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G20 Summit in J&K: China, Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia opted out

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The G20 Summit, an international forum for discussing economic cooperation and global issues, is typically held in prominent cities across the world. However, the recent decision to hold the summit in Jammu and Kashmir, a disputed region in India, has raised significant concerns and drawn widespread criticism. Countries including China, Turkey, and Egypt are among G20 member states that did not attend the tourism working group meeting that was held in Srinagar during May 22-24, while several other countries will were said to have low-level participation in the event, people familiar with the matter said.

The decision by China, Turkey, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia to opt out of the G20 Summit reflects concerns over security, regional sensitivities, and potential implications of endorsing a summit held in a disputed territory. It also underscores the complexity of the Kashmir issue, highlighting the need for a nuanced and diplomatic approach in resolving the long-standing disputes.

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Ignoring the Sensitivity of the Disputed Region of J&K

Jammu and Kashmir, a region marred by territorial disputes between India and Pakistan, is known for its historical and ongoing political tensions. By choosing this region as the venue for the G20 Summit, the international community effectively overlooked and in fact ignored the complexity and sensitivity of the situation. The decision entailed risks of deepening existing divisions and was perceived by many stakeholders as an endorsement of one-sided claims, undermining the prospects for a peaceful resolution.

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Undermining Diplomatic Neutrality

The G20 Summit is meant to foster cooperation and dialogue among the world’s major economies. However, by hosting the summit in a disputed region, the host country India inadvertently injected its own biases into the proceedings. It is essential for such an event to be conducted in a neutral location, allowing participating nations to engage in discussions without feeling pressured or influenced by local political dynamics. Unfortunately, this fundamental principle of diplomacy was overlooked in selecting the venue of the G20 summit in J&K.

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Threat to Regional Stability in J&K

The decision to hold the G20 Summit in Jammu and Kashmir carried significant risks for regional stability. The disputed nature of the region made it a potential flashpoint for conflict between India and Pakistan, both of which possess nuclear capabilities. The heightened presence of global leaders, along with the intense media coverage, could exacerbate existing tensions and lead to further escalations. Instead of promoting peace and cooperation, this move had the potential to reignite hostilities, putting the entire region of J&K at risk.

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Neglecting Human Rights Concerns- Display of Fake Normalcy in J&K

Jammu and Kashmir has witnessed long-standing human rights concerns, including allegations of arbitrary detentions, restrictions on freedom of speech, and the use of excessive force by security forces. By hosting the G20 Summit in this region, the international community inadvertently downplayed and ignored these pressing issues with India’s display of fake normalcy in J&K. The decision undermines the principles of human rights, as it sends a message that economic interests supersede the need to address the grievances and aspirations of the local population.

The decision to hold the G20 Summit in Jammu and Kashmir, a disputed region in India, continues to draw criticism and controversy. Recent developments reveal that several countries have opted out of participating in the summit, raising concerns about the event’s credibility and its potential impact on regional stability.

Fernand de Varennes, the UN’s special rapporteur on minority issues, issued a statement saying the G20 was “unwittingly providing a veneer of support to a facade of normalcy” when human rights violations, political persecution and illegal arrests were escalating in Kashmir.

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China Opted out of G20 Summit in J&K

China, one of the major global players and a member of the G20, firmly opposed the G20 Summit being held in Jammu and Kashmir. It expressed its opposition due to concerns over the security situation in the region. China’s decision to skip the summit reflects its reservations about endorsing a meeting held in a disputed area, which could be perceived as taking sides in the territorial dispute between India and Pakistan. “China firmly opposes holding any form of G20 meeting in disputed areas and China will not attend such a meeting,” Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Wang Webin told reporters in Beijing on Friday.

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Turkey Opted out of G20 Summit in J&K

Turkey, another G20 member, also opted out of attending the G20 Summit in Jammu and Kashmir. While the exact reasons for Turkey’s decision are not explicitly stated in the sources, it can be inferred that concerns over security and regional sensitivities might have influenced their choice. Turkey has been historically involved in the Kashmir issue due to its shared cultural and religious ties with the region, and its absence further highlights the complexities surrounding the choice of venue.

Turkey, which has close diplomatic ties to Pakistan, has recently criticised India for how it has handled the Kashmir conflict, and in 2020, its president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, brought the issue up at the UN General Assembly.

He had stated that the Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan, which was essential for maintaining security and peace in South Asia, was still a “burning issue” at the moment.

