WEST BANK (Dispatches) – In light of international support for Ukraine, calls have gown for the international community to stop its double-standards policy and back the Palestinian cause.
“When color, religion and race become an identity, it’s when values, morals and humanity are lost,” member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Hussein al-Sheikh, posted on Twitter.
He added: “When international legitimacy is violated by double standards, justice is lost, rights are destroyed, and power has become a tyranny.”
Al-Sheikh also stated: “Dozens of international resolutions have been lost and destroyed as there is no real intention to implement them. The people of Palestine are still victims of occupation and victims of the absence of justice.”
Meanwhile, Fatah’s Spokesperson Osama al-Qawasmi expressed: “We remind the world that the Palestinian nation is occupied and persecuted by Israel, which practices all forms of violations, killings, torture, displacement and home demolition against it.”
He also stated that the Zionist regime imposes “apartheid” on the Palestinian people: “In violation of the simplest human rights, while we do not hear any condemnation or international rejection to the Israeli crimes.”
Al-Qawasmi questioned: “Does the Palestinians have second-class blood? Is humanity classified based on race and color?”
The head of the Algerian Movement of Society for Peace, Abdul Razzaq Muqri, also called on Arabs, Muslims and supporters of Palestine to review their positions and methods of support for the Palestinian cause, in light of the Russian conflict with Ukraine and the Western position on it.
In his statements published on his Facebook page, Muqri stressed that the West’s haste in imposing severe sanctions on Russia, and the West’s refraining from imposing similar sanctions on the Zionist regime, which is committing crimes against the Palestinian people, are evidence of what he described as “the hypocrisy of the West and its followers in our Arab countries”.
“The hypocritical West punishes Russia economically by boycotting its goods and, on the sporting level, by banning tournaments and matches, and culturally by banning even Russian music in Western countries. However, when it comes to the tragedy of Palestine, the expropriation of the Palestinian lands and the shedding of Palestinian blood, normalization with the executioner and the criminal becomes an urgent necessity, and we are then told that the economic, sporting and cultural aspects should not be included in the matter,” Muqri added.
Muqri considered that the position of the West is not surprising. He said: “The hypocrisy of the West is known to everyone, but what are the people devoid of civilization and culture in our countries saying today? Will they review, from now on, their position on the methods of our support for the Palestinian cause?”