Mohamad Alqeeq
WITH a high level of systematic policy, the US and Israel attempt to erase and manipulate the perception of the international community to improve their image. They do this through the peace conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, designed to consolidate Trump’s plan at the expense of the recent UN General Assembly meeting and the global push to recognize the State of Palestine. They also launch massive media campaigns using writers, analysts, and channels in multiple languages to lower the morale of Palestinians and the resistance while boosting the morale of the Israeli army and political echelon.
Recently, the campaign was instructed to praise the ceasefire deal by emphasizing words like “parties” and “violations,” in order to erase the genocide and its details from the world’s memory. Furthermore, Israeli strikes are now being labeled as “self-defense operations.”
We must remember that the ceasefire deal is a big lie. It is used to hide the truth in Gaza, numb the international community, and cover up further crimes, such as closing border crossings, preventing medical teams, aid trucks, and foreign journalists from entering, and denying injured and sick people access to treatment. Starvation continues under the blockade, alongside ongoing strikes on displaced tents and streets.
Side conferences between some Palestinians and Israeli figures, like former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, to discuss a two-state solution aim to convince the world that the problem lies not with the perpetrators of the genocide, but only with Netanyahu. This is a misleading attempt to rehabilitate Israel’s image.
However, they forget that the Israeli army is composed of Israeli society, which elected Netanyahu just as it elected Ehud Olmert, who himself perpetrated crimes against Gaza in 2006 and 2008 and against Lebanon in 2006. Olmert expelled thousands of Palestinians from Jerusalem and demolished thousands of homes under multiple pretexts when he was mayor of the city.
Israel has long relied on this policy to emerge as a scapegoat. It uses every card to serve its purposes, including exploiting some Palestinians who seek privileges in exchange for playing dirty roles at the expense of Palestinian rights. The Israeli occupation also used its attacks against aid flotillas to improve relations with other countries, including those that had previously cut ties, under the pretext of coordinating the release of activists from Israeli prisons. This mirrors its earlier policy allowing countries to conduct aid airdrops.
The most effective way to confront this policy is to intensify pressure on governments, the ICC, and the ICJ by launching protests, holding conferences, filing lawsuits against Israeli politicians and soldiers, and running media campaigns to expose Israel and the US. The goal is to stop all aspects of the genocide and secure the right of Palestinians to a sovereign state while holding Israel accountable.
Trump and Israel are liars. This is a genocide, and they continue to carry it out, both explicitly and implicitly, across multiple sectors.
Will the international community allow Trump’s efforts to normalize genocide as if it were routine? — QNN
