What is the evidence that the United Nations is biased against Israel?
The United Nations, conceived after World War II as a world body dedicated to peace, justice, and morality among nations, has lost its way. The organization that gave the international legal impetus to the creation of the State of Israel has become the largest single bureaucracy promoting the interests of the Palestinian Arabs against Israel, with no balanced concept of justice or morality or reasonable rules of evidence or procedure. The Palestinian Arabs, supported by other countries with anti-American agendas (almost all of them totalitarian governments), have come to view the UN as an invaluable political tool, much to the long-term detriment of the United Nations and the high hopes for its role in world affairs.
The UN is not monolithic, with multiple bodies receiving funding to work around the world on problems determined to be appropriate for UN investigation or intervention. Since 1948, when a UN resolution set the State of Israel on its way, the UN has has been a part of the on-going evolution of the struggle between Israel and the Palestinian Arabs with binding and non-binding resolutions, peace keeping forces, peace conferences and investigations. Unfortunately, an alliance between Arab states, third-world countries hostile to the developed world, and Cold War politics backed by the former Soviet Union, have created a UN environment that is uniquely hostile to Israel. While Tibet, Cambodia, Rwanda and other world problem areas have come and gone, often without significant comment or action by the UN, Israel has been repeatedly targeted, investigated, denounced, and condemned by one-sided UN agencies or committees with no scintilla of objectivity while at the same time Israel has been denied full participation in UN functions. Meanwhile, nations with horrible human rights violations such as Iraq, Libya, Iran, Afghanistan, and Syria have escaped criticism from any UN forum.
The UN has played an important role in the Arab-Israel conflict, but has often been either a biased actor, serving Israel’s enemies, or has criticized Israel from afar without intervening or condemning acts against Israel. Several examples:
- 1956: Permitted Nasser’s nationalization of the Suez Canal
- 1967: Secretary-General U Thant withdrew UN peace- keeping forces from Gaza
- 1974: Invited Terrorist Yasser Arafat to address the General Assembly
- 1975: Adopted the infamous resolution equating Zionism with racism
- 2000: UNIFIL obstructed investigation of Hezbollah kidnapping of Israeli soldiers
- 2001: Sponsored the anti-Israel World Conference on Racism in Durban, South Africa
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, speaking to the American Jewish Committee in December 1999, said:
- I know that to some of you in this audience, and to the Jewish community at large, it sometimes seems that the United Nations served all the world’s peoples but one: the Jews.
By the summer of 2000, the world had changed significantly. Aside from the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Communist voting bloc in the United Nations, the UN had, in a practical sense, assumed its originally intended role as a peacemaker in a number of conflicts, such as those in Kosovo, Rwanda, and others. Although the UN had been kept out of the Arab-Israeli Peace Process (out of fear of its one-sided, anti-Israel bias), Israel’s participation and the seeming convergence toward final status agreements led to a more positive atmosphere at the UN. After the collapse of the Oslo process in 2000, the anti-Israel bias returned.
The following sections provide information on many of the UN bodies and their disgraceful record with respect to Israel.
Security Council
From its first meetings in 1946, at least one Arab state sat on the UN Security Council in most years, while Israel has been kept ineligible for membership by manipulation of the regional groups. The Security Council has repeatedly adopted one-sided resolutions charging Israel with sole responsibility for human rights violations, violence and deportations. On the other hand, Palestinian and other Arab violations and involvement with such incidents are rarely criticized, or even noted by the Council. In an analysis of the Security Council’s record up to 1989, of 175 total resolutions passed by the Council, 97 were directed against Israel, as contrasted with 4 against all Arab states combined. The Council expressed its ‘concern,’ ‘grave concern,’ ‘regret,’ ‘deep regrets,’ ‘shock’ etc. about Israeli actions 31 times. Regarding Arab actions, the Council never expressed negative sentiments. Only the veto power of the US prevented these numbers from being even more one-sided against Israel.
