WeeklySA_AdminCIVILISATION: In this article, SA ambassador Phatse Piitso writes that the urgent task of all revolutionaries, is to persuade the international community to honour the millennium project, of building a better world of humanity…
By Phatse Justice Piitso.
The world is stumbled by the heart-wrenching theatre, of abhorrent acts of genocide and war crimes, viral on livestream media channels and other social media platforms, inflicted by the treacherous apartheid state of Israel, on the innocent people of Palestine.
The scenes of ruthless acts of mass killings and extermination, destruction of infrastructure and ecological system, supplicate the world community of nations, ponder of what has come to be of our mother earth, in the modern age of human civilisation.
The war of aggression has turned the state of Palestine, a fairytale of repugnant images, of decomposing bodies of infants in hospital maternity rooms, headless and mutilated bodies scattered in the streets and rubbles, the old and the young collecting body parts in plastic bags, echoes of crying women being raped and molested by the Israel security forces, destitute and the homeless seeking refuge in cemeteries, perpetual ground and aerial bombardment of schools, hospitals, Mosques, universities, residential areas, old age homes and cultural and historical sites of significance.
The vampire of Gaza, Mr Benjamin Netanyahu, by the streams of blood-spilling from the hearts of the innocent, the earthly God of the shadows of death and phantoms, the sorcerer of the dreadful power, has unleashed his dementors, the vicious creatures, the nightmare hunters of Gaza, who cannot distinguish the one they hunt or the one who gets in their way. He has turned Gaza into the world beyond our own, a dark realm of tortured souls of the dead and a desert butcher camp not meant for the living. The obedient blue-eyed boy of the empire, whose hands are soaked in the blood of the thousands and thousands of the innocent people, transforming torment of cruelty into passion, not forsaking that the foundation of human society, is forgiveness and reconciliation. That we are made up of who we are, the torchbearers of the true traditions and ethos of humanity, harvesting the world of harmony and tranquillity.
The heart breaking story of one of resilient and courageous hero of the Palestinian people, Comrade Mahmoud Amer, caught the attention of the people of the world. He is amongst the destitute and homeless victims of the war, who decided to seek refuge at the local cemetery.
He says, “Living in the residential areas, where houses collapse on our heads, is much dangerous, than to live with the dead in the cemetery. The dead are in comfort while we, the living, are in pain and going through tough conditions of life. I see children, our children playing amongst and above the graves. This has become our life, all about death. Even while walking now, we see death in front of our eyes every second”.
The Israel defence force is systematically destroying cemeteries in the Gaza Strip, ruining gravestones, unearthing bodies which are left expose to the psychological punishment of the people. The apartheid defence force is converting cemeteries into military outposts, erecting berms to fortify their position, as they escalate their offensive to violate the fundamental human rights of the Palestinian people.
We are encouraged by the determination of the people of Palestine, to defend their territorial sovereignty and independence at the face of adversity, their resilience to achieve freedom and dignity during their lifetime. They are never afraid of their tears, for they know that they are nothing else but just a rain upon the dusty sand dunes of the Sinai peninsula.
Their tears never dry as they weep, for they weep to take out the pain of their struggles, the pain of weeping out their sufferings, for the triumph of the struggles for the freedom of their motherland.
The catastrophic humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip should be located in the wider context, of the geopolitical and economic interest of the world superpowers, in the Middle East and the Far East regions. It is about the power and hegemony of the political economy of the US militarism, of the broader strategy, to reposition its economic interest in the Suez Canal and the Red Sea region.
It is the theatre of war of the Entente of the world superpowers, of the US coalition and its
Allies of the European Union, those with veto power in the UN Security Council, mostly with nuclear capabilities, those abusing their military and economic strength, to reshape international relations, whilst the majority of the people in the periphery, in the former colonies and semi colonies, are living under conditions of squalor, of catastrophic wars threatening their own existence.
The peace loving people of Palestine, are victims of the masters of the hegemonic world of imperialism, of the world of conspiracies of international monopolies, to safeguard their political, military and economic interest.
Therefore the bombings on the Gaza Strip, should not just be understood as a response by Israel, on the recent attacks by Hamas, but a complex strategy, to gain control into the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. The discoveries of one of the richest world gas and oil reserves in Leviathan, is one of the major driving force, behind the vicious ongoing onslaught, against the state of Palestine. During the recent few days, despite the annual financial and military support to the apartheid state of Israel, of over three billion dollars, Pentagon announced an additional financial and military package, of over twenty billion dollars in the coming years. The government of the USA is the biggest military and financial backer of the state of Israel, with the European Union, coming second in the equation.
