Edited by John R. Houk
Posted December 3, 2016
Below is a short video I found on the G+ Community Americans against Jihad that talks about United Nations obvious discrimination against
Jewish Israel favoring Arab interlopers calling themselves Palestinians. The UN
again condemns Israel and demands the Golan Heights be returned to the most
unstable nation in the Middle East which is Syria.
This is followed by an article by A.J. Caschetta at The
Gatestone Institute about UN disinformation against Israel
which would better termed as lies.
JRH 12/3/16
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Posted by Leibel A Mangel
Published on Nov 29, 2016
In a region that does not lack
violence and wrong doing, the UN continues to focus on Israel.. Why?
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The UN's Palestine
Language
November 30, 2016 4:00 am
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For decades, UN agencies
have slandered the Jewish state, most recently with the April 2016 accusation
that it has been "planting Jewish fake graves" in Palestinian
territory, and with UNESCO declaring last year that the ancient Jewish Biblical
sites Rachel's Tomb and the Cave of the Patriarchs are actually Muslim holy
sites, and last month that the Temple Mount, where the Jewish Temples were
destroyed in 587 BCE and 70 CE, is an Islamic site with no connection to Judaism.
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West Bank: This
territory was for millennia called Judea and Samaria. After the 1948 War of
Independence, Transjordan annexed it, renamed it the "West Bank," and
occupied it for nearly two decades. In the Six Day War, after Jordan attacked
Israel, Israel entered the territory and administered it until the Oslo Accords
era, when Israel turned over much of the area to the Palestinian Authority.
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Occupation: When it
comes to Israel, the UN is obsessed with the word "occupation." A
recent Wall Street Journal article documents 530 General Assembly
references to Israel as an "occupying power" versus zero for
Indonesia (East Timor), Turkey (Cyprus), Russia (Georgia, Crimea), Morocco
(Western Sahara), Vietnam (Cambodia), Armenia (Azerbaijan), Pakistan (Kashmir),
or China (Tibet). Saying that Jews are "occupying" Judea is as
nonsensical as saying Arabs are "occupying" Arabia or Gauls are
"occupying" France.
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Settlement: The UN
uses the term to insinuate Israeli theft of "Palestine." The Obama
administration eagerly embraced this terminology. If there is an occupying
force in Gaza, it is Hamas. The West Bank is "disputed territories"
to anyone claiming a modicum of neutrality. As Elliot Abrams put it, "the
term 'settlement' loses meaning when applied to Jews building homes in their
nation's capital city."
US President-elect Donald Trump won the White House
promising to reform our dysfunctional government. But will he also stand up to
the even more dysfunctional United Nations?
As the Trump campaign emphasized in a position paper released
November 2, the UN has long displayed "enormous anti-Israel bias."
For decades, UN agencies have slandered the Jewish state, most recently with
the April 2016 accusation that it has
been "planting Jewish fake graves" in Palestinian territory, and with
UNESCO declaring last
year that the ancient Jewish Biblical sites Rachel's Tomb and the Cave of the
Patriarchs are actually Muslim holy sites, and last month that the Temple
Mount, where the First and Second Jewish Temples were destroyed in 587 BCE and
70 CE, is an Islamic site with no connection to Judaism. On the day America
elected a new president, the UN adopted ten
new resolutions against Israel.
UNESCO last year declared ancient Jewish Biblical sites to actually be Muslim holy sites:
the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron (left) as the "Ibrahimi Mosque,"
and Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem (right) as the "Bilal ibn Rabah
Mosque." (Images source: Wikimedia Commons)
The UN's greatest achievements against the Jewish state have
been rhetorical. By controlling the language of the Palestinian-Israel
conflict, the UN has skewed the narrative falsely against Israel. This
fabricated language is, in turn, absorbed and perpetuated by the media (both
old and new), academics, politicians, and pop culture figures such as Roger Waters,
further tainting the world's perception of the conflict.
UN documents regularly use the term "occupied Palestine"
and refer to "occupied Palestinian
territory" (especially the "West Bank") being stolen
by Jewish "settlement activity." All four UN terms --
"Palestine," "occupation," "West Bank," and
"settlement" -- are misleading.
