Gaza.. When the Security Council falls silent and the victim is put on trial

An opinion article criticizes the UN Security Council's silence on the war in Gaza, analyzing how the Palestinian victim has been transformed into the accused in Western media discourse. The author describes the trial of the victim as the most dangerous stage of the conflict, where the Gazan mother and doctor are asked to justify their existence, while the occupation remains the executioner. The article accuses the international system of losing its moral legitimacy.

An opinion article by Muhammad Mustafa Shahin, published on the Palestine Online website, strongly criticizes the UN Security Council's silence on the Israeli war on Gaza. The author describes the Security Council as a 'council for managing silence and organizing helplessness,' where it meets, discusses, issues statements of concern, and then collides with Israeli rejection. The article argues that silence is not neutrality but a 'complete political act,' and that refraining from stopping the crime is participation in it. The author criticizes the 'trial of the Palestinian victim,' where she is placed in the dock and asked to justify her existence, while the Israeli executioner presents himself as the victim. The article accuses Western media discourse of reproducing this inverted trial, turning resistance into a crime and the hospital into a theater of security suspicion. It points to double standards in the application of international law, where the right to self-determination is sacred in Ukraine and suspicious in Palestine. The article concludes that the issue is no longer humanitarian aid but an international system that has lost its moral legitimacy.