The United Nations remains synonymous in many parts of the world with neutral peacekeeping, but in truth its anti-Israel bias runs very deep, writes Madeline Grant in the Telegraph. Here’s an excerpt.
The reality of the UN’s hypocrisy is very dark indeed. Tomorrow, grotesquely, the Islamic Regime in Iran will become Chair of the UN Human Rights Council Social Forum – just days after a 16-year-old girl was declared brain-dead following an alleged beating by the theocratic regime’s morality police.
The UN’s crippling obsession with Israel is explicitly embedded into its bureaucracy. Sessions of the UN Human Rights Council regularly feature a standing agenda targeting Israel, unique among all member states.
The UNSC has adopted far more resolutions condemning the Jewish state than any other nation. According to the organisation UN Watch, in 2022 there were a total of 15 resolutions condemning Israel, compared with 13 for the rest of the world. This is no coincidence; autocratic regimes frequently propose anti-Israel motions to dominate the voting agenda and deflect from their own domestic human rights abuses.
This wouldn’t matter so much provided people were honest about it; yet the UN remains a byword in many parts of the world for peacekeeping and attempts to create prosperity. We and other leading nations in the West send many of our finest diplomats and aid workers there. In recent weeks, it has repeatedly been invoked as an impartial international body, rather than a talking-shop of often grossly corrupt member states, whose activities at the UN reflect their own priorities (and prejudices).
Naturally, the alarming wave of global anti-Semitism has passed without censure. In Paris, Jewish schools are being evacuated amid bomb threats and Jewish homes marked out for vandalism. A would-be pogrom erupted at an airport in Dagestan in the Russian North Caucasus, where a violent mob trawled the tarmac looking for Jews.
The UN, which was formed in the midst of the great declaration of “Never Again” following the Second World War, has nothing to say about these developments. Nor has it voted to condemn the October 7th terror attacks that precipitated the Israel-Hamas war. How many more stars of David have to be scrawled on the doors of Jewish homes, schools, synagogues and businesses in the capitals of Europe before the UN realises that “again” is now?
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: Richard Kemp notes that this week the UN General Assembly “overwhelmingly passed an Arab-initiated resolution to deny Israel’s right to self-defence following the horrific assault on October 7th. While refusing to name Hamas as the aggressor, the UN called for an immediate ‘humanitarian truce leading to a cessation of hostilities'”. Ominously, the U.K. abstained rather than joining with the U.S. and others in opposing it.
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Another excerpt…Civilians in Gaza must be sacrificed to keep the Hamas propaganda machine going. Presumably that’s why citizens are not allowed to take shelter in their 500km of tunnels during bombings. Constant aid and sympathy are essential, you see. Much like all of the useful idiots out on the streets.
”Billions of dollars of aid have flown into Gaza while it has been under Hamas’s control, but instead of going to help alleviate the suffering of its people, the money has been diverted by Hamas to fund its terror operations. The group has dug up water pipes to repurpose them as rockets to fire at Israeli civilians and built an incredibly elaborate series of tunnels that are really more like an underground city. It has fired tens of thousands of rockets at Israel since taking power — launching them from schools, U.N. buildings, and residential areas. The group located its terrorist headquarters underneath a hospital.
Hamas dares Israel to either do nothing, and allow Hamas to fire with impunity, or respond and thereby rack up civilian death numbers that drive international pressure on Israel. In spite of this, Israel has for years supplied water and free electricity to Gaza to help make up for the gap created by Hamas’s leadership failures.
Even the New York Times, no friend of Israel, acknowledged that Hamas was hoarding a massive stockpile of supplies while the population it is supposed to govern is scrounging for basics. Specifically, the Times reported that “Hamas has hundreds of thousands of gallons of fuel for vehicles and rockets; caches of ammunition, explosives and materials to make more; and stockpiles of food, water and medicine.” The article also quotes a senior Lebanese official as saying the terrorist group “had enough stocked away to keep fighting for three to four months without resupply.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/10/hamas-is-to-blame-for-gazas-problems/
The tunnels are a target so not that safe. There was mention of possibly using sponge bombs to seal them.
