This is no surprise, given the UN’s ongoing targeting of Israel, but it is inexcusable. The UN should be defunded and expelled from New York City. After all, what good does it do?
“UN sides with Hamas against Israel in Gaza clashes,” World Israel News, June 14, 2018 (thanks to Inexion):
The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) Wednesday rejected a US motion against Hamas, but affirmed a Palestinian-led initiative against Israel that condemned the Jewish state for the actions it took to prevent thousands of Gazans from overrunning its border fence.
The UNGA also criticized Israel’s counter-terror and policing actions against Palestinians in Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem.
The American amendment condemning Hamas was struck down, even though it had a slim majority, 62-58, and 42 abstentions.
UNGA President Miroslav Lajčák of Slovakia ruled that a two-thirds majority was needed for an amendment to be added to a draft resolution.
Haley appealed his decision, which led the session to be adjourned for several minutes. The appeal was rejected.
“Today the UN made the morally bankrupt judgment that the recent Gaza violence is all Israel’s fault. It is no wonder that no one takes the UN seriously as a force for Middle East peace,” Haley said.
“But the common practice of turning a blind eye to the UN’s anti-Israel bias is changing. Today, a plurality of 62 countries voted in favor of the US-led effort to address Hamas’s responsibility for the disastrous conditions in Gaza. We had more countries on the right side than the wrong side,” she said.
Prior to the vote Haley said that her country’s amendment “reflects the minimum truth of what is going on in Gaza. It is the least that any self-respecting international organization or nation can do for the cause of peace.”
“To those who are unsure about how to vote, I ask, what part of our amendment is objectionable? Is it objectionable to condemn Hamas for firing the rockets at civilians?” Haley asked….
Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon told the General Assembly prior to Haley’s statement that if the UN approved the Palestinian resolution, “it will have signed in writing its unequivocal support for terrorism against Israel.”
“Let us not pretend,” Danon said. “If ISIS were to attack Stockholm tomorrow, ISIS would be held responsible for the attack. If al-Qaeda assaulted Paris, the UN would issue the strongest condemnation of al-Qaeda,” he added.
“Only when Hamas attacks Israel does the UN seek to blame Israel,” Danon said. “The moral majority in this chamber should not tolerate a different standard for Israeli victims of terror.”
“I have a simple message for those who support this resolution. You are the ammunition for Hamas’s guns. You are the warheads for Hamas’s missiles,” Danon said.
The crusader says
The UN is a waste of American tax payers money.
gravenimage says
Yes–we should not be supporting this defender of savagery.
J D S says
Any,repeat any, organization that supports Hamas over Israel is worthless. But the U.N. stands out amongst these groups.
Too many liberal leftist in the U.N. They are meddling instead of performing and should be kicked out of N.Y. and really out if the U.S. The U.N. has cost tax payers millions of wasted dollars…Any enemy of Israel should be ostracized not lauded.
I could be wrong but Israel does not occupy and hold, to do with as pleased them and God, all the lands that God gave them according to the Holy Bible. If that’s a fact then anyone going against Israel is going against God when it comes to their land.
gravenimage says
And Israel is a civilized democracy–nothing like the unfree Mohammed crap holes that surround her.
duh swami says
Has the UN ever sided with Israel about anything, even once?
esther says
Israel should become CREATIVE in response to Hadjii shit by EMULATING
it. In response to the Molotov cocktail and rock thing—-the appropriate
response would be tans of thousands of Molotov cocktails jettisoned into
Gaza ——-and trained rock flingers aiming for heads. Could anyone complain?
mortimer says
esther, you know not what you say. THE ISRAEL DEFENCE FORCE is the MOST ETHICAL MILITARY FORCE IN THE WORLD.
ETHICS ARE THE STRONGEST WEAPON THAT EXISTS.
LeftisruiningCanada says
Agreed. I doubt there has even been a more tolerant and ethical response in the history of self defense than how the Israelis conduct themselves in the face of such an immoral and demented attacker.
gravenimage says
True, Mortimer and LeftisruiningCanada.
Demsci says
OK, Mortimer,
What remains is to insist on Using the same standards for all countries. So to keep pointing out that so many other countries behave so much worse to citizens, in war. Like Turkey against the Kurds, the Syrians, the Iranians; so many countries behave so much worse than Israel, in comparable circumstances.
