In its Charter, the UN establishes the principle of peaceful settlement of disputes, prohibits its members from resorting to threats or the use of force in their international relations and recognizes the inherent right to self-defense in the event of an armed attack, as long as the Council has taken the necessary measures to maintain international peace and security, and the attacked state must inform the Council of what it has done, a body that must take action to fulfill its mission.

Faced with a brutal attack by armed Palestinian militiamen on October 7, 2023, Israel directed its military might against the residents of the Gaza Strip, causing the deaths of more than 23,000 “human animals” as Israel’s defense minister calls them. daily average of 100 children, destruction of hospitals where operations are performed without anesthesia, UN schools, houses and buildings, mass forced displacement. Is that a legitimate defense? International law requires requests. Isn’t it rather a cruel and endless revenge, but after the aggression suffered? There were other rational means of stopping further attacks. Eisenhower, the former US president, said that preventive war was Hitler’s invention. And as for the provocation, it has existed for decades, despite the fact that the harm done to the Jews is not justified. Did Israel communicate the adopted measures to the Security Council, which was its obligation? The council, whose decisions are binding but which, due to the US veto, could not order a cease-fire to prevent further massacres, unlike the General Assembly, which overwhelmingly voted for it. Thus, the Israeli prime minister was able to announce that the military operation would last several months. This country, like its American backer, has acted on its own before, as in 1981, when it destroyed an Iraqi nuclear reactor that did not pose any danger, which was condemned by the UN. And attacked Gaza.

The response of Zionism, which controls Israeli power and is rejected by many Hebrews for its policy towards the Palestinians, is similar to the response of the Nazis when the war criminal Reinhard Heydrich was killed: they burned Lídice and Lezaky, they killed all the men. over the age of 16, they executed 81 children, and the women and children of those Czech cities were deported to concentration camps where they were destroyed. Establishing such role models is considered anti-Semitic by Zionism.

The Republic of South Africa sued Israel for genocide before the International Court of Justice, committed because it wanted to destroy Palestine in “75 years of apartheid, 56 warlike occupation of the Palestinian territory and 16 blockades in Gaza”, which it duly documented. And he requested a ceasefire and the unblocking of the delivery of the said aid.

The president of the International Red Cross stated that the situation in Gaza is a moral failure of humanity. “Christ is under the ruins,” said the Lutheran pastor. It will rise on the shoulders of beings of good will. (OR)