Ban Ki-moon can carry on with his condemnations — they are of no use.
JUBAIL, SAUDI ARABIA: Headlines in newspapers across the world carry the same message. This is not the first time that Israel has deliberately attacked UN schools and shelters. Similarly, this is not the first time that the UN has condemned Israel. Both parties seem to carry on this game of ‘you strike as you like, I will condemn but my condemnation will hold no worth’.
It is really disgraceful for the whole world in general, and for the UN in particular, that Israel is able to dodge its way through scores of condemnation statements, expressions of outrage and futile speeches made in the Security Council. The world powers need to take into account what took place in the aftermath of the two World Wars: the Balfour Declaration of 1917 promising a home country in Palestine for Jews, and the UN General Assembly Resolution 181 carving a country out of Palestine without taking Palestinians’ opinion into account. The ongoing conflict in Gaza is not a tragedy created out of a vacuum: it is the result of the injustice carried out in 1947-48 by the UN on the instructions of those who emerged victorious after the Second World War.
Ban Ki-moon can carry on with his condemnations — they are of no use. Unless a serious effort is made to reverse the UNGA Resolution 181, this bloodbath shall never end.
Masood Khan
Published in The Express Tribune, August 13th, 2014.
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