Ah OK, got it. Hamas wouldn’t want the injuries or deaths of civilians on their conscience if they got crushed in a tunnel. Best tell them to stay home, ignore the IDF’s warnings or block the roads to prevent them fleeing so they can get crushed under a building instead.
It’s the IDF who have blocked the roads – plenty of video footage of this. The aim is to bulldoze Gaza so the psycho Bibi has a gift to take back to Israel in the hope of being forgiven for being a criminal, murderer and fraudster.
Given that some Arab states are starting to normalise relations with Israel I wonder if the Hamas attack was calculated to bring about an attack on Gaza and the deaths of civilians in order to turn countries against Israel.
As many analysts have pointed out as it closes the door to a Palestinian State. But it could also be the gas fields, Bibi’s threat to raze the Al-Aqsa Mosque (he things Jesus will return to the Third Temple and give him a pat on the back) or the fact that Lockheed Martin, Shell et al’s shares shot up on Oct 7th while the bankers started printing even more money to fund even more wars, giving huge loans to governments, of magic money on which we, the taxpayer, pay the interest.This transfer of wealth has worked for centuries.
Surprise Surprise! Mogwai is the first name I see every morning! Yawn.
Well if that’s the sum total of your contribution, Clive, I’m overwhelmed.
Just another pathetic little attack from a sad little man who’s evidently triggered by my mere presence.
The list grows longer….
Meanwhile, you just sit tight in the shadows and troll whenever the urge takes you.
Best increase my postings today then, eh?
Yes yes I know – I’m sorry – bit rude of me – just trying to get used to seeing Mogwai and huxley show every morning. No reason you shouldn’t go at it of course – probably just your sheer energy that wears me out. Says more about me than you, of course. Keep it up!
Hamas aren’t ‘terrorists’ for no reason. Same as the IRA. They are trying to keep alive the notion of a Palestinian State (or at the very least Israel-Palestine) agreed lands forever encroached upon by settlers (many from the US) illegally according to the Geneva Convention, The Rome Statute and multiple UN Resolutions.
So if “billions of dollars” have been sent to Gaza, pray tell why water pipes have to be dug up to make rockets with?
And can we please see even a single example of the damage they have done to the terrorist state they are fired at?
Or is it, as with the “Iron Dome” hoax, all just Mossad smoke and mirrors?
https://off-guardian.org/2023/10/31/netanyahus-two-genocides/
A blistering essay fromMark Crispin Mill er at Off-G linking every event from the Jan 6th uprising in the US through the C1984, Ukraine and on to Israel.
Netanyahu isn’t a Jew, he’s a globalist. The Israelis now know he is intent on killing them – first vaccines and now war.
This is an eye-opener and beyond “worth reading in full.”
Posting and editing facility playing up as it has done for the past week.
Good article Hux….yet another Government lying to its people about Convid and the death stab…another Government hated by its own people, don’t forget Netanyahu is currently indicted on corruption charges….and many Israeli’s think that by his actions that he has undermined a lot of global support for Israel….like the rest of the world they are also in a financial crisis and we have talked many times haven’t we about the globalist’s ‘controlled demolition’ of the economy/society?
Theres also the gas/oil stuff … which always seems to play a part in any conflict…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6SOZOwdfrg
Is Israel’s war on Gaza actually about gas? .Richard Medhurst.
It’s the same playbook over and over….
Evil men, continually committing evil acts, whether for power, money, hegemony…whatever it is…..it is always ordinary civilians who pay the ultimate price….?
Thanks for the link Mrs Gums.