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Egypt Opted out of G20 Summit in J&K

Egypt, a non-G20 country, also decided not to participate in the G20 Summit in Jammu and Kashmir. The specific reasons behind Egypt’s choice are not provided by the sources. However, it is worth noting that Egypt has traditionally maintained strong ties with India, and its decision to opt-out may be related to concerns about the sensitivity and potential implications of holding such a high-profile event in a disputed territory.

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Saudi Arabia Opted out of G20 Summit in J&K

Saudi Arabia, another prominent G20 member, decided not to register for the G20 Summit in Jammu and Kashmir. Similar to Egypt, the specific reasons behind Saudi Arabia’s decision are not outlined by the authorities. However, given Saudi Arabia’s close relationship with India and its role as a regional power, its decision might be influenced by various factors, including geopolitical considerations and concerns over regional stability.

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The Absence of Countries from G20 Summit in J&K

The absence of these countries from the G20 Summit in Jammu and Kashmir adds to the controversy surrounding the choice of venue. It raises questions about the summit’s credibility, as the non-participation of major global players weakens the potential impact and diminishes the prospects for meaningful dialogue and cooperation. The absence of key participants casts a shadow over the event and calls for a re-evaluation of venue selection in future international summits to ensure impartiality, neutrality, and inclusiveness in addressing global challenges. Ultimately, the controversies surrounding the G20 Summit in Jammu and Kashmir remind us of the delicate balance between diplomacy, territorial disputes, and regional stability. Only through genuine dialogue, respect for international norms, and a commitment to finding peaceful resolutions can lasting solutions be achieved in disputed regions around the world.

The decision to hold the G20 Summit in Jammu and Kashmir was an ill-conceived move that undermines diplomacy, neglects regional sensitivities, and diverts attention from global priorities. By hosting the summit in a disputed region, the international community risked exacerbating tensions and derailing the prospects for peace. In the interest of maintaining neutrality and prioritizing dialogue, future decisions regarding the venue of major international summits must be made with careful consideration of the potential consequences.

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Jewish Nazism is reality not fiction

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Jewish Nazism

I realize that the title of this article might offend and provoke many people, especially those adhering to the Judaic faith. I do know that Jews, like everyone else, are not carbon copies of each other. There are many conscientious Jews who believe in fairness and basic human equality regardless of color, race and faith, and strongly reject racism and chauvinism in any form. Also, I will no longer be using euphemistic language in reference to Jewish Nazism especially in light of the latest Dresden-like bombing of Gaza by the Judeo-Nazi state also known as Israel.

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These people I salute for their rectitude, humanity and morality. They are our natural partners for peace and a better tomorrow for our children and their children.

But there are numerous other Jews who don’t believe in human equality and justice for all. Indeed, there are many Jews, e.g. followers of the hateful Chabad sect, who don’t even ascribe full humanity to people who are not members of the Jewish faith.

Needless to say, the venomous ideology adopted by these racist fanatics has much in common with Aryan Nazism.

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What else can be said to describe an ideology that teaches adherents that the life of a non-Jew has no sanctity and that goyem can be murdered without the slightest compunction or feeling of guilt?

The shocking reactions by the Israeli government, rabbis, and community leaders to the latest abduction, murder and subsequent burning of a Palestinian kids in Gaza are very telling.

In a certain sense, these reactions and attitudes can be compared to the reactions and attitudes of many Germans to the pogroms carried out against Jews by the Nazis prior to and during the Second World War.

The gleefully despicable embrace of the brashly hideous crime by the bulk of the Israeli Jewish society underscores the fact that millions of Jews in Israel and abroad do harbor certain Nazi tendencies, especially against the Palestinian people. These tendencies are too real and too tangible to be overstated.

However, we must call the spade a spade, even at the expense of upsetting the huge Zionist propaganda machine which habitually alters the black into white and the blatant big lie into a “truth” glorified by sheepish westerners who have long been brainwashed into believing that Israel is a modern, civilized and democratic state.

In the final analysis, when Jews (or anyone else) think, behave and act like the Nazis thought, behaved and acted, they simply become Nazis. Pure and simple.

Today, there are numerous Jews who openly call for the physical annihilation of Palestinians as retaliation for the abduction and killing of three Jewish settlers in the West Bank.

Saber-rattling rabbis speak menacingly of the need to adopt “the Biblical way” to combat the Palestinians.

For those not versed in Jewish phraseology, “Biblical way” is euphemism for genocide.

Today, the Israeli media reported that some army personnel openly appealed to the government to “give us the green light to annihilate them.”!!!

Just read what thousands of Jewish youths have been writing on their Facebook pages! It is outrageous, disgusting and sheer evil.

