CARICOM member countries are largely silent on the issue of disproportionate medieval attacks, loss of Palestinian lives and property. Palestinians are increasingly being dehumanized and seen as outcasts of the human race. You don’t have to be Muslim to speak, only man is a popular cliché.
https://youtu.be/pMrb57IPvoMKu are the ones who constantly remind us “NEVER EVER”! This seems to be just a slogan in our times when the main beneficiaries of the UN Declaration of Human Rights are actively pursuing a whole nation of people such basic rights. To remain silent when these acts of genocide are ongoing is tantamount to being complicit.
This outrage is funded and weaponized by the US, which just this month approved the sale of $735 million in precision-guided weapons to the nuclear-powered colonial aggressor nation. Precision weaponry used to demolish media and apartment buildings. What a disaster the Palestinians are worthy of this “neutral arbiter” for peace.
The Oslo Accords provided a road map to peace. Twenty-five years later it is clear that the Palestinians took the map and the occupying power took time to expand its territory through settlements and walls. Now the Palestinians hold up the map to show them how much ground they have lost. It is clear that the Occupier had no intention of truly achieving true peace with justice and a two-state solution. With the world (including most Muslim-majority countries) remaining silent, or actively defending the occupiers’ “right” to defend themselves, the effect is to give the occupying forces the right to injure, kill, imprison en masse, destroy private property or steal it. without any responsibility. European guilt allows Western powers the ability to turn a moral blind eye to the slaughter of children and women. When will it end?
Here are some of the voices raised within CARICOM
Guyana
“The Co-operative Republic of Guyana stands in solidarity with the people of Palestine and our hearts and prayers are with them,” Foreign Minister Hugh Hilton Todd said on Sunday during his address to an extraordinary ministerial-level meeting of the OIC Executive Committee. Foreign held on Sunday, May 16, at the request of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, chair of the Islamic Summit.
The virtual meeting was held “to discuss the aggression of Israel, the occupying power in the Palestinian territories, in particular, Al-Quds Al-Shareef,” an online statement from the OIC said.
Todd told the OIC foreign ministers that Guyana, “has noted with great alarm and concern the escalation of violence between Israel and Palestine, resulting in senseless loss of life, displacement of people and destruction of property”.
He said: “We are disgusted with the occupation of the Al-Aqsa Mosque. We condemn all forms of violence and call for constructive dialogue, which is essential to bring about a two-state solution between Israel and Palestine. We ask all parties to exercise restraint and cease any actions that contradict humanitarian and international laws.”
Meanwhile, the meeting was attended by the main rivals of the Middle East, ASK, the United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Iran, Bahrain, Egypt, Qatar. They have been trying to reconcile since the end of the blockade of Qatar. Iran, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Egypt are now making high-level contacts
Guyana, like Nicaragua and Venezuela in Latin America, is a member of the Committee for the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP). It is a committee mandated by the United Nations General Assembly to promote the rights of the Palestinian people since the 1970s.
Here is the full statement issued by Guyana on May 12:
The Government of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana has noted with growing alarm and concern the escalation of violence between Israel and Palestine, which has resulted in senseless loss of life, destruction of property, displacement of persons and further disruption in the Middle East. .
The Government of Guyana condemns all acts of violence and finds the occupation of the Al-Aqsa Mosque abhorrent. We hold sacred and worthy of respect places of worship of all religious faiths. The Government of Guyana calls on all parties to exercise restraint and cease all actions that are contrary to international and humanitarian law.
Guyana emphasizes that constructive dialogue between the Israeli and Palestinian authorities is essential to the advancement of the peace process and the realization of the two-state solution as the legitimate end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Statement of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines to the UN
A current non-permanent member of the UN Security Council issued the following statement.
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Caribbean Against Apartheid in Palestine (CAAP)
CAAP condemns the ongoing attacks on Palestinians in East Jerusalem at the site of Al Aqsa Mosque. This is part of the Zionist “ethnic cleansing” of Palestinians who have lived in Jerusalem for countless generations, to make way for Zionist settlers. Over 200 hundred Palestinians have been injured by stun grenades, tear gas and rubber bullets – many of whom were deliberately shot into their eyes, causing maximum injuries.
Then HanumanThe Prosecutor and Secretary of the Caribbean Against Apartheid in Palestine said “For more than seventy-three years, Palestinians have been killed daily by the forces of Zionism as they bravely stand up for their rights to be free from racism, colonialism, occupation and oppression. All people committed to human rights should stand with them. We must stand in solidarity with them, as we did against apartheid in South Africa. Zionism, how Ku Klux Klan, is a racist supremacist ideology, CAAP further calls on the Barbadian government to do the right thing and recognize the state of Palestine as many of our sister CARICOM states have done“.
