Afrasianet - There is no double standard in the West, it has one standard in taking its positions: siding with its interests, which makes it take two nominally different positions, but they are fundamentally identical in terms of benefiting it and its allies and harming its opponents. 

The Russian-Ukrainian war was making headlines in newspapers, news bulletins, and even people's conversations, until some called it the Atlantic-Russian conflict, because of the Western political, military, economic and media mobilization against Russia. 

Today, the Ukrainian war is negligible as Israel continues its aggression against the Gaza Strip, committing more real holocausts in full view of the whole world.

 Suddenly, the West forgot the "Russian threat" and directed its attention to Israel, considering it an "extension of the West" and the "real spoiled child" for more than a hundred years, allowing the cutting of water, electricity and food for more than two and a half million people in the Strip, which brought to mind Western statements that condemned Russia during its war with Ukraine, while describing what Israel is doing as "self-defense."

Perhaps the clearest statements came from European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, who claimed that Russia  is  killing children and targeting hospitals and schools, calling for confronting what she described  as "Russian criminality", before we see her in Tel Aviv standing by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and providing him with unconditional support. 

Although it is not surprising at all, who are we talking about accused of corruption, and even did not hesitate to blame Russia for the US atomic bombing of Hiroshima! 

Once again, the Western "double standard" crisis has returned to the fore. What the West forbids the Russians in Ukraine allows Israel in the Gaza Strip, but is there really a double standard? Is there a similarity between what is happening in Ukraine and Gaza, as some point out? 

Breaking out of historical context

In fact, there is no double standard for the West, as it has one criterion in taking its positions; siding with its interests, and this is what makes it take two nominally different positions, but they are fundamentally identical in terms of benefit for it and its allies and harming its opponents, and this is what we saw in the Russian-Ukrainian war and in the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip.

We are not here to justify Russia's military operation on February 24, 2022, but what must be said is that the war did not come from a vacuum, but came in the context of Western escalation aimed at isolating and encircling Russia. A country that sees its national security threatened by the expansion of NATO with its weapons cannot be expected to stand idly by.

 Nor can you ask a country like Russia to trust the intentions of Western countries after they had promised that NATO would not expand eastward, and they have experienced the opposite.  

The same applies to the Gaza Strip, not to Israel. It cannot be said that Israel has the right to self-defense. First, because it is an occupying entity, and secondly, because the one who carried out the "Al-Aqsa Flood" operation is the one who has been besieged for more than 17 years, with all the woes that the siege entails. In short, the process cannot be taken out of its political, security, and even economic context, as the Western media does and insists on maliciously. 

You cannot tell Ghazzawi and his resistance that you have no right to defend life and land. Therefore, the fact that it is occasionally referred to in good or bad faith that what is happening in Gaza is the same as what Ukraine has been subjected to is a purely illogical reading of both cases. 

Comparing Gaza and Ukraine on the one hand, and Israel and Russia on the other, is a disregard for people's minds and their knowledge of history, and is part of the process of "corrupt analogy." Why do we compare Israel, an artificial entity that has been anomalously inserted into our region, to Russia, which has a long history and extended civilization that the whole of Ukraine was part of until 1991?

Killing of civilians

The victims of Ukraine and the martyrs of Gaza cannot be compared for more than one reason, but we will start with what the figures show. According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, the number of martyrs in the Gaza Strip approached 52,000,  including more than 16,000 children and nearly 18,000 women, while the number of injuries exceeded hundreds of thousands.

Figures from Ukraine indicate that the death toll reached 9,806 during almost two years of war, which means that jumping over the time factor is pure injustice to the Gaza Strip and its people and their suffering.

As for the spatial factor, it is no less important; Gaza is not a state, but a strip of stolen Palestine. Moreover, it is besieged by the occupation and the Egyptian brother, while Ukraine is a full-fledged country in which Western weapons have been injected, and the goal is to confront Russia and try to defeat it (75 billion dollars worth of US aid only to Ukraine). 

Accusations of Nazism

Here comes what some are arguing: the label "neo-Nazis in Ukraine" is nothing more than Russian propaganda, and they cite Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky's Jewishness to refute what they see as a claim.

 Apart from the practices of war on the ground and their ethics, we will mention here an indicator to mention but not limited to. The honor of a figure like Stepan Bandera by a large number of Ukrainians and members of the Ukrainian parliament in Lviv; the man, the founder of the Nazi Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists in 1942, has been honored more than once by Ukraine, and he and his followers have been awarded the title of "warriors of independence" by the Ukrainian authorities.

