 105 years since the issuance of the Satanic declaration, it is manifestly clear to those who have eyes to see and ears to hear that the Palestinian people are still suffering the indescribably harsh ramifications and repercussions of the Balfour Declaration.

Yes, the daily acts of murder, savagery, barbarianism,  home demolitions, land theft as well as all conceivable forms of  systematic, large scale repression meted out to our people around the clock would not have continued to this day had it not been for that evil promise.

Moving the British Embassy to Jerusalem is another Balfour declaration

The Balfour Declaration was a public statement issued by the British government in 1917 during the First World War announcing support for the establishment of a “national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine

Undoubtedly the reported willingness of the new British Prime Minister Liz Truss to contemplate moving her country’s embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem constitutes a new Balfour declaration.

This is because the immensely provocative measure is tantamount to recognizing Israeli sovereignty over the holy city, a measure that the bulk of the international community has avoided taking rather meticulously due to the special sensitivity surrounding this matter.

I am talking about both East and West Jerusalem which, according to international law, is still designated as ” Corpus Separatum.”

Sovereignty can’t be acquired through military Force

Moreover, the argument that Israel’s decades-old military control  gives the Jewish state sovereignty over the city is absolutely worthless since sovereignty cannot be obtained through the acquisition of territory by way of military force. Otherwise, Russia would have the legal right to declare its sovereignty over eastern and southern Ukrainian territories occupied by invading Russian troops.

The reason I mentioned the Ukrainian analogy is because the manner through which predominantly  Arab Palestine was transformed into predominantly Jewish Israel  is almost completely identical to the manner through which Crimea, Dunbas and other territories in eastern and southern Ukraine have become Russian! It’s like tweedledum and tweedledee.!

The notoriously hypocritically west, including the US and the UK know this fact too well, but they lack the moral credentials to call the spade a spade.

Jerusalem is occupied territory

According to international law, East Jerusalem is still considered an occupied territory under international law.

Now, Liz Truss, the Pathetic latecomer is brazenly and without any semblance of Chutzpah displaying her brutal ugliness against the very people whose ancestral homeland Britain seized and gifted to the supremacist and ultra-racist Khazar Jews without even consulting with the natives of the land  as if they were children of a lesser God.

This is why, Muslims all over the world must leave no  stone unturned until this racist woman reverses her illegal, immoral and manifestly unjust plan to bless and  bestow legitimacy on Israel’s Lebensraum policies against the Palestinian people.

After all, Jerusalem, East and West, is occupied territory and recognizing the city as Israel’s capital is illegal immoral and starkly incompatible with the rule of international law.

 There is no doubt that the usurpation of Palestine and banishment of millions of its people at the hands of the Nazi-like Zionist gangs constitute the most enormous crime in the annals of history since Adam and Eve.

Read also: Even If A Hundred  Holocausts Were Committed Against Jews, It Gives Them No Right To Slaughter Palestinians And Steal Their Homeland

I know that many westerners, whose governments enabled  Zionist Jews to carry out their still ongoing Holocaust against our people , may not view the Palestinian plight this way. But so what? The West which has effectively adopted the Jewish holocaust as its de facto  religion has absolutely no moral right to lecture the Palestinians on how they should relate to their ongoing holocaust-like Nakba, just as westerners admit they have no right to challenge or even question the wild tales about the lamentable Jewish tragedy in the course of World War II.

Muslim dignity at stake

In conclusion, I would like to stress that Muslims everywhere must take proactive steps to punish the UK for its criminal defiance of more than two billion Muslims. Such steps must include, inter alia, a total boycott of all British products and commodities. This should be done even if our tyrannical regimes objected to our legitimate activism. This is because the collective dignity of more than 2 billion Muslims is at stake.   

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