Thank you for sharing, друже! I’m very sorry, this is so sad. I can’t imagine how hard it must be. We have mountains of family dysfunction, like everybody from the USSR, but my father steered us off the pro-Russian path. He was very gentle except on the really important issues where he was unbreakable.
You are always welcome here, please know that.
Hi Clarissa had a very nice Hanukkah, now returning to Israeli politics …
Why does Israel argue that Apartheid UN Racism rapes the UN Charter which originally established the UN post WWII?
Mandate Palestine ceased to exist in 1948. Zionism stands on the premise established by the Balfour Declaration of 1917, that Jews have equal rights to achieve self determination in the Middle East. The post WWII peace imposed upon defeated Nazi Germany where the Allies awarded the “captured territory of Prussia” and partitioned those captured territories between Russia and Poland, that this post WWII peace negates the language of UN Resolution 242. The UN does not refer to Prussia as occupied territory! Arab States must recognize the Jewish equal rights to self determination in the Middle East for any future peace treaty.
Post Independence Israel ceased to be a UN Protectorate territory. Non Jews do not determine the international borders of the Jewish state. The wars Israel fights wins or loses determine our international borders. Israel won the June 1967 Six day war, Jordan’s UN condemned in 1950 unilateral and illegal annexation of Mandate Palestine territory, Israel reconquered these lands of “Samaria and East Jerusalem” in the 6 Day War. Hence Israel does not “illegally” occupy these recaptured territories of the original Palestine British mandate.
The UN, despite its arrogance and hypocrisy, UN Resolution 242 compared to Prussia being partitioned between Poland & Russia, together with the mass population transfer of some 13 million Germans forced to move from Prussia to West Germany. Post ’67 war “neutral” Britain and France, and Arab ally USSR – all voting States in the UN Security Council – they unanimously voted in the UN Security Council that Israel should not acquire land through war. No UN Resolution refers to Prussia as “occupied territory”.
UN Resolution 338 post Yom Kippur surprise attack, similar to Oct 7th 2023 surprise attack, comparable to the Dec 7th 1941 surprise attack, UN Security Council ‘Great Power States’ – framed UN Resolution 242, oblivious to Arab countries attack upon Israel through a surprise invasion! These arrogant prig “Great Powers”, they neither fought in the ’67 War (Israel shot down a few Soviet fighter pilots during the Yom Kippur War) and do not dictate peace terms based upon the UN Chapter VI “recommendations” of UN 242, 338, 446, 2334 ‘Great Powers’ propaganda.
Israel rejects UN Apartheid. The UN, no different from Arab Nazi like racism, refuses to recognize the 1948 Jewish State of Israel, specifically – as a member of the region of countries which make up the Middle East! This same arrogant treatment of United Nations policies of Apartheid, likewise doled out to Taiwan China! This prig Apartheid UN arrogance, which no different that Arab states at war with Israel, Arab leaders which fundamentally refuse to recognize Jewish equal rights to establish self-determination within our ancestral homelands, this apartheid threatens World War between the US and China! The UN Charter fundamentally rejects this disgraceful behavior!
Israel points out that the UN, originally established in the aftermath of World War II to promote peace, security, and cooperation among nations. Israel argues UN Resolutions, like Zionism is Racism or UN resolutions which compare Israel to South African apartheid, that such blatant hypocrisy undermines the principles of self-determination and sovereignty that the UN, founded & established to protect.
Arab states Universally rejected UN Resolution 181 in 1947. Arab states attacked and invaded Israel in 1947 and again in 1967, and yet again in 1973. President Nasser swore that in the up coming ’67 War that Arabs would negate the Nakba disgrace and throw the Jews into the Sea and therein complete the Nazi genocide of the Jews. UN Resolution ‘land for peace’, “inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war.” – language of post War 242. This UN Resolution drawn up by Britain and France, it ignores the simple fact that both Britain and France declared their neutrality prior to the outbreak of the June war! Israel does not exist as a UN Protectorate territory and the UN does not determine the international borders of Israel. Wars determine the international borders, as they do every other country that fights wars with its immediate neighbor countries! The UN does not refer to North Ireland as “occupied territory”. The UN does not refer to Alsace Lorraine as “occupied territory”.
The June 1967 War, Jordan invaded Israel and thereafter lost the lands of East Jerusalem and Samaria. UN Resolution 242 fails to address this obvious fact. The UN in 1950 condemned Jordan’sannexation of Jordan’s “West Bank” and called it illegal. Following the Israeli recapture of these pre 1948 Independence War, these Palestinian UN mandate territories – post ’67 as “occupied territories” simply promotes Arab propaganda war narratives. Israel does not “occupy” territory within the borders of its own Balfour British mandate territories; especially after Britain lopped off Trans-Jordan in 1923 from the League of Nations awarded Palestine mandate territories! Post ’67 all UN Resolutions which condemn Israel repeats Arab States war-propaganda – “occupied territories”. Such declarations represent a racism comparable to UN Resolution 3379: Zionism is Racism!
Israeli representatives often claim that the UN and various human rights organizations exhibit a bias against Israel. We argue these biased Resolutions undermines the UN credibility. UN accusations of Israeli apartheid – hollow when confronted that the UN refuses to validate the land of Israel as part of the region of the Middle East! Israel asserts that such UN blood libels of Israeli apartheid accusations, they divert attention away from other countries with serious human rights violations, which sit on the UN Human Rights Council.
