The UN Preoccupation with Israel
by Steven Shamrak
On 20 November 2024, the United States vetoed the latest resolution on Gaza in the UN Security Council (UNSC), which demanded an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire. The draft of the resolution was not contingent to release of the Israeli hostages. It was widely reported in international media and the veto was criticised by some countries, especially by Turkey.
The next day, Hamas leader Sami Abu Zuhri in his statement said that Israeli hostages held in Gaza will not be released unless the Gaza war ends. This was not reported or condemned. On the 7th of October last year, Hamas took 250 hostages, as a blackmail, believing that it would stop Israel from retaliating to the horrific terrorist attack.
0n 18 November 2024, Russia vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Sudan. The conflict has displaced more than 11 million people, including 3.1 million refugees. This was hardly reported by the press, and no condemnations! The Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Arab militia, have been committing genocide, rapes, and ethnic cleansing since April 2023. There are real starvation, outbreaks of cholera and deadly diseases, and lack of international aid - not like fake the one in Gaza. The UN and other Israel-hating NGOs are continuously reporting the warnings about "imminent famine" in Gaza for almost a year.
On 17 September 2024, the United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to adopt a resolution that demands that Israel “brings to an end without delay its unlawful presence” in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. With a recorded vote of 124 nations in favour, 14 against, and 43 abstentions, the resolution calls for Israel to comply with international law and withdraw its military forces, immediately cease all new settlement activity, evacuate all settlers from occupied land, and dismantle parts of the separation wall it constructed inside the occupied West Bank.
The resolution missed a few points:
1. Which international law does Israel violate? After Hamas attacked Israel, killing almost 1200 people, Israel has been conducting legitimate defensive war, in accordance with international law, against Hamas, which is recognised by many countries as a terrorist organization.
2. What is Palestinian Territory? Have those ‘Jew-hating’ members of the ‘Ugly Nazi’ looked at the “from the river to the sea’ maps on Fatah and Hamas documents? There is not room there for the Jewish state. Who was their king, ruler, or president of the fake Palestine before 1964? When did the state of Palestine exist?
3. Judea and Samaria, at the worst, could be described as disputed land, not Palestinian Territory. Jewish settlements there are more legitimate than the settlements of the fake Palestinians.
4. The so-called separation wall was built to stop infiltration of terrorists into Israel from Judea and Samaria. And it works! There are many ‘separation’ walls built around the world. The UN does not call for “dismantle parts of the separation wall” between Gaza and Egypt. If instead of hating Israel, the UN would care for the life of ‘innocent’ civilians in Gaza, and allow them to leave the war zone to Egypt and 22 Arab states, who ‘care’ so much about the lives of ‘poor’ Palestinians.
In 2023, the UNGA adopted 15 resolutions on Israel.
At the same time, only 7 resolutions on the rest of the World.
The EU member states voted for one resolution each on the human rights situations in Iran, Syria, North Korea, Myanmar, Crimea, the US for its embargo on Cuba, and Russia for its war in Ukraine. By contrast, EU states voted in favour of nearly all 15 resolutions singling out Israel. These same EU states have failed to introduce a single UNGA resolution this year on the human rights situation in China, Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, Cuba, Turkey, Pakistan, Vietnam, Algeria, or on 175 other countries.