No. 39
September 25, 2025
Cowards and Heroes Face to Face
Worldwide
Support for Global Sumud Flotilla
and Opposition to
Genocide in Gaza
50,000 march for
Palestine in Genoa, Italy, to send off two Italian ships as part of
Global Sumud Flotilla,
August 30, 2025
• Global Sumud Flotilla Continues to Gain
Strength
• Daily Protests Demand UN Action Now to
End Genocide in Gaza
Photo Review
• Widespread Support for Flotilla
Cowards and Heroes Face to Face
Global Sumud Flotilla
Continues
to Gain Strength
The more than 50 boats that now make up the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) are scheduled to arrive in Gaza on September 30. As of September 25, the Flotilla is five days away, having already endured drone attacks and provocations of various sorts.
Wael
Nawar, the flotilla's coordinator, informed that in the early hours of
September 24, drones attacked several vessels in the flotilla. No
injuries or material damage were sustained, he said.
"These tactics will not deter us from our mission to deliver aid to Gaza and break the illegal siege," the GSF said in a statement. "Every attempt to intimidate us only strengthens our commitment."
"The lengths to which 'Israel' and its allies will go to prolong the horrors of starvation and genocide in Gaza are sickening. But our resolve is stronger than ever," the GSF added. The flotilla later reported that the latest attack had delayed its expected arrival in Gaza by a day, and that an Israeli warplane had circled the convoy.
Two drone attacks were previously carried out against the flotilla while it was docked at Sidi Bou Said, Tunisia on September 9.
Italy immediately responded to this latest attack on the flotilla by dispatching a frigate that was already in the eastern Mediterranean to serve as a maritime escort. The following morning on September 25, Italian Defence Minister Guido Crosetto informed a second naval ship was being sent. "We have sent one ship and another is on its way, ready for any eventuality," he said in a speech to the lower house of parliament.
Following Italy's response, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on September 24 that Spain would also send naval ships to accompany the flotilla through international waters. Speaking in New York, where he is attending the UN General Assembly, he told reporters, "The government of Spain demands that international law be complied with and that the right of its citizens to navigate the Mediterranean under safe conditions be respected." He said that a Spanish naval vessel is being dispatched from Cartagena on September 25 "with all necessary resources in case it is necessary to assist the flotilla and carry out a rescue operation."
The response from Italy and Spain is a measured one that upholds international law, as confirmed by a GSF statement issued on September 23. "International law leaves no room for doubt: humanitarian missions and their civilian participants are entitled to full protection. Any aggression against the fleet would be a clear breach of the Geneva Conventions and defy rulings of the International Court of Justice, which compel 'Israel' to allow the entry of relief into Gaza," the GSF statement said.
The flotilla's organizers previously denounced Israeli attempts to criminalize the mission as "nothing more than a distortion of law and an attempt to conceal ongoing crimes against the Palestinian people."
The GSF said that
as of September 28, it expects to be in a "high-risk" zone. This is the
area in international waters where Israel has attacked previous
attempts to reach Gaza with humanitarian aid by sea, illegally boarding
the boats, confiscating the cargo, and taking their passengers and crew
prisoner. The U.S., through its recent bombings in the Caribbean,
killing more than 15 youth, are trying to make such illegal actions in
international waters a norm, and certainly a green light for Israel.
A notable development is the news that Egypt and Türkiye are holding joint naval exercises, for the first time in 13 years, in the eastern Mediterranean from September 22 to 26. Reports indicate that if the flotilla is attacked in international waters by Israel or any other country, and sends out a distress signal, under international maritime law, the ships from Egypt and Türkiye would be obliged to respond.
The attacks and threats from Israeli authorities forced organizers to adjust their original plans. "As a result of these changes, and in anticipation of increasingly hostile conditions, we had to make a difficult decision to reduce the participant capacity on several vessels departing to Gaza," the coalition stated.
