MSNBC journalist Ali Velshi described the merciless killing of Palestinian political activist 75-year-old Al-Haj Suleiman al-Hazalin on January 17, 2022, as deadly injustice. The sequence of events leading to Suleiman's dying publicized the Israeli forces' systemic brutality that ran over him using a tow truck two weeks prior. Fifteen thousand people showed up at the funeral to continue Suleiman's statement of opposition against Israel's occupation of the West Bank.  

Suleiman's perennial protest gave life to the resistance movement against Israeli settlements and land confiscation in the occupied West Bank, and for that, the Israelis violently killed him. We must show solidarity with the oppressed of the world—a tribute to A Shepherd's Resistance.

Liberation vs. Security (edited) 

Antigua Observer April 15, 2002

By Kwame Nkosi Romeo

"There comes a time when silence is betrayal."

Martin Luther King

British Colonialism is blameworthy for the massacre of the Palestinian people.

• The guilt was evident, beginning with British Colonialism and mandate. The British occupied Palestine during the First World War from 1917-1920, and their command of Palestine from 1920-1948 was the power that authorized the Jewish settlement. It was an evil covenant with conspicuous disregard for the Palestinians who had lived on the land for more than 7,000 years.

Firstly the British denied the Palestinians legitimate human and civil rights; now, the right to their land has become nonexistent. Thus the people have become a nation of refugees.

On November 2, 1917, with the consent of the British government, Palestine's lands were handed over to Israel as their national homeland.

This unfair arrangement was under the British Foreign Minister, Arthur James Balfour. It was known as the "Balfour Declaration" and imposed under the aegis of the League of Nations. There was collective support: France and Italy in 1918, America in 1919, and Japan in 1920. A violation of the Palestine people's rights and direction. That would become Israel's future dilemma. 

On May 15, 1948, British rule ended, and British forces withdrew from Palestine, bringing about the unconstitutional Jewish state. Agreeing with that arrangement, the United Nations, on November 29, 1948, passed U.N. Resolution 181- bequeathal of Palestinian land to the Jews, giving them 77 percent of Palestine's legacy.

After the British exit, and by December 1949, more than 400 Palestine towns were destroyed, several thousand people were massacred, and 800,000 families fled to safety in neighboring countries.

The International Community, which recommended the partition of Palestine, felt a deep sense of tragedy and expressed their resentment (UN DOC A1648 1948). The Right of Return; U.N. General Assembly 3236 Resolution, which reaffirmed in Sub Sec 2: 

"The inalienable right of Palestine to return to their property from which they have been displaced and uprooted."

Along with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 13 confirms the right of every individual to leave and return to their country.

The population of Palestine pre-May 15 1948:

-1-More than 1,400,000

Palestinians lived in 771 towns in Palestine

.19 cities

.741 villages and towns

.11 tribal areas

-2-The Palestinians owned 94.6 of the land

-3-About 400,000 illegal Jewish immigrants lived around Palestine

-4-Jews "owned" 5.4 percent of the land of Palestine

On May 14, 1948, the State of Israel declared itself an independent state, instantly angering five Arab countries- Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria and triggering the first Arab-Israeli War called the "Catastrophe."

After May 15, 1948:

1-More than 400 towns were destroyed

2-13,000 Palestinian killed

3-800,000 Palestinians fled to safety in neighboring countries

4-Remaining Palestinian civilians oppressed under Military Colonization, check the following references:

Destroyed Palestinian Villages: 

https://interactive.aljazeera.com/aje/palestineremix/phone/maps-and-data-visualisations.html

All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948 by Prof. Walid Khalidi

Palestine Remembered

Wikipedia: List of towns and villages depopulated during the 1947-1949 Palestine war

The Israeli government overlooked these criminalities and, in 1967, attacked and occupied the remaining 23 percent of Palestine's land, as detailed in the book: Sharing the Land of Canaan by Mazin Qumsiyeh: 

"A study on the demography of Israel shows that 78 percent of Israelis live on 14 percent of Israel and that the remaining 86 percent of the land in Israel is mostly land that belongs to the refugees on which 22 percent of the Israelis live." 

In 1990 Israel brought in more than one million Soviet Jews to occupy Palestinian lands. The settlers only constituted 2.4 percent of the Israeli population but received 12 percent of domestic spending.

In contrast, now stateless people on their land, the Palestinians were subjected to Israel's imprudence of funds allocation towards developing future settlements.

In 1995, $95 million were assigned for settlement construction in the West Bank, including Jerusalem.

Before 1995, 1993/1994, the Israeli government spent $431 million on peopling expenditure (7 percent over the previous year).

Today, Palestine's land has become a threat to world peace and conflict. The clash of both ethnicities continues with Israelis recommending security and Palestinians advocating for their homeland and liberation.

Israel's combative army and oppressive government bear responsibility for the gross violation of the fundamental human rights of Palestinian civilians. Their brutal and repressive acts are against International law, human decency, and Palestinian equality.