We must keep exposing the appalling double standards of the UN.
Walter Sieruk says
That organization that is the United Nations Must be composed d of fools for taking the side of Hamas. By contrast.,President Trump made the right and wise decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and move the US embassy to that important city . For not to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of the State of Israel would be appeasement to the powers of Islam. Appeasement will only be viewed by Muslim members of Hamas as weakness. Therefore, with appeasement, the Muslim arrogance and contempt for America would only grow.
Furthermore, the Islamic agenda of that Islamic terror organization Hamas. of destroying the State of Israel and replacing it with an Islamic “state” is already as lost cause. This is because those jihadists of Hamas who have that goal are all fated to lose in the end. For that agenda of those Jihad terror entities are greatly overruled by the God of the Bible. For the Jewish people have every right to all of that land, including the West Bank, by Divine Right. As seen, for example, in Genesis 28:13-15. 35:48, 49. Psalms 105:7-11. 135:4. Furthermore, the Jewish people should also have that land by historic rights. As found in First Kings 4:20,21,24,25. 8:55,56.
In conclusion, the jihadists members of Hamas and other like-minded Islamic organizations have joined a lost cause and a bad cause.
It may even rightfully be said that the jihadists of such Islamic entities have taken up a stand for a bad cause. This is a bad cause to the extreme. The Bible instructs in much wisdom, as in “Do not stand up for a bad cause.” Ecclesiastes 8:3. [N.I.V.]
mortimer says
Hamas is a terrorist organization. No one should give them a penny. All funding should be cut off until they agree to a peaceful future.
Ric says
Does anyone expect the UN to break its alliance with Hamas and the so-called Palestinians? The UN is a fetid body of self-righteous, anti-Semitic/Israel, anti-Democratic, self-ordained overlords.
It is a front for Islamist terror and those bent on the eradication of The State of Israel. Aligning themselves with other alliances feigning to be Democracies, specifically the E.U.
The fact that this gaggle of corruption and unabashed bigotry is in NYC is an affront to the U.S., indeed the present government and the Republic’s President, and undoubted patriots of the Constitutional Republic. Not including the betrayers within the retrograde Democrats, the self-absorbed Liberal elitists, aspiring Bolsheviks and others of the so-called Progressivists movement. Nor the Islamists alliance of the above mentioned Democrats and others. The sham journalists of CNN, MSNBC, and those of the propagandist, Liberal media confederates with Islamist Jihad. The UN would serve its alliance with terror by transmigrating to Tehran or the treacherous faux-Democracies of the EU.
RonaldB says
Asymmetrical warfare is the creative use of tactics to minimize the differences in strength between opponents. In other words, Israel could easily and quickly destroy Hamas and its surrogates in open battle. So, Hamas uses shoot-and-run tactics: shoot a rocket from hidden tunnels, or shooting rockets from the rooftops of hospitals and schools. The rockets are disruptive to any organized, advanced society.
Hence, it is necessary for the Israeli military to respond by any means necessary to stop the rockets. The key word is necessary: The Israeli military is on solid ground when it demolishes tunnels, strafes infiltrators, and blows up schools and hospitals being employed by Palestinian fighters. Israel would be on less solid ground to destroy civilian structures not involved in the offensive, simply to punish the population. I don’t think there are any credible accusations of that.
What globalist, international organizations like the UN do is to insist on the outcome that no civilian be injured or displaced, regardless of the provocation or necessity. In other words, the UN resolves that the tactics of Hamas be successful, and they not suffer retaliation because of their tactic of hiding among (more-or-less) civilians. In other words, the globalist organizations make it impossible to realistically defend an advanced society. The objective of these resolutions is, obviously, to render western countries and governments unable to protect themselves.
The largest single voting bloc in the UN is the Islamic countries. The faceless, unaccountable bureaucrats of the UN accrue more money and power from globalist, rather than national, activity. In other words, for the globalists, the ideal function of national governments is to serve as administrative units of the international organization, to collect the taxes and enforce the decrees of the bureaucrat/dictators. So naturally, the globalist UN will take every opportunity to demolish every effort of a national government to assert or protect its sovereignty.
