Gaza-Colombia Is on The Way

Gaza-Colombia Is on The Way

A President Ready To Take Real Action

Colombian President Gustavo Petro just walked into the United Nations and did what no Western leader has the spine to do: he clearly called Israel’s slaughter of Palestinians a genocide, and then demanded not press release, or “deep concern” statement, but an actual international army to stop it.

Not peacekeepers with blue helmets there to “observe” the bodies pile up. An army.

Petro basically told the world, enough words, grab a rifle.

“Humanity cannot allow a single day more,” Petro said on September 23rd at the UN General Assembly, in a speech that immediately had the U.S. State Department flustered.

He called out Netanyahu, Washington, Brussels, he called them all genocidal accomplices. And then invited the armies of Asia, Slavic nations, and Latin America to form a coalition that “does not accept genocide” and march into Gaza.

If Palestine dies, Petro warned, humanity dies with it.

Within hours, his U.S. visa was revoked.

This is the same government that doesn’t bat an eye at Israel dropping 2,000-pound bombs on refugee camps, hospitals, or schools but is able to move faster than lightning to punish a foreign head of state for telling the truth.

Petro even went further, urging U.S. soldiers to disobey Trump’s orders if they’re asked to aid Israel’s campaign of annihilation.

The U.S. warhawks of course are trying to claim he’s “unhinged”.

Too radical. A demagogue.

In reality what he proposed is basically the only moral response left when the U.S. veto machine has caused all diplomatic resolutions to try to save Palestine through the U.N. impotent.

Petro even invoked the “Uniting for Peace” resolution, the Cold War-era loophole designed to bypass Security Council vetoes when the veto is being used to shield war crimes.

If the U.S. wants to keep blocking justice, fine, then the rest of the world can move without it.

Colombia isn’t exactly a military powerhouse. But Petro isn’t naive, he knows this isn’t about Colombia single-handedly invading Gaza. This is about opening the door for nations sick of American hegemony to finally act. If enough of them decide to put troops in the field, Washington suddenly has a choice: admit its empire is no longer feared, or try to fight them all.

Neither option looks good.