The Double Standards of Western Countries Toward Ukraine and Palestine “Western Hypocrisy”

Abstract

The Palestinian sources of alarm are many. They wonder where the western countries' moral and legal outrage was regarding the clear instances of international standards violations, like the Israeli occupation of Palestine since 1948. The Palestinians see double standards in western policies. Many find the West's approaches to threatening the national security of Russia through separating Ukraine from its Russian roots, a closer association with NATO states, and imposing thousands of types of sanctions on Russia disturbing. However, as a faulty and unrealistic policy. Sadly, despite hundreds of UN and Security Council resolutions, reports from hundreds of human rights organizations, and despite the Palestinians' struggles to end the Israeli occupation since 1948 based on UN Security Council resolution 181, the West was unable to impose any sanctions on Israel. One thing becomes clear to us: the Israeli occupation army's procedures in the Palestinian territories have breached all of these judgments and western principles.