A mixed blessing at the UN
3 Comments Published by Avi Green on Saturday, December 08, 2018 at 8:26 AM.
For once, in a way, a victory was scored at the UN as a majority voted in favor of the USA's resolution for condemning Hamas, but it was one that required two thirds to fully adopt:
A U.S.-sponsored draft resolution that condemned the Palestinian Islamic terror group Hamas, which rules Gaza with an iron fist, garnered unprecedented support at the U.N. General Assembly on Thursday, while ultimately falling short of the two-thirds majority needed to pass.It sure sounds like the two third requirement was deliberately taken up so they wouldn't have to adopt the resolution. Still, the result is significant, as it shows some countries are starting to recognize the importance of not being lenient on terrorist movements, and let's hope they'll be willing to vote for condemning the PLO as well in the forseeable future.
Before the vote on the resolution, the 193-member world body had narrowly voted to require a two-thirds majority for approval as sought by Arab nations, rather than the simple majority urged by the United States.
In the end, the vote on the resolution to condemn Hamas was 87 in favor against 57 opposed, with 33 abstentions — a plurality but below the two-thirds requirement to adopt it. The vote to require a two-thirds majority was much closer, 75-72, with 26 abstentions and several countries changing their votes to “yes” at the last minute.
The U.S. attempted to condemn Hamas for firing hundreds of rockets at Israeli civilians and using airborne incendiary devices to commit millions of dollars of damage in arson terror.
Labels: anti-americanism, anti-semitism, dhimmitude, islam, Israel, jihad, political corruption, terrorism, UN corruption, United States, White House
Harvard Law Professor Alan M. Dershowitz said:
“It is virtually impossible to get the United Nations
to condemn any Arab terrorist group or state for
any attack on Israel or Jewish institutions.
Yet there is an eagerness to condemn Israel,
whether Israel is right or wrong.”
SOURCE: Chutzpah by Alan M. Dershowitz
(chapter 7, page 225), year 1991, by Little Brown & Co
ISBN: 9780316181372 * ISBN: 0316181374
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Daniel Byman said:
“…for years, the United Nations (UN) refused to
condemn terrorism, due to sympathy for national
liberation movements that used terrorism as a tactic,
auch as the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO).”
SOURCE: Al Qaeda, the Islamic State,
and the Global Jihadist Movement:What Everyone
Needs to Know (chapter 9, page 187)
by Daniel Byman, Oxford University Press, year 2015,
ISBN: 019021726X (paperback) ISBN: 9780190217266
(paperback) ISBN: 0190217251 ISBN: 9780190217259
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“…UNRWA’s definition of refugee is not
dependent on need, and even applies to
citizens of recognized states, such as Jordan.”
SOURCE: The Media’s Unredeemable ‘Reporting’
on UNRWA by Sean Durns / JNS.org * 2018/9/22
www.algemeiner.com/2018/11/22/the-medias-unredeemable-reporting-on-unrwa/
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“Instead, UNRWA schools and facilities have been
used to promote hatred and murder of Israelis.
For example, a March 7, 2016 ceremony at an
UNRWA school in Gaza City celebrated stabbing Jews.
UNRWA officials have also posed with maps
erasing Israel and have been caught
disseminating anti-Semitic materials.”
SOURCE: The Media’s Unredeemable ‘Reporting’
on UNRWA by Sean Durns / JNS.org * 2018/9/22
www.algemeiner.com/2018/11/22/the-medias-unredeemable-reporting-on-unrwa/
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“Yet according to a 2011 report by the
Center for Near East Policy Research,
UNRWA has four times as many staff members
as UNHCR does — despite the fact that UNRWA
deals with six times fewer refugees than UNHCR.
In fact, instead of working to resettle
refugees, UNRWA employees have been caught
working for Hamas and praising Hitler.”
SOURCE: The Media’s Unredeemable ‘Reporting’
on UNRWA by Sean Durns / JNS.org * 2018/9/22
www.algemeiner.com/2018/11/22/the-medias-unredeemable-reporting-on-unrwa/
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“UNRWA employees have been caught praising
anti-Jewish violence, and, per a 2015 UN
investigation, [that] the organization’s
facilities were used by terrorist groups
to launch and store rockets during the
2014 Israel-Hamas War.”
SOURCE: The Media’s Unredeemable ‘Reporting’
on UNRWA by Sean Durns / JNS.org * 2018/9/22
www.algemeiner.com/2018/11/22/the-medias-unredeemable-reporting-on-unrwa/
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Speech Exposes United Nations’s Hatred of Israel & Jews:
speaker: Anne Bayefsky * date: 2014 September 8
www.aish.com/jw/me/UNs-Anti-Semitism.html
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The United Nations vs. Israel by Anne Bayefsky
The United Nations is obsessed with one country’s human
rights record, and it’s not North Korea, Iran or Syria.
www.aish.com/jw/me/The-UN-vs-Israel.html
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“The United Nations does not want to deal with
anti-Semitism because the organization would
be exposed as the global platform for anti-Semitism.”
SOURCE: The UN’s Jewish Problem by Anne Bayefsky
www.aish.com/jw/me/UNs-Jewish-Problem.html
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Eradicating the Right to Self-Defense by Anne Bayefsky
Learn how the International Court of Justice
(the UN's legal branch) has decreed new rules
which redefine the right of self-defense, in a
way which is custom-tailored to make it illegal
for Israel to defend itself against radical Islamic terrorists.
www.aish.com/jw/me/48908817.html
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UN Leader Ban Ki-moon, in Departing Speech,
Admits Anti-Israel Bias at World Body
posted on 2016 December 16 by JNS.org
www.jns.org/news-briefs/2016/12/16/un-leader-ban-ki-moon-in-departing-speech-admits-anti-israel-bias-at-world-body#
(JNS.org) United Nations Secretary-General
Ban Ki-moon, who is stepping down at the
end of the year, acknowledged in a departing
speech that there is “disproportionate”
bias against Israel at the world body.
"We must never accept bias against Israel
within U.N. bodies,” Ban said Friday.
Ban went on to admit that the U.N. has
a "disproportionate volume of resolutions,
reports and conferences criticizing Israel,”
and that: "in many cases, rather than helping
the Palestinian cause, this reality has
hampered the ability of the U.N. to fulfill
its role effectively."
Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. Danny Danon
commended Ban’s statement and noted the
disproportionate number of anti-Israel
resolutions passed at the U.N. in recent years.
"The secretary-general admitted the clear truth
—the U.N.’s hypocrisy towards Israel has broken
records over the past decade. During this time
the U.N. passed 223 resolutions condemning Israel
while only eight resolutions condemning the
Syrian regime as it has massacred its citizens
over the past six years. This is absurd," said Danon.
At the same time, Ban urged Israeli lawmakers
to reconsider the controversial outpost bill,
which would legalize Israeli settlements on
private Palestinian land.
"I strongly urge legislators to reconsider
advancing this bill, which will have negative
legal consequences for Israel and substantially
diminish the chances for Arab-Israeli peace," Ban said.
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Does the United Nations (U.N.)
discriminate against Israel?
“Israel is the ONLY U.N. state not
permitted to be a full member of any
of the U.N.’s five regional groups.
Throughout the Human Rights Council
sessions, these groups hold key planning
meetings in which countries negotiate and
share important information behind closed doors.
Even the Palestinian Authority,
though not a state, is permitted
into the Asian regional group.”
SOURCE: article by Anne Bayefsky
2010/9/24 in The Jewish Voice.
Anne Bayefsky is a Senior Fellow at
the Hudson Institute and Director of
the Touro Institute on Human Rights
and the Holocaust.