Forgotten (of course) in the UN’s self-righteous posturing is that it was Muslim leaders who exhorted the Muslims to leave their homes, promising that they would be able to return in a matter of weeks when Israel was destroyed. Also, the “Palestinian” state that is supposed to solve everything was turned down by the local Muslims, who were not yet “Palestinians,” when the UN offered it to them in 1948. Get the facts in The Palestinian Delusion.
“UN General Assembly votes in favor of commemorating Palestinian ‘Nakba,’” by Luke Tress, Times of Israel, December 1, 2022:
NEW YORK — The United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday voted to adopt a pro-Palestinian resolution to commemorate the “Nakba,” the Palestinian term for Israel’s establishment.
The UN resolution calls for a “commemoration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Nakba, including by organizing a high-level event at the General Assembly Hall” in May 2023. It also urges the “dissemination of relevant archives and testimonies.”
The initiative was sponsored by Egypt, Jordan, Senegal, Tunisia, Yemen and the Palestinians and passed by a vote of 90 in favor, 30 against and 47 abstentions.
Israel, Australia, Austria, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, the UK and the US were among the countries that voted against.
Ukraine did not vote. Kyiv sparked a diplomatic spat with Jerusalem by voting in favor of an anti-Israel resolution earlier this month.
Arab and Muslim states Israel has ties with voted in favor, including Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Sudan and the United Arab Emirates.
“Nakba” is the Arabic word for “catastrophe” which Palestinians use to recall the displacement and dispossession they experienced during Israel’s War of Independence in 1948….
Another resolution said it was “noting with deep regret the passage of 55 years since the onset of the Israeli occupation” and 75 years since the UN partition plan and “the Nakba” with no resolution to the conflict.
Israel’s ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan said the resolutions’ “sole purpose is to put all the blame for what is happening in the Middle East solely on Israel while absolving the Palestinians of any responsibility.”
“Try to imagine the international community commemorating your country’s Independence Day by calling it a disaster. What a disgrace,” Erdan said of the Nakba resolution. “The Palestinians’ lies must no longer be accepted on the world stage, just as this body must stop allowing the Palestinians to continue pulling its strings. I urge you all to stop blindly supporting the Palestinians’ libels.”
“This General Assembly, this body, voted to adopt Resolution 181 – the Partition Plan. My people, the Jewish people, accepted this resolution without hesitation. But the Arabs and the Palestinians did not,” Erdan said. “Five Arab armies, together with the Arabs living in Israel, tried to destroy and annihilate us.”
Erdan also unveiled an exhibit at the UN on the “Jewish Nakba,” the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Jews from Arab countries and Iran in the 1940s and 1950s following the partition plan.
“Their only crime was being Jewish. This is the true Nakba. This is the disaster carried out against the Jewish people, and this is the disaster that this body has ignored for decades,” he said. “I will fight in every way the false narrative that the Palestinians spread at the UN.”…
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said at the event that the “occupation must end,” blaming the conflict on occupation, settlements, home demolitions, evictions and closures of Gaza crossings.
Guterres and other speakers focused on Israeli forces in the West Bank and did not mention Palestinian terrorism, the Hamas terror group, Israeli security concerns or Israeli victims of violence.
Alkflaeda says
I noted in another post that the problem with the Nakba was that Allah wasn’t akbar – there has to be material for a limerick in this….
libertyORdeath says
Tell me again how Kanye West is a bigger antisemite than most of the U.N.?
I don’t remember Kanye launching missiles at Jewish civilians. I don’t think he pays a salary to anyone who murders Jewish women and children. I also don’t remember him calling for the complete destruction of the state of Israel or the genocide of it’s people.
Kanye is suspicious of the Jewish mafia that uses their purported faith to shield them from legitimate criticism, while the UN actively works to undermine the interests of Israel. Which one is worse?
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I’d say both are pretty horrendous. The UN on one hand doesn’t claim to love the Nazis or Hitler, which Kanye does. Otoh, as you say, Kanya doesn’t launch missiles at Israel or (so far) underwrite BDS causes
Also, as far as the ‘Jewish mafia’ goes, one can condemn the likes of Adam Schiff, Harvey Weinstein, Chuck Schumer, Danang Dick Blumenthal, Steve Spielburg, David Geffen, Stanley Cohen, Nadav Lapid, Jeffrey Epstein, Debbie Wasserman-Schulz, et al w/o invoking their Jewishness, which is tangential to what they stand/stood for
Rarely says
Liberty,
Jewish mafia?
Tell me about it.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Does anybody have the number of this resolution? I tried looking for it in the UN website to see who all voted against it, but had no luck
gravenimage says
Infidel, I was unable to find the number–but there is more information here:
“UN General Assembly votes in favor of commemorating Palestinian ‘Nakba’”
https://www.timesofisrael.com/un-general-assembly-votes-in-favor-of-commemorating-palestinian-nakba/
“The initiative was sponsored by Egypt, Jordan, Senegal, Tunisia, Yemen and the Palestinians and passed by a vote of 90 in favor, 30 against and 47 abstentions.
Israel, Australia, Austria, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, the UK and the US were among the countries that voted against.”
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I was interested in more countries than just the ones listed.
It’s already been noted how all the Abraham Accord countries voted for it, and how Egypt and Jordan co-sponsored it. On top of that, Azerbaijan – the country that Israel supported against Armenia – voted for it as well! Congratulations, Israel – you chose your side wisely in that face-off!
I am happy to see that Greece voted against: historically, during the Cold War, they used to be anti-Israel
gravenimage says
United Nations General Assembly votes to adopt resolution supporting ‘Palestinian’ jihad, commemorating the ‘Nakba’
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Just disgusting–but unsurprising. And the original “Nakba”–“catastrophe”–was Levantine Arab Muslims in the Palestinian Mandate no longer being part of Syria–it didn’t have much to do directly with Israel, and predated her modern creation.
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
Reports of Kanye’s rants should be severely restricted or at least prefaced by a forewarning that his comments are those of a mentally ill person. Placing him in the public spotlight for people’s amusement is shameful and harkens back to the days of circus freakshows. Shameful! This man needs compassion, understanding, and medical attention and not jeers and laughter.
sherc100 says
@Beneath the Veil of Consciousness – Hollywood entertainment types, such as Kanye “Ye” West rely on being in the public spotlight to promote themselves economically. His mental illness exhibited with this guest appearances in the media have taken a giant bite out of his net worth. His recent association with antisemite White Supremacists has worsened his brand even more. The problem is that many of the young people who follow him and the Kardashians are so easily brainwashed with this type of talk. Mr. West needs psychiatric help, but that does not stop the easily influenced, screen addicted, entertainment sycophants to put him on a pedestal. The media should not invite him to be on their shows.