By Margaret Kamba
ZANU PF Secretary for External Relations Cde Simbarashe Mumbengegwi says the West should hang their heads in shame for their double standards.
Speaking during the celebrations to mark the International Day of Solidarity with Palestine at the Theatre in the Park in Harare this Wednesday, Cde Mumbengegwi said the atrocities being carried out on Palestine are beyond comprehending.
"Is there any higher level of terrorism higher than occupying a people, their country, their resources, their wealth and when you resist against that occupation, you are branded a terrorist. The occupier tries to mislead the world that they are the victims. The victims of a people fighting against occupation and that is what we are faced with," Cde Mumbengegwi said.
"The Palestinian people have every right to resist against occupation. It's their right. No people have got any right under international statutes to occupy and control another people.
"Israel has been able to do it because the powers of this world, the Western powers have allowed it and continue to allow it. In fact, we have seen leaders of the Western world flocking to Netanyahu to pay homage in the face of such unprecedented brutality."
Cde Mumbengegwi questioned the lack of compassion displayed by Israel and the western powers.
"How do you vow that you want to raze every building in a country to the ground openly? That you are not going to allow food to get to millions of people, any water, any fuel, medicines, nothing? Having done that, you then move on to bombard clinics, hospitals, schools, without any apology, not by mistake but by intention?
"International law does not allow that but Israel can do it because the western powers allow it. They are carrying out unimaginable massacres and none of the western powers are prepared to pronounce that this is a crime against humanity. They are dead silent."
He said despite the protests in their home countries against their governments, the Western world has stood "idly by and cheered on such murderous attacks against the people."
He added that even with the temporary truce, the leader of the occupying power is determined to continue with the carnage.
"Even the Security Council cannot meet to pass a resolution to stop it because the Americans and their western allies continue to have Vito in the Security Council," Cde Mumbengegwi said.
"The western world should hang their heads in shame for their shameless double standards. That they are prepared to look the other way when bombardment better than bombardment which has been carried out in Hiroshima, Nagasaki did not reach the intensity of destruction."