{"id":1138,"date":"2025-05-20T17:15:54","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T14:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/republicpalestine.com\/en\/?p=1138"},"modified":"2025-05-20T17:15:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T14:15:55","slug":"palestine-and-the-collapse-of-the-rules-based-world-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/republicpalestine.com\/en\/?p=1138","title":{"rendered":"Palestine and the collapse of the rules-based world order"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This article was published in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/peoplesdispatch.org\/2025\/05\/16\/palestine-and-the-collapse-of-the-rules-based-world-order\/\">People&#8217;s Dispatch<\/a><\/em> on May 16, 2025, by <a href=\"https:\/\/peoplesdispatch.org\/author\/peiman-salehi\/\">Peiman Salehi<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:16px\"><strong>When international law is selectively enforced, when justice is sacrificed for geopolitical interests, what remains is not order \u2013 but domination.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-humanitarian-catastrophe\"><strong>Humanitarian catastrophe<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:16px\">As of May 2025, the <a href=\"https:\/\/republicpalestine.com\/en\/2025\/05\/17\/al-awda-health-services-at-risk-of-complete-shutdown-amid-fuel-and-medical-supply-shortages\/\">humanitarian catastrophe<\/a> in Gaza has reached an unprecedented level. Over 50,000 Palestinians have been killed since October 2023, the vast majority of them civilians, including thousands of children. Yet, Western powers \u2013 particularly the United States and its allies \u2013 continue to champion a so-called \u201crules-based international order.\u201d This phrase, often invoked to justify sanctions, interventions, and diplomatic pressure elsewhere, rings hollow when applied to the decades-long plight of the Palestinian people. The ongoing occupation, apartheid policies, and repeated war crimes committed by Israel \u2013 backed unconditionally by the West \u2013 expose a deep hypocrisy at the heart of this so-called global order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:16px\">Despite over 100 UN resolutions condemning Israeli settlements, forced displacement, and indiscriminate attacks on civilians, meaningful accountability remains absent. Israel faces no sanctions, no arms embargo, and no international isolation. Instead, it continues to receive billions of dollars in military aid, preferential trade agreements, and political cover from Western powers. Gaza, meanwhile, remains under siege. Hospitals are bombed, aid convoys are blocked, and basic necessities such as water, fuel, and electricity are deliberately withheld. This is not a security response \u2013 it is collective punishment on a mass scale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-selective-application-of-international-law\"><strong>Selective application of International Law<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:16px\">The West\u2019s approach to international law is anything but consistent. When Russia annexed Crimea or when countries like Iran and Venezuela were accused of rights violations, swift sanctions and global condemnation followed. Yet, when Israel openly violates the Geneva Conventions, targets civilian infrastructure, and defies the International Court of Justice, it is rewarded with normalization deals, tech investments, and defense partnerships. This blatant double standard has destroyed the credibility of any \u201crules-based\u201d narrative. It is clear that the \u201crules\u201d apply only to adversaries of the West \u2013 not its allies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-weaponization-of-narrative\"><strong>The weaponization of narrative<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:16px\">Equally troubling is the role of Western media in shaping public perception. Palestinian resistance is labeled as \u201cterrorism,\u201d while Israeli aggression is framed as \u201cself-defense.\u201d Terms like \u201cclashes\u201d are used to obscure the reality of one-sided military assaults. The dehumanization of Palestinians and the erasure of their suffering are key components of maintaining this illusion of moral superiority. Journalism that challenges this narrative is often silenced, censored, or dismissed as biased.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-not-order-but-domination\"><strong>Not order \u2013 but domination<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:16px\">Palestine is no longer just a humanitarian crisis \u2013 it is a mirror reflecting the moral bankruptcy of the global system. The rules-based world order, as promoted by the West, has collapsed under the weight of its own contradictions. When international law is selectively enforced, when some lives are deemed expendable, and when justice is sacrificed for geopolitical interests, what remains is not order \u2013 but domination. Justice for Palestine is no longer a political preference; it is a global moral imperative. Until the world confronts this hypocrisy, peace will remain out of reach \u2013 not only for Palestinians, but for humanity as a whole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Peiman Salehi<\/strong>&nbsp;is a political thinker and analyst focused on liberalism, global narratives, and the geopolitical discourse of the Global South.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This article was first published by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/\">Global Research<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article was published in People&#8217;s Dispatch on May 16, 2025, by Peiman Salehi. When international law is selectively enforced, when justice is sacrificed for geopolitical interests, what remains is not order \u2013 but domination. Humanitarian catastrophe As of May 2025, the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza has reached an unprecedented level. Over 50,000 Palestinians have been killed since October 2023, the vast majority of them civilians, including thousands of children. Yet, Western powers \u2013 particularly the United States and its allies \u2013 continue to champion a so-called \u201crules-based international order.\u201d This phrase, often invoked to justify sanctions, interventions, and diplomatic pressure elsewhere, rings hollow when applied to the decades-long plight of the Palestinian people. The ongoing occupation, apartheid policies, and repeated war crimes committed by Israel \u2013 backed unconditionally by the West \u2013 expose a deep hypocrisy at the heart of this so-called global order. Despite over 100 UN resolutions condemning Israeli settlements, forced displacement, and indiscriminate attacks on civilians, meaningful accountability remains absent. Israel faces no sanctions, no arms embargo, and no international isolation. Instead, it continues to receive billions of dollars in military aid, preferential trade agreements, and political cover from Western powers. Gaza, meanwhile, remains under siege. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,29,31],"tags":[40,49,83,39,45],"class_list":["post-1138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives","category-gaza-genocide-and-resilience","category-opinion-2","tag-gaza","tag-genocide","tag-occupation","tag-palestine","tag-standwithpalestine"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.8 (Yoast SEO v24.8.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Palestine and the collapse of the rules-based world order - Republic Palestine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/republicpalestine.com\/en\/?p=1138\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Palestine and the collapse of the rules-based world order\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This article was published in People&#8217;s Dispatch on May 16, 2025, by Peiman Salehi. 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