The socialist agenda is firmly in bed with Hamas etc because currently they share a common objective, the destruction of capitalism as was and the end of liberty as well as destroying what they see as “white privilege”. This is obviously a broke back coalition that will break down in due course. Being right minded and seeing this obvious truth does not make one a lover of Israel. What is obvious too is that anyone with a iota of sense would rather live under an Israeli government than a Palestinian one, though neither is perfect.
I don’t think they have much of a choice Wokeman.
https://shoebat.com/2011/07/02/what-to-expect-the-effect-of-muslim-population-growth-on-a-society/
This article is about ten years old but extremely relevant at this time and unfortunately far too accurate. Export of the problem is the only solution.
So UK 2.7% Muslim ten years ago, 6.5% now. What in another ten years? From Blair on every PM has been destroying this country.
“From 5% on, they ( Muslims) exercise an inordinate influence in proportion to their percentage of the population. For example, they will push for the introduction of halal (clean by Islamic standards) food, thereby securing food preparation jobs for Muslims. They will increase pressure on supermarket chains to feature halal on their shelves — along with threats for failure to comply. This is occurring in:”
Well Bradford and their hounding of a white teacher and Sharia Court which plod failed to deal with suggests the above from the ‘shoebat’ article is bang on.
Establishment party voters will be the death of us.
LOL…I’m laughing because honestly how low and idiotic are you going to go? (Rhetorical…)
Richard Kemp notes that this week the UN General Assembly overwhelming passed an Arab-initiated resolution to deny Israel’s right to self-defence..
In English….
Richard kemp is annoyed that the whole world is overwhelmingly repulsed by the slaughter of thousands of civilians in a mass psychotic genocidal effort by Israel to kill every living person in Gaza..and the West Bank….
What is wrong with them?..can’t they see it’s just defence??
DT is a mouthpiece for the MoD – they just write what they’re told. 76% of this country want a ceasefire in Gaza. As the politicians are involving themselves, then it’s also our business. They work for us. This means they need to represent us – not sack MPs who demand a ceasefire in line with their constituents.
“The UNSC has adopted far more resolutions condemning the Jewish state than any other nation.”
That’s because Israel commits more violations than any other country.
Why the downticks?
Reality hurts sometime I suppose.
Yes it’s just hatred obviously…it couldn’t be anything else..certainly not watching a supposed Western ‘civilised’ country, acting ruthlessly and barbarically against thousands and thousands of civilians …. No, that’s not it…
“the alarming anti semitism has passed without censure” ..now I know you having a laugh…..it’s all that has been talked about in the MSM…it’s all they care about…
Ceasefire now..stop the slaughter of innocent children…
“The Director of the New York Office of UN High Commissioner of Human Rights, Craig Mokhiber, has resigned in protest over the organisation’s inability to stop the genocide in Gaza.
“Once again, we are seeing a genocide unfolding before our eyes, and the Organisation that we serve appears powerless to stop it,”
It worries me that this supposedly sceptical forum takes uncritically everything that Israel says at face value and rejects everything from every other direction.
Even our own government will not listen to alternative views, having recently sacked a member for expressing a desire to see the fighting stop.
I am particularly sceptical of the Israeli position over civilian deaths being a consequence of Hamas’ tactics, when a senior military spokesman for the IDF says that their intention with bombing Gaza is maximum damage.
This in no way is to excuse Hamas, they share the responsibility for deaths of innocents, but note that they share the responsibility with Israeli hawks.
…same old same old…..
….exact same playbook for Iraq, except they needed a ‘new baby horror’ because they already used ‘babies thrown out of incubators’…
The ‘war on terror’ the axis of evil…now the axis’s of evil is Hammas and Iran…
Russia….every one of whom we are told is evil.…and Vlad’s ‘mad’…..
MSM reported that Russian soldiers raped women, committed atrocities, burned bodies, kidnapped children…. Sound familiar….it should they use it every time…
…and always we are helping to ‘save democracy’ by helping these evil retards…
…and every time people fall for it…they get into their tribes and think they are on a ‘right side…’ because they’ve forgotten who the truly evil one’s are…
Unfortunately what we should have learned by now is that ‘they’ are never on our side…we are just fodder and idiot supporters for their evil wars.
