By Guillermo Alvarado

Finally, after more than 5 months of genocide against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, the UN Security Council showed signs of life and moved in the right direction by passing a resolution for an immediate ceasefire in the Middle East.

The message was very clear to the Zionist government of Israel and means that its political credit began to run out along with its patience in the face of the accumulation of atrocities perpetrated, whose purpose is to wipe off the map a good part of a people, its history and its culture.

To the surprise of many, the United States abstained in the vote, giving the green light to a hopeful resolution, not because I believe that Tel Aviv will abide by it, far from it, but because from now on Benjamin Netanyahu knows that he does not have a political umbrella for his outrages.

The mobilization of the American people, including many non-Zionist Jews, to demand that the White House end its support for the genocide that has already caused more than 32,000 deaths and 74,000 wounded, has a lot to do with this.

Joseph Biden finally realized, not out of conscience or humanity, the grave mistake he is making in an election year where his reelection is at stake.

Washington's abstention has already had a collateral effect: Netanyahu immediately announced that he was suspending the trip of a delegation to the northern power, whose final objective undoubtedly had to do with more support for the war against the Palestinian civilian population.

It would be desirable that from now on US leaders announce an end to the sending of supplies and financial resources to Israel and that the European Union as a whole does the same.

As I mentioned in a previous work, only the isolation of that State and a rigorous boycott of its products on world markets can force it to stop the war and return the occupied territories to their legitimate owners.

The boycott project exists and most of the corporations associated with Israeli capitals are identified; it is only a question of will and coherence to apply it with maximum rigor.

Chile took an important step by banning the presence of Israeli military and security companies at its International Air and Space Fair and other governments can do the same in other areas so that Tel Aviv understands that it cannot do as it pleases.

The Security Council resolution is very valuable, but it is only a first step by that body which, thank goodness, managed to show that it is nevertheless moving.