This is only conclusive evidence of the adoption of Nazi approaches, and we recount the above only to confirm that neo-Nazis are a reality, and there is no one like them in the Gaza Strip. On the contrary, Nazism manifests itself in its best form in Israel through its massacres and the violation of all taboos such as targeting safe houses, schools, hospitals, mosques and churches with no regard for anything.

 It is also illustrated by following in the footsteps of Joseph Goebbels: "Lie and then lie until people believe you", which is Nazi propaganda par excellence. Isn't this what happened and is happening with every new targeting of a hospital in the Gaza Strip?

Through excessive propaganda about the Holocaust, Israel tried to make itself the antithesis of Nazism, but Nazism is an idea, an orientation, a principle, and a path, and it applies to Hitler, just as it applies to Israel.

Accordingly, no, there is no double standards. On the contrary, the picture today is clearer even for those who refuse to see the reality  of the "civilized" West. No, Ukraine is not the Gaza Strip, it is as close to Israel as Zelensky seems close to Netanyahu, at least in terms of threats and begging at the same time.

World order: double standards on the basis of double standards 

The world order controlled by the great and great powers twists the necks of facts and facts on the ground in a way that ultimately leads to what is appropriate and commensurate with what they want, regardless of truth and justice, and of the peace, security and stability in the world, which they are supposed to seek. This policy pursued by the great and major powers, the permanent members of the UN Security Council, has contributed or helped to prolong wars and conflicts in the Third World, whether by fueling wars and conflicts, or by creating and generating them, and finding causes for them. Therefore, we note that all wars and conflicts under the arms of proxies are only to meet their goals of strategic dimensions, so that the peoples become the victims and they are their firewood at the same time, although it is not their war, or their conflicts, and what I mean most of them but not all of them, there are wars ignited by the resisters to liberate their homelands from occupation, or settler occupation, as is happening to the Palestinians. All invasions and occupations of sovereign States, whatever the justifications and justifications, are condemned and rejected, while the double standard between invasion and occupation and another invasion and occupation is totally unacceptable, both by the international community and by international law.

American and Russian invasions have occurred in less than two decades, the most important of which are the American invasion and occupation of Iraq, and the Russian military operation in Ukraine,  which is not considered an invasion, and continues until this writing, which were dealt with in the manner of double standards, in a very clear way, in short, I mention the following comparisons, about how the international deal with the two invasions, as well as the differences between their causes and results: First, Ukraine unites the Russian Federation, and it is associated with it with a common history, since the ninth century, the days of the empire. Russian tsarism, with Kiev as its capital. Ukraine also has the capability, in a matter of weeks and perhaps days, as Russia sees it, to acquire and possess a nuclear weapon, due to the existence of the physical base, which it possessed from the days of the Soviet Union. Ukraine's president has said he is considering reworking the nuclear weapons industry, raising concerns among Russian officials. As for Iraq, which is more than ten thousand kilometers from America, it did not possess weapons of mass destruction, and the Americans know this for sure, but they used this argument knowing that they are lying to invade and occupy Iraq.

Second, Ukraine has worked or asked to be a member of NATO, and this is what prompted the Russian Federation to carry out the military operation, to eliminate this dream, the dream of joining NATO. On the other hand, Iraq was not a neighbor of America, and it posed no threat to it, no matter how big this threat was. Iraq had been under siege for nearly 13 years, destroying everything beautiful, infrastructure, and defensive forces. The surrounding countries, and other countries All neighboring countries are from the Third World, so that they did not pose, even if allied with Iraq, any threat to America, whatever its size.

The world is not governed by justice, nor by what is imposed by international law, nor for the sake of international peace, but what governs the world is the interests of the great and great powers.

Third, Ukraine is located on the hotline separating Russia and the European Union countries, i.e. NATO countries, and in this position it constitutes a fulcrum for NATO against Russia. On the other hand, Iraq has not been or has not been located in a position or on the hotline separating the great powers to pose a strategic threat to US policy at the edges of the flames, or to the American conflict with the world powers that compete for leadership in the world.