The Palestinian people have experienced 35 years of Israeli military occupation. The Israeli siege of the West Bank and Gaza has devastated the Palestinian's daily lives, and everyday life is impossible.

For the Palestinians, normal relations equal complete Israeli disengagement. That was not to be. During the Palestinian second intifada, Israel's bloodbath and destructive war persisted: 1500 Palestinian deaths in the last seven months and 47,000 wounded. (B'TSELEM)

The presence of the Jewish settlement and the hostility of the Israeli government impedes the daily lives of the Palestinians.

Secretary of State General Colin Powell has expressed a doomful end: "Neither side is going to decisively defeat the other"

The observation of Pope John Paul 11 (January 10, 2002) was most straightforward: "..No one can remain indifferent to the injustice of which the Palestine people have been victims for more than 50 years..."

So too, U.S. President George W Bush voiced his disapproval of Israel's offenses: "The storm of violence cannot go on. Enough is enough."

Bush urged prime minister Ariel Sharon to stop the hostilities, but Sharon ignored the pleading since, without action, words are meaningless and peace evasive.

How can peacefulness be when the elected Palestine National Authority (PNA), President Yasser Arafat, is surrounded by over 300 tanks at his headquarters in Ramallah, now considered a closed military zone?

Lebanon's Ambassador to the US, Farid Abboud, summarised the viewpoint of the world community during a C-Span deliberation 'The Mid-East Situation' on Thursday, April 4, 2002: "Peace is a primary objective to satisfy the national interest of the world community."

Twenty-four years ago, the Camp David accord began the peace process in the Mid-East between Egypt and Israel. Both nations signed on September 17, 1978. Nevertheless, no resolution on peace and security for the Palestinians and Israelis is prominent.

Notably, peace treaties between Palestine and Israel failed, such as Oslo 1 and 2, the Wyre River Agreement, the Mitchell-Tenet Reports, and the Saudi Peace Proposal. None brought the end of hostilities.

There was a glimmer of hope with the Wye River Memorandum on October 23, 1998. Although Binyamin Netanyahu signed on behalf of the Israeli government, internal pressure disallowed its implementation. Therefore

Netanyahu lost the Israeli election to Ehud Barak in May 1999.

The world was a silent witness as successive administrations continued the carnage of the Palestinian people. Still, there is no defined peace between Israel and Palestine, and the U.S. encourages this behavior.

The U.S. strengthening of Israel's military superiority is repulsive. Since this year, the U.S. approved 2.7 billion dollars to Israel- 60 percent military and 40 percent economic.

A recent report to the U.S. Congress from the Defense and State Department documents the U.S. domination of the post-cold war global arms market with more than $40 billion worth of U.S. arms shipment and export licenses to 165 countries.

U.S. financial aid makes Israel's government the largest recipient in the world. Statistics indicate that from 1949 to 1998, the U.S. gave $84.8 billion in foreign aid and other U.S. grants to Israel. This amount is more than it gave all of Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. (U.S. Foreign Aid to Israel: Total Aid (1949 -Present)

Is it racial solidarity at work: particularly against African countries?

Racial injustice towards the Republic of Haiti is living proof exactly when U.S. Secretary of State General Colin Powell unyieldingly proclaimed the U.S. government's position on Haiti's dilemma. Powell stated the U.S. plan was nonnegotiable because "...they had no alternative but to impose the embargo." At the same time, prioritized enforcing eight conditions before lifting the embargo. 

Accordingly, the European Union supported the U.S. proviso against an impoverished community,

Haiti's failure in any conditions could result in dreadful consequences of a financial ban. If implemented as "...an effort of last resort," this shocking agreement would most likely result in chaos and bring about the government's downfall. 

Now, what crime has Haiti committed? Haiti never violated the U.S. Arms Export Control Act (AECA) nor the U.N. Mandatory Arms Embargo against South Africa. They have no nuclear facilities, but Haiti is a Black nation. They are not fighting any wars. Haiti cries blood every day, and still today, her lamentation continues.

So what will Israel's fate be?

The U.S. foreign assistance act prohibits military assistance to any country "..which engages in a consistent pattern of gross violation of internationally recognized Human Rights."

Also, the Proxmire Amendment Law bans military assistance to any government that refuses to sign the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and allows inspection of its facilities which Israel has consistently refused to do.

The U.S. Arms Export Council Act (AECA) states that no country may sell ".. U.S. defense articles or services" without U.S. approval. Israel has violated it seven times of the 17 reports to the U.S. Congress from 1975 to 1995. Israel has violated the 1977 United Nations mandatory arms embargo on South Africa by selling weapons to oppress and exploit Africans.

The vicious cycle of Colonialism partitioned countries, stealing land resources, leaving the people landless and still impoverished in South Africa. Apartheid cruelties are still present since successive black governments turn a blind eye to the historical injustice of the colonizers' wickedness! 

Today the people of Palestine are subjugated under the Israeli Apartheid system but press on with the fight for liberation.

"It would be my greatest sadness to see Zionist (Jews) do to the Palestinian Arabs much of what Nazis did to Jews."

Albert Einstein