Because it has been blocked from membership in any regional group, Israel is the only nation in the world that is denied the right to hold a seat on the UN Security Council on a rotating basis. Israel’s recent temporary membership in the Western Europe and Others (WEOG) regional group cannot change this for years.
In October 2000, after the collapse of the Camp David talks and the start of the al-Aqsa intifada, a Special Emergency Session of the United Nations passed a one-sided resolution condemning Israel for the violence. The UN ignored numerous incidents planned and initiated by the Palestinian Authority such as the lynching in Ramallah, the desecration of Joseph’s Tomb and the ancient synagogue in Jericho, as well as the ongoing acts of violence on the part of the Palestinians. Only Israel was condemned.
General Assembly
The United Nations General Assembly gives one vote per member country, and there are many more small developing Islamic countries than large non-Islamic developed countries. Because many of these smaller developing countries suffered under Western colonialism, the General Assembly also has an anti-Western bias. These facts, coupled with Cold War manipulations by the Soviet Union, created a solid majority block in the General Assembly that reliably churned out anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian resolutions year after year.
In the years 1947 to 1989, the General Assembly passed a total of 690 resolutions (full or partial). Of these, 429 were against the Israeli position while only 56 were against Arab positions. Of the 56 votes not to the Arabs’ liking, 49 concerned the establishment or financing of peace-keeping forces. Absent these, the last anti-Arab vote in the General Assembly, on any issue, was in May of 1949.
The UN General Assembly is still dominated by blocks of third-world countries that are anti-American and anti-Israel. The numerical strength of the Arab states and the Non-Aligned Movement in the General Assembly created the long series of offensive, anti-Israel, anti-American and anti-Western resolutions, capped by the infamous 1975 “Zionism equals racism” Resolution 3379. Except for Resolution 3379 itself, repealed in 1991, these black marks of injustice remain on the General Assembly’s record.
In December 1991, the infamous 1975 “Zionism equals racism” resolution was repealed by the General Ass
embly. The repeal effort, which should have been a self-evident proposition, required an extensive diplomatic lobbying campaign by the United States, Israel and a few others. It included the direct, personal participation of President Bush, Vice President Quayle, and Secretary of State Baker; massive efforts by every regional bureau of the Department of State in Washington, American Ambassadors and their staffs in New York and every UN member capital; and lobbying by private groups around the world. The very difficulty of repealing Resolution 3379 showed just how deeply ingrained in the UN system was its anti-Semitic bias, and why, even after repeal, its effects linger.
The UN has repeatedly held Emergency Special Sessions of the General Assembly on Israeli construction in Jerusalem. The Emergency Special Session was originally convened in 1950 for emergencies like the Korean War. In the last 15 years, these special meetings have only been held regarding Israel. Emergency Special Sessions were not convened over the genocide in Rwanda, ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia, or with regard to the other major world conflicts, but they were convened to condemn Israelis moving into buildings they own in territory they have a legitimate claim to.
In 1999, the Palestinian Arabs tried another tactic. Forgetting that it was the Arabs who rejected General Assembly Resolution 181 in 1948 and prevented its implementation, they launched an international diplomatic campaign to revive 181 as a basis to create a Palestinian state. They want another 1947 partition vote because the borders of Israel, under Resolution 181, would be smaller than the negotiated borders called for in the later UN Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338, adopted after the Six Day War in 1967 and generally accepted as a reasonable basis for peace with secure borders. Resolution 181 also provides that Jerusalem:
- … shall be established as a corpus separatum under a special international regime and shall be administered by the United Nations.
Since West Jerusalem has been the capital of Israel since it was founded and the whole city has been the capital since it was reunited in 1967, this anachronism is obviously unacceptable to Israel.
The Palestinian Arabs want to use the UN to rewrite history at their convenience, hoping the world will forget the three major Arab-instigated wars of aggression against Israel and the multitude of terrorist attacks since the Arabs originally rejected Resolution 181.
