A former senior Palestinian diplomat says Western mainstream media are overlooking the Palestinian nation’s legitimate right to self-defense as the Israeli regime has been committing various forms of crimes against Palestinians for decades and is now heavily pounding the besieged Gaza Strip.
“The Western media’s behavior and double standards could only be best described as hypocrisy,” Ali Kazak told Press TV in an exclusive interview published on Friday.
He went on to sharply criticize the Western outlets’ extensive coverage of the war between Russia and Ukraine while exercising a new blackout on the Israeli regime’s daily crimes against the entire Palestinian nation.
“This is something we have been suffering from for the past 75 years,” he said.
Kazak also dismissed the Western media’s attempts to portray Operation al-Aqsa Storm as unprovoked, emphasizing that the occupying regime has long been perpetrating the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, committed tens of massacres against them, and has been pushing ahead with its apartheid policies.
The former Palestinian diplomat argued that the so-called Western advocates of human rights tend to brand those who launch retaliatory operations and are fighting against denial of their fundamental rights as terrorists.
“In the lexicon of the Western media that claim to be upholding human rights, some peoples are entitled to basic rights others are not.
“Israel has been slowly wiping out our people with the complicity of the United States, Britain and certain Western countries for the past 75 years. The United States has even refused to provide our people with international protection,” Kazak said.
He underscored that Palestinians have time and again tabled peace initiatives anchored in humanitarian values.
“Our first peace proposal was in 1968, when we put forward the establishment of a democratic secular state in Palestine, with Jews, Muslims and Christians all living under the protection of law. They refused that.
“Then in 1988, we proposed the [so-called] two-state solution. We made huge compromises to set up the Palestinian state, but Zionists once against turned down our proposal,” Kazak said.
He stated that Israeli authorities abused the so-called Oslo Peace Accords, signed in 1993, to deceive the international community as if they were going to recognize the Palestinian nation’s rights, but on the ground, they were building more and more illegal structures to accommodate extremist Jewish settlers.
“Palestinians are fed up with Western hypocrisy, double standards and Israeli war crimes against them. The US and Western countries have closed their eyes. They continue to support Israel financially, militarily and politically,” the former senior Palestinian diplomat added.
“We are not going to surrender. We are here to stay and achieve our full rights, our homeland and our right to self-determination,” he added.
Kazak concluded by saying that Israel has to fully recognize the Palestinian nation’s rights either through peaceful means or by means of endless wars.
