THE UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT BASHES ISRAEL IN ANNUAL RITUAL!
(reported by FLAME)
The United Nations is back at it again, doing what it does best: Trashing Israel.
This time it was General Assembly President Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann at the helm. In his eyes, Israel is guilty of running an apartheid state, with the solution being “boycott, divestment, and sanctions” by the international community. A few days after these remarks were made, the UN’s annual day of solidarity with the Palestinian people took place on November 29th. Where is the UN’s annual day of solidarity with the people of Sudan, Rwanda, Zimbabwe, Tibet or Kurdistan?
Let us overlook d’Escoto’s warm embrace of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad after his vile, hate-filled speech to the UN General Assembly earlier this year. And let us overlook d’Escoto’s clear distaste for Israel’s strongest ally, the United States (for one, he called President Ronald Reagan ‘the butcher of my people’). Instead, let us focus on his false cry of apartheid.
Apartheid is a system for ensuring the rule of the minority over the majority. This is clearly not the situation in Israel. Jews are not in the minority and Israel is a democracy in which Arabs, Jews, and Christians all have the same rights. In calling Israel an apartheid state, d’Escoto essentially expresses his preference for a single state in which all the region’s Jews and Arabs should be living side by side, a notion that inherently delegitimizes the Jewish state’s existence.
Israel and most of the world have continually embraced a two-state solution. The Palestinians have never missed an opportunity to create their own state—largely because that has meant Israel would also exist as an independent Jewish nation. D’Escoto completely ignores the fact that if the Palestinians were capable of finally renouncing and eliminating terror, there would be no need for checkpoints, blockades, and Israeli forces in the West Bank. Then, if they could stop their own bloody internecine battles, they could probably even form a state.
We recently experienced Islamic terrorism again in the despicable terrorist attacks in Mumbai. The Chabad house was attacked specifically because there were Jews there. It is far past due for the UN to call an emergency session on the scourge of global Islamic terror. There have been ten emergency special sessions called by the UN. Six have been on Israel. None on the violence in Rwanda or Darfur. In the current 62nd session of the UN General Assembly there have been nineteen one-sided resolutions against Israel. Are we truly to believe that Israel represents one of the worst threats in the world? That Israel is among the greatest purveyors of human rights atrocities? We simply should not tolerate such blatant and biased attacks on Israel in the UN.