Despite Israel's threats, there are presently more than 50 boats in the flotilla carrying some 1,000 people, making it the largest maritime mission to challenge Israel's illegal siege of Gaza. The initial convoy departed from Barcelona on August 22. Throughout September, more and more boats have joined, from Spain, Italy, Greece, Tunisia, Morocco and Libya.
A notable addition is the Libyan vessel the Omar al-Mukhtar, that set sail from Tripoli on September 21. Named after a national hero of the Libyan people who led resistance against Italian colonialism, the Omar al-Mukhtar has been refitted to serve as a hospital vessel. Abdel Rahman Humaid, the medical officer aboard the Omar al-Mukhtar, told Anadolu Agency that there is a health team and intensive care unit on board to provide medical services for the international flotilla, as well as all manner of humanitarian aid for the people of Gaza.
A final contingent of vessels from Greece made its rendez-vous with the main fleet in Greek waters off the southern coast of Crete on September 25.
Underway since August 22, the GSF is urgently carrying some 500 tons of aid, including tents, food, drinking water, medicine, baby formula, and necessities of life for people of all ages.
Sumud
is the Arabic word for steadfastness or resilience, and the flotilla
sends a clear message that the peoples of the world stand with Gaza and
the Resistance. Everywhere peoples are doing their utmost to intervene
and organize for an end to the genocide, including demands for the
U.S., Israel, and the Genocide 7 to uphold international humanitarian
law. Participants include people from all walks of life, including
workers from various fields, activists, medical professionals,
journalists, lawyers, and members of parliament.
The GSF website informs that there are at least 45 country delegations taking part – from Asia, Africa, Europe, South America, and the Caribbean, as well as North America. This includes participation from almost all the Genocide 7 countries, including Canada, whose governments are amongst the most complicit with the genocide.
It is hoped that the size of the flotilla will present a major challenge for Israel to try to board all the vessels. The Israeli navy is said to have between 50 to 70 ships. Previous attempts to bring aid to Gaza by sea have all been met with violent Israeli raids in international waters. However, most prior attempts had only single vessels, or at most six in the 2010 Freedom Flotilla that included the Mavi Marmara. In that instance, the Israeli Occupation Forces killed 10 members of the flotilla, and injured dozens more.
On September 16, foreign ministers from 16 countries issued a joint statement in support of the flotilla, that warned Israel from acting against it. The statement was issued by the governments of Bangladesh, Brazil, Colombia, Indonesia, Ireland, Libya, Malaysia, Maldives, Mexico, Pakistan, Qatar, Oman, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, and Türkiye. The foreign ministers expressed their concern about the flotilla's security, noting its objective of "delivering humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip and raising awareness about the urgent humanitarian needs of the Palestinian people and the need to stop the war in Gaza. Both objectives, peace and humanitarian aid delivery, together with the respect of international law, including humanitarian law, are shared by our Governments."
The foreign ministers of these 16 countries called on everyone to refrain from any unlawful or violent acts against the flotilla, to respect international law and international humanitarian law," and that "any violation of international law and human rights of the participants in the Flotilla, including attacks against the vessels in international waters or illegal detention, will lead to accountability."
Meanwhile, a new international flotilla, organized by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, will also be heading toward the Gaza Strip in a fresh effort to break the Israeli blockade, media reports inform. That flotilla is departing for Gaza from Italy on September 24.
The GSF along with the Freedom Flotilla are important acts of collective defiance by the peoples of the world, in the face of inaction or complicity by many governments, and the paralysis of the UN because of the U.S. block to any attempts to hold Israel to account as it sinks to lower and lower levels of depravity in Gaza. Even before Israel stepped up its crimes against the people of Gaza on October 7, 2023, and unleashed its genocide and now its policy of mass starvation, the people of Gaza, with their determined organized resistance, have been defying the current illegal, brutal, and inhuman Israeli blockade since 2007.
All eyes on the flotillas! To track the progress of the GSF, click here.
