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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Israeli PM ready to kill thousands more, Palestinian envoy tells UNGA

2024-05-11

[GEO.TV] With Israel all set to invade Rafah, a UN General Assembly (UNGA) session on a resolution about "rights and privileges" for Paleostine that would call on the Security Council to favourably reconsider Paleostine’s request to become the 194th member of the UN has begun, Al Jazeera reported.

Addressing the session, Paleostinian ambassador to the UN Riyad Mansour said: "I stand before you as more than 35,000 Paleostinians have been killed, 80,000 have been maimed, two million have been displaced, and everything has been destroyed.

"I stand before you as the Israeli prime minister is ready to kill thousands more to ensure his political survival."

He added: "Your vote today of course says a lot about your solidarity with Paleostine but also about who you are and what you stand for."

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Palestinians officially relaunch bid to become United Nations member state, US ‘signals opposition’

2024-04-04

[IsraelTimes] Palestine Liberation Organization seeks recognition as state from world body, which granted it observer status in 2012, but vote on application can be vetoed by US.

I’m confused. They keep telling us the Palestinian Authority government is nothing like the PLO, even though PA President Mahmoud Abbas is the current head of Fatah, the largest group in the PLO.

The Paleostine Liberation Organization has officially revived its application to become a full member state in the United Nations
...an idea whose time has gone...
, according to a letter from its UN envoy dated Tuesday.

The PLO, which has had observer status at the world body since 2012, has lobbied for years to gain full membership, which would amount to recognition of Paleostinian statehood.

In a letter to UN Secretary-General António Guterres
...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years...
, the Paleostinian UN envoy, Riyad Mansour, requested "upon instructions of the Paleostinian leadership" that an application dating back to 2011 be reconsidered this month by the Security Council.

The letter has been transmitted to the council, according to the documents seen by the AFP news agency.

Mansour has repeatedly said in recent months that in the face of Israel’s military offensive in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip in response to the devastating October 7 onslaught by Hamas
Hamas

...a regional Iranian catspaw,...
, UN membership was a priority for the PA.

A council committee of 15 members first assesses an application to see if it satisfies the requirements for UN membership. The application can then either be shelved or put forward for a formal vote in the Security Council. Approval requires at least nine votes in favor and no vetoes by the US, Russia, China, La Belle France, or Britannia.

If the council approves the membership request, it then moves to the General Assembly for approval. A membership request needs a two-thirds majority to be approved by the assembly. A country cannot join the United Nations unless both the Security Council and General Assembly approve.

The 2011 application, launched by Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....
, never came before the Security Council for a vote, and the General Assembly voted to grant the PA observer status in November 2012.

The UN Security Council committee assessed the application for several weeks to see if it satisfied the requirements for UN membership. However,
some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go...
the committee was unable to reach a unanimous position and the Security Council never formally voted on a resolution on Paleostinian membership.

Diplomats said the Paleostinians lacked the minimum nine votes needed to adopt a resolution. Even if they had won enough support, the United States had said it would veto the move.

Observers believe the current Paleostinian push for membership is unlikely to reach the assembly as the United States, Israel’s closest ally, could use its Security Council veto power to derail the recommendation.

The League of Arab States, the Organization of the Islamic Conference
OIC is an international organisation with a permanent delegation to the UN, with 57 member states. It represents all countries with substantial Moslem populations (as opposed to the Arab League, which excludes members not of the Master Race) except those which member countries block from joining. These include India, which has more Mohammedans than does Pakistain, whose membership is vetoed by Pakistain...
, and the Non-Aligned Movement sent a letter to Guterres on Tuesday, also seen by AFP, supporting the bid by the PA.

"We wish to bring to your attention that, as of this date, 140 Member States have recognized the state of Paleostine," said the joint letter, which included a list of those countries.

Little progress has been made in achieving Paleostinian statehood since the signing of the Oslo Accords between Israel and the PA in the early 1990s. Among the obstacles are persistent Paleostinian terrorism and incitement against the Jewish state, along with expanding Israeli settlements.

The PA exercises limited self-rule in the West Bank and is Israel’s partner in the Oslo Accords. Hamas in 2007 ousted the Paleostinian Authority from power in the Gaza Strip.

