Afrasianet - Nabil Aljubaili - Since the start of the battle of the "Al-Aqsa Flood", Western governments and their media have been practicing a blatant double standard, almost amounting to hypocrisy and hypocrisy: indescribable bias towards Israel, adopting lies and fabricating fake news with stories of killing children, beheading, beheading and raping Israeli women. All this in order to portray Israel as an oppressed victim, who fell easy prey among the fangs of the "criminal" Palestinians!
During the conflict in Ukraine, Western countries accused, first of all, Moscow of practicing "aggression against a sovereign state", as well as of occupying and bombing infrastructure facilities.
This bias prompted many Arab and foreign politicians and journalists, as well as social media influencers, to raise the slogan "double standards." Many of them drew comparisons between the way the United States and the European Union deal with similar situations, such as the war in Ukraine, rushing to falsely accuse Moscow of committing crimes, and pressing for human rights standards and respect for international law. And how they themselves turn a blind eye to all Israeli violations of these laws and standards in the Gaza Strip.
During the conflict in Ukraine, Western countries accused, first and foremost, of "aggression against a sovereign state", as well as of occupying and bombing infrastructure facilities, such as hospitals, schools, energy installations and civilian government centers, without evidence and for political agendas that are now clear.
While Israel targets civilian facilities and carries out large-scale attacks on civilian infrastructure in Gaza, as well as in the West Bank, which is free of Hamas, which Israel invokes to kill Palestinians, this indicates that Hamas was only an excuse to implement Israel's aspirations, which is to displace Palestinians from Gaza and get rid of them forever.
Moreover, the Israeli army carries out a comprehensive "indiscriminate bombardment", which does not exclude bakeries, schools, or even places of worship, such as mosques and churches, and its latest crime was not targeting the Baptist Hospital, and then a few days later St. Porphyrios Greek Orthodox Church, which is the third oldest church in the world, causing hundreds of victims, most of them women and children.. Despite that, neither the West nor its media saw all these practices!
Over the 19 days of the outbreak of the war in Gaza, the use of the term "double standards" expanded, with Russian circles among the first to warn against the practice of such duality.
A number of Arab and foreign journalists as well as social media pioneers have published statements by Western officials exposing their lies and revealing their blind bias on the side of Israel, by showing videos showing their excessive enthusiasm to stand against Russia, and then defend Israel in the annihilation of the people of Gaza.
The representative of Palestine in the Security Council then came out to speak about that duality and the denial of Palestine's "two-State right" that the Israelis denied nearly 75 years ago.
Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi, who said shortly after the Security Council meeting on the Gaza war that Israel appeared to be above international law and urged an end to what he called "double standards" in dealing with the Gaza conflict.
Before the politicians, a number of Arab and foreign journalists as well as social media pioneers had published statements by Western officials exposing their lies and revealing their blind bias on the side of Israel, by showing videos showing their excessive enthusiasm to stand against Russia, and then defend Israel in the annihilation of the people of Gaza, including the statements of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen at the beginning of the war in Ukraine.
At the time, von der Leyen came out of Kiev, accused Russia of killing children and blowing up schools, hospitals and infrastructure, and called on the countries of the world to confront what she considered at the time "Russian criminality." Then, a few days ago, she herself appeared in Tel Aviv in a video wearing a helmet, siding with the killer, and saying: "We provide unconditional support to Israel in order to defend itself."
Even EU officials could not afford this duplicity and justify the killing, so a few days ago they wrote to von der Leyen (signed by 842 European Commission officials) accusing her of "giving her a free hand to accelerate crime in Gaza" and criticizing her for shattering the credibility of the EU.
Over those years, the West has created arguments for Israel to expand settlements, and today they give it the right to "self-defense." The latest was the shameful joint statement, signed by the United States, Canada, France, Britain and Italy on Sunday.
US Secretary of State Anthony Blink also fell the test of neutrality and objectivity when he rushed to Tel Aviv to declare that he stood by Israel in his Jewish capacity before he was US secretary of state.
This stance of the White House's hasty adoption of child killing narratives, and then retracting it after exposing Israeli lies, has stripped the United States of its status as an "honest and neutral broker" and made it a party to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, placing it on the same side with Israel for taking responsibility for the crimes committed against Palestinians in Gaza.
Over those years, the West has created arguments for Israel to expand settlements, and today they give it the right to "self-defense"... The latest of these was the shameful joint statement, signed by the United States, Canada, France, Britain and Italy, in which Israel was given more approval to continue exterminating the Palestinians, and its most powerful raid on the Gaza Strip was the same day.