António Guterres, the UN Secretary General, commented that the attacks against Israel 'did not happen in a vacuum' and Israel responded as it always does when someone dares to criticise them by saying the UN is bias and have an anti-Israel agenda and is calling for Guterres to be removed from his post but he was completely right, the current situation did not start on October 7th as many would have us believe, it has been ongoing for 75 years of death and
displacement of the Palestinian people by Israel as it militarily and brutally occupied it's neighbour.
That sentiment was shared by Jordan’s Queen Rania who gave a very eloquent speech on how western leaders were guilty of 'a glaring double standard for not condemning Israel’s killing of Palestinian civilians in its bombardment of Gaza' with the latest grim figures showing 7,028 Palestinians have been killed since 7 October and among the dead were 2,913 children.
Rania said: 'The people all around the Middle East, including in Jordan, we are just shocked and disappointed by the world’s reaction to this catastrophe that is unfolding. When October 7 happened, the world immediately and unequivocally stood by Israel and condemned the attack but what we’re seeing in the last couple of weeks, we’re seeing silence in the world' and ended with a withering: 'Are we being told that it is wrong to kill a family, an entire family, at gunpoint, but it’s OK to shell them to death?'
Guterres also spoke of the 'epic suffering' in Gaza and said there had been 'clear violations of international law' which prohibits 'collective punishment under all circumstances. When a nation carries out collective punishment during an armed conflict, it is committing a war crime.'
Human Rights Watch have identified Israel’s use of airbursting white phosphorus in Gaza and Amnesty International asserted that Israel: 'Have shown a shocking disregard for civilian lives. They have pulverized street after street of residential buildings killing civilians on a mass scale and destroying essential infrastructure.'
A joint statement signed by the foreign ministers of nine Arab countries, UAE, Jordan, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar, Kuwait, Egypt and Morocco has condemned what it described as the targeting of civilians and until the Americans, Brits and other nations begin to condemn Israel for their actions as they
did Hamas, they are complicit in the Israeli war crimes murdering Palestinian civilians.
Thursday, 26 October 2023
António Guterres Was Right
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The UN is biased. And there is a very strong anti-Israel agenda.
I would hope that any nation that has been militarily occupying another nation for decades would also feel the wrath of the UN
You singularly blame Israel for the Palestinian ordeal.
Again, who else has been militarily occupying them for 75 years?
The occupation wasn’t brutal.
Stealing land and building settlements on it, defying tens of UN resolutions, holding over 9000 Palestinians in its prisons, destroying farms, bulldozing homes and businesses, building a monstrous wall deemed illegal by the international court of justice and committing war crimes including using Palestinian children as human shields, deliberate bombing of civilian houses and UN buildings and targeting innocent civilians. That's not brutal?
> Again, nobody can show that Israel is targeting civilians, certainly not in a systematic way. People should be condemning Hamas for putting their weapons and bases near hospitals and schools.
Reports from Palestine, are Hamas controlled, the reports can't be trusted - zero validity. Straight up disinformation to win over the pacifists.
UNICEF spokesperson James Elder told a UN press briefing in Geneva, lamenting that the death toll among minors had exceeded 3,450. UNICEF is not controlled by Hamas.
> There is no way for Israel to respond to Hamas attacks without violating a UN law.
The law broken is collective punishment of the Palestinians, if you herd 2.5 million people into a small area and then indiscriminately bomb them killing thousands then damn, straight it's a war crime.
So where does this defence of the nation which has kept a brutal, murderous militarily genocidal occupation on its neighbour come from? Is it a religious thing or a right wing thing or are you just so shamefully ignorant of it all until it hit the news recently?
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