Along with the new international order, at the end of World War II, the State of Israel emerged in accordance with Resolution 181 of the United Nations General Assembly in 1947, which proclaimed the partition of Palestine into two states: one Jewish and one Palestinian. Israel declared its independence in May 1948, causing a wide division in the international community and rejection by the Arab world of the resolution, as well as the expulsion of 750,000 Palestinians in what is known as the Nakba, along with the occupation of almost 80% of their land, including much of Jerusalem. That same year, the first Arab Israeli war broke out, with the latter emerging victorious.

The historical truth is that the fate of the Palestinians had been sealed at the end of the Great War (1914-1918) with the defeat and disappearance of the Ottoman Empire, which had controlled, among others, the territories of the Middle East, including Palestine, since 1517. Two of the victorious countries, England and France, divided the spoils, securing for London—through a mandate assigned by the nascent League of Nations in 1920 and implemented two years later—control of Mesopotamia, Palestine, the Suez Canal, and Egypt, a territory it had already occupied since 1882. For their part, the French appropriated Greater Syria, which included Lebanon and Jordan.

The map of the Middle East remains under the shadow of the 20th century, with unresolved problems, where millions of Palestinians continue to wait for the creation of a state. The Hamas terrorist attack on October 7, 2023, left 1,200 victims, including children, and 250 hostages, of whom an estimated 40 are still alive. The response of Benjamin Netanyahu's government, legitimate in the face of aggression, has today exceeded all acceptable limits of a civilized society and international law, and few hesitate to describe it as genocide. Nearly 55,000 dead, tens of thousands wounded, the destruction of cities, and a military siege that prevents the entry of water, food, and medicine: in other words, all the norms of humanitarian law violated in full view of the major powers and humanity watching the horrors of the Tel Aviv government on television.

Israel is becoming isolated and condemned by the world's public opinion. The Netanyahu government has divided its own society and the millions of Jews living around the world. The consequences of this barbarity will be borne for years by the new generations who will grow up with the weight of what has been done by this government, which has only the unconditional support of the most powerful country on the planet, the United States, and its European allies, who still carry on their conscience the guilt of atavistic anti-Semitism and the horrors committed in the 20th century against the Jewish people.

The damage done to Israel's future and to the legitimacy of the international system is reflected in the loss of credibility of the United Nations, bringing us ever closer to collapse. Israel joined the United Nations in 1949 and maintained diplomatic relations with nearly 160 of the 193 member states of the international body. Of 22 Arab countries, only four recognize Israel. Five Latin American states have broken diplomatic relations with Tel Aviv, some are considering doing so, and others have withdrawn their ambassadors and military attachés. Do these measures have any effect in stopping the aggression, or are they merely symbolic acts?

In January 1943, during World War II, the Chilean government broke diplomatic relations with Germany, Italy, and Japan due to strong pressure from the United States, which was already emerging as a world power. There was much opposition to the measure in Chile due to the strong presence of German and Italian communities that sympathized with these countries. In 1962, President Kennedy's administration imposed a total blockade on Cuba, which has remained in place for more than 60 years. In 1973, with the arrival of Pinochet's military dictatorship in Chile, which lasted for 17 years, all socialist countries at the time, except for the People's Republic of China and Romania, broke off diplomatic relations. In 1991, faced with the imminent fall of the apartheid regime in South Africa, Western countries imposed harsh economic sanctions on the racist regime, which collapsed that same year. In 2014, in response to Russia's occupation of Crimea and subsequent invasion of Ukraine, the United States and its allies maintained economic and financial sanctions against Moscow.

The international community should question the effectiveness of these measures, which exert pressure but do not change reality. Only collective action by the United Nations Security Council could be effective, but that will not happen. The horrors of Gaza will remain in the pages of history, as will the genocides committed by Germany in Namibia against the Herero and Nama peoples between 1904 and 1907, officially recognized by the Berlin government in 2021, 120 years later. The genocide of the Armenian people conducted by the Turkish government in 1915, which cost the lives of nearly one million people and which the Ankara government refuses to acknowledge, but not the international community. Germany and its extermination camps during World War II, with millions of Jews, Polish patriots, communists, homosexuals, and disabled people. More than one million dead in the gulags of the Soviet Union and a couple more under the terror of Stalin's dictatorship. The two million victims of Pol Pot's communist regime in Cambodia between 1976 and 1979.

The list is much longer, but we can already ask ourselves how many years will have to pass before the genocide of the Palestinian people being conducted by the Israeli government, is recognized and condemned.