There is only one side..that of innocent people..the ones who always get shafted…that’s why there has to be a ceasefire now..to save those people, because it’s only a break, the maniacs will be straight back on the job with the ‘next thing’…
Israel haters, keyboard jihadists out in force today, despoiling these pages with their Holocaust denial, selective memory and illogic.
Meanwhile, back in the real world, the IDF continues to crush Hamas, obliterating them whilst complying fully with the requirements of international law.
The world’s most moral army fighting for the survival the world’s greatest nation.
Oh stop it…!…..
What has the holocaust got to do with anything…? There are dozens of Israeli’s whose families were killed in the holocaust who are calling for a ceasefire and an end to the killing….and you have no idea of the religion of anyone you are maligning…
You are just angry because you are part of an Evangelical Zionist death cult, and you can’t understand why the rest of the world has got a problem with allowing you to excuse yourselves in killing thousands of children to promote your aims…
Israel seem content to continue to crush Hamas, and every other Palestinian while they’re at it.
It is sad that you, and many others, live in a world where lack of unequivocal support for Israel is immediately interpreted as hatred and support for Jihad. You also seem to have a very warped sense of morality.
Surely satire? Even I’d be proud of that one.
Complying with International Law. WTF.
I’m sure that would be adequate consolation to the families of those slaughtered under and above the rubble.
How many dead innocents would it take before you change your tune,. Maybe all of them?
Blimey – 77th made it to DS – aren’t you supposed to be in the Telegraph chat rooms?
For many years our stakeholder capitalists elites have been sucking up to the left wing for support. Many of those elites are Jewish or at least sympathetic to Jews and Israel. It must be particularly unsettling for them to see their useful idiot supporters calling for jihad. I suppose that they will have to console themselves with all the money they will make from recent arms deals.
Just sitting here watching live testimony of the Israeli Zaka officer, his voice quivering with grief, whose task it was to recover the bodies of the slain in southern Israel.
A pregnant mother shot in the back of the head, sliced open and the unborn baby stabbed multiple times. He didn’t know what order these atrocities were performed in.
A second visit to a family, burned alive in their home. While they burned, the terrorists opened their fridge and sat down to eat a meal.
Finally, he explains how Israel gives the same dignity, same procedures, same religious respect to the bodies of the terrorists.
682 bodies, just from the 35 people in his team, recovered in just 5 days.
Atrocities such as these occur with horrific regularity in all uncivilised parts of the world. Israelis are not uniquely on the receiving end of all of them, they are just better connect and more able to publicise their victimhood.
Quite.
I mean just 8,500 brown people, kids, women dead.(and still counting).
Means SFA to too many on this site it would seem.
Any proof? Incidentally, Haaretz have just released a breakdown of ages and occupations of those killed on Oct 7th. Over 50% military. Nobody under 3. So much for the 40 beheaded babies story which CNN admitted lying about. So terrorists sat down in a burning building and had a meal? Nobody sits in a burning building. The pregnant woman was a Bennett (another psycho) story. I suppose you believe Atta’s passport was found in the ruins of the world trade centre and a that the Russians blew NS2 because a Russian passport was found floating right above it? More Israelis will die from the jab than anything. There’s your terrorist.
It’s noteworthy that despite the ongoing humanitarian crisis happening in Yemen the Houthi Islamists have now declared war on Israel. The suffering of the Yemeni civilians takes a backseat when your loyalties lie elsewhere, many miles away, in fact. Therefore I am very confident that we’ll be seeing tens of thousands of protestors hitting the streets, showing their concern for the plight of the Yemeni people and waving many flags of Yemen to highlight the suffering of these forgotten people and their starving/dead children.
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( What do you mean, ”are you being sarcastic??”