Israel happens to be in a fairly vulnerable situation, unable to retaliate for hostile resolutions, although able to defend itself physically. The US should oppose every move by globalist organizations to punish smaller countries like Israel for protecting themselves, while the US should emphatically not modify its own policies to protect Israeli interests at the expense of its own. In other words, Israel is on its own with respect to policies which affect entities like the government of Syria.
I personally think the US should withdraw its support and membership from all international organizations with the ability to pass rules that are at all binding. Any rules binding the US should come from bilateral agreements ratified by the Congress…Period. There were great reasons to pull out of the TPP negotiations, especially because there would be an independent body to settle disputes. This can easily morph into a bureaucracy pulling more power to itself.
Wellington says
A sophisticated analysis, RonaldB, which I second.
The truth of things is that most of the world is either an outright enemy of true freedom (examples being the Islamic world and China) or superficially endorses freedom while actually undermining it (examples being Theresa May and Justin Trudeau).
The brave, enlightened and free are in the minority. Always have been. Most likely always will be. And which is why America should, per your suggestion, withdraw from “all international organizations with the ability to pass rules that are at all binding” on the US. A good start would be withdrawal from the UN (Useless Nations). Then go from there. Instructive, highly, that the freedom that the ancient Greeks first pioneered remains lost on most even into our own time, even into the 21st century. Makes me inclined to accept Mark Twain’s assessment of mankind, to wit, that we are indeed a pathetic excuse for a species considering all the potential we have and yet how much we waste it over and over again. The very existence of Islam and its continued defense by not only Muslims but by hoards of “good dhimmis” only validates Twain’s assertion made over a century ago.
Hope you and yours are doing well in this very goofy world we live in. Take care.
mariam rove says
The UN is a joke to say the least. They have never sided with the Israelis, not once. yet we are paying the majority of the money to keep them going which is a bigger joke M
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Apartheid evil United States and fascist evil Zionist state of Israel have gone mad. How can you carryingout mass killings of people and condemn them for allowing themselves to be killed? Idiots!!
Wellington says
Oh yeah, keep posting, Ibrahim, because with every post of yours you reveal: 1) upside-down thinking; 2) overuse, big time, of the word “evil” (gettin’ real old here, pal, with your use of this word—I mean to the extent of self-parody which you have very capably “accomplished” I assure you; 3) absolutely no capacity for self-deprecation or even a hint of the fun that should exist in life from time to time (N.B., a la Ayatollah Khomeini, “there is no fun in Islam”—no truer assessment, I would contend, has ever been uttered by a Mo follower); and 4) a complete incapacity to comprehend that Muslims in the “evil United States and fascist evil Zionist state of Israel” possess far, almost infinitely so, more freedoms than do non-Muslims in any majority Muslim state, which sadly amounts to over fifty and where freedom, fun, alcohol, good times, music, embracing life over death, the non-sanctioning of rape, the non-sanctioning of death for apostasy, etc., are all in profound jeopardy, courtesy of the worst religion ever founded by man by the worst excuse for a religious founder of all time.
May Allah strike me dead tonight if your religion is the true faith, Ibrahim. Communicate with you soon, buddy. For instance, tomorrow or the next day or whenever because, you see, there is no Allah, the character of Mo is despicable (I mean what good father would want his teenage daughter {pre-teenage even?} to date such a scumbag?) and the Koran is the most turgid, nauseatingly repetitive, stupid, desultory and generally most awful major religious tome ever produced.
Take care, Ibrahim. Be with you soon again because, you see, your entire religion is a fraud. From beginning to end. You won’t get this but then you get so very little. Oh yeah, very, very little.
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
welligton, tell your Satan god (Holy Spirit) to approach me, it will kick him on his head to get him running away from evil Zionists to track them down and bring them to justice for crimes against humanity. you are wicked like your Satan applauding evil Zionists slaughtering Palestinians.
Wellington says
“…tell your Satan god…” Yeah, I’ll do that next time, Ibrahim, when I get the chance, probably tomorrow when I’m pouring my first beer after a run. Surely.
Please, Ibrahim, seek help. You make it obvious to all that either you are 1) a devoted believer in the worst religion of all time; or 2) the worst excuse for a comedian of all time.
