Never trust the UN on Israel
Since it has never been an honest broker when it comes to Israel, the United Nations' latest push to recognize Palestinian statehood should be viewed for what it is — yet another attempt to undermine the safety and security of Israel.
On Friday, the UN General Assembly — which every year passes more resolutions condemning Israel than all other nations on earth, combined — voted in favour of granting UN membership to a yet-to-be created Palestinian state, by a margin of 143 to 9 with 25 abstentions, including Canada.
The United States voted against it, suggesting the motion will also fail when it's put before the UN Security Council, which has the power to enact UN resolutions.
That's because the U.S., as one of five permanent members of the Security Council, can unilaterally veto any resolution put before it, as can the U.K., France, China and Russia.
While the U.S., which, like Canada, supports a so-called two-state solution to resolve the Israelipalestinian conflict eventually, it also knows that granting Palestinian statehood now would, in effect, reward Hamas for its terrorist attack on Israel on Oct. 7, during which it murdered
1,200 innocent civilians, as well as torturing, raping and kidnapping hundreds more.
The reality is that neither Israeli PM
Benjamin Netanyahu nor the leaders of
Hamas want a two-state solution, and that many members of the UN General Assembly — although they would never say it out loud
— are in favour of a one-state solution.
That is, an Israel ethnically cleansed of Jews by its enemies — “Judenfrei” as the Nazis once called it.
Among the many examples of the UN General Assembly's bias against Israel is that, from 1975 to '91, led by the then-soviet Union and the
Arab lobby, it maintained a hateful resolution that described Zionism, the belief in a Jewish homeland, as “a form of racism,” similar to the chants of the pro-hamas mobs today.
It was only rescinded after pressure from then-u.s. president George H.W. Bush.
Then there was the infamous 2001 United Nations World Conference Against Racism in Durban,
South Africa, that degenerated into an unrelenting attack on Israel, leading in a straight line to the General Assembly's selective condemnation of the world's only Jewish state today.