opinion

The behaviour of the United States styling itself a “human rights champion” is drawing strong condemnation from the international community.

The US has opposed again the UNSC resolution calling for an unconditional ceasefire in the Gaza Strip of Palestine and immediate provision of essential services and humanitarian aid for civilians. It is its sixth sole exercise of veto since the occurrence of the Gaza crisis in October last year.

Then why does the US reject every resolution of the UNSC for achieving a ceasefire in Gaza?

It is to attain without fail its goal of dominating the Middle East with Israel as an instrument.

To this end, the US has been providing Israel with a huge amount of money and various kinds of deadly weapons since October last year, promising the security support would continue as long as the US existed. Last September, alone, it gave Israel military aid worth US$8.7 billion.

Israel, backed by the US, has made air raids on Gaza almost every day and killed a great number of innocent residents by bombarding even refugee camps, schools and hospitals.

Since Israel launched the military operations, the death toll of the Palestinians has reached over 44 000 and the number of the injured more than 104 200. In particular, well over ten thousand children have died and a large number of other children have gone missing or become disabled and orphaned.

The most urgent issue facing the international community in the human rights field at present is to protect the right to life of the Gaza residents who are at the crossroads of life and death.

However, the US pretends ignorance of this.

As regards other countries, it would bustle about, adopting human rights resolutions and imposing sanctions based on fabricated evidence and submitting such information to the International Court of Justice, but concerning the Gaza crisis, it is just looking on.

Rather, it is engrossed in patronizing and shielding Israel, contending that the current catastrophe was caused by terrorist attacks by the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas).

What cannot be overlooked is that although a larger number of journalists were killed in Gaza in the past one year than in the Second World War and the Vietnam War and more than 320 humanitarian workers and over 1 000 medical workers were dead, the largest number ever in history, the US still keeps mum about that.

Such US behaviour clearly reveals that it is not truly interested in the protection of human rights, though it poses as a “human rights judge”.

The selective and two-faced US-style “human rights”, variable according to its own interests, are nothing but a means of implementing its hegemony-seeking policy and a tool for aggression and interference in others’ internal affairs.

The US has no right to talk about human rights.