Daily Protests
Demand UN Action Now to
End Genocide in Gaza
Protest at the UN supporting the
Uniting for Peace call for a protective military force for Gaza,
September
24, 2025
Demonstrations
have been taking place daily at the U.S. UN Mission, which is right
across the street from UN Headquarters in New York City. Protesters
bang pots to loudly symbolize the U.S./Zionist crime of starving the
Palestinians, with women and children dying daily. They are calling on
the UN to act now otherwise its legitimacy is lost. They also chant and
make clear that people in the U.S., like those worldwide, will not be
silent and that President Trump's increased efforts to silence support
for Palestine meets increased action and steadfast demands to
End the U.S./Zionist Genocide Now!
On September 26, several demonstrations are planned, meaning the demand in support of Palestine and its right to self-determination will ring out loud and clear all day. In the morning there is an action at the UN demanding war criminal Netanyahu be arrested and not permitted to speak. Many are also demanding that the UN remove apartheid Israel's credentials so it cannot participate at the UN, as occurred with apartheid South Africa. There will also be actions at UN headquarters that afternoon, calling on the UN to implement concrete measures to stop genocide in Palestine and hold war criminals Netanyahu and Trump accountable.
A convergence took place on September 23 to surround UN headquarters, focusing on the need for the UN to act now. Two years is long enough! was the stand taken by demonstrators as they demanded that the UN act using its Uniting for Peace authority, to create a multinational force for Palestine. Its aim would be to ensure food, water, fuel, and medicine are provided and Palestinians are safe.
Organizers for the action wrote: "For
two years, Gaza has been under relentless siege, starved, bombed, cut
off from the world. The United Nations has watched, debated, and
delayed, while refusing to take the action that could end this
genocide. This is the time to make our voices impossible to ignore.
Come to New York by any means necessary, to stand, to march, to demand
the UN act and end the siege."
Later that afternoon people marched to the nearby Colombia UN Mission in support of Colombia's proposal for a United for Peace Resolution and a Gaza protection force. The two actions alerted all the delegations at the UN that the General Assembly can act with concrete measures to stop the genocide and counter the U.S. veto. International law also requires UN states to act to prevent and stop genocide, as Yemen has been doing.
Such action is even more needed given the U.S. again vetoed a UN Security Council resolution for "an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire in Gaza respected by all parties." Showing the U.S. isolation, the vote was 14-1.
Protest outside the UN, September 23, 2025
These on-going actions followed those held on September 18 as part of global demonstrations in support of Palestine's right to decide, themselves, what their government and their state will look like. September 18 marks the one-year deadline of a 2024 General Assembly Resolution which called on Israel to meet the ruling of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to end the occupation of Palestine. That resolution called for "further measures." Demonstrators are making clear the time for those measures is Now!
Organizing and seminars have brought out that the multinational protective force being called for is not the one France and the rest of the Genocide 7 are calling for. The recent New York Declaration calls for disarming the resistance and a "stabilization force," designed to carry that out and decide who can and cannot govern in Palestine.
Peoples worldwide are standing firmly with the resistance and rejecting the many efforts to divide and divert the movement from its steadfast stand for the right of Palestine to self-determination. The demand of the Resistance forces remains: From the River to the Sea, Palestine Will be Free!
Actions Outside U.S. UN Mission
September 15, 2025
September 17, 2025
(Photos: In Our Lifetime, ipac7_org, Neturei Karta)
Canada's Duplicitous
Recognition of
Palestinian Statehood Attempts to Rescue
Apartheid and Genocidal State of Israel
The statement issued on September 21 by the Prime Minister of Canada Mark Carney on Palestinian statehood is particularly morally repellent. Canada is a foremost supporter of the Zionist state of Israel. It arms the genocide, supports the settlers and the murders they commit when they dispossess the Palestinian people of their homes and lands. It criminalizes dissent by promoting the racist Zionist interpretation of what constitutes anti-Semitism and a "hate crime." Never once has it condemned the crimes the state of Israel is carrying out in the occupied Palestinian territories and specifically Gaza – not once.
