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</font><h1 class="gmail-reader-title">International Collusion with Israel is What Real ‘Political Terrorism’ Looks like</h1><div class="gmail-meta-data"><div id="gmail-main-content">
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<p><strong>By <a href="https://www.palestinechronicle.com/writers/ramona-wadi" title="Display all articles for Ramona Wadi">Ramona Wadi</a></strong></p><p>Israeli
media outlets are trying to create a furor over a possible move by the
Palestinian Authority to submit a resolution at the UN General Assembly
condemning Israel’s annexation plan. “The solution to the conflict will
come through direct negotiations in Jerusalem and not through political
terrorism in New York,” <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/palestinians-advancing-un-resolution-against-annexation-israel-says/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">declared</a> Israel’s
outgoing Ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, about a non-binding
resolution which will have no impact whatsoever on the looming land
theft.</p>
<p>“Political terrorism” by Israel and the UN is actually what brought
Palestinians to their current predicament. The UN’s willingness to
disseminate the Zionist narrative that Palestine was a wasteland before
Jews went there, and “a land without a people for a people without a
land” has been much in evidence throughout the years, and the UN’s
flawed <a href="https://www.unrwa.org/content/resolution-194" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Resolution 194</a> does not even begin to be preliminary compensation for what the Palestinians have lost since the 1948 Nakba.</p>
<p>Indeed, “political terrorism” sums up the complicity between Israel
and the UN; in particular the collision in disseminating Israel’s
security narrative as the pretext for the perpetual displacement of the
indigenous population. Palestine, by the way, was never barren when
Palestinian farmers worked their land.</p>
<p>“Political terrorism” against the people of Palestine was also
normalized through the two-state compromise, which contributed to the
permanent prevention of the legitimate return of Palestinian refugees.
As the US-Israeli annexation plan draws closer, the UN will,
undoubtedly, collaborate in finding ways to normalize the latest
colonial expansion. The PA’s efforts to elicit anything more than verbal
condemnation will, once again, be futile.</p>
<p>Israel Hayom <a href="https://www.israelhayom.com/2020/06/07/__trashed-5/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">described</a>
the possible PA move as a “battle”. The PA is just following
perfunctory steps that have been proven worthless in terms of garnering
diplomatic and political support for Palestine at an international
level. There is thus no battle unless the PA alters its entire
framework, swaps dependence upon the international community for
Palestinian political involvement, and starts utilizing its platform at
the UN as an anti-colonial opportunity. As things stand, the PA is
fulfilling international expectations by seeking recourse through
non-binding resolutions. Palestine’s demise has been fuelled by
non-binding resolutions alongside political violence.</p>
<p>Israel will lobby the international community for diplomatic support,
yet whether this is forthcoming or not will make little difference to
the annexation plan. As long as the world refrains from taking punitive
measures, and not just against the annexation of Palestinian land, the
PA’s recourse to the UN General Assembly presents no risk to the
colonial-settler state. For the sake of its purported security concerns,
Israel will, of course, play its perpetual victim card and pretend that
it is facing an existential threat and opposition, or at least
anti-Israel bias, from an institution that has consistently upheld and
protected Zionist colonization.</p>
<p>“The international community needs to know that legitimizing
Palestinian provocations rewards Abu Mazen’s [PA President Mahmoud
Abbas’] refusal to hold dialogue with Israel,” claimed Danon. The truth
is that the international community has only ever legitimized Israel and
its colonial actions.</p>
<p>Moreover, there is no dialogue with Israel because complicity between
colonialism and the international community has replaced Palestinians’
political rights with their subjugation. The US is now simply amplifying
what the UN has intended since the 1947 Partition Plan.</p>
<p>Abbas and the PA pose no threat to Israel, and nor will yet another
UN Resolution; Israel will just ignore it in any case and get away with
doing so as it has done on countless occasions before. It is the
Palestinian people themselves who have the potential to lead a
legitimate anti-colonial struggle. That is why the real priority of the
international community on this issue is the persistent dissociation
between Palestine and the Palestinian people, with the sole aim of
protecting the destructive agenda upon which Israel was founded and
continues to exist. That is what real “political terrorism” looks like,
Ambassador Danon.</p>
<p><i><span>– Ramona Wadi is a staff writer for Middle East Monitor, where this article was originally <a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20200609-international-collusion-with-israel-is-what-real-political-terrorism-looks-like/">published</a>. She contributed this article to the Palestine Chronicle.</span></i></p>
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