The UN, Palestine and Iraq
By Ibrahim Ebeid
Kofi Annan, The Secretary General of The United Nations Organization, declared that the US led war against Iraq was illegal. He told the British Broadcasting Corp. radio that the US - led invasion did not conform to the United Nations Charter.
His comments do not represent any change of heart in his position nor they introduce a genuine change in the attitude of the United Nations Organization.
The decision to launch a war of aggression against Iraq, its destruction, invasion and occupation was an American decision. This naked aggression was in violation of the international laws. In spite of not having a Security Council Resolution “legalizing” this war, the United Nations, through its Security Council, recognized the US war against Iraq and cooperated and still cooperating with its programs and agenda.
In 1947 the United Nations, through its Security Council, that represents the interest of the Imperialist powers, also committed another wrongdoing against the Palestinians. It was part of the Imperialist-Zionist schemes to rip Palestine apart creating a racist foreign entity in Palestine. This entity with the support of its Western Imperialist allies ripped Palestine apart, committed crimes of genocide against the Palestinians in order to vacate the Palestinian natives from their homes to make room for the Zionist settlers, millions of Palestinians were uprooted and Palestine became the largest colonialist settlement for the aggressors.
None of the UN Resolutions against "Israel" was ever enforced, This racist artificial entity is still committing crimes against the Palestinian people and The UN Security Council, dominated by the United States, is supporting the Butcher of the Palestinians, Ariel Sharon, or at best the majority of the member states are silent and deaf to the calls of Palestine. The UN Resolution for the Right of Return to their homes was totally ignored, the Palestinians are still living in camps or scattered around the World impatiently waiting for their return.
The United Nations ignored the confrontation between the legitimate Iraqi resistance and the illegitimate US occupation. The United Nations chose to be on the side of aggression and occupation, its collaborators and agents. The words of Kofi Annan cannot save the World Organization because since the beginning it chose to play an active part of the occupation of Iraq.
The Secretary General was dominated and conditioned to accept the US occupation of Iraq. He withdrew his employees from Iraq in preparation for the invasion. When he sent his representative to Baghdad, Lakhdar Ibrahimi, he knew that this employee would not deviate from the plans and programmes of The United Nations, which were aligned with those of the United States.
The Secretary General. Mr. Annan, if he were sincere, he would have taken a courageous stand since the beginning, he would have stood up and declared to the entire World that the US war against Iraq was illegal and a crime against humanity, it was the most flagrant violation of the charter of the Organization that he leads. Instead he chose to protect his title and his position and tolerated such aggression, destruction and occupation.
The Secretary General never took a serious stand against the Zionist aggression in Palestine but he chose to be on the side of Zionism and Imperialism as well.
The Iraqi people and the Palestinians know very well the stand of the United Nations, they have experienced its prejudices since 1947 when the United Nations usurped Palestine and gave it to the Zionists.
To correct the wrongdoings we call upon the progressive and peace loving peoples of the World:
- To take a courageous stand to support the right of the Iraqis and Palestinians to liberate their lands by any legitimate means.
- To support the right of the Palestinians to return to their homes in historic Palestine from which they were forcefully evicted, to establish their secular state in all of Palestine that lies between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.
- To admit that "Israel" is an illegitimate artificial racist entity that was established in Palestine and Palestine is Arab and belongs to the Palestinian people.
- To recognize that Zionism is racism and it is the product of Western Imperialism that must be defeated and eliminated alongside with Imperialism.
- To recognize that Iraq is an Arab country and the Iraqi people are one indivisible unit, sectarianism is not genuine in Iraq, it is the creation of the occupation in order to divide Iraq, to weaken it and rob its wealth and natural resources.
- To recognize the legitimate government of Iraq that is in captivity.
- We need to further strengthen the progressive organizations and arm them with unwavering principles, to be clearly anti Zionism and Imperialism free from any influence.
- We need a United Nations that is free from any domination in which all nations are equal partners in peace, justice and security for the World.