Citing the fictitious right of an occupier to self-defence and condemning the resistance to occupation as "terrorism," Canada is also in contempt of the verdicts and rulings of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), international humanitarian law, the laws of war and all UN Conventions on the protection of journalists, medical professionals and personnel, prisoners, religious institutions, cultural heritage, and, first and foremost, non-combatants.
Carney arrogantly
presents himself as a person of great eminence who stands head and
shoulders above all others for his alleged achievements in the world of
international finance. Now he is an expert in how to solve the security
dilemma of the big powers by wiping out the resistance of the
Palestinian people and support for the resistance within Canada. What
illusions of grandeur! What arrogance! And what a liar who
misrepresents facts as if it is not the peoples who make history but
the big powers, claiming they are the ones who forge the world order.
He is haunted by the phantasmagoric images the supporters of Zionism
conjure up in their brains and use to guide state policy.
This includes recognition of statehood but without the right to self-determination. Despite this, Carney claims that Canada's recognition of Palestine in the context of its interpretation of the "two-state solution" is "firmly aligned with the principles of self-determination and fundamental human rights reflected in the United Nations Charter."
"Canada recognizes the State of
Palestine and offers our partnership in building the promise of a
peaceful future for both the State of Palestine and the State of
Israel," Carney said. "Recognizing the State of Palestine, led by the
Palestinian Authority, empowers those who seek peaceful coexistence and
the end of Hamas. This in no way legitimizes terrorism, nor is it any
reward for it. Furthermore, it in no way compromises Canada's steadfast
support for the State of Israel, its people, and their security
– security that can only ultimately be guaranteed through the
achievement of a comprehensive two-state solution," Carney elaborated.
By a modern definition, a nation occupies a territory, where it has been since time immemorial. It is absurd and fraudulent to make an empty "recognition" of a nation-state without acknowledging the territory covered by that state. In the case of Palestine, which Zionist Israel has relentlessly annexed by military aggression since 1948, the "recognition" of the state is capitulation to the criminal boast of the Zionist occupier that this is "our land" and that there is no territory where the Palestinian people can exercise their self-determination and choose their form of governance, free from massacres and forced starvation by the occupier.
Speaking on September 22, at a New York event on the margins of the General Assembly, Carney said, "The conditions for any form of self-determination of the Palestinian people do not exist at present."
What kind of statehood is it which does not recognize the right to self-determination, Mr. Carney?
He does not say, but to deflect from the nonsense he spouts, this is presumably because, as he put it, "It is the avowed policy of the current Israeli government to ensure that never happens." The people of Palestine have daily been showing that they can and will govern themselves as they see fit – the self-determination Carney refuses to support.
Carney's hope to bring about the "end of Hamas" is truly irrational given that two years of U.S./Israeli Zionist bombings, killings and crimes against humanity supported by Canada have not achieved this result. Canada's belated recognition of a Palestinian state is precisely because this criminal onslaught has failed.
Even so, further expressing this G7 attempt to dictate, Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand recently told reporters she speaks "weekly" with the PA leadership "to ensure that they are cognizant of the need for hostages to be returned, for Hamas to lay down its weapons, for Hamas to have no role in the future governance of Palestine, and for there to be democratic reforms and social programs."
What makes Carney
and Anand think that the resistance movements will now submit to the
dictate of the U.S. and Genocide 7 that it is they who will decide who
the Palestinian people will recognize as their leaders, let alone the
craven thought that the Palestinian Authority (PA) created by the Oslo
Accords will now succeed.
Thirty-two years have passed since the Oslo Accords recognized the Palestinian Authority. The people of Gaza elected Hamas to govern Gaza, not the PA. In the West Bank, the PA is now openly the agency of the U.S. to safeguard the Israeli occupation, totally discredited by turning itself into a force in the service of the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF). After 32 years and far more than 60,000 deaths, who does Carney think he is? It is indeed not only callous but also irrational and plain stupid.