See the Palestine Facts page Is it true that Israel is in violation of UN resolutions? for more information about the status of the many UN resolutions concerning Israel.
Status of Palestinian Arabs in the UN
On November 10, 1975, the United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 3237 that conferred on the PLO the status of observer in the Assembly and in other international conferences held under United Nations auspices. This permanent representative status was a special arrangement for the PLO, a terrorist organization not a nation. The “PLO Observer Mission” then opened an office in midtown Manhattan as its UN base of operations.
The Algiers Declaration in 1988 unilaterally proclaimed a Palestine state. Despite legal and historical contradictions in the declaration, the PLO’s permanent representative at the UN submitted it to the world body on December 15, 1988 for a vote. Continuing its tradition of anti-Israel bias, the UN General Assembly adopted by a vote of 104-2 (the US and Israel against, with 36 abstentions) resolution 43/177, citing the Algiers declaration, and stating that the Palestinian people have the right to declare a state according to Resolution 181, a resolution that the Arabs had insisted for years was null and void. The UN decision also included a provision elevating the PLO’s observer status by replacing references to the “Palestine Liberation Organization” with “Palestine” in all UN bodies.
Israel and the Regional Groups
The workings of the UN are organized around Regional Groups. But Israel has been denied membership in any regional group, the only country so excluded. Exclusion from a regional group at the UN means that Israel is effectively precluded from ever becoming a non-permanent member of the Security Council; it is structurally precluded in many other ways from participating in UN discussions; and it has been and will continue to be seriously under-represented in UN leadership and employment positions.
Opposition to Israel prevented her from joining a regional group despite many efforts by the United States to promote Israel’s membership. Membership in Israel’s natural place, the Asian Group, has been blocked by the Arab states. Opponents from the southern European states, including Italy, Spain, and Portugal, are believed to have blocked American attempts to admit Israel on a temporary basis to the Western European regional group.
Finally, in June of 2000, Israel became a temporary member of the Western Europe and Others (WEOG) regional group, making it theoretically eligible for appointment to the Security Council and to other important UN bodies for the first time since it became a member state in 1949. The temporary status is limiting, however, and it remains to be seen how this will play out long term.
UN Committees and Special Agencies Carrying Out Anti-Israel Programs
The Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People was created by the UN General Assembly in 1975 and has expanded its activities since then. Among its programs, which are more anti-Israel than helpful to Palestinians, is the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, an annual hate festival celebrated since 1977 on the anniversary of the UN partition plan.
Other committees that primarily function as propaganda instruments of the PLO include the Division for Palestinian Rights of the Secretariat, the Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices in the Territories, and the United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine. There are dozens more of these special purpose bodies, a situation with no parallel in the rest of the world. Only the Palestinians get this phalanx of committees, spending millions of dollars of UN funds, whose only program is to attack, undermine and delegitimize Israel.
Efforts to delegitimize Israel have also been part of the record of the specialized agencies, especially UNESCO, the UN’s Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. In the 1970s, the Arabs in UNESCO raised questions about archaeological excavations in Jerusalem. Director-General A.M. M’Bow sent a specialist, Belgian Professor Raymond Le Maire, to investigate. Le Maire found the digs were carried out in accord with established international standards. Muslim holy places were protected, and archaeological relics from all periods of antiquity were preserved. Le Maire’s report was suppressed by M’Bow, and UNESCO voted sanctions against Israel.
UNESCO again displayed its double standard towards Israel when it refused to criticize archeological and other digs conducted by the Muslim Waqf in the Temple Mount area during the early fall of 2000. Despite UNESCOs criticism of Israel, going against the investigation by their own expert, when the Waqf engaged in work which may have destroyed priceless archeological artifacts relating to the Second Temple, the same UN body remained silent.