Whichever, seek help. Soon like.
gravenimage says
Ibrahim itace muhammed wrote:
welligton, tell your Satan god (Holy Spirit) to approach me, it will kick him on his head to get him running away…
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As I’ve noted before, this pretty much sums up the caliber of this pious Mohammedan’s comments…
LeftisruiningCanada says
Caution to you Ibrahim: there is such thing as the unforgivable sin you know.
Remember, you have been warned.
LeftisruiningCanada says
You know what Hamas means in Hebrew right Ibrahim?
“The word violence in Hebrew is hamas’. Doesn’t that sound a bit familiar? Hamas as we know it today is an Arabic word meaning enthusiasm which is an acronym for Harakat Al Mugawamah Al-‘Islamiyyah or as we know in English as the Islamic Resistance Movement, a terrorist organization that is dead set on reeking violence upon Israel. It is only by some strange coincidence (divine?) that it is also the Hebrew word for violence. It also means to be cruel and oppressive and unjust. In the Aramaic it means to be very hard and unsympathetic to someone. I read an article yesterday where a ten year old child was expelled from a private school because she missed too many days of classes and her grades were failing. The child has cancer and was going through chemotherapy. But rules are rules and she was expelled from the school and will not be allowed to return. I am sure there is another side to the story, but as it was reported, that is hamas. Basically a hamas person is one who shows no mercy, no understanding, is so self-centered and self-absorbed that they care for no one else but themselves. Such people are a really an irritant to God.”
Sums it up nicely don’t cha think?
source:http://www.chaimbentorah.com/2015/04/word-study-hamas-%d7%94%d7%9e%d7%a1/
gravenimage says
Of course, there is no apartheid in the United States. I live on a block with White, Black, Asian, and Jewish residents.
John Hawk says
Good to hear from you Ibrahim, but your language skills need work. You sound like a broken record. Is there a good junior college in your area, or just sand? Does ISIS have an online program that would be included in your Raqqa veterans benefits, assuming you have any left?
Sorry about Raqqa, by the way. Are you still in touch with any of the old gang?
Roland Tours says
There are 67 member countries in the OIC (Organization of the Islamic Conference}. Of these, 22 are members of the Arab League. Not enough other countries are willing to oppose the OIC outright. The deck is stacked against Israel. Israel is lucky that the US under Trump is willing to take a stand against the lynch mob. Obummer would have just rolled over.
somehistory says
It would be necessary to boot all of the members of the oic out of the U.N. in order to have a different result.
Reptiles will not favor non-reptiles over snakes. moslims in Gaza are snakes, claiming to be bunnies.
gravenimage says
UN sides with Hamas against Israel over Gaza clashes, ignores “Palestinian” violence
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Disgusting–but given the appalling record of the UN, not at all surprising.
DogOnPorch says
Useless UN…serves terrorists and Islam.
Brother Charles says
THIS IS A WARNING TO THE UNITED NATIONS ,
Genesis 12:3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
Genesis 32:28 And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
JACOB =ISRAEL = THE ONE YOU ARE CURSING ?
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Brother Charles, Genesis 12:3 is a lie invented by evil Jews to establish superiority over other races. True God never said it. Jews are equal to all races, including blacks they despise much saying they are cursed race, which is not true. wicked Idiots!!
LeftisruiningCanada says
You mean they are equally subservient to muslims, don’t you Ibrahim my dear?
gravenimage says
Yes–Muslims want to oppress and enslave both Jews and Blacks, and are always enraged when they are not allowed to do so.
jewdog says
Turtle Bay would be a great site for condos and retail shops. Maybe some day…
gravenimage says
Yep.
Troybeam says
A thought: how much money might George Soro’s be paying the UN council under that table to keep this continuation against Israel?
Older Canadian says
Probably not as much as you think. Apparently all participants are suppose to pay annually a percentage of their GNP to support the UN. But most or none do, whereas the USA pays more than they should to offset the dippers. Trump made that very clear quite recently that this has got to stop. I think this is one of the reasons why Trump bashing is on the increase once again.
gravenimage says
+1
Richard Courtemanche says
What is it that UN members don’t understand what are simple facts!
William Bernick says
if Algeria claimed the world is .flat.. & Israel flattened it. the motion would pass… 165 for…. 35 against
50 abstensions..(+/-)….
Abba Eban.. 1st Israeli ambassador to the UN…
ZEV BERNICK TORONTO CANADA