The Palestinian Resistance Movements, starting with Hamas, do not take a sectarian stand against any Palestinian political entity. It is nonetheless common knowledge that the PA has long since burned its bridges due to the actions of its security forces on the ground in the west Bank and even Gaza. No democratic-minded force on planet earth will agree to having the U.S. and Israel, or supporters of genocide like the government of Canada, determine who the Palestinian people will choose as their government, how they will hold them to account and, most importantly what kind of state they will constitute.
Simply put, Carney and the government of Canada are trying to rescue their imperialist "two-state solution" which in the eyes of world public opinion lacks credibility. This is because, simply put, it is not democratic. It is premised on the continued subjugation of the Palestinian people to a racist, apartheid, genocidal state of Israel armed to the teeth and granted impunity.
Carney's
statement takes issue with the "current Israeli government" but not
with the barbarism inherent to the current apartheid state of Israel.
Specifically, he takes issue with "accelerated settlement building
across the West Bank and East Jerusalem," soaring "settler violence
against Palestinians," and the Israeli government's "impeding access to
food and other essential humanitarian supplies" and "working
methodically to prevent the prospect of a Palestinian state from ever
being established." Despite all this criminality, he states this in "no
way compromises Canada's steadfast support for the State of Israel, its
people, and their security."
For Carney history began with the Al Aqsa Flood of October 7, 2023. He thinks that by spouting nonsense he can erase decades of Israeli violations of the principles of the UN Charter, of international law and humanitarian law. Through sleight of hand, Carney thinks that Canada will not be held to account for decades of complicity with apartheid Israel's crimes and U.S./Zionist genocide today.
Nothing could be further from the truth. Canadians and Quebeckers have shown in repeated actions that they are holding government to account for its complicity in genocide.
Israel is an occupying power. It has no "right to self-defence." The occupied Palestinian nation and people have every right, legal and otherwise, including by force of arms to resist and fight for their right to be. The right to self-determination is not subject to exploiting powers being the arbiters of what can and what cannot be done, of who the occupied people can or cannot choose as their political representatives, or what kind of political, social, and economic system the people choose.
The Conservative Party statement on September 21, by using extreme language, makes Carney appear generous: "Prime Minister Mark Carney's priority is creating a Hamas state that will reward terrorists for raping civilians, taking hostages, oppressing Palestinians and launching a war. Conservatives will always stand for Israel's right to exist and defend itself, living next to a future demilitarized, terror-free, democratic, and peaceful Palestinian State."
Ahistorical Rendering Blames Resistance to Cover Up Zionist Genocide
In his September 21 statement declaring that Canada will recognize Palestinian statehood, Carney starts with the assertion that "Since 1947, it has been the policy of every Canadian government to support a two-state solution for lasting peace in the Middle East."
Leaving aside the
fact that Israel was created in 1948, the statement gives several
explanations for the failure to achieve this "two-state solution," none
of which blame Israel and the U.S. for their relentless attempt to
exterminate the Palestinian people. The explanations start with blaming
the Resistance movements for rejecting the G7's definition of a
"two-state solution" and, specifically, that "Hamas has terrorized the
people of Israel and oppressed the people of Gaza, wreaking horrific
suffering."
He clearly likes to play fast and loose with historical facts. Hamas was formed in late 1987 at the beginning of the first Palestinian Intifada. It did not exist during the first Nakba, also known as the Palestinian Catastrophe, which comprised the destruction of Palestinian society and homeland in 1948, and the permanent displacement of a majority of the Palestinian people.
The other "reasons" listed are settlement building in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, the E1 Settlement Plan and the vote in the Israeli Knesset calling for the annexation of the West Bank, and Israel's "contribution to the humanitarian disaster in Gaza, including by impeding access to food and other essential humanitarian supplies."
