World must stand up to Israel crimes: Analyst

The world must stand up to Israel’s atrocities against Palestinians amid Tel Aviv’s relentless attacks on the Gaza Strip, a political analyst tells Press TV.

In a Wednesday interview with Press TV, Kevin Barrett, editor of Veterans Today from Madison, said a turning point in Israel’s current trend of genocide could be reached through more countries isolating the regime and the Palestinian resistance becoming stronger.

“This is completely unacceptable behavior, the systematic targeting of civilians, the murder of children…; it is just disgusting and the world has been standing by it far too long and this is going to continue and get worse until enough of the world stands up and says ‘no’,” he said.

Making a comparison between Israel and South Africa’s Apartheid regime, Barrett noted that putting an end to Zionism will take longer, as the Zionists have at their disposal lobbyists and billionaires owning the world’s media.

“It has taken a little longer but the same process that has put an end to South Africa’s Apartheid is going to put an end to Zionism,” he said.

The political commentator further stressed that the Israeli regime is vulnerable to boycotts and sanctions.

The remarks came one day after Chile and Peru joined Latin American countries such as Brazil and Ecuador and recalled their envoys from Tel Aviv in protest against Israel’s offensive against the besieged Gaza Strip.

Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Costa Rica, Cuba, Mexico and Venezuela were also among the 29 countries that voted in favor of a probe by the UN Human Rights Council into Israel’s war crimes in Gaza last week.

Israel has been pounding numerous sites inside Gaza, killing innocent residents of the impoverished Palestinian enclave since July 8.

The Palestinian death toll from more than three weeks of aerial and ground assaults on the blockaded coastal sliver now stands at 1,300, with more than 7,200 people wounded.