Within days of Russians invasion Western countries summoned international The law, which imposed harsh penalties, began to welcome refugees with With open arms and cheering on Ukrainian armed resistance.
The response sparked outrage across the Middle East, with many seeing it as outrageous double standard in how The West responds to international conflicts.
“We have seen all the means we were told could not be activated for over 70 years spread in Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki said at a security forum in Turkey earlier this month. “Amazing hypocrisy” added.
The war led by the United States in Iraq, which began 19 years ago this month, was widely seen as illegal invasion of one another country. But the Iraqis who They fought, Americans were branded terrorists, and refugees fleeing to the West were often turned away, treated as potential security threats.
The Biden administration said Wednesday that the United States has assessed that Russian forces have committed war crimes in Ukraine will work with others to prosecute the perpetrators. But the United States is not a member of The International Criminal Court is strongly opposed to any of them international probe of her behavior or of Its ally is Israel.
When Russia intervened in The civil war in Syria on On behalf of of Bashar al-Assad in 2015, he helped his forces bomb and starve entire cities into submission, he was there international Anger but a little work. Syrian refugees who fled to Europe have died on Perilous or diverted cruises back Many also described them as a threat to Western culture.
In Yemen, a grinding war that lasted for years between the Saudi-led forces coalition The Iranian-backed Houthi rebels left 13 million people at risk of famine. But even wild accounts of Babies are starving death Did not bring sustainable international Interest.
Bruce Riddell, formerly of The CIA and the National Security Council, now a senior It’s “understandable” to many, said a fellow at the Brookings Institution in The Middle East sees a double standard from the West.
“The United States and the United Kingdom have supported Saudi Arabia’s seven-year-old war in Yemen, which created the world’s worst humanitarian disaster in contracts,” he said.
Israeli occupation of Palestinians go down want for a future The country is in its sixties, and millions of Palestinians live under military rule with Infinity in Scene. The United States, Israel and Germany passed legislation aimed at Palestinian-led oppression boycott movement, while the big companies like It owns McDonald’s, ExxonMobil, and Apple won Praise comment business in Russia.
On social mediaThe world The Ukrainians cheered as they stockpiled and took Molotov cocktails up arms against occupying army. When Palestinians and Iraqis do the same, they are designated as terrorists and as legitimate targets.
“We resisted the occupiers, even when world I was with Americans, including Ukrainians, who They were part of They are coalition, said Sheikh Jabbar Al-Rubaie, 51 years old. who fight in 2003-2011 Iraqi Insurgency against American forces.
“Because of world I was with The Americans did not give us This glory and call us national resistance instead Emphasizing the religious character of the rebellion, he said. “This is it of Of course double standardas if we were without humans.”
Abdul Amir Khaled A 41year old Baghdad handover driversees “there is no difference” between the Iraqi and Ukrainian resistance.
“If anything, resist the Americans in Iraq was more Justified, given that Americans traveled by the thousands of kilometers to come to our country, while the Russians pursue a supposed threat next door to them,” he said.
He is sureThere are important differences between war in Ukraine – clear Issue of one A UN Member State Invades Another – And Conflicts in The Middle East, which often involves civil war and extremism.
By and large, the conflicts in the Middle East are incredibly amazing complicated. Aaron David Miller said, A senior Fellow of the Carnegie Endowment for international peace and former Middle East advisor for republican and democratic administrations.
Ukraine conflict said unique in her degree of moral clarity with Russia is widely seen as waging an aggressive and destructive war against her neighbour. The closest analogy in the Middle East may be to Iraq invasion of Kuwait in 1990, when Washington responded by collecting a military coalition Including the Arab countries that drove the car out Iraqi forces.
However, Miller admits that the United States is a foreign policy “Full of with Anomalies, contradictions, contradictions, and yes hypocrisy.”
United State invasion of Afghanistan was a response to the 9/11 attacks, planned by Osama bin Laden while he was in a Taliban shelter there. The United States justified its war in Iraq with false Claims about weapons of mass destruction, but invasion also Toppled a brutal dictator who He has degraded himself international Law and crimes committed against humanity.
still invasion Most Iraqis and other Arabs consider it an unjustified disaster set The theater for Years of Sectarian strife and bloodshed.
Elliott Abrams, A senior board member on When the United States invaded Iraq, the foreign relations adviser and the White House said, there is a difference between the Ukrainians fighting the Russian invaders and the rebels. in Iraq who Americans fought.
“The Iraqis who Fight the American forces on On behalf of of He said, referring to ISIS, neither Iran nor ISIS were freedom fighters group. Making these moral distinctions is not work of hypocrisy. “
History of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict back more from U.S century Long before the 1967 war in Israel captured East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza. Most of The world These areas are considered occupied Palestinian land and that Israel’s continued construction of settlements constitutes a violation of international Law. Israel portrays the conflict as a territorial one and accuses the Palestinians of He refused to accept its right to exist as a Jewish state.
Russia’s intervention in Syria was a part of complex civil war in Which several factions – including ISIS group – Atrocities committed. ISIS also seized large parts of Syria and Iraq Many extremists fear they will slip into Europe in waves of refugees.
still a lot in The Middle East has seen cruel treatment of Arab and Muslim immigrants as evidence that Western countries still contain cultural prejudices despite their embrace of universal rights and values.
Many feel that their suffering is taken seriously because of There is widespread opinion that the Middle East has always been overwhelmed in Violence – The West Doesn’t Matter role in creating and sustain a lot of her intractable struggles.
“There is this expectation, drawn From colonialism, this is more Normal for us To be killed, to grieve for our families, for what it is for Enas Abdel Razek said, Invitation director for Palestine Institute for Public diplomacy.