”In a televised statement released on Tuesday, Yahya Sarea, a spokesperson for the Houthis said, “Our armed forces launched a large batch of ballistic and cruise missiles at targets in occupied Palestine today, making it our third operation.”
Ironically, while the Houthi Islamists are waging a war against Israel, their own country Yemen is undergoing everyday worsening crisis and its people living in deplorable conditions. From conflict with the Saudi coalition to the widespread cholera epidemic, starvation and surging deaths, Yemen is facing adversity at all ends. Yet the Houthis have prioritised attacking a country 1300 miles away to extend support to their co-religionists in Palestine while their own people are living miserable lives.
It is clear from the Houthis’ indifference to the plight of Yemen’s 99 percent Muslim population, as well as Hamas’ use of Gazan civilians as human shields, that waging a war against the Kafirs or infidels is more important to these Islamist terror groups than the lives of Muslims in their own country. The hatred that Islamist terror groups harbour towards infidels, particularly infidels of top order such as Jews, takes precedence above care and concern for Muslim men, women, and children. While Islamist terror groups use violence against infidels in the name of “resistance” and struggle for “self-rule,” they do not wish to bear the burden of government and responsibility.
A recent instance of this hypocrisy came from Hamas leader Abu Mazruk, who claimed in an interview that since refugees make up 75% of the population in the Gaza Strip, it is the UN and not Hamas that should bear the responsibility of protecting them.”
https://www.opindia.com/2023/11/muslims-starve-in-war-ravaged-yemen-but-houthis-declare-war-against-israel/
“Seeing a lot of people confused by these news. “These are Houthis, not the Yemeni government” some people screech. You’re wrong. Here’s a quick crash course on some background history, the political landscape in Yemen & appropriate terminology:
1. The “Houthis” (known officially as the Ansarallah) is a broad grassroots movement with only a few defined political keypoints. This is deliberate, as the movement seeks to incorporate and represent the Yemeni people in its entirety across both Islamic and political differences. The movement has a right-wing, a centre-wing and a left-wing, each organized into separate unions and interest groups. For example, the left-wing is organized into what is called the “Cultural Front Against the Aggression”, just to be very specific.
2. The “Houthis” ceased being a rebel group in late 2014 with the advent of the September 21st Revolution and the signing of the UN-sponsored Peace & National Partnership Agreement.
Prior to 2014, the group could indeed be described as a rebel movement as it fought 6 consecutive wars against the corrupt Saudi-backed government of Ali Abdullah Saleh. In September 2014, when the “Houthis” entered Sana’a to topple said government, more than 2/3rds of the entire Yemeni Armed Forces switched and took their side instead of the side of the government, giving the “Houthis” access to missile stockpiles and heavy weapons. More on that further down.
3. There are currently two competing governments in Yemen, one based in the constitutional capital Sana’a, and one de-facto based in Aden – although the Aden-based government remains unable to exercise its authority there. The “internationally-recognized government” based in Aden doesn’t actually operate from within Yemen, but from a shadow cabinet based in the luxurious Ritz Carlton hotel in Riyadh where they’ve been exiled since February 2015.
Their direct authority is limited to warlord figures and tribal factions doing their bidding, representing less than 15% of Yemen’s total population. In turn, the so-called “Houthi rebels” are part of what is called the Government of National Salvation, which exercises direct authority over 85% of Yemen’s entire population.
4. The forces which have launched drones, ballistic & cruise missiles towards Israel are the forces aligned with the Government of National Salvation. They are far from being a “rag-tag rebel group”, but operates as a truly conventional army. They don’t “represent” the “Houthis”, nor do they wage war on behalf of one party or group against another. They represent all of Yemen, and fight on behalf of all of Yemen without exception. They are the only Armed Force in Yemen loyal to a government with a parliamentary mandate to exercise authority – a mandate the Saudi-backed “government” does not have.
It was indeed the Yemeni Armed Forces which launched the attacks against Israel.
“But aren’t they Iran-backed”?