The E1 Settlement Plan refers to the Israeli government's illegal project, to build thousands of housing units in the E1 area of the occupied West Bank, east of Jerusalem, to link the Maale Adumim settlement with East Jerusalem. These settlements will physically divide the West Bank in two, severing Palestinian access between the northern and southern parts and isolating East Jerusalem from the rest of the Palestinian territories. If he opposes the EI Settlement Plan then how is it that real estate companies are permitted to sell occupied lands to settlers right in Toronto and other cities?
The statement also, without mentioning genocide, condemns the actions of the current Israeli government. Israel's "sustained assault in Gaza has killed tens of thousands of civilians, displaced well over one million people, and caused a devastating and preventable famine in violation of international law. It is now the avowed policy of the current Israeli government that 'there will be no Palestinian state,'" the statement laments.
No
mention that Canada has supported this for two years this October and,
before that, similar activity since the Oslo Accords and before that.
Most importantly, given the violations of international law, why no
call for removing Israel's credentials at the UN? Or for sanctions or
implementing the arms embargo demanded by defenders of Palestine?
The statement concludes "Canada supports the development of a credible peace plan, democratic governance and clear security arrangements for Palestine, and the sustained, large-scale delivery of humanitarian aid into and throughout Gaza," he said.
Clearly the definitions of "peace," and "democratic governance," directly counter the just striving of the Palestinian people for self-determination and a government of their own making.
Try as it might, Canada's definition of a "two-state solution" will not prevail. The Palestinian people are deciding and will decide how they exercise their right to self-determination. Attempts to call the Resistance "terrorism" do not make it so. This is a problem the government of Canada has never been able to overcome. The peoples know better.
Montreal, September 9,
2025
(Photos: TML, YDR, CPA, Malcolm_Pal9)
Attempts by U.S. and Genocide
7 to Impose Unacceptable Dictate on Palestinians at
UN
General Assembly
As the UN
General Assembly hears from world leaders, every effort is being made
by the countries which comprise the Genocide 7 to block concrete
measures by the UN to end the U.S./Israeli Zionist genocide in Gaza and
occupation of Palestinian lands. Instead, these countries are putting
forward unacceptable analyses which go against the verdicts of the
International Court of Justice (ICJ) and all UN agencies which uphold
the international rule of law. It goes against scholars who have
reached warranted conclusions based on the experience inherited by
humankind from World War II, also embodied in international rule of
law, including the Genocide Convention. As they
have done since the state of Israel was founded, the "solutions"
countries such as France and Canada are arrogantly touting are designed
to divide and disarm the resistance and impose U.S./Zionist control
over Gaza and all of Palestine.
On Monday, September 22, France continued efforts to impose the New York Declaration and the Anglo-American imperialist version of a two-state proposal which gives the big powers the so-called right to dictate what the Palestinian state will be. All of it is done in the name of upholding the right to self-determination by declaring that the Resistance movements are "terrorist" and it is they which oppose self-determination.
Saudi Arabia and France co-hosted a conference at the UN with many UN states participating to discuss their proposal for a "stabilization force." Financing is to be through a "voluntary trust fund," relying on voluntary contributions from international donors. This is an effort to embroil Arab states and to quickly bypass the recognized UN channels. The Genocide 7 are also dictating who they consider acceptable to govern in Gaza and the occupied territories. G7 countries Britain, Canada, France, Germany, and Japan all support the attempt to divert from the right of the Palestinian people to determine their own future as of course does the United States. However, to muddy the waters further and permit these supporters of Zionist Israel to say they are trying to end the starvation of the people of Gaza, the United States under Donald Trump has struck out on its own and voted against the New York Declaration.
While once again
hoping to put the resistance movements on the defensive by taking the
initiative out of their hands, the countries using their positions of
privilege and power and their media utter not a word to condemn the
crimes committed by Israel or to hold it responsible for the plight of
the Palestinian people who are being starved, mercilessly killed with
impunity, and dispossessed.
