By: Kayhan Int’l Staff Writer
 
This is not the right time for the United Nations Security Council to issue a worthless statement condemning Israel’s latest round of settlement expansion as a violation of international law.
The Security Council should also stop its routine warning that the plans cast doubt on their seriousness toward reaching a peace deal. This is not the right time to talk about that bogus peace deal either – because no one is buying it.
The criminal regime of Israel has no intention to stop the settlement expansions, and no matter what the UN says, no concessions will be made to the Palestinians to facilitate peace talks. Just ask Cairo, which is now busy doing the dirty work for the Zionist regime along the Egyptian border with the Gaza Strip:
Egypt’s military junta is expelling the civilian population from the area to level the entire neighborhood and build a "buffer zone” with the besieged city, where the entire social and physical infrastructure of housing, hospitals, places of worship, more than 130 of schools, plus markets, water systems, sewer systems and roads are still in ruins.
Other arbitrary actions are also expected to be taken in order to further the isolation of Gaza, use Sinai and its inhabitants as a platform for political gains, and reassert the relevance of the "buffer zone”, the Egyptian army and its annual U.S. budget.
No wonder Zionist leaders and media outlets are lauding Cairo’s latest move: The Israeli army is now able to shoot at Palestinians in the "buffer zone” without entering the area!
Gaza has long used tunnels into Sinai to smuggle in basic goods denied them by the Israeli blockade, and the Egyptian-Israeli plan includes trenches full of water to drown anyone in those tunnels. The ultimate goal is to create the biggest super-max prison on earth and make the enforcement of Israeli occupation even more efficient.
Egyptian officials claim they are trying to stop Hamas from smuggling weapons out of the tiny strip to support the various Sinai militants that have been opposing them since last summer’s coup!
But there’s no evidence to support this bizarre claim, and it seems extremely unlikely, as smuggling usually goes the other way with those tunnels. Besides, Hamas, which is working to end the siege, has no interest in carrying out bloody attacks on Egyptian soldiers that will only prolong the suffering of Gazans.
The new conspiracy by Cairo, Tel Aviv and Washington is far more despicable and bigger than the failed Arab-Israeli peace plans of the past: They are working together to ensure Palestinians will never get a bigger share of their occupied lands, will never have a normal life, will never see any return of refugees, and will never be able to resist Israel’s next onslaught.
According to aid agency Oxfam, it may take 50 years to rebuild Gaza. So it is evident that the U.S.-funded "no-go area” is not being built to facilitate reconstruction efforts either. Quite the opposite, it is there to make sure reconstruction efforts will also fail and/or Palestinians will never be able to continue to fight for survival in a modern incarceration facility called Gaza.
Despite the fact that it violates international law and Palestinians’ rights, the UN and its lame Security Council have agreed to conspire in this new version of the blockade.
Why not? History tells us that they are under direct control of the United States, the Zionist lobby and European allies. History also tells us that in their dubious and destructive self-righteousness, they have all decided that Palestinians have no right to exist on their own land.