The UN has funded anti-Israel propaganda for decades through the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)and now through the PA. For example, in March 2001 it was revealed that the UN agency has been funding the publication of an English-language regional map that makes no mention of the State of Israel. Supported by the UN’s Program of Assistance to the Palestinian People, the publication also includes a smaller map of the Old City of Jerusalem that shows mosques and churches but no synagogue nor the Western Wall of the Temple Mount. UNRWA’s mandate covers 27 Palestinian refugee camps in the West Bank and Gaza and another 32 camps in neighboring countries. UNRWA runs over 250 schools in the West Bank and Gaza where they have introduced scores of textbooks which ignore the State of Israel, rule out peace agreements, and actually glorify the hatred of Israel and Israelis.
The parties seeking to rebuke Israel were most successful within the United Nations Commission for Human Rights (the UNCHR), a functional commission of the UN’s Economic and Social Council that has been obsessed with finding fault with Israel. The UNCHR is based in Geneva, and as a body, it has frequently displayed a strong anti-Israel bias. Resolutions condemning Israel are passed by a strong voting bloc of Arab countries, while requests to deal with blatantly anti-Semitic persecution of Jews in Arab and other countries are summarily ignored. At its annual hearings in Geneva in 2000, the Human Rights Commission had a separate agenda item for Israel, while covering 60 other countries in the single other agenda item.
The Commission on Human Rights routinely adopts totally disproportionate resolutions concerning Israel. Of all condemnations of this agency, 26 percent refer to Israel alone, while rogue states such as Syria and Libya are never criticized.
There are increasingly frequent cases of blatantly anti-Semitic remarks by Arab representatives at UN forums. In 1991, Syrian representatives at the Commission on Human Rights accused Jews of using the blood of Christian children in their rituals. On 11 March 1997, the PLO representative in Geneva, Nabil Ramlani, used the same forum to accuse Israel of injecting 300 Palestinian children with the AIDS virus. In May 2000, the representative of Lebanon declared Zionism to be an “elitist racist movement”.
UN War on Racism
For 50 years the UN condemned racism. It has established programs to combat racism in virtually every conceivable form, but consistently refused to do the same against antisemitism. Antisemitism as a phenomenon has long been ignored or deliberately omitted in resolutions, forums and events throughout the UN, even in commemorations of World War II. It was only on 24 November 1998, 50 years after the UN’s founding, that the word “antisemitism” was first mentioned in a UN resolution, appearing near the end of GA Res. A/53/623, “Elimination of Racism and Racial Discrimination.” Intense US pressure was required to even get this minimal recognition.
In August 2001 the UN held an anti-Racism conference at Durban. The conference became a front for virulent Antisemitism and anti-Zionism not heard since the days of the “Zionism is racism” resolution. Israel and the US ultimately walked out in protest. Inside and outside the conference hall Jews and Israelis became the targets of hate-filled and politically motivated attacks. Michael Melchior, representative of the Israeli Government at the conference asked:
- Can there be a greater irony than the fact that a conference convened to combat the scourge of racism should give rise to the most racist declaration in a major international organization since the Second World War?
UN and the Peace Process
It is no surprise that the Oslo Agreements were negotiated outside of, and contained no role for, the UN. Though Israel has been the subject of aggressive wars in 1948, 1967 and 1973 and the victim of countless terrorist attacks, the Security Council and the General Assembly have never once censured its assailants.
While the Arab-Israeli peace process that was launched in Madrid in 1991 is structured on the basis of direct negotiations between the parties, the UN constantly undercuts this principle. The Oslo Agreements, as well, establish that differences between Israelis and Palestinians should be resolved bilaterally. Nonetheless, the UN General Assembly passes annual resolutions that seek to prejudge the outcome of negotiations by proposing specific solutions to issues like Jerusalem, the Golan Heights, settlements, refugees and other issues meant to be resolved through bilateral talks. Ironically, it was the UN Security Council that proposed these bilateral negotiations in Resolutions 242 (1967) and 338 (1973), but the UN General Assembly undermines these resolutions every year.
