This Week's UN Farce: Delegitimizing Israel
This Week's UN Farce: Delegitimizing Israel

Il Giornale, September 19, 2011 (sent to Arutz Sheva in translation by the author)

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A dramatic week starts at the United Nations, the most important international organization and also the most damaging and confused. Since the U.N. General Assembly is in the hands of an automatic majority of Islamic States and of former Non-Aligned Countries, it is always to be expected that it will create only misunderstandings and human rights violations, rather than solutions.

And this is what will happen this week: on one side we have the Palestinian Authority asking for a unilateral recognition of a State.

It is the incredible pretence of announcing: “I’ll cancel every previous agreement, I’ll set the boundaries, I’ll solve the extremely thorny bilateral issues such as refugees and Jerusalem, ignoring negotiations, security guarantees for Israel, all the previous decisions by the U.N. and the Quartet and with no recognition of the State of the Jewish people”.

On the other side, while the Palestinian Authority does that, Israel will be vilified worldwide by the same old lie: it is Israel that does not want peace and wants to continue oppressing the 'Palestinian people'.

No one remembers that Israel has always left land when it thought, right or wrong, to achieve peace. It did it in Sinai, in Lebanon, in Gaza: under the Oslo agreement, it left all the Palestinian Arab towns.

Now in sight of a Palestinian State, as usual the U.N. supports the tale of Western Countries as oppressive and imperialistic and does not make the Palestinian Arabs accountable for their de facto authoritarian regime, for the huge power in the hands of Hamas, for the persecutions of homosexuals and of political dissidents.

The Palestinians actually rejected any negotiated agreement with Israel: their dream is to see it vanish; again they are refusing to negotiate and nobody reminds them that they turned down the agreements with Rabin, with Barak, with Olmert and also Netanyahu’s proposal to sit and talk.

At this very moment there are frantic debates on the Security Council/General Assembly options. If Europe supports them in the General Assembly, for the time being the Palestinian Authority looks as though it will be ready to give up the Security Council, where the United States promised its veto.

But Europe is split: some Countries are in favor of a solution for the Palestinian Authority as observer member, but it is not clear whether they would be pleased with this proposal or even if other European States (including Italy) would accept it.

In fact, some of them openly say that unilateralism violates any international law principle and that it is necessary to negotiate to really achieve peace.

The only clear thing is that Abu Mazen wants to make his historical move using the UN to become the leader of an international movement of defamation and delegitimation of Israel that will probably spread a lot of violence.