To put it in a nutshell, Nazism is being regurgitated and exuded all over Israel. This is happening in broad daylight while professional liars like Binyamin Netanyahu are filling the ether with all sorts of shameless lies about Israel being victimized by the Palestinians.

Seventy-six years have passed since Kristalnacht. Today Jewish settlers in the west Bank, in close cooperation and coordination, with the Israeli army could very well carry out a huge pogrom against an innocent and helpless community which really finds itself very much in the same precarious and vulnerable position that European Jewry experienced prior to WWII.

I am not a prophet of doom and gloom, but the signs are unmistakably bleak.

A final point, the Palestinian people in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip are surviving thanks to the good-will of the international public opinion. Should the international community go into a brief slumber, God forbid, Israel and its own Wehrmacht, SS, Gestapo and Hitler Youth might embark on the unthinkable. Don’t you ever say Jews can’t carry out a holocaust against their victims, the Palestinians?

Words can kill; words do kill.

Unfortunately, the chilling words we are hearing from many Israeli Jews these days leave no room for optimism.

Khalid Amayreh is a Palestinian journalist and political commentator , we lost him on account of natural reasons on 12th of July last year in the Occupied Palestine

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I’m most definitely Palestinian!

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Palestinian

In-your-face brutality, unending genocide, unending atrocities, mass slaughter directed against one’s people, one’s brethren, causes the most strong and unimaginable reaction, in response to the oppressor’s horrendous and barbaric deeds. The autocratic, despotic, tyrannical Israeli-hand systematically and with pre-planned engineered precision, massacres, annihilates, eliminates the young and the old Palestinian alike – in the most inhumane and most despicable of ways. Slaughters men, women and children in broad daylight. Bares its blood-thirsty intentions, its monstrous objectives in the most unashamed of ways. Mercy to none – not to the living, not to the severely wounded and dying; no mercy even on the dead or their lifeless remains.

The constant fear of being bombed anytime, rained down with missiles and all manner of munitions from within the vast arsenal of the Israeli side; definitely stockpiled high, with enough buffer inventory of munitions, deadly and lethal stockpile, to blow the receiving side multiple times over; so as not to leave a “shred” of evidence of your original physical-self on the surface of the land, which your people, generations and generations of your ancestors, since time immemorial have dwelt on.

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The inexplicable terror of seeing Israeli drones constantly “floating about” unopposed, in the skies above your unsheltered head. Drones with eyes like that of a greedy dog. Electronic pixels wanting to cast an evil eye, an evil-spell upon your very being. Eyeing upon your existence, wanting to blow-up, tear-up your physical being, seemingly wanting to devour your flesh and body; all by way of a few computer clicks / even the manual computer-clicks now, seemingly, are being replaced by more automated ways of executing these most evil deeds. Software, coded software, written programs to execute on the most Evil-intentions. Evil-intentions of the most evil amongst the human race.

Everybody knows, the Israelis have exterminated with their weaponry, uncountable numbers of Palestinians across a 40, 50km stretch of land, in front of the whole world, over the past so many weeks and months. And retain the capacity, the ability, the power, the means to slaughter, devour many, many more innocent ones, day in, day out.

The Israelis possess American technology, American weapons – the bedrock of their faith, the foundation stone of their belief in their never-ending invincibility. The Palestinians have their faith in Allah; that Allah will redeem his faithful people, from the clutches of these war-mongers, who rain down terror, day and night on the most innocent, the most vulnerable.

Most definitely, the Moslem spirit in me, the Palestinian spirit in me is not defeated; quite to the contrary, it’s rekindled, stronger than ever.

I’m definitely Palestinian, in every sense of the word, and Allah will save us, Allah will have mercy on us, Allah will guide us.

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The futility of counting on the U.S. to pressure Israel

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It is really ludicrous to see how dishonest the U.S “mediators” constantly demand that the Palestinians display more “good will” toward Israel at a time when Israel continues to perpetrate a real Holocaust against the hapless and helpless Palestinaians and steal Palestinian land in broad daylight.

It seems amply clear that the current Palestinian leadership, i.e. the Palestinian Authority (PA)  led by Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, neither learns from its own blunders nor from other people’s blunders. This is really a gigantic disaster befalling the Palestinian people and their enduring just cause.

How else can one relate to the unrelenting illogical insistence of the the whole world on accepting the U.S., Israel’s guardian-ally, as “mediator and honest broker” between us and our murderous tormentors and grave-diggers, Israel?

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Indeed, one doesn’t have to be an expert on American foreign policy in the Middle East to know that the U.S represents the problem, not the solution, given its long-standing embrace of Israeli fascism and expansion.  After all, it is the US that not only enabled Israel to actively pursue its lebensraum policy at the expense of its neighbors but consistently shield it from any accountability or international condemnation.

