Gaza Genocide-Complicit States’ “Conditional Recognition” of Palestine Is “Elastic Words”
TRANSCEND MEMBERS, 11 Aug 2025
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service
Walled Off Hotel and the Apartheid Wall, a short walk from Alrowwad Cultural And Arts Society, Jan. 2025 (photo by Zarni)
1 Aug 2025 – Dr Abdelfattah A Abusrour, a French-educated scientist, art educator and poet of Alrowwad Cultural And Arts Society, and child of 1948 Nakba refugee parents, posted a scathingly critical and personally grounded take down of the official offers of the “conditional recognition” of Palestine as a “demilitarised state”.
An exhibit of an excerpted British Government Memorandum at Walled Off Hotel and Banksy Museum next to the “Apartheid Wall”, Bethlehem, Palestine, Jan. 2025 (photo by Zarni)
In his words, “We are fed up with your elastic vocabulary and expressions. Fed up with your distorted moralities, your sick bigotry, your double or quadruple standards, your shameless arrogance of giving lessons to the victims and fading in the face of the well recognized oppressor, your selected vocabulary and void expressions, your emotionless or sarcastic feelings….”
He did not mention the specific names of these politically generous sounding states, but the offer is coming , from UK, Canada, Australia, and France, all effectively vassal states of the United States amidst implosion at home and widely despised globally. Never mind that led by the bipartisan Washington, these same states have been involved, in myriad concrete ways, in Israel’s mass extermination of 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza under total siege for nearly 2 years.
Two examples of such an empty and schizophrenic act of posturing by the genocide-complicit Euro-Western states will suffice.
UK continues to train mid-level IDF officers in its advanced programs at the Royal College of Defence Studies in London while inviting the head of the arial genocidal campaign IDF Air Force Chief Major General Tomer Bar to London. Meanwhile, Britain continues to ship vital parts to IDF’s F-35 fighter jets These Made-in-US flying death machines have been used in the Jewish State’s Hitlerite-physical destruction of Gaza.
Besides, the Royal Air Force reconnaissance air craft have been providing the Israeli exterminators with real time intelligence in Gaza. This is reminiscent of how the British military intelligence, MI5, was collaborating , on the subject of the Soviets, with its counterpart in Hitler’s Ministry of Defence even after London had solid intel that the Nazis had built concentration camps for political opponents and German Jews. [See The defence of the realm: the authorized history of MI5 : Andrew, Christopher M : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive]
According to the United Nations Human Rights chief, the UK government has misused or abused domestic anti-terrorism law to punish citizens and civil society groups who oppose the ongoing UK-backed Israeli genocide. UK’s courts have also been aiding the British institutions such as Cambridge University in the latter’s attempt to silence anti-genocide voices amongst its young scholars in breach of both ethical and academic principles.
Cambridge University Senate House viewed from the Great St Mary’s tower. Wikipedia Commons
Alas, British educators and judges are more concerned about preserving their Medieval college lawns than the Palestinians in the killing fields of Gaza where nearly 2 million people have not even grass to eat.
Citing the 29-July 2025-dated research report by Arms Embargo Now, TRT World reported that “Canada has exported 421,070 bullets to Israel since the Gaza assault began in October 2023. One shipment in April 2025 contained as many as 175,000 bullets. “ This is in clear breach of Canada’s obligation to abide by the Genocide Convention, specifically Article III (e ), NOT to be complicit. in a genocide by another UN member state. Israel’s conduct and policies against Palestinian people in Gaza are officially determined by the UN’s highest court, the International Court of Justice, as “plausibly” genocidal. as early as 26 January 2024.
In April this year, the renowned lawyer, writer, and international law professor Philipe Sands (KC), called for international recognition of Palestine as a sovereign state, just like all the other 193 UN member states. He pointed out that the UN had “imposed” Israel on the world right after the Holocaust. Why not do the same for Palestinian people?
In his words, “I don’t see why the state of Palestine being recognised should be something that Israel should have any say on whatsoever. When Israeli statehood was determined nearly 80 years ago, it was a decision of the General Assembly and it was imposed on the world and… on the population of Palestinians. So why not have the same approach now?”
In light of the above, there is little wonder that the Palestinian art educator and scientist, a child of the 1948 Nakba, feels that these Western states’ empty words of conditional recognition of Palestine as a state are yet another round of the genocidal West’s “vomit” in the collective face of the Palestinian people not only in Gaza, Auschwitz 2.0 in the 29-mile stretch of the desert, but also throughout the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem where Israel is planning to annex, “legally” under its Jewish Supremacist law.
