On the eve of the first anniversary of the Hamas terror attack, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took to the floor of the UN General Assembly and denounced the organization as a “house of darkness”.
Attempting to reverse the “blame” of the international community for the massacre of civilians in Gaza, Netanyahu claimed that the General Assembly is a “swamp of anti-Semitism” that has passed more than twice as many resolutions condemning Israel (174) than all other countries combined (73) within the last decade.
The Mossad chief is participating in another round of negotiations today in Qatar and next week a bill is expected to be approved by the Israeli parliament to ban UNRWA from operating in the occupied territories, despite EU warnings of “catastrophic consequences”.
Adding to the undeclared war on the UN is the unprecedented recent ban on entry into Israel of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, whom the Israeli government has described as persona non grata, claiming he “did not explicitly condemn” the October 1 Iranian missile attack.
Independence by blood
Israel’s relationship with the United Nations has been tumultuous from the outset, since the declaration of the Jewish state in May 1948, following the rejection by the Arabs of the international partition plan for Palestine and the multi-pronged attack with which they attempted to “strangle” it in its infancy. the Jewish state.
On September 17, 1948, in the midst of a cease-fire, the Zionist paramilitary organization Lehi assassinated the UN mediator in Jerusalem Folke Bernadotteclaiming that the Swedish earl – who had been nominated unanimously by the Security Council – was promoting a peace plan that included major concessions to the Arabs and was allegedly going to accept the David Ben Gurionfirst prime minister and “father” of the Jewish state.
The organization was declared terrorist and dismantled by the Israeli authorities who arrested hundreds of its members, but no one was punished for the murder of the UN mediator. One of the members of the “troika” of Lehi, who ordered the assassination of Bernadotte, was Yitzhak Samir, who was twice elected prime minister of Israel (during his prime the first Intifada broke out in 1987, while he was succeeded in the leadership of the Likud party by Benjamin Netanyahu).
One year after the murder of the Swedish mediator, UNRWA (UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East) was established by decision of the UN General Assembly with the mission of providing humanitarian aid and protection to Palestinian refugees “in anticipation of a just and sustainable solution for their situation”. About 6 million Palestinian refugees and their descendants are registered in UNRWA, which provides education, health services and social services in dozens of camps in the occupied and neighboring countries (Lebanon, Jordan, Syria).
UNRWA is the guarantor of the international status of the Palestinian refugees and a permanent thorn in the side of Israel, as its officials with heaps of reports denounce the Israeli authorities for the violations of human rights, the settlement of the occupied, etc. Israel accuses junior officers of the agency of participating in terrorist acts and senior officials of spreading Palestinian propaganda. Despite the international reactions, a draft law is expected to be passed in the Israeli Parliament that will ban the operation of UNRWA.
Last February, Israel denied entry to the UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories Francesca Albanese.
The Italian academic noted that Israel has been following the same practice since 2008, while speaking of an attempt to distract from Israel’s atrocities in Gaza. A month later, Albanese presented her report, “Anatomy of a Genocide,” to the UN Human Rights Council, calling for an arms embargo and other sanctions on Israel.
The Israeli political and military establishment considers that the majorities in the UN and its bodies are formed by countries that are biased against it. The view is widespread in Israeli society where the derogatory term Um-Shmum (Um-Shmum), whose fatherhood is attributed to Ben Gurion, is used for the UN. “Um” corresponds to the initials of the organization (UN) and “Sm” is an ironic prefix in Yiddish. “Israel was created by the bravery of the Jews, not by some Um-Shum resolution” said Ben-Gurion in 1955 in response to reservations about an invasion of then-Egyptian Gaza to put an end to Fedayeen attacks on Israel. In the same vein, without the disparaging term, was Netanyahu’s recent response to the French president Emmanuel Macron, when he reminded that the Israel that hit the positions of the Blue Helmets in Lebanon was created by UN decisions.
“Humanitarian Bubbles”
According to a revealing report by the Israeli newspaper “Yedioth Ahronoth”, on the table of Netanyahu’s cabinet is a plan to entrust the distribution of humanitarian aid in Northern Gaza to the private security company Global Delivery Company, which is based in the USA and is owned by American Jews. businessmen, while he has a history of actions in Afghanistan, Syria and Ukraine.
The plan calls for clearing “pockets of terror”, erecting walls and turning neighborhoods into “humanitarian bubbles” where residents will be biometrically screened to move and receive aid, without the intervention of members of Hamas. The security of the supply convoys will be undertaken by GDC employees, war veterans of the US and British special forces, as well as Kurdish veteran fighters. “We’re like Uber in war zones,” the company says on its website.
If the plan is approved by Israel’s cabinet, the company could begin offering services in a month and erect walls around Palestinian neighborhoods in northern Gaza 48 hours after they are “cleared of terrorists.” The plan, which has been presented to the White House and the State Department, involves retired Israeli generals. According to the same publication, the project could be financed to a significant extent by the US.
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