US signals opposition to renewed Palestinian bid for statehood status at UN

[IsraelTimes] State Department says Palestinian state should be established ‘through direct negotiations… not at the United Nations,’ as PLO envoy seeks vote later this month.

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US blocks UN Security Council statement blaming Israel for deadly Gaza aid stampede

2024-03-02

[IsraelTimes] Arab nations have failed to get immediate support for a UN Security Council statement that would have blamed Israeli forces for opening fire at Paleostinians waiting for the delivery of food and other humanitarian aid

near Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
City and killing dozens of people.

Riyad Mansour, the Paleostinian UN ambassador, tells news hounds after an emergency closed council meeting on the deaths, that 14 of the 15 council members supported the statement put forward by Algeria, the Arab representative on the body.

The United States did not support the statement and US deputy ambassador Robert Wood tells a news hound who questions why, "We don’t have all the facts on the ground — that’s the problem."

He says there are contradictory reports and the US is trying to gather all the facts, including regarding the "circumstances around how people died" which is a key issue.

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Hamas's deception‐and our self-deception

2023-10-15

(JNS) Last Sunday, senior Hamas terrorist Ali Baraka told the tale of how Hamas duped Israel and the U.S. into complacency.

In an interview with RT (formerly Russia Today), Baraka said, "In the past couple of years, Hamas has adopted a ’rational’ approach. It did not go into any war and did not join Islamic Jihad in its recent battle, [i.e., its missile assault on Israel in August 2022].

"We made them think Hamas was busy with governing Gaza, and that it wanted to focus on the 2.5 million Palestinians [there] and had abandoned the resistance altogether. All the while, under the table, Hamas was preparing for this big attack."

In other words, Hamas pretended it was a credible partner for negotiations, and that the only problem was Palestinian Islamic Jihad, its Iranian-founded spin-off.

One of the frustrating aspects of Baraka’s admission is that there was nothing new about Hamas’s deception. Deception is an integral part of the jihadist doctrine, going back to the days of Muhammad. Just as important, and frustratingly, even those who are unaware of—or willfully blind to—the centrality of Islamic jihadist doctrine and beliefs for Hamas, should still have been familiar with Hamas’s tactic.

It comes right out of the PLO’s playbook.

Five days after Hamas’s slaughter of more than 1,300 Jews in southern Israel, and on the eve of his meeting Friday in Amman with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, P.A. chairman and PLO/Fatah chief Mahmoud Abbas released a statement.

"We reject the practices of killing civilians or abusing them on both sides because they contravene morals, religion and international law."

Abbas’s statement is notable for many reasons. It doesn’t name Hamas. It draws a moral equivalence between Israel’s counterattack in Gaza and Hamas’s orgiastic rape, torture, murder, immolation and kidnapping of babies, children, women and men. And it came after five days in which Abbas and the rest of Palestinian Arab society did nothing but celebrate and defend Hamas’s atrocities while blaming Israel for the crimes against humanity Hamas conducted against its people.

In his speech on Oct. 10, President Joe Biden intimated that Hamas isn’t representative of the aspirations of the Palestinian Arabs. In his words, "Hamas does not stand for the Palestinian people’s right to dignity and self-determination."

The subtext was clear. Hamas is the bad guy. The Palestinian Authority is the good guy. And if that weren’t apparent as Biden spoke, Blinken’s decision to meet with Abbas made the point explicit.

FATAH AND HAMAS
For five days, Abbas had nothing but praise for Hamas and condemnations for Israel. As Palestinian Media Watch reported, the day after Biden’s speech, Abbas issued a statement of solidarity with Hamas. On Oct. 11, Abbas promised that the P.A. will "stand by our people, the Gaza Strip will not be alone."

The PLO’s ruling Fatah faction (which Abbas also leads) gave gushing praise to Hamas. As MEMRI reported, on Oct. 9, Fatah’s Central Committee praised Hamas for its slaughter and called for national unity—that is, unity between the P.A. and Hamas.

The goal, Fatah stated, is "to rally in a real and conscious fashion around the possibility of national unity, unity in the struggle on the ground, political and diplomatic unity with all means possible to us in order to wage this campaign in a united fashion."

Fatah also called for all Palestinian Arabs to join Hamas’s jihad against Israel.

"The public must answer calls to confront and stand up to the aggression and crimes in Gaza and the West Bank and to escalate all the conflict zones with the occupier [Israel] throughout our homeland Palestine, in order to defend our people and stand with our residents in the Gaza Strip."

