Israel's Exit From U.N. Or The Antisemitism Of The U.N. Security Council

Posted: 12/26/2016

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The shameful passing of U.N. Resolution 2334 on December 23, 2016! Just before Hannukah and Christmas during the lame duck session after the 2016 U.S. presidential election! This was the first Israeli-Arab conflict U.N. resolution in about eight years. Enough is enough!

Still president Obama goes down in history as one of the worst U.S. presidents since Franklin D. Roosevelt (Obama has done far more to deserve this designation. This last action just confirms it all!)! Such a spiteful or malicious U.S. president is almost unheard of in recent times! (I have previously blogged here about Obama’s already terrible legacy before this action)

It is appalling and very disappointing that none of the Western countries on the U.N. Security Council (France, United Kingdom, Spain, New Zealand, United States of America) voted against this appalling, anti semitic resolution.

China clearly missed this opportunity to become a responsible global player and to become a positive force on the world stage.

Resolution Reeks Of Anti Semitism

How many biased resolutions against Israel has the United Nations passed since its inception? This latest one is no different!

Pertinent quotes from the press release and resolution plus comments (emphasis added; Source: U.N. press release):

1. “The Security Council reaffirmed this afternoon that Israel’s establishment of settlements in Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, including East Jerusalem, had no legal validity, constituting a flagrant violation under international law and a major obstacle to the vision of two States living side-by-side in peace and security, within internationally recognized borders.” (First sentence of the resolution)
   [Has there ever been a U.N. resolution condemning all the terrorist acts (suicide bombers, stabbings, vehicle attacks etc.); using children as soldiers; building of attack tunnels underneath the border; constant rockets firing; using population as human shields; using hospitals, ambulances, or schools as military facilities and so on coming from the Palestinian territories]
2. “... the Council reiterated its demand that Israel immediately and completely cease all settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem.  It underlined that it would not recognize any changes to the 4 June 1967 lines, including with regard to Jerusalem, other than those agreed by the two sides through negotiations.”
3. “The Council called for immediate steps to prevent all acts of violence against civilians, including acts of terror, as well as all acts of provocation and destruction.  It further called for the strengthening of ongoing efforts to combat terrorism, including through existing security coordination, and to clearly condemn all acts of terrorism.  The Council called on both sides to observe calm and restraint, and to refrain from provocative actions, incitement and inflammatory rhetoric in order to de-escalate the situation on the ground and rebuild trust and confidence.”
   [Laughable, hollow words in the face of decades long attacks from Arabs coming from Gaza or West Bank. This phony appearance of neutral resolution language also insinuates some equivalency between Israeli and Arab violence, which is absurd!]
4. “ It called upon all States to distinguish, in their relevant dealings, between the territory of the State of Israel and the territories occupied since 1967.”
5. ““Reaffirming the obligation of Israel, the occupying Power, to abide scrupulously by its legal obligations and responsibilities under the Fourth Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of 12 August 1949, and recalling the advisory opinion rendered on 9 July 2004 by the International Court of Justice,”
   [Pure Antisemitism!]
6. ““Condemning all measures aimed at altering the demographic composition, character and status of the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967, including East Jerusalem, including, inter alia, the construction and expansion of settlements, transfer of Israeli settlers, confiscation of land, demolition of homes and displacement of Palestinian civilians, in violation of international humanitarian law and relevant resolutions,”
   [No mentioning of how Christians are treated in the West Bank or Gaza. What about other minorities? This absolutely one sided, no pretense of neutrality!]
7. ““Expressing grave concern that continuing Israeli settlement activities are dangerously imperilling the viability of the two-State solution based on the 1967 lines,”
8. I stop quoting here, any reader will get the point!

No Western country should have ever signed language like “territory occupied since 1967” or “East Jerusalem” or “not recognize any changes to the 4 June 1967 lines”. This is incredible! How many times did the Arabs attack Israel since its founding?

Severely Undermining The Negotiation Position Of Israel

Until I read the text of the resolution, I could not believe how much damage the Western countries have done! It’s absolutely appalling and disappointing!

The Widespread Bias Against And Animosity Towards Settlements

I admit freely that I am not an expert on the settlements in Israel. However, speaking in general terms, these settlements are peaceful acts of a growing population faced with a decades unresolved Israeli-Arab conflict. Thus, I would generally view these settlements as positive developments.

U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power

I have blogged here about Samantha Power about 3 years ago and had a poor opinion of her back then.

The official U.N. press release states about Samantha Power’s position (emphasis added):

“Explaining her delegation’s abstention… it had been a long-standing position of her country that settlements undermined Israel’s security and eroded prospects for peace and stability.  She emphasized, however, that her vote today had not been straightforward.  Explaining that Israel had been treated differently from other States for as long as it had been a member of the United Nations, she noted that during the course of 2016, 18 resolutions adopted in the General Assembly and others in the Human Rights Council had all condemned Israel.  It was because of that bias that the United States had not voted in favour of the resolution, she said, emphasizing that her delegation would not have let the resolution pass had it not addressed terrorism and incitement to violence.”

Could there ever have been a greater fool becoming the highest representative of the U.S. at the U.N.?

With Obama’s and Samantha Power’s abstention the U.N. passed another, the 19th resolution in 2016 against Israel.

ILExit From United Nations Highly Recommended

First, the prime minister of Israel should send all Western ambassadors who voted for this U.N. resolution packing immediately!

Second, Israel should withdraw from the U.N.!