The Czech Republic’s Minister of Defense was disgusted and horrified by the recent resolution in the UN General Assembly calling for a “ceasefire” in Gaza. Such a “ceasefire” would leave Hamas still standing in Gaza, and deprive Israel of the definitive victory it seeks over the terror group. That UNGA resolution was passed by a wide margin, with 120 Yes votes, 14 No votes (including the United States and Israel), and 45 abstentions. In a shameful betrayal of Western values, France voted Yes; in a shameful betrayal of Israel, Germany — which should always stand with the Jewish state,, for obvious reasons — voted to abstain. The Resolution did not mention the October 7 attacks by name, much less express sympathy for the 1400 Israelis who were murdered by Hamas fanatics that day. Nor did the resolution mention the 240 hostages — including children, women, the elderly — whom Hamas kidnapped and brought back with them to Gaza, where they are being held, in unknown conditions, to be used as bargaining chips in order to obtain the release of 5,200 Arabs held in Israeli prisons, which includes hundreds of prisoners serving life sentences for the terrorist murders of Israelis. No, the Resolution called for a “ceasefire,” which Israel has declared it will not agree to, for that “ceasefire” would still leave Hamas intact, able to again torture, rape, and murder Israeli civilians.
After the vote on October 28, Czech Defense Minister Jana Černochová called for her own country to leave the UN because, in her view, the UNGA vote was only cheering on Hamas terrorists. These were her words:
Exactly 3 weeks ago, Hamas murdered over 1400 Israelis, more victims for their population than the militant Islamist organization al-Qaeda murdered in the US on 9/11. And only 14 countries, including ours, have spoken out clearly and understandably against this unprecedented terrorist attack perpetrated by Hamas terrorists! I am ashamed of the UN. In my opinion, the Czech Republic has no place in an organization that cheers on terrorists and does not respect the fundamental right to self-defence. Let’s get out.
The Czech Republic has a longstanding connection to Israel and to Zionism, beginning all the way back to when it was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. That is because Tomas Masaryk, the father of modern Czechoslovakia, and its first president, was an ardent Zionist. This was hardly to be expected, given his background. He had grown up in an antisemitic milieu — his own mother warned him to stay away from Jews because of their supposed practice of using Christian blood in their rituals — but early on, Masaryk himself had befriended Jews, found them sympathetic, began to read about Zionism in the early 1900s, and declared his Zionist sympathies well before the Balfour Declaration and the establishment of the Mandate for Palestine. The more he read about Jewish history, and the more he saw, and was horrified by, the antisemitism he observed in Central Europe, the more ardent he became in supporting the return of the Jews to Zion, to rebuild their ancient homeland. When Masaryk visited Mandatory Palestine in 1927, he was the first foreign leader to do so; his visit was a triumph, and confirmed him in his sympathies.
His son Jan Masaryk, who became the Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia, was deeply struck by the Nazi murder of European Jewry, and wrote feelingly about the “rivers of Jewish blood” that had been made to flow through long centuries of persecution, pogroms, and mass murder in Europe.
In 1948, the blockade of weapons to both sides in the Arab-Israeli war left the Arab armies with large stores of weapons, while the Jews at the start of the war had little beyond rifles and machine guns. And even during the war, the British continued to provide arms to Egypt and, especially, to the Arab Legion in Jordan that was led by British General John Bagot Glubb (“Glubb Pasha”), and had many British officers. Czechoslovakia was the one country willing to sell arms to Israel, including, most importantly, a half-dozen airplanes which became the Israeli Air Force. That tiny air force played an important role in preventing an Egyptian force from marching through the Sinai straight to Tel Aviv. After that first delivery of planes, the Czechs then provided more planes, ultimately delivering to Israel twenty-five Avia S-199 fighters, and 61 Supermarine Spitfire fighter aircraft.
After Jan Masaryk’s death — he was thrown out of a window at the Foreign Ministry in March 1948 by Communist agents, in what authorities claimed at the time was a suicide, but is now known to have been a murder (it has been called the Third Defenestration of Prague) — and the complete Communist takeover of Czechoslovakia, Prague’s relations with Israel cooled, as the Czechs were forced to follow the anti-Israel, pro-Arab line of the Soviet Union. When the Soviet Union collapsed, so did Communist rule in Czechoslovakia. Vaclav Havel, who was the last president of Czechoslovakia and the first president of the Czech Republic, like the Masaryks, father and son, was a good friend of Israel.
So it is not a surprise that it should be a Czech Defense Minister who came out so strongly on the side of Israel, expressing her own, and her country’s fury, at the lynching of Israel in the kangaroo court of the General Assembly. She knows an amoral gangup when she sees it — after all, the main event for Czechs in the last century was the betrayal of Czechoslovakia at Munich by the pusillanimous Chamberlain and Daladier. Good for Jana Černochová, in suggesting her country should leave that most corrupt and corrupting of international bodies, the United Nations. Europe needs another three dozen leaders like her.
Alley cat says
United nations not fit for purpose. Get rid of Guterez
Westman says
All this bragging about 120 nations voting against Israel doesn’t look too impressive when it’s broken down into components.
Total UN members = 193
Total OIC UN members = 56, votes as a block against Israel
Non-OIC UN members = 193 – 56 = 137, only votes having actual choice.
Votes by nations having an actual choice = 120 – 56 = 64 choice votes against Israel
Actual percentage of nations with a choice voting against Israel:
64/137 = 0.46 —> 46% There was not a majority of nations, with actual choice, who voted against Israel. In a war, they would choose to support the West rather than live under Islam.
When Iran starts crowing about a majority it’s pure BS. If the OIC nations started a war against Israel which expanded to a world war, the OIC would be facing 137 nations to its 56.
an says
It is a shame that India, the largest democracy, who suffers at the hands of it’s 14% Muslim population and neighbors did not have the gut to vote NO.
ray mcmullen says
Can you show me these nations complaining about the endless anti Israel resolutions or the material aid given terrorists?
Crown says
Is it just my imagination, or is it true that the only ones left in Europe with testicles happen to be women?
Jerome from Layton says
Like Maggie Thatcher and Golda Meir?
eximius says
Do it Czechoslovakia!
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Czech Republic. Slovakia is a separate country
maria says
yes Slava Ceske Rwpublice
Wellington says
Kudos to this Czech Defense Minister and should the USA leave the UN it would be a great moment in the history of mankind at its best (will never happen under the utterly pathetic and destructive Biden).
The UN is even worse than the League of Nations was. There is no good reason why what’s left of solid and courageous nations that such nations should remain in the not only decrepit but malevolent UN.
The UN is a farce, a very cruel farce, and has become ever increasingly a parody of itself. Get the Hell out.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Czech Republic can start this procession, and others can follow
Oren says
I dont understand why they are doing this. Obviously the UN is terrible, but why now?
drew webb says
Like this Czech lady and yes the sooner the US, Israel, Australia etc leave the UN the sooner it can be kicked out of the US
aum says
Voice of Sanity.
Violet says
Excellent…now for the rest to grow some….
Bjorn says
Well spoken!
Jim trotta says
The US out of the UN & the UN out of the US!!!
Send the UN to Davos Switzerland, where they belong.
Jerome from Layton says
Time to ask those candidates running for office about getting US out of UN.
Gourdhead says
The Czechs can leave the U.N. but not the U.S.?