The New York Declaration specifically calls for disarming the resistance, but not Israel. It is a treacherous attempt to deprive the Palestinian people of their right to self-determination in the name of supporting their right to self-determination!
Since the state of Israel was established in 1948 by UN resolution, the Palestinian people themselves have refused to submit to foreign dictate. They are fighting for freedom, democracy, and peace, rejecting the dictate of the big powers which created Israel as a bastion of their interests in the Middle East. The proposals of the G7 are not a "road map to peace." Facilitated by Saudi Arabia and others who want to preserve a status quo which favours the rulers of those states put in place and kept in place by the colonial powers themselves, the New York Declaration is an attempt to stop the resistance, and its worldwide support, while keeping Palestinians enslaved.
Attempting to preserve the apartheid, genocidal Israeli state, the "two-states" proposal is a thinly veiled means to ensure the Zionists remain a source of aggression and war crimes in the region.
As of September 23, a total of 159 countries have recognized the state of Palestine at the UN, the latest being Canada, France, and Britain along with Australia, Portugal, Andorra, Belgium, Luxembourg, Malta, and Monaco. Such recognition is long overdue, but it must include UN recognition for the right to self-determination as understood in international law, not by the self-serving big powers.
French President
Emmanuel Macron used the New York Declaration conference
to announce France's recognition with a statement which clearly
specified that this recognition is not about defending Palestine but
rather to pacify the persistent global defiance of the G7 and their
refusal to end the genocide. There are broad demands to hold them
accountable for genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity --
the U.S. and Israel first and foremost.
When U.S. President Donald Trump addressed the UN on September 23, while striking out as a lone wolf by not endorsing statehood and the New York Declaration, nonetheless essentially presented their position by declaring that those who recognize Palestinian statehood are giving a "reward" to Hamas, and that it would "encourage continued conflict." Trump took the opportunity to again defend the crimes of the Israeli Zionists. With his penchant of repeating stories which are completely contrary to well-known facts, including the fact that it was the U.S. which has facilitated Israel's targeted assassinations and assassination attempts of Hamas negotiators, he declared it is the Resistance movements, not Israel, that time and again refuse peace negotiations.
The more he spoke, the wilder Trump got, in this case repeating his threats about obliterating any force which stands in his way, as he did when the U.S. and Zionists targeted Iran's nuclear facilities, scientists and politicians. This time it was directed at anyone the U.S. brands a "narco-terrorist" without evidence or trial, saying he would "blow you out of existence." This threat from the UN podium, is directed against the peoples of the entire world, with the U.S. president upping the ante from not only joining Israel in the egregious crimes committed in Gaza and now the surrounding countries of the Middle East, to threatening the entire world with similar crimes.
This makes the appeasement that Genocide 7 countries and their tag-alongs are exhibiting even more dangerous. Now is the time to defeat their attempts to perpetuate the status quo of genocide, killings, facilitation of targeted assassinations and aggressions. All attempts to block concrete measures by the UN to hold Israel accountable deserve active opposition. Measures like sanctions imposed on Israel, removing Israel's UN credentials, and an arms embargo are basic demands of the peoples all over the world.
Attempts to
garner support for definitions of statehood which deny the right of the
Palestinian people to self-determination are last-ditch efforts to
perpetuate foreign control and interference into the internal affairs
of the Palestinian people. The time is now to make sure this session of
the UN General Assembly gives majority support for a United for Peace
UN multinational protective force for Gaza.
Colombia's
President Gustavo Petro proposed a Uniting for Peace resolution in his
speech to the General Assembly. Emphasizing "we have had enough of
words," he condemned the U.S. and NATO for "killing democracy," and
called for the rulings of the International Court of Justice requiring
Israel to end the occupation to be upheld. Decrying the daily death and
destruction in Gaza he said, "Can we stop the genocide with a vote of
the General Assembly? Yes, that is what we should do rather than a vote
in the Security Council, because that is vetoed. Uniting for Peace for
Palestine. We should establish a peace-keeping force to protect. What
is necessary today is not Blue Helmets, that often lack training and
are not ready to do this. No, what we need is a powerful army from the
countries that do not accept genocide. That is why I invite nations of
the world and their peoples most importantly, as an integral part of
humanity, to bring together weapons and armies to defend Palestine."