Fatah’s terror franchise, the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, posted Koranic calls to jihad on its Telegram pages that are indistinguishable from Hamas’s propaganda. Quoting the verse from the Koran calling for the annihilation of all Jews that Hamas uses in its charter, Fatah exhorted, "Strike the sons of apes and pigs ... slaughter everyone who is Israeli."

Following along the lines of "diplomatic unity" that the Fatah Central Committee called for, the P.A. is serving as Hamas’s foreign ministry. On Tuesday, its U.N. ambassador Riyad Mansour wrote a letter to the Security Council accusing Israel of carrying out "war crimes," and called its decision to stop providing Gaza with free water and electricity "nothing less than genocidal."

On the ground in the Palestinian Authority, the crowds greeted the news of Hamas’s atrocities with jubilation. Celebrations, victory marches and public parties were held from northern Samaria to the South Hebron Hills. Palestinianb Aras mocked the Jewish victims on their social media accounts and celebrated their mass murder. In Huwara in Samaria, a pizzeria posted an advertisement featuring a Holocaust survivor grandmother who is now a hostage in Gaza, holding a pizza. (It was destroyed by the IDF, ed.)

SUFFICIENT TO CONVINCE BLINKEN
The fakery of Abbas’s milquetoast condemnation of Hamas’s atrocities is self-evident when seen in the context of his actions and statements and those of the P.A., PLO, Fatah and the Palestinian Arab public. But it was clearly sufficient to convince Blinken that it is reasonable to meet with him and continue to base U.S. policy on the fiction that the P.A. represents a moderate force within Palestinian Arab society that is willing to peacefully coexist with the Jewish state.

Abbas’s lies and deceptions are his modus operandi just as they were the modus operandi of his predecessor Yassir Arafat and their comrades in the PLO and Hamas. It is a testament to Abbas’s confidence, and his contempt for the U.S., that he felt strong enough not to bother with a full-throated fake condemnation of Hamas.

In the P.A.’s early days in the 1990s, Arafat would routinely condemn Hamas terror attacks against Israel in English and then call for the Palestinian Arabs to slaughter the Jews through jihad in Arabic. Just months after the P.A. was formed in Gaza and Jericho in 1994, Arafat sent his security chief Mohammed Dahlan to negotiate a cooperation pact with Hamas. The deal that was forged gave Hamas a free hand to slaughter Jews so long as the PLO wasn’t implicated.

At the same time, Dahlan was the head of the PLO’s negotiations team on military affairs with Israel. He charmed his Israeli interlocutors by speaking to them in the pigeon Hebrew he learned in Israeli prison, where he was jailed on terrorism convictions in the 1980s. They viewed Dahlan as a moderate, as the tough guy who would take out Hamas for Israel. Dahlan smoked cigarettes with IDF generals at the same time that he closed a cooperation deal with Hamas terror master Mohammed Deif.

In times of calm, Hamas and the P.A. operated separately. And U.S.-funded and trained P.A. security services gave Israel valuable intelligence that led to the break-up of many Hamas cells. But in times of terror offensives, they worked together. The most murderous terror group that operated during the 2000-2004 Palestinian terror war (aka the Second Intifada) was the so-called "Popular Resistance Committees." It was composed of terrorists from Fatah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad.

Now they call them Joint Commands in Gaza, and the Lions something-or-other in the West Bank — united in effort, regardless of the name on the t-shirt.

Hamas’s pretend separation from Islamic Jihad, and its use of Islamic Jihad to persuade Israel and the U.S. that it had moderated, was the same trick.

THE LIE OF PALESTINIAN MODERATION
Israel and the U.S. have refused to acknowledge that they have been played by the P.A. the same way they were played by Hamas for the past two years, and Hamas was able to deceive Israel and the U.S. for two years because they wanted to be deceived. Israel’s generals wanted to believe that the Palestinian Arabs aren’t implacable foes. They can be appeased. We don’t have to defeat them.

And the Biden administration, like most of its predecessors, wanted to believe the deception—and to still believe it in the P.A.’s case—because they want to believe that Israel is to blame for the violence waged against it. The lie of Israeli culpability is the foundation of 50 years of U.S. Middle East peacemaking efforts. The lie of Palestinian Arab moderation is the rationale for 50 years of near-continuous U.S. pressure on Israel to concede territory to the Palestinian Arabs. It has been the justification and rationale for the U.S. opposition to any effort by Israel to defeat the PLO on the battlefield.

