The Washington Post reports that: “All 100 U.S. Senators signed a letter Thursday asking U.N. Secretary General António Guterres to address what the lawmakers call entrenched bias against Israel at the world body.”
The
letter: “… uses strong language to insist that the United Nations
rectify what the Senators said is unequal treatment of Israel on human
rights and other grounds.
“Through words and actions, we urge you to ensure that Israel is treated neither better nor worse than any other U.N. member in good standing,” they stated.
The Senators appear to be on a parallel universe. Have they reflected, in context, on the UN’s fine founding words, avowing:
“to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war … to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person … to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom … to practice tolerance and live together in peace with one another as good neighbours … to employ international machinery for the promotion of the economic and social advancement of all peoples …”
Source Israelpalestinenews.org
Israel – ever presented as the eternal victim – has not just made a mockery of the words but also of the Balfour letter of 2nd November 1917 and trampled on both ever since. Balfour:
“His Majesty’s Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine …” (Emphasis added.)
So
much for the “rights” of the Palestinians. Between November 1947 and
November 1948 five hundred and thirty one Palestinian towns and villages
had been “ethnically cleansed.” (1) By 1952 it was six hundred and
fifteen. (2)
This “Nakba” (“catastrophe”) seventy years after Israel’s final founding, is ongoing.
The land grabs are
illegal and violate: U.N. Charter, Article 2(4) & 51 (1945);
Declaration on Principles of International Law Concerning Friendly
Relations…, Principle 1 (1970).
Settlements
on occupied lands violate Geneva Conventions IV, Article 49(6) (1949).
It is illegal to colonize or transfer non-indigenous people to occupied
land.
Taking land by
force and claiming sovereignty violates: U.N. Charter, Article 2(4)
(1945); Declaration on Principles of International Law Concerning
Friendly Relations…, Principle 1.
Forbidding
civilian populations the right to return to their homes following the
end of armed conflict is in direct violation of international law and UN
resolutions. Geneva Convention IV, Articles 45, 46 & 49 (1949), UN
resolutions 194 (III) (General Assembly; 1948) & 237 (Security
Council; 1967).
Collective
punishment violates Geneva Conventions IV, Article 33 (1949); Geneva
Conventions (Protocol I), Article 75(2d) (1977). (3)
The list of
breaches of international law is near endless as are the attacks on a
people with no army, air force or navy, plus the decimations of 1967,
2008-9 and 2014.
Israel’s
violations of United Nations Security Council Resolutions, legally
binding on Member-nations, include Resolutions – 54, 111, 233, 234, 236,
248, 250, 252, 256, 262, 267, 270, 280, 285, 298, 313, 316, 468, 476, a
small sample.
The Senators would
seem to have as little knowledge of the iniquities inflicted on the
Middle East by foreign powers and cuckoos in the nest as their rookie
President. It is not Israel being meted out “unequal treatment” it is
the Palestinians, thieved of their land, history, justice and all
normality.
Notes
2. https://972mag.com/mapping-the -palestinian-villages-erased-a nd-replaced-with-jewish-towns/ 124847/
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