Trump Promotes Theft
- La Jornada -
Demonstrations across Syria, March 26, 2019, repudiate Trump statement
favouring Israeli annexation of illegally occupied Golan Heights.
On the eve of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu's
visit to the United States, President Donald Trump, in his usual
Twitter channel, has declared to be in favour of recognizing Tel
Aviv's sovereignty over the Golan Heights, a Syrian territory
illegally annexed by Israel after the Six Days' War (1967). Last
November a vote took place in the United Nations General Assembly to
confirm null and lacking any juridical
value the said annexation, and for the first time the U.S.
government voted against the resolution. The rest of the world's
nations, with the
exception of Israel, voted in favour.
The most recent absurdity of the former TV presenter,
now
head of State, creates an unfortunate precedent for world
stability and lawfulness, since it legitimizes the use of force for
territorial plunder and booty. To size up
the disgraceful nature of this position, suffice it to point out
that in the perspective opened by Trump, the invasion and
occupation of Kuwait by Iraq in 1990 would have granted Saddam
Hussein's regime sovereignty over the small but immensely rich
nation, and the United States would have lacked reason to launch
the devastating Gulf War to liberate the oil emirate.
The tycoon's reckless irresponsibility, of potentially
catastrophic consequences for the Middle East, should be
understood as another one of his typical electoral manoeuvers, in
this case as a gift to his ally and ideological twin. Indeed,
Israel will be celebrating anticipated parliamentary elections
next month, in which Netanyahu is forced to participate because
of the rupture of his governmental alliance, as political
challenges have emerged in recent weeks (including solid grounds for
accusations
of corruption against the prime minister) that threaten the
continuation of the rightist and ultra-rightist coalition
governing in Tel Aviv.
Protest in Aleppo, Syria, March 26, 2019.
An additional implication of this gesture is that it
opens
the door to a subsequent recognition of the de facto annexations
perpetrated by Israel in a large part of the West Bank and East
Jerusalem (Palestine), which would mean the consummation of the
most brutal plundering of a nation's territory in modern
history.
Thus, fragile regional and world stability is
threatened
by a coarse attempt to influence the Israeli electors in favour of
recalcitrant Zionism, while Trump pleases the islamophobic
sectors in his own militant base.
The international community would have to consider this
manoeuver unacceptable and condemn in the strongest terms this
supplanting of the principles of global coexistence by the
exchange of favours between reactionary and warlike elites.
This article was published in
Volume 49 Number 11 - March 30, 2019
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