The constant assertion "There is no military solution to the Palestinian conflict with Israel" is predicated on the notion that there is a political solution.
There IS a political solution - Arab countries should take their own back.

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UN puts Russian forces on blacklist for killing children and attacking schools in Ukraine

2023-06-24

[An Nahar] The United Nations
...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly...
put Russian forces on its annual blacklist of countries that violate children's rights in conflict for killing boys and girls and attacking schools and hospitals in Ukraine, according to a new report seen by The News Agency that Dare Not be Named.

Secretary-General António Guterres

...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years...
said in the report to the Security Council that he is "appalled" by the high number of "grave violations" against children in Ukraine in 2022, "shocked" at the number of attacks on schools and hospitals, "concerned" by the detention of children, and "troubled" that some Ukrainian children have been transferred to Russia.

The U.N. chief did not put Israel on the blacklist for grave violations against 1,139 Paleostinian children, including 54 killings last year — as supporters had hoped.

Instead, he welcomed Israel's engagement with the U.N. special envoy for children in armed conflict, Virginia Gamba and its "identification of practical measures including those proposed by the U.N." to protect children.

Riyad Mansour, the Paleostinian U.N. ambassador, told news hounds Guterres "made a big mistake" in not listing the most extreme government in Israel's history.

"It is very disappointing to the Paleostinian people and to the Paleostinian children," he said.

In the wide-ranging report, the secretary-general said that last year children were disproportionately affected by conflict. He said the U.N. verified grave violations against 13,469 children, including 2,985 who were killed, in 24 countries and one region.

"Grave violations" include the recruitment and use of youngsters by combatants, killings and injuries, sexual violence, abductions, and attacks on schools and hospitals.

Guterres said the spread of conflicts to new areas contributed to a 140% increase in grave violations in Myanmar and a 135% increase in South Sudan. An upsurge in activity by gangs, including al-Qaeda and the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
, also caused a severe deterioration of the situation in the central Sahel, particularly in Burkina Faso
...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other...
, leading to an 85% increase in grave violations.

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Palestinian envoy tells UN ‘we’re at the end of the road’ for 2-state solution

2022-12-01

The annual posturing in the General Assembly, which has no influence and no power to do anything. Essentially they are commemorating the continued thriving of Israel despite all their best efforts to erase the only Jewish state from the map and from history. Woo hoo!

[IsraelTimes] Riyad Mansour blasts United Nations
...boodling on the grand scale...
partition plan on its 75th anniversary; Israeli representative unveils display on ’Jewish Nakba’

The General Assembly later passed a series of four pro-Paleostinian items, including one "noting with deep regret" the UN partition plan adopted on November 29, 1947, and "the Nakba." Another item called for a Nakba commemoration event at the General Assembly Hall next year. A fifth resolution calling on Israel to withdraw from the Golan Heights also passed.

The Paleostinians refer to Israel’s establishment as the Nakba, or "catastrophe," referring to the displacement that Paleostinians experienced during the Jewish state’s War of Independence in 1948-1949.

The partition plan adopted by the General Assembly in 1947 called for independent Jewish and Arab states in what was then British-controlled Mandatory Paleostine. The Jews accepted the plan, but the Arab world rejected it and launched the 1948 war. The Paleostinians have rejected additional offers of statehood since.

Israel’s UN representative, Gilad Erdan, presented an opposing story on Wednesday by unveiling an exhibit at the UN on the "Jewish Nakba," the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Jews from Arab countries and Iran
Iran

...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites....
in the 1940s and 1950s following the partition plan.

"For 75 years, the UN has been telling a completely false story about the ’Nakba,’ which the Paleostinians themselves caused by their refusal to accept the Partition Plan," Erdan said. "I will fight in every way the false narrative that the Paleostinians spread at the UN."

The exhibit features documentation about the lives of Jews in Middle Eastern countries and will be on display for a week at the UN Headquarters in New York.

Speaking to the General Assembly after Mansour, Erdan decried the "Nakba Day" resolution.

"Try to imagine the international community commemorating your country’s Independence Day by calling it a disaster. What a disgrace," Erdan said.

