According
the UN’s online Homepage, the UN practices hypocrisy in the name of achieving peace in the Arab-Israel conflict. On one hand, it says it supports the concept of ‘two states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side
within secure and recognized borders’ (UN Security Council Resolution 1397).
That sounds
like the UN supports a ‘two-state’ solution. It sounds like it wants to see Arabs
and Jews living side-by-side in peace and security. It sounds like a desire to
seek peace between Arabs and Jews. Can you see any other interpretation of
those UN words? I can’t.
That’s why
it’s astounding to discover the UN saying the complete opposite when
it comes to 'question of the ‘Palestinian’ people'. Under resolution 3236 of the General
Assembly, the UN reveals that it’s goal isn’t peace with Israel; it’s to
promote “the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people in Palestine,
including: 1 (a) The right to self-determination without external interference;
the right to national independence and sovereignty”; and (2)…“the inalienable
right of the Palestinians to return to their homes and property from which they
have been displaced and uprooted…; 3. [to emphasize that…]the realization of
these inalienable rights of the Palestinian people are indispensable for the
solution of the question of Palestine” (UN Resolution 3236).
This specific
resolution does not aim to create two states which live in peace. It doesn’t
aim to support coexistence between Israel and ‘Palestine’. Instead, it aims to bring
perhaps 3+ million Arab refugees into Israel proper, “to return” (ibid) to
homes Arabs ‘lost’ in a 1946-8 war Arabs themselves started. With this
resolution, the UN states that this ‘return’ is an ‘inalienable right’.
It states that the solution to the question of Palestine isn’t negotiation;
it’s this ‘return’ of ‘refugees’ (ibid).
A ‘right’ is
something you are entitled to. An ‘inalienable right’ is an entitlement that’s
absolute. It can never be forfeited. It's forever.
To observers
who are objective, the implementation of this “inalienable right” would destroy
Jewish Israel. Indeed, even if you’re not objective, you understand what
‘return’ means (though you might not be willing to admit it). As the Arab arch-enemy
of Israel (in his day), Gamal Abdel Nasser, former President of Egypt has said,
“if the refugees return to Israel, Israel will cease to exist”” (interview with
Swiss newspaper Neue Zuercher Zeitung, September 1, 1960).
If the UN’s
goal is to create two states living side by side in peace, it won’t get that by
supporting this ‘inalienable right’. Instead, it’ll get the
destruction of the state of Jewish Israel, just as Nasser said.
To help make
this ‘inalienable right’ (and Israel’s destruction) a reality, the UN has
created a ‘civil society network’ (“The Question of Palestine at the United
Nations”, NGO network, Our Civil Society Network, More Information, unispal.
un.org). If you have ever wondered why there are so many organizations
working to demonize and delegitimize Israel, here’s the answer to your
wonderment: the UN actively runs and supports a network that has “more than
1,000 civil society organizations from all regions of the world” (ibid). These
organizations are all non-profit international and national non-governments
organizations (NGOs) (ibid). Each does some form of political or humanitarian
work to promote human rights, economic and social development (ibid) for the
‘Palestinian’ people. These organizations are solidarity- or action-oriented
groups that work through churches, academic institutions, trade unions and
professional associations (ibid).
These are the groups that demonize
Israel. These are the NGOs which seek to boycott and criminalize Israel.
They all
work for one purpose. They want the ‘Palestinian’ people to fulfil their
‘inalienable rights’. They want to see the ‘Palestinian people’ ‘return’ to
their homes. They want to see Israel destroyed.
Now you can
understand why the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) appears to be
so anti-Israel: it is. It works to guarantee that the UN’s ‘inalienable right
of return’ never gets forgotten. It teaches each ‘Palestinian’ generation that
all of Israel is ‘Palestine’; that ‘Palestine’ will one day be ‘liberated’; and the
refugees will one day ‘return’. Until then, children are taught to fight with
arms against the ‘Zionist’ enemy (David Bedein, Roadblock to Peace,
Israel Resource News Agency, Jerusalem, 2014).
According to
Bedein, UNRWA crosses the line from Humanitarian relief to active support for
terrorism against Israel (ibid). The same can be said for many of those ‘more
than 1,000 societies’ dedicated to that same ‘inalienable right’.
If you don’t
believe that the goal of the ‘Palestinian people’ is to destroy Israel, you
haven’t seen the Fatah logo. Fatah controls the Palestinian Authority, which is
the sole negotiator for the new ‘Palestine’. The Fatah logo, while highly
stylized, is the map of Israel renamed, ‘Palestine’.
Actions
speak louder than words. The actions of far too many in this army of NGOs—and
the actions of UNRWA itself--are so pervasively hostile to Israel’s existence
as to make clear that destruction of Israel, not peace with Israel, is their
goal.
The UN—and
the NGOs it encourages—all work to destroy the state of Israel. The proof is on
the UN’s own website.
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