The United Nations adopted the Declaration of Human Rights three years after its establishment in 1948. The bitter irony is that this declaration was adopted a few months after the recognition of Israel on May 15, a day that the Palestinians have called the Nakba (catastrophe). About 750,000 Palestinians were displaced from their land overnight. And in the war that followed this recognition in 1948, more than three million Palestinians were displaced forever, and Israel occupied this land. The adoption of a declaration called Human Rights in the midst of a war and genocide in Palestine with the full support and cooperation of the United States, Britain and France and also the Soviet Union is more like a joke. But the United States and Western imperialism succeeded in feeding this big lie to a large part of the world.
World War II began with the rise of fascism on the European political scene and led to the death of about 80 million people. Fascism emerged in response to the October Revolution in Russia to confront the threat of communism. The end of the war did not end as its initiators had expected; the Soviets not only were not defeated, but they succeeded in conquering Germany. However, this did not mean the defeat of fascism. Fascism was set back and many of its main figures were used by the United States and other Western powers; for example, the fourth Secretary-General of the United Nations, Kurt Waldheim, was a fascist and a member of the German army; Waldheim was serving as an officer in the Balkans during the German occupation of the Balkans, which resulted in mass killings. Adolf Heusinger, secretary of the NATO Military Committee from 1961 to 1964, was a high-ranking Nazi officer, as were Hans Speidel and General von Kielmansegg, high-ranking NATO officials. Many Nazi scientists and officials were employed by the American, German, and other Western governments. Exact figures are not available; at least over 1,600 former Nazis were transferred to the United States and over 1,000 were employed as spies in various countries.
The end of the war coincided with the beginning of the Cold War. Under the guise of preserving democracy and confronting the Soviet Union, the United States and the West launched an all-out war against communism to suppress and exploit the world. The United Nations, human rights, and democracy were all different elements of the deceptive narrative western imperialism succeeded in feeding the world.
The Truman Doctrine, announced by Truman, the US president in March 1947, was the doctrine of coup, war, and regime change. Under the guise of defending democracy, this doctrine announced the beginning of an all-out war against communism. During the Cold War, the United States organised at least 72 coups under the guise of defending democracy. Including Iran in 1953, Colombia in 1954, the attempt to overthrow the Cuban government in 1961, Brazil in 1964, the genocide in Indonesia in 1965-66, Chile in 1973, Argentina in 1976; It has bombed a large part of the world and killed millions of people, Vietnam, Cambodia, Indonesia and Korea are some examples. *
From the outset, the United Nations has always endorsed the killing, suppression and genocide committed by America and the West. This has been an obvious fact; but never has the United Nations been so discredited and disgraced as in the last two years. Two years of genocide in Palestine and the inability of the United Nations or, in their own words, the "international community" to stop Israel, the full support of western and powerful governments for Israel have led to the collapse of the entire false edifice of human rights, democracy and "international law". No one cares about the United Nations and various "human rights" institutions anymore.
Western imperialism had succeeded in feeding a false ideology to a large part of the world under the name of the "superior" civilisation of the west that respects freedom, democracy, human and civil rights, it is rule-based, free from superstition and based on logic and science. But with the deep crisis in which it is immersed, this entire premise has collapsed. The masks have been torn.
The past two years have been an eye-opening moment for the whole world: The complete and unwavering support of western governments for Israel and the genocide and cleansing of the Palestinians, their hypocrisy and double standards in dealing with Ukraine and Palestine and defending the aggressive and occupying policies of the United States, the latest of which was to award the Nobel Peace Prize to a well-known Venezuelan ally of US working for regime change at the same time as US was deploying warships to the Venezuelan coast, have exposed the lies.
The statements, resolutions and declarations of the United Nations and numerous human rights and pro-democracy institutions must be exposed; the role of these institutions is not to defend human rights or justice, but to sustain the ruling oppressive and criminal order. This order, along with all its fake institutions and ideas, is in complete collapse. Absolute and blatant force is on the agenda. But this is not the whole picture; the world is awakening to the truth. We are observing an international awakening and resistance movement. This movement must be equipped and organised to try to push back the oppression, exploitation and genocide.
* Below is a list of countries bombed or occupied by the United States from the end of World War II to 2020:
Source: Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower, by William Bloom.
Afghanistan 1998, 2001-
Bosnia 1994, 1995
Cambodia 1969-70
China 1945-46
Congo 1964
Cuba 1959-1961
El Salvador 1980s
Korea 1950-53
Guatemala 1954, 1960, 1967-69
Indonesia 1958 Laos 1964-73
Grenada 1983
Iraq 1991-2000s, 2015-
Iran 1987
Korea 1950-53
Kuwait 1991
Lebanon 1983, 1984
Libya 1986, 2011-
Nicaragua 1980s
Pakistan 2003, 2006-
Palestine 2010
Panama 1989
Peru 1965
Somalia 1993, 2007-08, 2010-
Sudan 1998
Syria 2014-
Vietnam 1961-73
Yemen 2002, 2009-
Yugoslavia 1999
⏩ Asar Majed is a Member of Hekmatist Party leadership & Chairperson of Organisation for Women’s Liberation.
Adolf Heusinger wasn't a Nazi, he was ordinary Wehrmacht, neither was Speidel or von Kielmansegg. In fact all of them were suspected of involvement in plots to kill Hitler specifically the 20th of July operation.
ReplyDeleteBit of a major clanger there which casts doubts on the veracity of the rest of the piece.
Ordinary Wehrmacht were often up to their neck in war crimes despite the self serving attempt to change the narrative about both it and the Waffen SS, and seek to blame the SS police battalions.
DeleteThat does not mean you are wrong about the individuals mentioned. The Wehrmacht behaved atrociously during WW2.