"This General Assembly, this body, voted to adopt Resolution 181 — the Partition Plan. My people, the Jewish people, accepted this resolution without hesitation. But the Arabs and the Paleostinians did not," Erdan said. "Five Arab armies, together with the Arabs living in Israel, tried to destroy and annihilate us."

On Tuesday, the UN held an event marking the International Day of Solidarity with the Paleostinian People.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres
...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years...
said at the event that the "occupation must end," blaming the conflict on occupation, settlements, home demolitions, evictions and closures of Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
crossings.

Guterres and other speakers focused on Israeli forces in the West Bank, and did not mention Paleostinian terrorism, the Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, terror group, Israeli security concerns or Israeli victims of violence.

Another Times of Israel article has the details about the resolutions and votes:

The United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday voted to adopt a pro-Palestinian resolution to commemorate the “Nakba,” the Palestinian term for Israel’s establishment.

The UN resolution calls for a “commemoration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Nakba, including by organizing a high-level event at the General Assembly Hall” in May 2023. It also urges the “dissemination of relevant archives and testimonies.”

The initiative was sponsored by Egypt, Jordan, Senegal, Tunisia, Yemen and the Palestinians and passed by a vote of 90 in favor, 30 against and 47 abstentions.

Israel, Australia, Austria, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, the UK and the US were among the countries that voted against.

Ukraine did not vote. Kyiv sparked a diplomatic spat with Jerusalem by voting in favor of an anti-Israel resolution earlier this month.

Arab and Muslim states Israel has ties with voted in favor, including Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Sudan and the United Arab Emirates.

The General Assembly Nakba item was one of several similar resolutions put forward during the meeting on the “Question of Palestine.”

Another resolution said it was “noting with deep regret the passage of 55 years since the onset of the Israeli occupation” and 75 years since the UN partition plan and “the Nakba” with no resolution to the conflict.

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Palestinian Ambassador to UN Criticizes Guterres for Not Including Israel on ‘List of Shame’

2019-08-05

[AAWSAT] Paleostinian Ambassador to the United Nations
...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense...
expressed his dismay at the fact that UN Secretary General António Guterres

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Israel envoy sounds rocket siren as UN debates Gaza violence

2018-11-14

[IsraelTimes] Security Council meeting ends with no action, Paleostinians blame US for blocking motion to condemn Israel

Israel’s ambassador to the UN Danny Danon sounded a rocket warning siren ahead of the UN Security Council debate on Gazoo, which ended with no agreement on how to address the crisis.

"Every time Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", fires a rocket, children at school, adults at work, families across Israel hear this," he said, before playing a recording of the siren.

Danon said Security Council members that want to blame Israel for the latest fighting with the Hamas terror group in Gazoo are "morally bankrupt" and rejected those who call for restraint by both sides.

Danon told news hounds at UN headquarters in New York that "there is no such thing as both sides."

"There is Hamas that attacks and fires over 460 missiles at civilians and there is Israel that protects its people."

Danon said ahead of closed Security Council consultations late Tuesday that the council must condemn only Hamas "for its aggressive assault on civilians."

Asked about an undercover Israeli military operation that sparked the Hamas attacks and Israeli bombing of Gazoo, Danon said: "We take action to protect our people and we will continue to do that."

The meeting ended with no agreement on a path forward, with the Paleostinian blaming the US for blocking any condemnation of Israel.

Kuwait, which represents Arab countries at the council, and Bolivia requested the meeting following the worst flareup in Gazoo since the 2014 war between Hamas and Israel.

Addressing news hounds after the 50-minute meeting, Paleostinian Ambassador Riyad Mansour said the council was "paralyzed" and had "failed to shoulder its responsibility" to take action to end the violence.

"There is one country that is not allowing discussion at the council," Mansour told news hounds, in a reference to the United States, which has steadfastly supported Israel under US President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
There was no statement from the council on the crisis. Such statements are agreed by consensus by all 15 council members.

A swing and a miss, as usual.

Kuwait’s Ambassador Mansour al-Otaibi said the majority of council members were of the view that the top UN body "should do something" and some suggested a visit to the region, but no decision was taken.

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In first, ‘Palestine' to head bloc of 134 nations at UN

2018-07-26

[IsraelTimes] Paleostinians to preside over the Group of 77, largest's coalition of developing nations; Israeli envoy laments it will become 'a platform for spreading lies and incitement'.

