On Israel's war crimes

At the time when the Palestinian Authority and major Arab countries support the Saudi peace initiative, Israeli occupation forces widen their acts of killing, destruction and terrorism within a military plan that aims to spread chaos in the region and eliminate any hope to positively deal with the Saudi initiative.

The absolute UN silence to what is going on in the Palestinian territories seems very extraneous since these acts are considered by the UN Charter as crimes of an occupier against a nation that struggles to liberate its national soil and decides its destiny.

The big powers that drafted the UN Charter, especially the U.S., have not rejected the occupying state's aggression, yet Washington uses the veto power against providing protection to the Palestinian people or even sending international observers to the occupied territories.

Under such circumstances, the Palestinian people have no choice but to continue the struggle to expel the occupying forces and liberate its land. The big powers and the UN will be solely responsible for what is going on in the Middle East as things seem to be on the verge of explosion.

-- Al-Ahram, Cairo, Egypt