{"id":300347,"date":"2025-08-11T12:00:47","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T11:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=300347"},"modified":"2025-08-01T13:42:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T12:42:49","slug":"gaza-genocide-complicit-states-conditional-recognition-of-palestine-is-elastic-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/08\/gaza-genocide-complicit-states-conditional-recognition-of-palestine-is-elastic-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaza Genocide-Complicit States\u2019 \u201cConditional Recognition\u201d of Palestine Is \u201cElastic Words\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Walled Off Hotel and the Apartheid Wall, a short walk from Alrowwad Cultural And Arts Society, Jan. 2025\u00a0 (photo by Zarni)<\/p><\/div>\n

1 Aug 2025\u00a0<\/em>–\u00a0Dr Abdelfattah A Abusrour<\/a>, 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 \u201cconditional recognition\u201d of Palestine as a \u201cdemilitarised state\u201d.<\/p>\n

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An exhibit of an excerpted British Government Memorandum at Walled Off Hotel and Banksy Museum next to the \u201cApartheid Wall\u201d, Bethlehem, Palestine, Jan. 2025 (photo by Zarni)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

In his words, \u201cWe 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\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n

He did not mention the specific names of these politically generous sounding states, but the offer is coming , from UK<\/a>, Canada<\/a>, Australia<\/a>, and France<\/a>, 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\u2019s mass extermination of 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza under total siege for nearly 2 years.<\/p>\n

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Two examples of such an empty and schizophrenic act of posturing by the genocide-complicit Euro-Western states will suffice.<\/p>\n

UK continues to train<\/a> 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 Chie<\/a>f Major General Tomer Bar to London. Meanwhile, Britain continues to ship vital parts to IDF\u2019s F-35 fighter jets These Made-in-US flying death machines have been used in the Jewish State\u2019s Hitlerite-physical destruction<\/a> of Gaza.<\/p>\n

Besides, the Royal Air Force<\/a> 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<\/a> , on the subject of the Soviets, with its counterpart in Hitler\u2019s 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<\/a>: the authorized history of MI5 : Andrew, Christopher M : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive]<\/p>\n

According to the United Nations Human Rights chief, the UK government has misused or abused<\/a> domestic anti-terrorism law to punish citizens and civil society groups who oppose the ongoing UK-backed Israeli genocide. UK\u2019s courts have also been aiding<\/a> the British institutions such as Cambridge University in the latter\u2019s attempt to silence anti-genocide voices amongst its young scholars in breach of both ethical and academic principles.<\/p>\n

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Cambridge University Senate House viewed from the Great St Mary\u2019s tower. Wikipedia Commons<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Citing the 29-July 2025-dated research report by Arms Embargo Now<\/a>, TRT World<\/a> reported that \u201cCanada 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. \u201c This is in clear breach of Canada\u2019s obligation to abide by the Genocide Convention, specifically Article III (e<\/a> ), NOT to be complicit. in a genocide by another UN member state. Israel\u2019s conduct and policies against Palestinian people in Gaza are officially determined by the UN\u2019s highest court, the International Court of Justice<\/a>, as \u201cplausibly\u201d genocidal. as early as 26 January 2024.<\/p>\n

In April this year, the renowned lawyer, writer, and international law professor Philipe Sands (KC)<\/a>, 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 \u201cimposed\u201d Israel on the world right after the Holocaust. Why not do the same for Palestinian people?<\/p>\n

In his words, \u201cI don\u2019t 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\u2026 on the population of Palestinians. So why not have the same approach now?\u201d<\/p>\n