UN Resoultion for Protection of Children from Terrorism
In November 2003, Israel submitted its first UN resolution since 1976 to the UN Humanitarian, Social and Cultural Committee. The draft document called for the protection of Israeli children from Palestinian Arab terrorism acts which purposely target buses, cafes, kindergartens and discos filled with Jewish youth. Israeli officials said the resolution would be a test whether or not the UN was prepared to fore go its traditional bias against the Jewish state.
On November 6th, 2003 the same UN Committee approved a nearly identical Egyptian-sponsored resolution demanding protection for Palestinian children from “Israeli aggression.” When it came to declaring Israeli children?s right to not be targeted by terrorists, however, Egypt was opposed, notwithstanding its peace treaty with Israel.
“The voice of the immoral majority was once again heard loud and clear,” Israeli UN Ambassador Dan Gillerman told the UN Humanitarian, Social and Cultural Committee, after failing to garner enough support to secure a General Assembly vote on the draft. Israel withdrew the draft after a group of nations belonging to the Non-Aligned Movement, led by Egypt, insisted on including amendments that would have transformed the document into an anti-Israel resolution. The changes demanded were the altering all of all references to “Israeli children” to read “Middle Eastern children,” and the insertion of harsh condemnation of Israeli “military assaults,” “occupation” and “excessive use of force” before any mention of Arab terrorism. The Egyptian-led nations also wanted to change the draft’s title from “The situation of and assistance to Israeli children” to “The situation of and assistance to children in the Middle East region.” If Israel had not withdrawn the resolution, the amendments would have surely passed, as the Non-Aligned Movement controls a majority of the votes in the UN General Assembly.
2004 UN Conference on Antisemitism
On June 21, 2004 the UN sponsored the first ever Conference on Antisemitism at UN headquarters in New York. The conference, formally titled “Confronting Antisemitism: Educating for Tolerance and Understanding,” was called by officials who were stung by criticism of the UN’s dismal record as recorded on this page. Speakers deplored that record in quite explicit terms, the first time the issue was truly aired at the UN. Only time will tell if this conference marks a turning point or if the UN will go back to anti-Israel business as usual.
2011 UN Bid for Palestine Membership
The 23rd of September 2011 will be remembered as a historic date when Palestine will attempt to get recognized as a UN member. This will be a great test for the UN to ensure that the votes are carried out in the best possible environment, since the outcome of this event carries immense importance.
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If a Barbaric laws are use then it’s alright to attack and robbed.
If it’s a humane,modern and civilize laws , then that’s wrong.
I have only glanced over these comments but I will offer this information.
Israel did not exist before 1948. Before that time everyone (including Herzl, Weizmann, Ben-Gurion, the British, the League of Nations, the Americans – literally everyone) referred to Palestine by its name. Like it or not Palestine existed (even though there has not been a self-governing Palestinian state) and it is incorrect to pretend it did not.
The Arab Peace Initiative is still on the table but has never been accepted or realistically considered by Israel. It is not true to say the Arabs have never wanted peace.
Arafat did not instigate or direct the second intifada. Israel did release some mistranslated documents to this effect but this was pure mischief. (See Robert Fisk, the Great War for Civilization.)
Former terrorist Arafat did indeed address the United Nations. There are also plenty of Israeli leaders who have been involved in terrorism too. The list is vast of Israel leaders who have committed war crimes and prominent Israelis who have been unable to travel overseas recently for fear of prosecution have included Ehud Barak, Dan Meridor, Tzipi Livni (even on her recent visit to London HMG had to pretend that she was on a special mission in order to prevent legal proceedings) and Gen Eiland.
According to SIPRI Israel is the world’s largest arms exporter per capita.Furtive Israeli personnel turn up in all sorts of corners of the world such as Congo Brazzaville. Let’s not forget for example that Israel cooperated with South Africa in the production of a nuclear bomb. Peace loving Israel is a myth, regrettably.
