'Guarded Support for Call for Global Action September 18, 2025'

Dear IDG colleagues,

'Guarded Support for Call for Global Action September 18, 2025'

The note below is further to in depth discussions during a Sept 4 'Agora' meeting. We looked from various perspectives towards developing a more definitive response about these Palestinian NGO Network links:

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A worldwide Call for Action and Strike on Thursday September 18 2025 issued by the Palestinian NGO Network and endorsed by grassroots organizations representing millions of people around the world.

https://en.pngoportal.org/post/3950/Palestinian-and-Global-Civil-Society-Call-for-a-Global-Day-of-Action-and-Strike-September-18th-2025

Demand United Nations General Assembly Send Protective Force to Palestine and Unseat Israel.

Organizing Zoom Webinar 10am Eastern Friday September 5:

https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xBVwDhTYSgKFQ0XHho9iWw#/registration__________________

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Below is Neil's note September 6, 2025:

Guarded Support for Call for Global Action September 18, 2025

With great reservations I’ve come to believe it may be best to support this international campaign directed at the UN General Assembly for UN intervention in the genocide. Or, at least, not oppose it outright.

My big reservation, in short, is that such UN intervention would likely politicallysideline the Palestinian resistance. The resistance which has the support of the majority of Palestinians living in Palestine. The resistance is why the larger world is even talking about Palestine today. The resistance is why the ethnic cleansing of Gaza has not already been completed. The resistance which is today leveraging its remaining Israeli prisoners of war for the release of thousands of Palestinian prisoners being held and tortured in Israeli prisons.

We need to see from which segments of Palestinian society this initiative springs, which political formations would potentially be strengthened by it and which not.

That it might force the inflow of massive aid to Gaza is so needed, of course.

That it might slow and limit Israel’s ongoing slaughter and devastation of Gaza, is so important, of course.

That it might officially isolate Israel internationally and embolden UN member nations to impose further sanctions on Israel, is so important, of course.

But whatever emergency measures the UNGA might enact would, in my opinion, tend to “freeze” the conflict, continuing Zionist Israel's existence and occupation of Palestine. We would be naïve to think that a UN force would go directly militarily against Israel’s military forces to end the apartheid subjugation and bombing of Palestinians. Nor would a UN “protective force” engage the large numbers of armed civilian Zionists in order to liberate the West Bank as Palestinian territory. At best UN forces would “position” themselves at certain locations, but what they would be able to do, practically, would be limited. At worst they would act againstthe Palestinian resistance. The latter is indeed very possible, perhaps probable.

Achieving a “Free Palestine” implies a leading role of the Palestinian armed resistance, which this initiative at the UNGA would tend to, at best, sideline. That is the devil I see in this scheme for "saving Gaza."

You have my permission to share this.

With my best wishes,

Neil Dunaetz

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With trust,

Katarina Halm

September 6, 2025

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