Today, the U.S. administration is criticizing Palestinian “unilateralism” in reference to desperate PA efforts to get the UN Security Council to recognize Palestinian statehood and agree on a deadline for ending Israel’s Nazi-like occupation.

Well, we all know that the U.S. is being pornographically hypocritical when it accuses the virtually vanquished Palestinians of acting unilaterally as if its spoilt nefarious daughter, Israel, were ever acting in full conformity with international law.

Well, Mr. Abbas and Mr. Ereikat: Don’t be too gullible, too sheepish. Ask your American interlocutors, e.g. Mr. John Kerry, the following questions:

Since when did Israel ever behave bilaterally rather than unilaterally?

Was the usurpation of Palestine and expulsion of its indigenous people at the hands of Jewish terrorist gangs hailing from Eastern Europe, a bilateral or unilateral act?

Was the annexation by Israel of East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights a bilateral or a unilateral act?

Was the building of hundreds of Jewish settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem as well as the transfer of 600,000 Jewish settlers to live on a land that belongs not to them a bilateral or unilateral act?

Was the wanton demolition of some 30,000 Palestinian homes by Israel a bilateral or a unilateral act?

Was the annexation of the bulk of the West Bank and East Jerusalem a bilateral or a unilateral act?

And what about this ugly structure, called Separation wall, which resulted in the theft of thousands of acres of private Palestinian land? Was it a bilateral or a unilateral act?

I could go on and on and on listing America’s hypocritical and duplicitous stands on Palestinian grievances and Israeli crimes. Indeed, the U.S dishonest stand on the Palestinian plight has only been consistent in its moral depravity. Indeed, hypocrisy in its most brazen form has always been and continues to be the modus operandi of American policy toward the Palestinian issue. I know it is politically incorrect to speak in this tone. However, truth must not be another victim of the dark evil embrace between the U.S. and Israel.

But morality is not and has never been part of American politics or policies, especially foreign policy. This is why the world looks so ugly, so gloomy and so unjust.

The U.S. is insisting that only a “negotiated” settlement to the Palestinian issue would be acceptable to the U.S.

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In other words, Israel must always have the final say as to any possible peace deal with the Palestinians.

But since Israel would never ever end its occupation or dismantle the settlements, let alone allow for the repatriation of the refugees, it means there can be no negotiated settlement unless the Palestinians agree to surrender to Jewish Nazism. But that will never happen as Muslims, including the Palestinian people, would never allow the Ramallah leadership or any other leadership to commit adultery with the honorable Palestinian cause.

Let’s be honest. The purportedly honest American broker or mediator is neither honest nor a broker or mediator. The proverbial American judge is simply telling the insolent rapist (Israel) and the vanquished rape victim (the Palestinians) to sort it out amongst yourselves. Do we have to be the smartest humans on earth to understand the implications of this brutal ugliness?

It is tantamount to a total American embrace of Israeli fascism. It means that the American stance is actually Israel’s stance. It also means that that the U.S. would never accept or condone any settlement that Israel doesn’t accept.

That is why the Palestinians need to have a moment of truth with themselves.
And the message they need to internalize is that they would have to wait ages if they continued to put their trust in the U.S. to pressure Israel to walk in the path of peace.

Let us face it. Israel will never walk in the path of peace unless it is pressured and bullied to do so. However, Israel would never ever walk in the path of peace as long as it continues to receive nuclear submarines from Germany and the most advanced fighter jets from the U.S.

In a nut shell, America can’t and won’t exert any meaningful pressure on Israel to end its N-a-z-i-like occupation. We all know that Israel controls the American government or at least controls those who control the American government. Israel is intoxicated by its arrogance of power and Talmudic insolence. And the U.S., Israel’s guardian-ally, is not in a position to be an honest mediator and to impose a deal on Israel or even convince her to allow for one that would give the Palestinian a semblance of justice.

What should be done?

We must go ahead with our efforts at the U.N. Security Council, irrespective of American threats to veto any resolution favorable to the Palestinian cause. At least casting the veto would embarrass America itself and its treacherous Arab allies (they are not actually allies but cheap slaves and puppets as we all know).

We Palestinians must be confident of our inevitable triumph over Zionism and its evils. Yes, it may take time, but eventually Zionism won’t live forever in a sea where hundreds of millions live.

Khalid Amayreh is a Palestinian journalist and political commentator , we lost him on account of natural reasons on 12th of July last year in the Occupied Palestine

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