So perhaps the UN has a point. Perhaps Israel is a rogue state. And perhaps some of you guys had better get used to the fact that until Israel changes its ways and learns to stop stealing Palestinian land, carrying out weapons experiments in Gaza, holding 4,700 Palestinians as political prisoners, incarcerating children and putting them on trial unrepresented in kangaroo military courts, demolishing Palestinian homes, routinely torturing Arab prisoners, illegally overflying neighbouring countries, incarcerating the whole population of Gaza in an illegal siege…Until Israel stops its illegal, abhorrent behaviour it is going to continue to attract opprobrium and condemnation. Why are you guys so surprised?
Yes, Israel is really in difficult situation, the UN always blame Israel for any conflicts in the Middle East especially between Arabs/Muslims even though she is only depending her rights, territories and its people. How come, Israel was not given any position in the UN when in fact Israel is the most intelligent, educated, civilized, disciplined and peace-loving people in the Middle East. I really agree with the author, UN is anti-Israel and has to be disbanded as well.
I agree with the article. I am only 24, but in my young life I have heard little from the U.N. concerning other nations in their ruthless and brutal acts. Israel seems to get all the attention. I am a history major and I study the Bible as a Christian. With that said there is no bias on my part, but simple facts: The Jewish people were expelled from Judea over 2000 years ago after the Temple in Jerusalem was destroyed. It’s funny Jesus prophecied these things would happen and later Israel would be reestablished And it has been. There are actually a lot of prophecies concerning Israel being reestablished and being transformed from a land with little resources to a thriving nation with many other peoples living along side the Jewish people as it is today. When Israel was reestablished History tells us Arab nations called for the Arabs in the land to leave so they could attack and destroy Israel. When Israel won it created a refugee situation which is the fault of the Arabs not Israel.
I agree with you Mark, I am a christian too and i am studying the conflict between Israel and Palestine. They always say this conflict is just politics and religion has little or nothing to do with the conflict. That of course is wrong, Israel is just going through the cycle they went through like 9 times, but that land is actually rightfully not theirs. They should rather be content with what they have rather than try to beat the hell out of the Palestinians.
Are you serious, History Major????????? Where did you study Tel Aviv University?
And who expelled the Jews from their God given Land 2000 years ago? where they living their alone ? You need to tell the rest of the story, and thank you for admitting that Arabs existed in Palestine prior to the mandate by UN to split the LAND and give half of it o the Migrating Zionists that were fleeing the Nazis. The Arabs refused the splitting of the land and yes they tried to keep it one land for all but the Zionists had another plan, they wanted the whole PIE for themselves. It has been over 63 years now and the Palestinians are still fighting for their rights and Land. And they will never stop, you call it terrorism I call it resistance, an act of resisting the mandate of UN to split a land and force its original people to leave. Do you know what the word settlers mean, or settlement? why do they call the newly built areas in Palestine settlements? because the people that are coming to live in them are settlers migrating from other lands…….. please read the true history, not the one that is propagated by the Zionist controlled media…………………….
Yes, Tim, you are! When you bring up the notion of the “native peoples” of Palestine you are sneaking your toe into ancient
history. But, you seem to have missed that. Israel has been excoriated for building “the wall”, yet the incidence of suicide bombers decreased precipitously. There are many such incidents that I could mention, but the bottom line is that the Arabs do not want peace…they want the total destruction of Israel. How do you negoriate that?
