Normalization with Israel is the way to whitewash crimes against humanity

Those who join the caravan in the process called "normalization" with Israel are staging scenes that tear down all the norms, conventions and etiquette of the international order of relations.

In truth, in one respect this is good. One gets to see what kinds of coercion lie behind relations that are at other times managed through diplomatic rituals.

I suppose we owe this laying bare of the background of diplomacy on the public stage to Trump's peculiar style. Thanks to him, the ornate masks covering the power relations in the order prevailing in the world have also come down.

As you know, the "normalization" steps with Zionism, led by the United Arab Emirates and continued with Bahrain's participation, went on with two Balkan countries, Serbia and Kosovo. The manner in which two countries from the Gulf and two from the Balkans took part in this normalization took place through protocol practices that were beyond every norm and that demolished norms. In particular, the humiliating treatment meted out to the Balkan countries while they joined the agreement made plain and evident that the normalization was being imposed on them through a threat, pressure or fait accompli.

The abnormal behavior displayed by UAE and Bahraini officials during the agreement with Trump, for its part, showed that they had not joined this agreement with a sober mind, and that even if they were not under pressure, they had thoroughly lost their heads. Above all, the strange and childish demeanor of the representative who took part on behalf of the UAE was like an edifying emblem of the loss of mind, personality and dignity with which they joined this agreement.

"Normalization" with Israel can thus in fact only be realized under quite abnormal conditions and by departing from normal relations. These pictures showed, in an edifying way, very well that a relationship with Israel cannot be sustained by free will and while remaining normal.

A more striking example of this is the possibility of an agreement with Sudan, which has not yet been completed. In fact, as of this hour it is still not clear whether Sudan will join this agreement. Last week a report attributed to an Israeli source stated that Israeli and Sudanese officials would meet in Abu Dhabi in a meeting also attended by US and UAE officials. But there is an important detail that distinguishes the news of Sudan's participation from the others. According to this detail, in return for steps of normalization with Israel, the US is promised to remove Sudan from the "state sponsors of terrorism" list on which it has kept Sudan for years.

Now think: because of the embargo and sanctions meted out to Sudan for years on account of this list, a whole people has been punished, and millions of people have suffered from hunger and the absence of medicine, from a thousand and one kinds of deprivation and disease. None of this mattered; it did not prick the conscience of the US, nor of Europe of course, nor of Israel. Now Sudan is the same Sudan; in fact no change has occurred either in its politics or in its stance. But only in return for an agreement with Israel will the sanctions applied to it be lifted.

The name of this is international blackmail. Thus Israel openly emerges as the subject of a blackmail that serves to launder every crime and every terrorism charge: Put your signature on this with Israel, and we will absolve all your crimes. May all the war crimes you have committed be wiped out at once.

Sudan is, because of this embargo and now through the UAE that is trying to influence Sudanese politics, almost held hostage. In return for a very simple gain, merely the ending of sanctions, it is under pressure to sign this agreement with Israel.

In fact the UAE commits far more than the war crimes and crimes against humanity once attributed to Sudan, in Yemen and in many parts of the Islamic world, by taking part in terror, coups and massacres. Even so, is its not being subjected to any sanction due to its joining this scandalous "normalization" process? Let that question stand aside for now.

There is no one who does not know the crimes against humanity it has committed in Yemen and all over the world. But now its relations with Israel will have washed away all its sins.

The same goes for Saudi Arabia. True, it has still not joined this normalization farce, but since it is thought that Muhammad bin Salman has for now done his duty by putting Bahrain forward and supporting this process, his inhuman practices of sawing people into pieces can be covered up and he can be presented to the world as a normal person. Thus Israel appears to have turned into a mechanism of confession that washes away crimes.

For the parties who are held hostage because of their freedoms, their independence, their hunger and their deprivations, although they have committed no crimes, submission to Israel is the only way out offered to them.

That this order of hostage-taking and blackmail, and the laundering of the crimes of the most repugnant criminals through submission to it, is named "normalization" shows the readiness of the brigand to rule the world.

Still, let us not darken our hope and our will, and let us keep saying: The brigand does not become ruler of the world.