The UN General Assembly can readily act. The previous 10th Emergency Special Session under the Uniting for Peace mechanism remains active and can be resumed at the request of a member state. A resolution with the needed measures, like a protective force, can be debated and if passed by a two-thirds majority, it can be quickly implemented. Protests at the UN and peoples worldwide are demanding the UN take this action now.
Palestinian resistance and the world's people through their actions reject all attempts to deprive the Palestinian people of their right to self-determination, their right of return and to full compensation, reconstruction, and restitution.
(Photos: TML, Windsor4Palestine, Unionists for Palestine)
Photo Review
Widespread Support for Flotilla
Posted
to social media: "Gaza we are on our way"
The attempts to defame the flotilla and its participants have utterly failed. Each wave of boats departing to join the flotilla has received militant send-offs from thousands and tens of thousands of people. In Italy, workers at the port of Genoa on August 30, in front of 40,000 people, pledged to support the boats joining the flotilla, "If we lose contact with our boats even for just 20 minutes, we will block all of Europe. From the Port of Genoa nothing will leave anymore."
Italy is the third-largest exporter of weapons to Israel, after the U.S. and Germany. Italian workers followed through with a general strike on September 22 in support of Gaza and Palestine.
Fans of Turkish football
club Galatasaray in Istanbul, Türkiye show support
for flotilla with banner and chants at match, August 30
London
(left) and Bristol actions support and raise funds for flotilla, August
31
Send-off for flotilla,
Barcelona, Spain, August 31
Action in support of the flotilla,
August 31, Portland, Oregon, U.S.
Colombia, August 31
U.S. Veterans for Peace boat joins
global flotilla, August 31
Action in support of
Global Sumud Flotilla, Tripoli, Libya, September 5
Rome, Italy, September 6
Ottawa, September 6
Istanbul,
Türkiye, September 6
Al-Adliya,
Bahrain, September 6
Participants in Flotilla arriving
in Sidi Bou Said, Tunisia, September 7
Mexico, September
9
Sidi Bou Said, Tunisia
send off for ships joining the flotilla, September 10
Contingent from Newfoundland,
September 10, while in France, preparing to join an all-woman boat
departing from Tunisia. The boat is a tribute to the strength of
Palestinian women.
Vessels leaving Bizerte,
Tunisia, joining the flotilla, September 13
Send-off for boats
leaving Syros, Greece to join Global Sumud Flotilla, September 14
Action
in solidarity with Flotilla, Naples, Italy, September 14
Flotilla reunites near
Portopalo, Italy, September 19
Oakland, CA, U.S., September 19
Additional boats from
Italy join flotilla, September 21
Libyan hospital vessel,
equipped to provide medical services, joins flotilla, September 22
Million-Strong General Strike in Italy
September 22
Genoa
Rome
Torino
Bologna
Pisa
Bari
Palermo
Johannesburg, South
Africa, September 22
Six more boats
leave Greece to join flotilla, September 24
Libyan medical vessel,
travelling to join up with the flotilla is surrounded by three drones
overnight September 24-25
(With files from Al Mayadeen, People's Dispatch, Anadolu Agency, Palestine Chronicle, IRNA. Photos: GSF, Quds News Network, Kutubusitte, Palestine Online. Photos: GSF, AA, Shehab, USB, Global Movement to Gaza Italy, Global Movement to Gaza Sicily, TRI, lara_modarelli, M. Semiz, O. al-Mukhtar, A. Zemzmi, @unionsindacaledibase, A. Ayoub, @shot.by.shana, fallofyou02, Cheiaun, M. Giliotti, Palestine Action YYT, Veterans for Peace)
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