You completely remove every Arab from Israel
A skillfully crafted position that at first reading has a persuasive argument. Sadly, each of the seemingly neutral arguments fail to take any responsibility, that’s ANY responsibility at all, by advocates of Israel and Zionism for it’s unrelenting and often criminal acts against the native peoples of Palastine. It doesn’t help that you caste the world as being against you yet never, never take any responsibility for unrelenting land-grabbing accompanied often by violence. It would help your cause greatly if you stopped acting this way then when held accountable switching to a vicitim mentality. I support there being an Israel and it’s right to safety. I continue to be shocked and saddened by Israel’s one-sided and aggressive self-serving conduct. Whatever the supposed origin of peoples who lived in Paestine prior to the establishmnet of the State of Israel, those people had and have a right to be there and to also have the same rights that Israeli’s demand for themselves. This site could be a valuable place for dialog but sadly it’s is instead a smoothly crafted and highly biased propaganda machine, or am I missing something.
could not have put it better myself,no matter where the debate goes when engaged with a pro-zionist i always get the “there were no “Palestinians” before 1967″ or there never was a place called “Palestine”.i am afraid that it is largely a waste of time because the opposing mentality is fixed on its non-questioning trajectory and is immune to any opposing view.
i am currently studying the provable,documentary evidence of occupation by the various ethnic groups in the region as far back as i can unearth-it supports the Palestinian claims,i have always been fairly well acquainted with these facts but when engaging in an argument the more of those facts you know,the better.(at least it quickly shuts up the ones who denounce me as “anti-semitic” or a “terrorist sympathiser”
i don’t really know how much good any of this will do but having felt as strongly as i do on the issue for 75% of my life i can never just let it go because of “outrage fatigue”
hope to meet you in a Palestinian state worthy of the name one day!
I love the way you assume your conclusions, Tim.
Yes, you are missing something.
BTW, it’s spelled Palestine: a word of Roman origin describing a land whose people Rome sought to obliterate. There never was a sovereign nation so called. There never was, until 1967, a people so called and there never was a Palestinian ethnicity: the people who seek to designate themselves thus are Arabs. And they neither offer or desire peace with Israel; what they desire is the destruction of the state of Israel and the extermination of the Jewish people. What dialogue would you suggest?
Landgrabbing? If you are referring to Eastern Jerusalem, the Golan Heights etc then please let me explain something. Throughout history countries have waged wars upon other countries, with the winners taking land from the losers. The Arabs, after listening to the Mufti of Jerusalem in the 1940′s, who was an Anti-Semite and a favourite of Hitler, decided to declare war upon war on Israel. If they didn’t want to potentially lose land then they should not have started war. The Golan Heights was being used to fire rockets into Israel. My father had emigrated to Israel not long before the 6 day war and served in the Golani Brigade. When he was up in the mountains there a day or two after the war was won, he came across an Arab village. The village had a school. He went in to have a look around and found a Child’s Primer. On page 1 it showed an Arab family.. Page 2 the elder brother, who was shown as a postman in his village. Page 3 replaced the brothers postal uniform with an Army uniform and Page 4 showed the brother stamping his boot onto the land of Israel with the Jews drowning in the sea.
There will never be peace with the Arabs until they stop teaching their children lies and racism. They teach them to believe in propaganda such as the Elders of Zion, the blood libel and that Jews can turn into cockroaches etc at night. They teach their children that Jews are descended from pigs and monkeys – for proof all you need to do is go to Facebook and look at pages such as I love Israel etc and look at the racist comments left mainly by Egyptian Arabs.
Just like all this rubbish about the Security Wall. Where is the condemnation for Egypt, who also built a security fence to keep the Palestinians out? Where is the condemnation for the USA who are or have built a wall to keep the Mexicans etc out?
Similarly, people keep trotting out the bull poop about Israel being an Apartheid State. This is not true. There are NO segregation laws in Israel. Arab men and women have MORE civil rights in Israel than they do in Arab countries. They are able to drive, work, vote etc and do so happily. There are Arabs and Druze in Parliament, hospitals, schools, media and much more. That ex Israeli Prime Minister who was sentenced for rape was sentenced by an ARAB Judge. Israel is THE ONLY COUNTRY in the Middle East to specifically allow religious FREEDOM to ALL religions. Unlike most ARAB countries who are doing their best to push Christians and Jews out of their countries. Black African Christians are leaving their countries and making the dangerous and often life ending (at the hands of the Bedouin) journey to Israel for example. For further proof of the religious intolerance lets look at Hamas’s Charter and what Mahmoud Abbas said to the UN in his speech for a Palestinian State. Hamas’s stated goal is to wipe Israel and its Jews off the map, just like Iran wants to do… Abbas wants the State of Palestine to be “Jew free”.
