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The first thing I do every morning is to turn on the radio near my bed to get the latest update on Gaza. Yesterday morning there was a special item reporting that Mr. Trump will not allow the Palestinian president and his delegation from reaching New York to attend and address the general assembly of the UN in September, simply because some European countries have already expressed their plans to recognize the Palestinian State in that September meeting of the UN General Assembly .
The first thing that came to my mind was why are the headquarters of the United nations in New York in the first place? But then I recalled that When the United Nations was established in 1945, there was a stipulation that all delegations to the UN would have access to reach the headquarters in New York. However, when Mr. Arafat was due to address the GA in 1988 and the US denied him a visa, the whole United Nations meeting was held in the headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. That could be an option in this case as well. But the mere fact that the US dictates the terms of attendance at the UN, as well as the right to veto any resolution that would affect the US or its staunch ally, Israel, means that this body is not a United Nations body but a USA organization.
So it is very clear that as long as the international community is at the mercy of the USA, there can be no justice or peace around the world, nor can the United Nations play the role that it was meant to play according to its charter. However, dare we hope that the news item of today that Turkey has cut all ties with Israel– Ports, Airspace, and trade closed over Gaza Genocide, will really make a dent? And encourage other countries, and especially the Arab Gulf countries to do likewise? Most probably not, but without that hope we could not have survived the ongoing genocide ever since 1948.