Post ’67 War, these hostile UN Resolutions of condemnation of Israel, the UN General Assembly and Security Council blatantly ignores the Israeli shalom requirements of direct face to face negotiations with leaders from Arab countries. The Camp David Accords where President Sadat and Prime Minister Begin negotiated terms of peace; the Trump Abraham Accords both serve as crucial precedents for valid Arab Israeli peace negotiations.
Repeated attempts to foist some international UN or Quartet intervention upon rejects the Israeli demand to direct face to face negotiation with leaders of other Arab countries. UN and Quartet propaganda of “International Law”. completely ignores the simple reality that Treaties like the Rome Treaty establish “international law”, neither the UN nor the Quartet unilaterally determines “international law”. Any pretence otherwise amounts to false propaganda.
In summery: Israel argues that its right to self-determination, rooted in historical and legal precedent, particularly the Balfour Declaration (1917) and the subsequent League of Nations Mandate for Palestine, which recognized the Jewish people’s right to self determination to establish a homeland in the Middle East region. This equal rights of the Jewish people, contrasted with the refusal of many Arab State leaders to recognize Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state. Israel asserts that this Arab Nazi racism has led to persistent conflicts since the League of Nations awarded the Palestine Mandate to Britain. Israel contends that both Britain and the international community, promotes a divide and conquer imperialism in the Middle East. Specifically that the UN has unfairly ignored this fundamental League of Nations recognized right of self-determination, when it condemns Israel’s actions and territorial gains.
The 1947 UN Partition Plan (Resolution 181) Arab States absolutely rejected. These same Arab States instead launched wars against the newly established Jewish state. The argument of the Jewish equal rights to achieve self-determination in the Middle East; Israel’s right to exist absolutely rejected by all Arab countries and this racism serves as the root cause of all Arab Israeli wars. The territorial boundaries of the Independent Jewish State, not defined by the UN nor the Quartet. But rather by military outcomes, and treaties which Israel directly negotiates with its Arab neighbor countries. The wars Israel fought, including the 1967 Six-Day War, legitimate Wars of self-defense. Any land acquired in the process, considered as part of Israel’s territorial integrity, and not “occupied territory.” Israel simply not an “occupying force” in these areas as Arab war propaganda promotes. Rather Israeli war victories reclaim recaptured lands within the historical and legal context of the British Mandate for Palestine.
The assertion that Israel is violating international law by holding territories “Samaria and Judea”, these territories, never recognized as part of any sovereign Arab state, (Mandate Palestine ceased to exist in 1948 just as “West Bank” ceased to exist post ‘67), Jordan’s illegal annexation of British Mandate Samaria, which the UN itself condemned as illegal in 1950.
Israel strongly rejects any UN, ICC, Quartet claims of apartheid. Comparing such bogus allegations to the 1975 UN General Assembly Resolution 3379, which declared that “Zionism is racism.” Israel sees such accusations as politically motivated, rooted in the broader rejection of Jewish self-determination in the Middle East. Israel argues that these accusations, simply part of a broader campaign of delegitimization, which unfairly singles out Israel for condemnation while ignoring the human rights violations in other parts of the world.
Israel claims that the UN Resolution, its hostile treatment of Israel, has consistently ignored the principles of sovereignty and self-determination enshrined in the UN Charter. Israel contends that the UN, rather than fostering peace, complicit – as on Oct 7th 2023, in advancing the agenda of states that deny Israel’s right to exist, often through biased resolutions. Israel argues that the UN should not dictate borders or impose solutions without direct negotiations between Israel and the Arab states. The Camp David Accords (1978) and the Abraham Accords (2020), these precedents shape International Law. The UN’s hostile stance towards Israel, undermines the peace process and the legitimacy of any final settlement.
The term “occupied territories” simply problematic. It misrepresents the legal and historical context of all Arab Israeli wars. Jordan never established a “Palestinian State” within the borders of its illegally seized “West Bank”. Hence the term “Occupied Territories” only exist as Arab war time propaganda, which adamantly refuses to recognize Jewish equal rights to self-determination in the Middle East; to rule our National ancestral homelands Independent from Arab domination. Arab racism continues to insist that Jews exist as dhimmi sub-humans to their Feudal lords and masters!
The division of Prussia after World War II or the ongoing disputes in Northern Ireland or Alsace-Lorraine. In these cases, the international community does not label these territories as “occupied,” and no equivalent demands for the return of lands taken during conflicts. Israel contends that the double standard applied to its territorial situation qualifies as a form of anti-Jewish discrimination.
Israel asserts that direct negotiations with Arab states are the only path to peace, rather than external impositions from the UN or the so-called “Quartet” (US, EU, Russia, and the UN). Israel points to successful peace agreements, such as the Camp David Accords with Egypt and the Abraham Accords with the UAE and Bahrain, as examples of how peace can be achieved through bilateral negotiations, not UN-imposed hogwash declarations.
The accusations of apartheid and racism, along with the UN’s, ICC’s, and Quartet condemnation of Israeli actions, based on a biased and politically motivated view aimed to undermine Israel’s right to self-determination, security, and sovereignty. Israel views these actions by the UN, ICC and Quartet as contrary to the principles on which the UN organization originally founded after World War II. Particularly and specifically, those related to self-determination, territorial integrity, and the rejection of colonialism. Israel argues that the solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict lies in direct negotiations and mutual recognition, rather than in the imposition of international resolutions expressing ‘Great Power’ Imperialism of strategic interests which invalidates Israeli strategic National interests.
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