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21 July 2016 By Khalid Amayreh in
Occupied Jerusalem Hotovely, a fanatical, racist settler
that denies the very existence of Palestine and Palestinians, justified
barring Indonesia's Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi from entering the occupied
West Bank earlier this week in order to meet Palestinian Authority (PA)
officials in Ramallah. The decision to prevent
Marsudi's entry to the West Bank was sparked when the Indonesian official
refused to meet with Israeli government officials in Occupied Jerusalem,
Marsudi was reportedly traveling to Ramallah to dedicate an honorary
Indonesian consulate to the PA and to meet PA Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki
and President Mahmoud Abbas. The PA has been trying
hard to assert itself as a ''state'' despite the fact that it is absolutely
and completely languishing under Israeli military occupation. In turn, Israel
demands that any foreign official visiting Ramallah also visit Israel.
Such visits, however, often imply recognition, at least de
facto, of the Israeli occupation of Palestine, including Jerusalem where al
Masjidul Aqsa, Islam's third holiest site is located. Indonesia is the largest
Islamic state in terms of population and Israel has been quite eager to
normalize relations with the South East Asian country.
Unfortunately, the PA doesn't fully realize the harmful
implications and ramifications of inviting foreign officials to the West Bank
as Israel achieves political and diplomatic gains exceeding by far whatever
symbolic benefits the PA may arguably make. An Appeal
to Indonesia Indonesia must remain an asset not a liability for the
Palestinian struggle for freedom and independence.
The Palestinians are still languishing under Israel's nefarious military
occupation. The so-called Palestinian Authority has
absolutely no authority and no sovereignty of any kind, and Israel is trying
rather constantly to transform the PA into a police state without a state.
Israel continues to torment and murder Palestinians
on a daily basis. Israel continues to adopt a
ghoulish apartheid system as outstanding policy toward the Palestinians.
Israel continues to narrow Palestinian horizons in every conceivable respect.
Israel also continues to desecrate the Aqsa Mosque
almost on a daily basis by allowing fanatical Talmudic settlers to break into
the exclusively Islamic sanctuary and hold provocative Talmudic rituals.
More to the point, Israel has effectively decapitated
any remaining chances for the establishment of a viable Palestinian state,
especially one that is territorially contiguous and having East Jerusalem as
its capital as Israel has already dotted the West Bank with hundreds of
colonies inhabited by hundreds of thousands of fanatical anti-Islam settlers.
Hence, normalization of relations between the
criminal entity and the largest Islamic state in the world would be tantamount
to unknowingly stabbing the Palestinian people and their enduring just cause
in the back. Indeed, moves, especially by Muslim
states to recognize Israel and normalize relations with it before ending the
Nazi-like occupation, would benefit Israel and harm the Palestinians
immensely. We say so because Israel would get what it
has been seeking for decades without ceding one centimeter of the occupied
territories back to their legitimate proprietors.
Hence, we appeal to our big sister Indonesia to put on hold any plans or
thoughts or afterthoughts to recognize the criminal state of Israel and
normalize relations with it. Please don't stab your brothers in Palestine in
the back. |
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