Sure. Nobody is denying this. But the assistance Iran has been giving the “Houthis” does not even compare with the assistance it has given to Iraqi groups or even Hezbollah. Iranian assistance to the “Houthis” has thus far been limited to technical assistance and political support, such as recognizing the Government of National Salvation as the legitimate government of Yemen and opening a Yemeni embassy in Tehran.
On the technical aspect, the Iranian government has supplied the “Houthis” with blueprints for missiles and drones, as well as technical expertise for assembly and design. All missiles that the “Houthis” currently possess are manufactured locally inside Yemen based on the technical assistance supplied by Iran.
There has been a concerted effort by the US, UK, Saudi Arabia and the UAE to amplify the “Iran-backed rebels” narrative in hopes of stripping the “Houthis” of their national and local agency. In reality, the whole deal is beyond overblown, and senior policy experts with knowledge on Yemen have long agreed that the narrative doesn’t really correspond to reality.”
https://t.me/VanessaBeeley/19984
Israel isn’t bombing Yemen into the stone age Mog, get a grip.
There are more islamic that jewish states which members of the UN and the jewish state still occupies one of the most sacred places of islam (the dome of the rock). Because of this, it’s entirely unsurprising that the jewish state usually has a majority of the largely function-free UN assembly against it which keeps voting in favour of meaningless statements condemning Israel for this or that. That’s Realpolitik and not hatred.
Hamas terrorist: ‘we continued shooting into the safe room until the children’s crying stopped’.
https://youtu.be/jXs47L4OdwQ?si=hfug4O_Oeat-BZEQ
From the horse’s mouth. Hamas top dog stating they will not stop and Israel can expect ongoing attacks from them. They won’t stop until there’s been total annihilation. Sound like they’re going to agree to a ”ceasefire” to you? ( 1min 20sec )
https://twitter.com/DrEliDavid/status/1719697102383554730
https://twitter.com/UKLabour/status/1719649673638551992
Kneel putting the case for safeguarding our “terrified” muzzy population.
What a Next Tuesday.
Netanyahu told his Likud Party’s Knesset members in March 2019,
“anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas. This is part of our strategy- to isolate the Palestinians in Gaza from the Palestinians in the West Bank.”
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/10/23/gaza-hamas-netanyahus-likud/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=5b179138-e100-42ab-852c-42fa73eef3ea
Jews and Palestinians, having been exiled, murdered, denied a home and wandered the globe as refugees have much in common. But digagreeing with the carpet-bombing of Gaza does not make one an anti-Semite. It means you are human. Equally, if people could have spoken out to prevent the events of Oct 7th they would – but if Mossad, Shin Bet and the IDF didn’t know about it, how could your average citizen? Equally, it is not ‘anti-Israel’ to criticise a nuclear first world country for bombarding, occupying and blockcading a third world country whose people one once lived in the same lands. The West Bank is referred to as The Occupied Territories for a reason.
None of this is an attack against Jews, but a criticism of the psychopath Netanyahu who has NEVER wanted peace for Israel. The Jews were booted out by the Romans and exterminated by Nazis. The saddest thing, is they are now doing the same to the Palestinians.
As to the self-defense’ and ‘right to respond’ arguments. Israel didn’t defend itself. This is why 500,000 are out on the streets of Israel shouting ‘Bibi is a murderer’ and ‘Jail for Bibi’. And Israel did respond, on Day 1. What’s their excuse for the next 3 weeks? Netanyahu is Hitler and unfortunately – if the stars on doors are anything to go by (assuming not propaganda) – it will be Jews as well as Palestinians who end up paying the price for Netanyahu’s psychosis.
In the interest of full disclosure, can we ask Mr Jones to declare his ethnicity?
Thanks.
UN——75% of it is from places where there are Kings, Colonels, Dictators and assorted tyrants in charge of the countries. ———–I don’t want any advice about the planet, race, gender, equality or diversity from this bunch of squirming grifters. GFY