This does not mean that Iraq does not fall In the strategic location between the continents, on the contrary, there is a big difference between the two sites in terms of rules of engagement and direct conflict between the great powers.Fourth, in Ukraine, the Donbass region, the Russians constitute the majority or Russian-speakers are the majority, which Russia says they are killed for eight years, and it carried  out its operation to protect them from the persecution of neo-Nazis in Ukraine, or ultra-nationalists, but in Iraq there were no Americans, and there was no area inhabited by Americans. They are persecuted by the Iraqi government until it invades Iraq to help and protect them, but to say that they invaded and occupied Iraq to liberate its people from a dictatorial regime is a statement that has been refuted by reality for nearly two decades, on the contrary, they have destroyed the homeland as a state and a people, and sowed discord and hypocrisy in it. 

From the moment the first cannon was fired at the beginning of  the Russian military operation in Ukraine, all audio-visual and print media were abuzz with talk about the Russian invasion, and at the same moment, the heads of state of the European Union began to make statements condemning and condemning the Russian invasion, and threatening Russia with woe. In simultaneous consistency, European and American sanctions on Russia followed, and included all sectors without exception, as well as entities and persons, and the Russian President and Foreign Minister were not spared, and the sanctions process is still ongoing, in addition to supplying Ukraine With money, men and lethal weapons, what is important here is the condemnation of this invasion by the Secretary-General of the United Nations. On the other hand, the UN Security Council was moved to hold a session to discuss and condemn the Russian invasion, and the condemnation resolution would have been issued without the Russian veto.

During the American invasion of Iraq, and despite the demonstrations that erupted in the capitals of the West, including the United States of America, but neither the United Nations, nor the UN Security Council, nor the great and major powers, including the Atlantic countries, did not lift a finger, at a time when the American forces were destroying Iraq and using all the internationally prohibited weapons in their arsenal. To date, there has been no condemnation or denunciation of what the United States has done against the Iraqi people, and what I mean by condemnation; What has befallen Iraq in terms of destruction, destruction, killing and displacement, that is, condemnation by an official statement, whether from the UN Security Council or from the UN body. 

This invasion, and then the occupation and until now, have gone unnoticed. Double standards are the most severe forms of injustice and brutality, and the distinction between this people and that is the strongest and deepest form of racial discrimination. The Iraqi regime may have committed a great sin by invading and occupying Kuwait, but it apologized for this invasion. He also recognized all the resolutions of the United Nations Security Council, albeit reluctantly, which are mostly very unfair, and exceeded the powers of the United Nations Security Council stipulated in his residence regulations, and they exceeded the opinion of Iraq, since the matter concerns him, especially the demarcation of borders and compensation, the latter of which was very unfair. What I want to get to is that the world does not rule justly, nor does it rule by what the law imposes. International, nor for the sake of international peace, nor for stability, development and the spread of democracy, but what governs the world is the interests of the great and major powers in it, and never legitimate interests, these interests are broken and reformulated by lying and forgery in a way that makes them look like legitimate interests or their purpose is to establish rules and standards that guarantee stability and peace in the world, while the facts are quite the opposite, and the biggest evidence of this trend; Revolution, to another path, the path of counter-revolution, in which dictatorships were reproduced in the clothes of a shattered democracy. 

We see it as  a clash of strategic interests. The Russian Federation wants  this operation to loosen the cordon around its neck to maintain its existence as a superpower that has its power to play a balanced role in international relations, while America wants to tighten this cordon around the neck of the Russian bear to reduce its role in the international game. Maintaining an active role in the international budget opens the way for expanding the interests of this great power or superpower, i.e. expanding the vital area at the expense of The interests of the peoples of the Third World. Therefore, the wars or invasions of the great and major powers of the third world, or sometimes the second world, which are limited compared to their invasions of third world countries, are only to obtain the spoils and install them on a base of loyal regimes, and the peoples have no interest in these invasions. 

In conclusion, I would like to say that the world is now living in a transitional phase in which the world will be completely different from the world we live in, that is, from a unipolar world to a multipolar world, perhaps four poles that will control the fate of the world, Russia, China, America and the European Union, the latter being Germany, France, and especially Germany. 

It is an abhorrent cycle, and although the multipolar world offers ample space for flexibility for Third World countries, the balance remains in favor of the powerful. Therefore, these abhorrent historical cycles must one day be broken by the free will of peoples, including those of the great and great Powers, on the paths of development of the human mind, thus deepening the human sense of injustice and injustice in a world whose destiny is controlled by the great Powers.