Palestine: While UN documents regularly refer to
"Palestine" and "the State of Palestine," there is, in
fact, no state of Palestine. As David Bukay shows "there
has never been a land known as Palestine governed by Palestinians at any time
in history." Until recently there have
never been a people nor a culture known as "Palestinian" distinct
from "Arab." The Arabs who lived in UN Mandated Palestine turned down
statehood in 1947 by rejecting UN Resolution 181. In 1974 the UN recognized the
PLO, a terrorist organization, as the official representative of the
Palestinian people, paving the way for its emergence from the Oslo peace
process under the guise of the Palestinian Authority (PA). In 2000, the PA
turned down yet another offer of statehood because the offer did not recognize
the "right of return" for millions of descendants of those displaced
in 1948 to relocate to within Israel -- a population transfer that would
eliminate the existence of a Jewish state by demographic means. In 2012, the UN
General Assembly upgraded the
PA/PLO government to "Non-member Observer State"; UN rules dictate that new
member states can only be created by the Security Council.
West Bank: The term "West Bank" is also a
misnomer. In fact, this territory was for millennia called Judea and Samaria.
After the 1948 War of Independence, Transjordan (now known as the Kingdom of
Jordan) annexed it, renamed it the "West Bank," and occupied it for
nearly two decades. In the Six Day War, after Jordan
attacked Israel, Israel entered the territory and administered it until the
Oslo Accords era; then it turned over much of the area to the Palestinian
Authority. The final borders of a Palestinian state were left contingent upon
Palestinian progress in ending terrorism and bilateral negotiations over
presumed land swaps.
Occupation: When it comes to Israel, the UN is
obsessed with the word "occupation." A recent Wall Street
Journal article documents
530 General Assembly references to Israel as an "occupying power"
versus zero for Indonesia (East Timor), Turkey (Cyprus), Russia (Georgia,
Crimea), Morocco (Western Sahara), Vietnam (Cambodia), Armenia (Azerbaijan),
Pakistan (Kashmir), or China (Tibet). UNESCO's "Occupied Palestine" document uses
the phrase "Israel, the occupying Power" thirteen times.
Most Palestinians in Judea and Samaria live under the
governance of the Palestinian Authority. Referring to this territory as the
"occupied West Bank," is an unnecessary concession to the UN
narrative. Saying that Jews are "occupying" Judea is as nonsensical
as saying Arabs are "occupying" Arabia or Gauls are
"occupying" France. Nevertheless many media sources (Washington Post, New York Times)
use this term reflexively. New-media sources often take it a step farther. Any
Google search combining the words "occupation" and "Israel"
leads to a "People Also Ask" drop-down offering the following:
"At the heart of the Israel/Palestine conflict today lies the question of
the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel since the war of 1967, which
include the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem." Somehow Google
missed the fact there have not been Israelis in Gaza since 2005.
Settlement: The term "settlement" evokes
imagery of white European settlers encroaching on the ancestral territories of
red, brown and black peoples, connoting the moral baggage of colonialism. The
UN uses the term to insinuate Israeli theft of "Palestine." In truth,
many of the "West Bank settlers" bemoaned by the UN are not pioneers
from other lands but infants, new members of growing families in
long-established Jewish neighborhoods.
The Obama administration eagerly embraced this terminology.
On July 27, Obama State Department spokesman John Kirby issued a statement that reads as
though it were written at the UN. The document, entitled "Recent Israeli
Settlement Announcements," suggests that Obama's State Department has come
around to the UN's way of thinking, especially in "strongly condemning"
Israel for its "settlement activity" which it pronounces
"corrosive to the cause of peace."
Now that South Carolina governor Nikki Haley has been chosen
as the Trump administration's Ambassador to the UN, it will be up to her to
challenge the UN's ahistorical, slanted Palestine thinking. If there is an
occupying force in Gaza, it is Hamas. What Israelis call Judea and Samaria, and
Palestinians call the West Bank, are "disputed territories" to anyone
claiming a modicum of neutrality. As Elliot Abrams put it,
"the term 'settlement' loses meaning when applied to Jews building homes
in their nation's capital city."
A.J. Caschetta is a Shillman-Ginsburg fellow at the
Middle East Forum and a senior lecturer at the Rochester Institute of
Technology.
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