This comprehensive military and financial support by the world superpowers, comes despite the recent ruling by the International Court of Justice in January, that the state of Israel was committing acts of genocide against the Palestinian people. That the war in Palestine violates fundamental human rights and therefore constituting a crime against humanity.
Amongst others the comprehensive financial and military stimulus by the government of the USA, include the sale of fifty F-151A fighter jets and upgrading of 25F-15 i fighter jets.
The sale of fifty thousand 120mm mortar shells and 32 thousand 120mm tank shells, thirty advanced medium range Air-to-Air missiles for fighter jets and military tactical vehicles.
The announcement saw the minister of defence of Israel, Mr Yoav Gallant, thanking US ministers of defence, Mr Lloyd Austin, and Secretary of State, Mr Antony Blinken, by becoming critical partners in wider issues than the war in Gaza, assisting Israel in developing and maintaining its qualitative military edge in the region.
The recent reports by the European External Action Service database confirms that from the European Union, the government of Germany, remains the largest financial and military backer of Israel, providing thirty percent of its sophisticated military equipment. This is in addition to stimulus packages by others member states of the European Union. The British BAE systems and the German Rheinmetall arms companies are the manufacturers of the M109 self -propelled howitzers, which have been shelling Gaza since the outbreak of the devastating war.
More evidence from the Amnesty International, points out that the military products from Britain and Germany, can deploy white phosphorus munitions, which can burn the skin down the bone marrow, causing dysfunction of bodily organs.
Since the outbreak of the devastating war ten months ago, more than 40-thousand people have been killed, with 16-thousand being children and 10 thousands being women and more than 70-thousands fatally wounded. The health system has totally collapsed, with the Israel government poisoning sources of water, impeding humanitarian supply of essential services, poisoning agricultural production and harvests, and destruction of residential, business and infrastructure of the sovereign territory.
What becomes unthinkable is the unwavering support by the world oligarchy and monopolies of the industrial Europe and the United States of America, on the violent acts of genocide against the innocent people of Palestine. Is it what they take of the kind of a better world we seek to achieve?
We therefore make an appeal to the administration of the President of the USA, Mr Joe Biden, and her Allied partners of the European Union, to impose the financial, military and economic embargo against the government of Israel. Making peace in Palestine is about making a peaceful world.
We demand that those who have been involved, in the treacherous acts of fundamental violations of human rights and genocide in Palestine, face the consequence of the international law. It will be in the best interest of the world peace and the innocent people of Palestine, for the butcher of the people of Gaza, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and his cohorts, to be lured before the International Criminal Court of Justice.
Can the world really declare him a hero? Can we declare him the saviour of the human soul? The peace maker of the triumph of human spirit, is he amongst the heroes of peace and the better world of humanity? Let the echoes of the cries of the women and children of Gaza, reverberating into the desert dunes of Sinae and the ocean waves of the Mediterranean sea, teach him that it is easy to break and destroy, but the heroes are the ones who make peace with others. The toiling task is his imaginations of the modern world of human society, our value to human life, posterity and its fortitudes, to the orphans of today and tomorrow. I refer to his children, grandchildren and great grandchildren, in the temple kingdom of his grandeur glamour, understanding that they themselves, have the right of freedom and dignity.
The debate on the history of the struggles for the development of human society, continues to unravel prestigious platforms, of renowned institutions throughout the contemporary world of the academic scholarly. The important debate about humanity making peace with itself and its habitat.
The debates are about tribulations of stories of the coming age of human civilisation, how powerful empires were built on the blood of the innocent, from the Old Testament, Ancient Greek and Roman Empire to the new world of the middle passage, and to the modern world of the bourgeoisie of the holocaust, genocide of Herero Namaqua of Namibia, Darfur and the blue Nile basin, Rwanda. Debates confirming the violent nature of the system of capitalism, the greed about placing power of profit accumulation, at the expense of the value of human life. The urgent task of all revolutionaries, is to persuade the international community, to honour the millennium project, of building a better world of humanity, of resolving the complex problems confronting the human race, building bridges of peace and harmony amongst the nations of the world. This is the logical formula, of the difficult journey of the stages of the development of human society, from ancient antiquity to the future world of peace and prosperity.
This is the task our generation has to contribute to the cause of the struggles for the freedom and dignity of all humanity, taking the wisdom of philosopher Aristotle that it is not enough to win the war, it is important to organise the peace. Our generation should be a mirror that reflects the peaceful world of harmony and human dignity.
It can be a journey of a thousand miles but the gratitude of all generations of man. Our universe is the mother of peace, we shall never fail.
* Ambassador Phatse Justice Piitso is a member of the African National Congress, South Africa, writing this article on his personal capacity
