Israel has for decades successfully ignored more than 60 United Nations resolutions against its atrocities committed against the Palestinian community.
Human Rights Watch, in the absence of UN action, has stepped forward to accuse Israel of committing war crimes in the wake of a recent Israeli bombing of a house that wiped out an entire family and killed some of their neighbors as well. The excuse given by the Israeli authorities was that one occupant was a Palestinian fighter.
Press TV has interviewed Mr. Mark Glenn, Crescent and Cross Solidarity Movement, Idaho about this issue. The following is an approximate transcription of the interview.
Press TV: Our reporter questioned whether Israel would continue to be exempted from international action because of its atrocities especially in the wake of Palestinian statehood?
Glenn: Yes I do believe that that will be the case. There will be some noise that is made on the part of certain parties of the UN.
But in general I think the question we have to ask ourselves is, are we going to see the kind of UN action that was used against Iraq during the early 1990s or during Kosovo during the mid 1990s or against Iraq in early 2003.
Are we going to see a military concerted effort on the part of a multinational force to go in and force Israel to abide by the 60+ United Nations resolutions that have already been passed against her – No, I don’t think that we are going to see that because the UN in large part is a creature of Western political and financial power and the United Nations is never going to do anything that would be like biting the hand that feeds it.
Press TV: So then, how exactly then will justice come forth? Just today we saw a 17 year old who was in fact celebrating his 17th birthday was shot to death in the occupied West Bank. Certainly such atrocities cannot go ignored and at some point justice will prevail?
Glenn: Well, I agree, but it’s not going to be through the UN.
I think it will be through organizations such as the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) or other world bodies that may possibly arise in the wake of this absence of justice and this absence of action on the part of the Western world.
I agree with you. Justice cannot be foiled forever and I think that people have a breaking point in which they are going to see we can’t take this anymore and you may see the wholesale abandonment of the United Nations on the part of countries who realize that it is indeed a creature of Western political and financial interests. And they may start their own organization altogether. But I agree with you – justice is coming and it’s not a matter of if, but rather when.
