Some final remarks about Antonio Guterres’ appalling UN speech:
Let me be clear: No party to an armed conflict is above international humanitarian law.
Excellencies,
Thankfully, some humanitarian relief is finally getting into Gaza.
But it is a drop of aid in an ocean of need.
In addition, our UN fuel supplies in Gaza will run out in a matter of days. That would be another disaster.
Without fuel, aid cannot be delivered, hospitals will not have power, and drinking water cannot be purified or even pumped.
The people of Gaza need continuous aid delivery at a level that corresponds to the enormous needs. That aid must be delivered without restrictions.
“Without restrictions” means that fuel would now enter Gaza, unblocked by Israel, where it would almost certainly be diverted by Hamas for its war machine, adding to the 500,000 liters of fuel Hamas already possesses but is not allowing the Gazans to use for their hospital generators and desalinization plants.
I salute our UN colleagues and humanitarian partners in Gaza working under hazardous conditions and risking their lives to provide aid to those in need. They are an inspiration.
Those “UN colleagues” whom Guterres so admires are the Palestinians who work for UNRWA, an agency that brainwashes Palestinian children with its antisemitic textbooks and lesson plans. They should not be described as an “inspiration.” They are a major part of the problem, filling young Palestinian minds with murderous antisemitism that will make the prospect of peace still more unlikely.
To ease epic suffering, make the delivery of aid easier and safer, and facilitate the release of hostages, I reiterate my appeal for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire.
A “ceasefire” would deprive Israel of its right to dismember Hamas, leave the terror group battered but still standing, and no doubt the terror group would crow that it had managed to defy its “Zionist enemy.” Everyone who calls right now for a “ceasefire” is taking the side of Hamas.
Excellencies,
Even in this moment of grave and immediate danger, we cannot lose sight of the only realistic foundation for a true peace and stability: a two-State solution.
The “two-state solution”is now dead, as far as most Israelis are concerned. Even Israelis on the left have drawn a melancholy conclusion from the unhinged atrocities of October 7. Given the carnage on that day, Israelis understand that they cannot possibly allow a Palestinian state in the West Bank or, still worse, in both Gaza and the West Bank. Such a state would be many times more lethal and threatening to the security of Israel than Hamas has been in Gaza.
Israelis must see their legitimate needs for security materialized, and Palestinians must see their legitimate aspirations for an independent State realized, in line with United Nations resolutions, international law and previous agreements.
Finally, we must be clear on the principle of upholding human dignity.
Polarization and dehumanization are being fueled by a tsunami of disinformation.
The “aspirations” of the Palestinians are clear: they want to replace the Jewish state with a twenty-third Arab one,”from the river to the sea.” It’s explicit in the Hamas Charter, and implicit in the behavior of the PA’s Fatah. Hamas and the P.A. differ only on timing and tactics. Hamas wants to destroy Israel, quickly, through terrorism. The P.A. is willing to work more slowly, through other means, toward the same goal, by first squeezing Israel within the 1949 armistice lines, giving the Jewish state a nine-mile-wide waist from Qalqilya to the sea, and establishing a Palestinian state on all the land Israel surrenders. Then, at some point, the “moderate” Palestinians, in collaboration with other Arab and Muslim militaries, would go in for the kill.
Yes, the tsunami of disinformation is coming from one side only — Hamas. It is Hamas that blamed Israel for the explosion at the parking lot of the Al-Ahli parking lot. It is Hamas whose spokesmen have denied decapitating babies, but Israel has the photographs of the victims. It is Hamas that insists that the IDF deliberately kills civilians when the IDF makes enormous efforts to avoid killing civilians, both by warning them away from sites about to be targeted, and by allowing its pilots to call off attacks if they detect the presence of too many civilians in the targeted area.. It is Hamas that exaggerates the number of Gazans killed, just as it has in every past conflict with Israel.
We must stand up to the forces of antisemitism, anti-Muslim bigotry and all forms of hate.
We know that antisemitism is precipitously on the rise everywhere, but especially in Western Europe where the Muslim economic migrants are the chief carriers of the antisemitic virus. But what about “anti-Muslim bigotry”? Can the alarm about the effect of millions of Muslim migrants, now living in the midst of Western Europe, be called “bigotry” ? Issn’t it, rather, a sensible response to a real threat? Muslim economic migrants are now costing the welfare states of Western Europe more than $200 billion a year in order to pay for all the benefits they receive; Muslim migrants are responsible for the great rise in crime in Western Europe; Muslim neighborhoods in many cities have become No-Go areas in major cities where even the police and firemen fear to enter except with protection. Most Muslims exhibit no interest in integrating into the societies of Infidels who, they know, are “the most vile of created beings.” They boast openly of how, through demographic conquest, they will someday take over the lands of the Infidels. The large-sale presence of Muslims in these countries has led to a situation that is far more unpleasant, expensive, and physically dangerous than would be the case without that large-scale presence. Is it “anti-Muslim” bigotry to recognize that truth? Is it “bigotry” to want to decrease the number of Muslim migrants allowed into your country?
Mr. President,
Excellencies,
Today is United Nations Day, marking 78 years since the UN Charter entered into force.
