TODAY, Israel's ethnic cleansing turns 74 years and 33 days old. And yet the West remains unconcerned.
At best, perfunctory remarks issue forth, when the occasion suits it, from a Western capital or two. And that too circumscribed by a justice-denying line: "Israel has the right to defend itself."
There is only one just solution: Israel must be held accountable for the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. And it must start with two nations, Britain and the United States, which are primarily responsible for Israel's impunity.
What's worse, Britain and the US have been complicit in Israel's ethnic cleansing of Palestinians through the funding ofthe Zionist movement during the British mandate years and the blocking of any action against Tel Aviv thereafter. London's and Washington's complicity can't be more direct.
Britain's most well-known historian Arnold Toynbee put it best in 1969 in his introduction to Sami Hadawi's Palestine Diary: "If Palestine had remained under the Ottoman Turkish rule or if it had become an independent Arab state in 1918, Jewish immigrants would never have been admitted into Palestine in large enough numbers to overwhelm the Palestinian Arabs in this Arab people's own country.
"The reason why the state of Israel exists today and why over 1,500,000 Palestine Arabs are refugees is that, for 30 years, Jewish immigration was imposed on the Palestinian Arabs by British military power until the immigrants are sufficiently well armed to be able to fend for themselves with tanks and planes of their own."
Judging from Israel's continuing settler colonialism in Palestine and the supply of tanks and planes by Britain and the US the limit envisaged by Toynbee has not been reached. It never will until the whole of Palestine and possibly even the entire Middle East is a pseudo-Israel.
The US, Britain and its Western allies' frequent refrain "Israel has the right to defend itself" isasignal that they are part of the Greater Israel game plan.
As this Leader heads for publication, a Zionist party is planning to introduce a parliamentary bill that seeks to impose Israel's sovereignty over the occupied West Bank.
No one in Tel Aviv, London, Washington or Brussels is concerned about the illegality of the bill under international law. We are not surprised.
Israel was built on stolen Palestinian land. Law didn't matter then. Israel continues to occupy Palestinian territories and build illegal settlements there. International law still doesn't matter.
US President Joe Biden is readying himself to make a Middle East tour, beginning with Saudi Arabia, with one stated purpose: to force the Arab nations to guarantee the security of Israel. Not to negotiate for more crude oil for energy-deprived Americans.
Not to build peace in the Middle East. But to do the exact opposite. Why does Israel, the most militarily advanced country and a nuclear power at that, require Arab nations to guarantee its security? Shouldn't it be the other way around? There is only one explanation for this.
The US hasn't given up on its imperial dream of dominating the Middle East through a militarily-strong client state Israel, though Tel Aviv has, on occasions, made known to Washington that the US is its client state. Zionist hubris is what it is because of the US's Middle East foreign policy since World War 2 that has made the safety of Israel its principal concern. Not the welfare of the Palestinians.