The "State of Paleostine" will reportedly preside next year over the largest bloc of developing nations at the United Nations
...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks...
Paleostine ‐ which is not a member state of the UN but has observer state status ‐ was chosen to head the so-called Group of 77, a consortium now consisting of 134 nations that often speaks in one voice at the UN General Assembly, starting January 1, 2019, The New York Times

...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
reported Tuesday.

"We will be negotiating on behalf of 135 countries," Paleostinian Ambassador to the UN Riyad Mansour told the paper, including his own delegation in the count.

The group was originally founded in 1964 with 77 countries, including Egypt, Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
, Brazil, Thailand and India. Over the years it has grown to include countries such as South Africa, Qatar

...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
, Cuba, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Singapore, and Angola. It represents some 80 percent of the world’s population.

Egypt currently holds the group’s presidency until December 31.

The Foreign Ministry in Israel did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon expressed misgivings about the move.

"The goal of the Group of 77 originally was to facilitate the economic advancement of underdeveloped nations," he told The Times of Israel. "It is unfortunate that it will now become a platform for spreading lies and incitement. This will not promote the G-77’s goals, and encourages the Paleostinians to not engage in negotiations for peace."

The UN General Assembly in 2012 voted overwhelmingly in favor of granting Paleostine "non-state observer status." Three years later, the GA also voted to allow the Paleostinian flag to be raised outside the UN’s iconic building on New York’s East River.

Israel and the US were among the few countries opposing these moves, arguing that unilateral moves ostensibly advancing Paleostinian statehood were counterproductive to efforts to reach a lasting peace agreement.

Mansour, the Paleostinian ambassador, hailed the fact that his delegation will soon preside over one of the largest blocs as a diplomatic success.

"They’re still denying we are a state," Mansour said, referring to Israel and the US. "We walk like a state. We quack like a state. Therefore we are a state."

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Haley blames Hamas for Gaza violence, walks out amid Palestinian UN envoy speech

2018-05-17

[ALMASDARNEWS] The US ambassador left the Security Council chamber Tuesday at the start of a speech by Paleostinian ambassador Riyad Mansour, who sharply criticized Washington’s decision to move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem in defiance of the international body’s resolutions.

Haley defended Israeli troops’ actions and blamed Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, and its Iranian backers for the violence on Gazoo’s border with Israel. "Let’s remember that the Hamas terrorist organization* has been inciting violence for years, long before the United States decided to move our embassy," she said.

"Make no mistake, Hamas is pleased with the results from yesterday," the ambassador added.

Praising Israeli "restraint" in the ongoing border violence, Haley noted "no country in this chamber would act with more restraint than Israel has. In fact the records of several countries here today suggest they would be much less restrained."

According to the ambassador, the US decision to move its embassy to Jerusalem was the right thing to do, and "reflects the reality" of the city being Israel’s capital.

Haley also insisted that the embassy move has no impact on the prospects for an Israeli-Paleostinian peace settlement.

With Paleostinian UN envoy preparing his response, Haley demonstratively walked out of the chamber. During his half-hour long speech, ambassador Riyad Mansour accused Israel of "armed aggression" against the Paleostinian people, and accused the US of "trampling" international law in Monday’s decision.

"No country has the right to place its embassy on occupied land," Mansour said, adding that international agreements, including those created at the UN, demand that the status of Jerusalem be defined in the course of peace negotiations between Israel and Paleostine.

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US blocks UN resolution condemning Israel for deaths in Gaza clashes

2018-04-01

[IsraelTimes] Scrapped Security Council draft urges investigation into IDF response, reaffirms 'right to peaceful protest'

The United States on Saturday blocked a draft UN Security Council statement urging restraint and calling for an investigation of festivities on the Gazoo-Israel border, diplomats said.

Kuwait, which represents Arab countries on the council, presented the proposed statement, which called for an "independent and transparent investigation" of the violence.

The draft council statement also expressed "grave concern at the situation at the border." And it reaffirmed "the right to peaceful protest" and expressed the council’s "sorrow at the loss of innocent Paleostinian lives."

The Israeli military on Saturday night identified 10 of the 16 people reported killed during violent protests along the Gazoo security fence as members of Paleostinian terrorist groups, and published a list of their names and positions in the organizations.

