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.
Food for Thought: by Steven Shamrak
‘They’ (the international Jew-haters) – member states of the UN, ICC, ICJ, and the rest of its branches; and Leftist members of the international press – put Israel in ‘a no win situation’. Israel is conducting a defensive war against terrorist of Hamas in Gaza. When the aid comes to the Gaza war zone freely and members of aid organizations are killed, Israel is accused of deliberately targeting them. When Israel restricts aid flow to ‘hot spots’ in Gaza to save their lives, Israel is accused by ICC of “the war crime of starvation as a method of warfare; crimes against humanity of murder; persecution; and other inhumane acts”. So far, not like in Sudan, nobody died from starvation in Gaza.
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ICC's Arrest Warrants - 'Equality' with Terrorists
The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel's former minister of defense Yoav Gallant, as well as the leader of Hamas Mohammed Deif. The US and Israeli sources said Deif died in July. The ICC said that Netanyahu and Gallant were accused of the war crime of starvation (but there is no famine in Gaza) as a method of warfare and crimes against humanity of murder, persecution, and other inhumane acts. Deif is accused by the ICC of being one of the leaders in Hamas' deadly attack against Israel that left hundreds dead and taking hundreds more hostage. Israeli President Isaac Herzog released a statement in response: "The ICC has turned universal justice into a universal laughingstock. It makes a mockery of the sacrifice of all those who fight for justice."
Hezbollah Fires at UNIFIL Posts
Two UNIFIL posts were struck by Hezbollah rockets in 1 day. After multiple injuries were caused by a Hezbollah rocket that struck a UNIFIL post in the Ramyeh area, more Hezbollah rockets also struck a UNIFIL post in Chamaa. (No UN resolution of condemnation. Not media reports.)
Italy admits rockets that hit UN forces were from Hezbollah, not Israel. A week before Italy had said an unexploded artillery shell hit the base of UNIFIL base, putting the blame on the IDF.
End to Administrative Arrests for Jews
Israel’s defense minister Israel Katz has ended the practice of using an emergency provision to place Israeli Jews living in Judea and Samaria under extended arrest without trial. “In the current climate, where Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria face significant threats of Palestinian terrorism, it is not appropriate for the State of Israel to take such a severe step,” Katz said.
Iranian terror group the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed responsibility for the abduction and murder of Rabbi Zvi Kogan, a Chabad rabbi in Abu Dhabi, UAE. The IRGC released a statement that it was done " in fulfilment of their promise in response to Zionist aggression on Iranian lands and violations of Iranian sovereignty." (The regime change in Iran is long overdue.)
UNRWA Official Met with PA Terrorists
A former UNRWA commissioner general Pierre Krahenbuhl held a secret meeting with Palestinian terror groups in Beirut in February 2017, and told them, “No one can separate us” and “We are one.”
Hezbollah Weapons are Russian-Made
60-70% of weapons found in southern Lebanon at the start of the IDF's ground invasion were Russian-made. Experts are unsure of whether they were taken from Syria or signal increased cooperation between Russia and Hezbollah. Russia has been operating in Syria since 2011, when it began aiding Syrian President Bashar al-Assad during the Syrian civil war.
The Russian army has increased its presence in the Syrian Golan Heights, near the border between Syria and Israel. Russia has added two positions, in addition to seven posts that already exist in the area.
The Biden Administration is again withholding an important arms shipment to Israel. The delivery of some 20,000 MK84 heavy bombs, each weighing a ton, has been delayed by the White House. It’s not the first time Israel’s ally has held back a delivery of badly needed weapons. The White House held up a large shipment of 2,000-pound (one ton) “bunker buster” bombs. Biden officials also slow-walked the delivery to Israel of 1,500-pound bombs.
Ninety-eight of the 109 trucks of a convoy transporting food provided by UNRWA and the World Food Program were violently looted after entering Gaza. UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said there was “severe damage to the trucks and in some cases, total loss of cargo on the trucks,” calling the incident the worst instance of looting in Gaza “in terms of volume.” The Hamas-controlled Gaza interior ministry said over 20 “gang members” involved in looting aid trucks were killed. (The looters must have not paid the tax to Hamas. Hamas has the exclusive rights to rob humanitarian convoys to Gaza, and profit from this.)
Humanitarian Aid Trucks Looted in Gaza
Of the approximately 200 humanitarian aid trucks entering Gaza in recent days, over 170 were robbed. The robbers collect transit taxes of $27,000 and sometimes the tax is $50,000 or 50% of the value of the truck’s contents. These are mainly gangs, but also “militias” that cooperate with Hamas. Meanwhile, sacks of flour and rice donated by the West are being sold for $700 and $500 respectively while a pack of cigarettes costs $1,500. In September, Hamas was also charging $800 for donated tents. (No arrest warrants have been issued by ICC, nor condemnations from the UN General Assembly.)
Quotes of the Week:
"Any resolution that does not condition the ceasefire on the release of the hostages means abandoning the 101 hostages to the hell of the terrorist monsters. The decision being promoted in this ('Ugly Nazi') Council only strengthens Hamas and terrorism and abandons the hostages. We cannot allow the UN to tie the hands of the State of Israel from protecting its citizens, and we will not stop fighting until we return all the kidnapped men and women home." - Danny Danon, Israel's Ambassador to the UN.
Anti-Israel Smear is Anti-Semitism
The ICC has now equated the sitting leaders of a democratic state, Israel, who is exercising its right to self-defence. Hamas is the terrorist organization responsible for the rape, murder, and mutilation of over 1,200 innocent people, the kidnapping of 251, and still holding 101 hostages.
Regime Change Required in Iran
by Con Coughlin
Now that Donald Trump has secured his remarkable victory in the US presidential election, supporting regime change in Iran could soon emerge as one of his new administration’s top priorities after he takes office in January.
It was only after Joe Biden replaced Trump in the White House in 2021 that Tehran revived its terrorist network, and the ayatollahs were gifted billions of dollars.
Iran responded to Biden’s largesse by intensifying its nuclear enrichment activities, while at the same strengthening its network of terrorist organisations in the region, including Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Today, thanks to the Israeli military’s devastating offensive against both Hamas in Gaza, as well as Iranian-backed terrorists in Lebanon, Iran’s terrorist infrastructure is on the point of collapse, raising questions about whether the Iranian regime itself can survive the current crisis.
The regime change in Iran may become an option Trump simply cannot ignore. Not only would many of Iran’s neighbours be relieved, but Iran’s captive citizens could then be free to choose leaders better aligned with their aspirations. A liberated Iran might even join the Abraham Accords.
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