I would like to finish off by saying these “native” Palestinians you talk about did NOT exist before 1967. Before the 6 day war the Arabs in the Gaza Strip were EGYPTIAN and the Arabs in the West Bank were JORDANIAN. Even Mr Walid Shoebat says this and he is a FORMER Arab Terrorist.
BTW: You want to know who the REAL native “Palestinians” are? They are the JEWS who weren’t deported and spread across the Roman Empire after they took Masada. If you are going to talk about this stuff you really need to learn some proper facts.
The Arabs would like everyone to believe that under their Caliphates Jews were given religious freedom. They weren’t. They were forced to accept special rules and taxes, just as Jews have been forced to do for centuries in Europe.
What this basically comes down to is the fact that for centuries Jews have turned the other cheek whenever Pagans, Christians, Muslims and everyone else have punished them. Now that they fight back and defend what was theirs for 3,000 odd years people don’t like it.
The land of Israel and Judea has never had a period in its history, no matter the name the land has been given since the Roman “occupation” and the Arab/Ottoman “Occupation” where there have been 0 Jews living there.
I have another example of intolerance for you too. Arabs and especially the Palestinians are busy destroying Jewish heritage and artifacts in Jerusalems Temple Mount in a bid to remove the Jewish heritage and historic association with the land. They are also using UNESCO to try and secure Jewish holy sites, such as the Cave of the Elders and Jacob’s tomb, as their own! This is being done again to remove Jewish heritage and historic association with the land of Israel and Judea. Then look at those ancient statues the Taliban blew up in Afganistan. Yep, these Arabs and their people REALLY are tolerant of everyone else’s religion.
Then there is the lie that Arabs tell themselves that Palestine has existed, in many forms, for 10,000 years. If this is so then why is there NO evidence of “Palestinian” artifacts etc. They say the Canaanites were Palestinian in descent.
If you want to point the finger at any people who’ll use any dirty trick to manipulate the heartstrings of the world then point your finger at the Arabs and especially at the Palestinians.
YES:After reading scores of articles and recently these articles I come to the conclusion that the Arab countries really do not want to settle the Palestinian controversey. They just want to use them to antagonize Israel.In addition they are always the trouble maker,even when they are show alot LOVE e.g i read an article Isreal has given them clean water 80% and offered to teach them the techniques to recycle sewage water for their use ,instead they want clean water from ISREAL and return sewage i believe this is an abuse of the Love shown to them.Let them put their shoes in Isreal what would they like to be done unto them then let them do to their fellow.
sincerely,
Israel will always be hated by the Arabs and Palestine. Resolution or no Resolution, Conference or no Conference, Israel will always be forced to watch her own back ! Its a joke to think Palestine really want peace with Israel, that move is just a means to an end. What the Arabs , Palestines and by extension some hidden world leaders really want is for Israel to be erased from the picture….. totally !
Hmm undoubtedly there would be a showdown
Sir,
After reading scores of articles and recently these articles I come to the conclusion that the Arab countries really do not want to settle the Palestinian controversey. They just want to use them to antagonize Israel.
sincerely,
John
Few words John, but right on the money. At all cost the Arabs will continue to antagonize the jews. As the Palesinians do not work, they have the arab resources and certainly the time to be on an antagonistic war front at all times. The jews have been very calm and collect SO FAR, but have a very big stick if it ever looks nasty. Wrong guys to aganize if they get pissed off. The Jews have given them a few demonstrations of their fire power over the years, but have not actually completed the job. The UN is a money sucking hole that needs to be disbanded NOW. While arabs, china ,and Russia are holding a seat, it just wont work, as these are big weapons suppliers to anyone against world order