World blind to genocide of Palestinians: Analyst

A political analyst has lashed out at the world leaders for their inaction towards the “slow-motion genocide” of the Palestinian nation by Israel, Press TV reports.

“Unfortunately, world leaders turn a blind eye to the worst Israeli abuses and they continue, they go on endlessly — their crimes of war and crimes against humanity and what I like to call slow-motion genocide. That’s exactly what’s going on,” said Stephen Lendman.

He slammed the so-called peace talks between Israel and Palestine as a “joke,” which was even “dead on arrival,” noting, “Israel does not negotiate. Israel demands. Its terms are entirely one-way. It already controls maybe up to 60 percent of the West Bank.”

“It’s building its apartheid wall. When it’s completed — it’s been going on for years — when it’s completed, it will have annexed something like 10-12 percent of Palestinian land. And this thing goes on forever,” he said.

Lendman lashed out at the US “full support” for the worst of Israel’s policies over the past decades, saying, “It really is disgraceful and Palestinians are literally left out in the cold getting absolutely nothing but permanent military occupation. That’s what the plan is.”

The analyst made the remarks in response to the recent proposal by Israel’s Economy Minister Naftali Bennett about annexation of parts of the Palestinian land of the West Bank under Israel’s full military control.

Israeli authorities said earlier this week that they are planning to build 255 settler units in a village near the city of Ramallah.

The Tel Aviv regime, which had seized the land from Palestinian farmers years ago, has totally destroyed the agriculture and livelihood in the area to prepare the ground for the construction of the settler units.

Much of the international community regards the Israeli settlements as illegal because the territories were captured by Israel in a war in 1967 and are thus subject to the Geneva Conventions, which forbid construction on occupied land.