The draft statement was circulated to the council on Friday, but on Saturday the United States raised objections and said it did not support its adoption, a Security Council diplomat told AFP.

The US mission to the United Nations
...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly...
did not immediately respond to a request from AFP for comment.

The proposed statement also called "for respect for international human rights
When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much...
law and international humanitarian law, including protection of civilians," according to the draft seen by AFP.

Council members "called upon all sides to exercise restraint and prevent a further escalation," the draft said. The proposed statement stressed the need to promote peace between Israel and the Paleostinians based on a two-state solution.

The Paleostinian Authority on Saturday blamed the US and Britannia for obstructing the Paleostinian and Arab effort to persuade the Security Council to issue a resolution blasting Israel for the 16 Paleostinian fatalities.

Yusef al Mahmoud, spokesperson for the PA government in Ramallah, said that Washington’s and London’s opposition to a resolution condemning Israel "turns them into accomplices in the horrific massacre committed by the Israeli occupation army against our defenseless people."

Mahmoud accused the US and Britannia of displaying "bias in favor of oppression and suppression." He claimed that the Friday protests were "peaceful marches and demonstrations" to mark the 42nd anniversary of Land day.

The Israeli government alone, he charged, was "directly responsible for this dreadful massacre, which resulted in 16 deaders and hundreds of maimed."

The Security Council held a closed meeting on Friday night to discuss the festivities along the Gazoo-Israel border, despite a request from the US and Israel to postpone deliberations for Saturday due to Passover holiday eve.

PA President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas

... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
announced on Friday that he had instructed his envoy to the UN, Riyad Mansour, to ask the Security Council to provide "international protection" for the Paleostinians.

On Saturday, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for "those concerned to refrain from any act that could lead to further casualties." He also called for an independent and transparent investigation into the deaths and injuries during Friday’s festivities.

The Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, terror group, for its part, expressed "regret" over the Security Council’s failure to issue a resolution condemning Israel.

The group condemned the US for thwarting the move at the Security Council and accused Washington of being "fully biased" in favor of Israel and "encouraging Israel to commit more violence and terrorism against Paleostinian civilians."

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Palestinian diplomat: We'll continue teaching our kids to throw stones

2018-02-14

[Ynet] Abdallah Abushawesh, member of the Paleostinian delegation to the UN, tells visiting Canadian students 'We're experts at throwing stones, we are very proud to do that,' adding he 'never missed an opportunity to throw stones' during the first intifada.

A Paleostinian diplomat speaking to students at the United Nations
...a formerly good idea gone bad...
headquarters in New York told them the Paleostinians were proud to be throwing stones at Israeli forces and will continue teaching their children to do so.

In a recording obtained by Ynet, Abdallah Abushawesh, who serves as a senior adviser to the UN's Development Group and as a member of the Paleostinian UN mission, is heard saying in broken English, "We are very clever and very expert at throwing the stones. We are very proud to do that. We will not stop to learn our kids (to do that)."

To the sound of sniggering from his listeners, Abushawesh went on to say that every Paleostinian caught throwing stones by Israel gets sent to jail. "We are very proud that we are stone throwers. I'm one of them. Now I became a little bit older, but I stay resistant in the name of my kids," he continued.

The Paleostinian diplomat later told the students about his own past as a stone-thrower during the first intifada. "I was in high school. I never missed an opportunity to throw stones. This is our life. We develop our resistance every day. We're proud of it," he said.

Abushawesh was speaking to a group of international relations students from McGill University who were at the UN for a tour and a series of meetings as part of their program.

The students also met with Paleostinian envoy to the UN, Riyad Mansour, who told them about Paleostinian efforts to be recognized as a state by the UN.

"There's a country in the Security Council, the US, which won't allow us to realize what's ours, and it is blocking us for political and ideological reasons, and not for legal reasons," Mansour said.

Israel's Ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, slammed Abushawesh's comments, saying, "The Paleostinians are no longer trying to hide the truth. The Paleostinian leadership and its representatives are inciting against Israel and openly encouraging terrorism. The international community must not allow it."

"It cannot be that inside the UN, which is supposed to make peace and protect human rights
...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions...
, a diplomat will incite to violence and terrorism, which wound and even kill innocent Israelis," Danon added.

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