That Charter reflects our shared commitment to advance peace, sustainable development and human rights.
On this UN Day, at this critical hour, I appeal to all to pull back from the brink before the violence claims even more lives and spreads even farther.
Thank you very much.
Truly, this was a meretricious speech laced with anti-Israel animus. Fortunately, Israel will continue — unlike, and despite, the UN — to “advance peace, sustainable development and human rights” for the people of Gaza, by removing the murderous presence of Hamas. Now if only Antonio Guterres could be made to understand the truth of that last sentence.
KoshsShadow says
Exactly.
If the UN existed in WWII, it would have called for a “humanitarian ceasefire” for bombing Germany, but nothing about stopping the Shoah.
No civilized country should remain in the UN. I suggest it get relocated to Afghanistan or Sudan. But so far the only country that has anyone in power speaking withdrawing from the UN is the Czech Republic.
And perfectly correct about the PA. The world hears “peace plan” but they mean “piece plan” – destroy Israel one piece at a time.
Wellington says
“No civilized country should remain in the UN.”
Completely agree. Unfortunately, what is left of civilized countries (overwhelmingly to be found in the West it should be noted) is now run by a collection of dunces, examples being Biden, Trudeau and Macron.
So, while what is left of civilized nations should indeed tell the UN to go to Hell, this isn’t going to happen unless the West gets a Hell of a lot of people in the Winston Churchill mode who will, finally, do the right thing and tell the UN to eff off.
Sad to say, I don’t see this happening but hope does spring eternal. I sure hope so.
Pjw says
Un would have never called for a ceasefire as it is a leftist/communist/islamist organization. They hate the far right so much that they label anyone opposing the left as far right. So don’t think they would have gone for a ceasefire during WW2.
Daniel Bielak says
The 1964 PLO Charter
https://web.archive.org/web/20101130144018/https://www.un.int/wcm/content/site/palestine/pid/12363
“Article 19: Zionism is a colonialist movement in its inception, aggressive and expansionist in its goal, racist in its configurations, and fascist in its means and aims. Israel, in its capacity as the spearhead of this destructive movement and as the pillar of colonialism, is a permanent source of tension and turmoil in the Middle East, in particular, and to the international community in general. Because of this, the people of Palestine are worthy of the support and sustenance of the community of nations.”
“Article 24: This Organization does not exercise any territorial sovereignty over the West Bank in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, on the Gaza Strip or in the Himmah Area. Its activities will be on the national popular level in the liberational, organizational, political and financial fields.”
The 1968 Revised, and Current, PLO Charter
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/plocov.asp
“Article 19: The partition of Palestine in 1947 and the establishment of the state of Israel are entirely illegal, regardless of the passage of time, because they were contrary to the will of the Palestinian people and to their natural right in their homeland, and inconsistent with the principles embodied in the Charter of the United Nations; particularly the right to self-determination.”
“Article 20: The Balfour Declaration, the Mandate for Palestine, and everything that has been based upon them, are deemed null and void. Claims of historical or religious ties of Jews with Palestine are incompatible with the facts of history and the true conception of what constitutes statehood. Judaism, being a religion, is not an independent nationality. Nor do Jews constitute a single nation with an identity of its own; they are citizens of the states to which they belong.”
The Fatah Constitution
http://www.mythsandfacts.org/Conflict/statute-treaties/fateh_constitution.htm
“Article 19: Armed struggle is a strategy and not a tactic and the Palestinian Arab people’s armed revolution is a decisive factor in the liberation fight and in uprooting the Zionist existence, and this struggle will not cease unless the Zionist state is demolished and Palestine is completely liberated.”
The Hamas Covenant / Charter
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/hamas.asp
“.. Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it …”
PA TV presents the PLO Charter as currently calling for Israel’s destruction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynTT8NqJJUg
Abbas rejects Israel’s legitimacy in any borders: All of Israel is an ”occupation”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CspkE4Tfh4s
Abbas: I will never recognize Israel as a Jewish State
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq3-mvE_sak
Abbas: “We will not recognize Israel as a Jewish state”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HpSFd-4U-8
Abbas: The PA is absolved of all agreements with the US and Israel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7e-GUXyQyM
Alley cat says
RESIGN!.
commonsense says
There already is a “Palestinian” state. It’s called Jordan.
KoshsShadow says
The PA even admits it (unknowingly, I think) by saying Judea, Samaria, and the eastern part of Jerusalem were “Palestinian” during the time of the illegal Jordanian occupation.
I wish Israel had called them on it back when they filed the ICC complaint; Israel has other things to do now.
maria says
Jordan is Israel It is part of Israel. No fakestinians there.
No muslims in Israel
Eva says
It was part of the mandated land for the Jewish National Home.
Then the Jew-hating british government gave it to the hashemites , completely illegally.
Jordan is an illegitimate state, but I don’t hear anyone screaming blue murder about that.
Eva says
Send the u.n to the Middle East and then drop a ‘fat man’ on it.
It’s all it deserves.
Cam says
Myanmar them into Jordan!
Raghu says
Probably one of most inept UN Secretary general in the recent past.
Curious Observer says
The most apt description I can think of for Gutteres is “Gutless Guttersnipe” Gutteres, and that would be paying him a compliment.