Abdelfattah A Abusrour, in Aida Refugee camp where he grew up. (photo by Zarni, Jan. 2025)
Here are his words:
To those who talk since decencies about recognizing Pal-Est-Ine: Really? Really?
What does this mean? ,
Are you boycotting Occup- Ation first? Are you making it accountable? Are you stopping all collaboration, trade, exchange with the War Crim-Inals and Geno-Cid-al psychopaths?
Are you going to defend this state that you will recognize?
Will you stop supporting the so-called humanitarian Aid that is dehumanizing and insulting to every child, woman, elder and every human being on the face of the earth? Will you stop transforming this extermination agenda into humanitarian tragedy? Who is responsible for it?
Will you take responsibility for the monster you created? The role you contributed to allowing this barbarism to continue. Your support that continues until today?
Because if it is just symbolic, then keep it for yourself. We are fed up with symbolic “reactions”. There are no good intentions accepted anymore…. good intentions are not enough…
Starvation of civilians in a war is a crime… silence is complicity. you are part of it.
We are fed up with your words, fed up with your promises… fed up with your crocodile tears, fed up with your false humanity, fed up with your degraded values and so-called humanitarian rights. laws. principles
We are fed up with your elastic vocabulary and expressions. Fed up with your distorted moralities, your sick bigotry, your double or quadruple standards, your shameless arrogance of giving lessons to the victims and fading in the face of the well recognized oppressor, your selected vocabulary and void expressions, your emotionless or sarcastic feelings…
Words can’t liberate people under oppression, without actions to exterminate the oppression
Words can’t feed those who starve, without actions to eradicate the cause of their starvation
Words can’t save lives, without actions to stop those who murder these lives
So, if it is just to throw words, keep your words for yourself, and if you need to throw them then look at yourself in the mirror and vomit your words in your face… because we have enough of your vomit, of drops of your spit on our humanity.
World, you have failed us for more than a century… you have failed your own people, your own constitutions, your own so-called values…. You have proven how fake you are
Yet, because there is goodness in pure spirits and human beings,
Because there are so much lies and lies and lies,
Because there is so many threats and accusations for anyone who protests against the official narratives of the colonial nations and blood mercenaries
Normal human beings wake up
Normal human beings, regardless of color, ethnicity or faith wake up and act
Walk in the streets and shout loud
End the Occup-Ation
End the Geno-Cide
Free… Free… Pal Es Tine
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Further readings on the utter ethical and moral bankruptcy of Europe and its offshoots:
Hamid Dabashi,Thanks to Gaza, European philosophy has been exposed as ethically bankrupt, Mid East Eye, 18 January 2024
Hamid Dabashi, In praising Israel’s ‘dirty work’, Merz exposes the orientalist roots of German genocidal Zionism, Mid East Eye, 28 July 2025
Kim Petersen, Before, During, and After Savagery, A review of Hamid Dabashi’s After Savagery, Dissident Voice, 29 July 2025
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A Buddhist humanist from Burma (Myanmar), Maung Zarni, nominated for the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, is a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment, former Visiting Lecturer with Harvard Medical School, specializing in racism and violence in Burma and Sri Lanka, and Non-resident Scholar in Genocide Studies with Documentation Center – Cambodia. Zarni is the co-founder of FORSEA, a grass-roots organization of Southeast Asian human rights defenders, coordinator for Strategic Affairs for Free Rohingya Coalition, and an adviser to the European Centre for the Study of Extremism, Cambridge. Zarni holds a PhD (U Wisconsin at Madison) and a MA (U California), and has held various teaching, research and visiting fellowships at the universities in Asia, Europe and USA including Oxford, LSE, UCL Institute of Education, National-Louis, Malaya, and Brunei. He is the recipient of the “Cultivation of Harmony” award from the Parliament of the World’s Religions (2015). His analyses have appeared in leading newspapers including the New York Times, The Guardian and the Times. Among his academic publications on Rohingya genocide are The Slow-Burning Genocide of Myanmar’s Rohingyas (Pacific Rim Law and Policy Journal), An Evolution of Rohingya Persecution in Myanmar: From Strategic Embrace to Genocide, (Middle East Institute, American University), and Myanmar’s State-directed Persecution of Rohingyas and Other Muslims (Brown World Affairs Journal). He co-authored, with Natalie Brinham, Essays on Myanmar Genocide.
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