THE Egyptian Communist Party condemns in the strongest terms the UN security council’s vote on the draft resolution submitted by the US administration, which was passed by a majority of 13 votes, with Russia and China abstaining.

The party affirms its complete rejection of this resolution, as it seeks to impose US guardianship over the Palestinian people and their just national cause, serving the interests of the zionist occupation and absolving it of its ongoing crimes against the land and the people.

For the first time, a UN resolution has been issued that contains such ambiguity and vagueness in many of its provisions, whether in defining the UN’s responsibility to monitor its implementation by the parties concerned, or in determining who will form the peace council that will rule and administer the Gaza Strip against the will of its people, or in forming international forces and precisely defining their tasks.

In fact, it has given them executive tasks that will be interpreted as disarming the resistance, even though this is contrary to international conventions and norms! Furthermore, the resolution does not stipulate the immediate withdrawal of the zionist occupation forces from all the territories of the Strip.

The imposition of US guardianship on the international community in this manner, under the cover and with the approval of the United Nations, would not have been possible without the inability of the Palestinian Authority and Arab and Islamic countries to take a clear position rejecting this resolution or amending it substantially to ensure that it is not so blatantly biased towards Israel, as well as the silence of the major powers.

Although this resolution makes a vague and non-binding reference to the unity of the West Bank and Gaza and to the possibility of establishing a Palestinian state, in practice it deliberately separates Gaza from the West Bank politically and geographically due to the difference in administration and form of government between them.

This resolution does not reflect the will of the international community, but rather embodies the complete bias of the United States toward the zionist enemy and its attempt to impose coercive solutions that empty the Palestinian resistance of its substance and ignore the roots of the conflict and the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people, foremost among which is their right to resist occupation in all its forms and their right to self-determination, its right to establish a fully sovereign Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital, and its right of return, as rights guaranteed to the Palestinian people and supported by numerous United Nations resolutions and charters.

This resolution also makes the United States, the main adversary of the Arab peoples, a mediator and the sole sponsor of peace, even though it is a hostile party that colludes with the occupation and provides it with political cover to carry out its bloody uprooting of a people from their land.

It also gives the zionist enemy justification to renege on its commitment to United Nations resolutions and international legitimacy, and gives it the opportunity to achieve through it what it has failed to achieve in two years of war, destruction, and genocide against the Palestinian people.

The party believes that any attempt to bypass the Palestinian resistance as the true representative of the will of the people to protect their land and rights is an attempt to reproduce the American-zionist approach of dictates, which the people have rejected and exposed through years of aggression, starvation, and siege.

The party also stresses that a just solution cannot come through Washington, but rather through full recognition of the rights of the Palestinian people, an end to aggression, an end to occupation and settlement, and the launch of a genuine political process based on international legitimacy and the right of peoples to self-determination, free from any domination or guardianship.

The Egyptian Communist Party, reiterating its unwavering support for the resistance and steadfastness of the Palestinian people, calls on progressive and labour forces and popular organisations around the world to raise their voices against this dangerous encroachment on Palestinian rights, and affirms that the struggle for freedom and justice in Palestine is an integral part of the struggle of peoples against imperialism, subjugation, and backwardness.

Glory to the resistance! Freedom for Palestine!