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Israel to refuse visas to UN officials after Guterres speech on Gaza war
al Jazeera ^ | 10/25/203 | staff

Posted on 10/25/2023 4:46:30 AM PDT by bert

Protesting the UN chief’s indirect criticism of Israel, Israel’s UN envoy says ‘the time has come to teach them a lesson’.

Israel will refuse visas to United Nations officials, its ambassador to the UN has said, as the country’s spat with the international organisation deepens.

Gilad Erdan made the statement on Wednesday, according to Israeli media, as the fallout from the UN chief’s speech at the Security Council the previous day continues.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres indirectly criticised Israel for ordering the evacuation of civilians from the north to the south of the Gaza Strip. He also said Hamas’s attack on Israel on October 7 did not happen “in a vacuum” as the Palestinians have been “subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation”.

Many countries welcomed Guterres’s “very balanced approach”, reported Al Jazeera’s Gabriel Elizondo from New York. However, Israel was “furious” and its officials called on the UN chief to resign.

Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen, who was at the debate, “was so upset”, said Elizondo, “that he cancelled a meeting with the secretary-general that was supposed to happen Tuesday afternoon”.

“It is really unusual to see this sort of reaction against the secretary-general,” Elizondo added.

“Due to his [Guterres’s] remarks, we will refuse to issue visas to UN representatives,” Erdan told Army Radio. “We have already refused a visa for Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Martin Griffiths. The time has come to teach them a lesson.”

Erdan said on X, formerly Twitter, that the UN chief has “expressed an understanding for terrorism and murder” with this speech.

Later, Guterres posted an extract from his speech on X in an apparent bid to show he has criticised both Hamas and Israel for the crisis in Gaza.

“The grievances of the Palestinian people cannot justify the horrific attacks by Hamas. Those horrendous attacks cannot justify the collective punishment of the Palestinian people,” he wrote.

The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has condemned Israel’s call for the UN secretary-general to resign, describing it as an “unprovoked attack”.

In a post on X, the Palestinian ministry described Israel’s position as an “extension” of its “disrespect and lack of commitment” to the UN, its charter, and resolutions regarding Palestine.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: guterres; israeliranhamaswar; israelun; unsecgen
This article falls under the heading of "a different kettle of fish". imagine that.

This go round the institutional intolerance is declared unacceptable on an unprecedented `scale.

Screw the UN

(it's from Al Jezeera so it must be anti Israeli )

1 posted on 10/25/2023 4:46:31 AM PDT by bert
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To: bert

Addressing the Security Council on Tuesday, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Hamas’ attacks in Israel cannot “justify collective punishment” of the Palestinian people.

He cautioned that the situation in the Middle East is growing more dire by the hour and that the Gaza conflict risks spiraling throughout the region.

“But the grievances of the Palestinian people cannot justify the appalling attacks by Hamas. And those appalling attacks cannot justify the collective punishment of the Palestinian people,” said Guterres

He stressed that it is important to also recognize the attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum.

Guterres also said he is “deeply concerned about the clear violations of international humanitarian law that we are witnessing in Gaza.”

“Let me be clear: No party to an armed conflict is above international humanitarian law,” he added.

https://www.yenisafak.com/en/news/hamas-attacks-cannot-justify-collective-punishment-of-palestinians-un-chief-3672413


2 posted on 10/25/2023 4:59:25 AM PDT by FarCenter
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To: bert

Meanwhile Islamist rockets rain down on Israel every day and UN says nothing.


3 posted on 10/25/2023 5:03:07 AM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: FarCenter

Screw the UN. If you get hit, hit them back twice as hard and make sure they can’t ever hit you again.


4 posted on 10/25/2023 5:05:28 AM PDT by grobdriver (The CDC can KMA!)
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To: FlyingEagle

The grievances of the whole muslim world. Pakistan chimed in
Gutterres needs to recognize that the jews are the reason the whole Islamic world has failed. Been that way since mohammet, and codified in the Koran.


5 posted on 10/25/2023 5:12:30 AM PDT by himno hero (had'nff )
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To: FarCenter
But the grievances of the Palestinian people

not this sh*t again


6 posted on 10/25/2023 5:15:01 AM PDT by canuck_conservative (there would be no more need for NATO, if Russia could just stop attacking its neighbors)
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To: bert

As it should.


7 posted on 10/25/2023 5:23:04 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) My dog Sam eats purple flowers.)
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To: bert

The UN is an old obsolete Cold War dinosaur. Time to shut that mess down and send the third worlders running it back to the hole they crawled out of.


8 posted on 10/25/2023 5:24:12 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Don't be an attention ho. Country Music Stars aren't given Grammys by the retarded, "woke" left. )
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To: FlyingEagle

Ban Aljizzzzera. Kick ‘‘em out of America.


9 posted on 10/25/2023 5:34:23 AM PDT by Torahman (Remember the Maccabees )
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To: FlingWingFlyer

The United Nations awaits their Antichrist.

He will present a false peace plan - confirming 7 years of ‘Peace and Security’ - when the abomination that causes desolation takes place 3-1/2 years later, the unbelieving world will join him in trying to completely destroy the state of Israel.

The shall be Great Tribulation such as never was nor ever shall be.


10 posted on 10/25/2023 5:48:31 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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Matthew 24:15-22
King James Version

15 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)

16 Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:

17 Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:

18 Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.

19 And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!

20 But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:

21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.

22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.

Daniel 9:27
King James Version

27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+24%3A15-22%2CDaniel+9%3A27&version=KJV


11 posted on 10/25/2023 5:50:54 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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THEN shall be Great Tribulation such as never was nor ever shall be.


12 posted on 10/25/2023 5:52:30 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: bert

The palestinians chose hamas to be their leaders. The palestinians line the streets and cheer when Israeli corpses are dragged through the streets. The palestinians are free to leave Gaza.

There are no innocent palestinian civilians.

EC


13 posted on 10/25/2023 5:56:29 AM PDT by Ex-Con777
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To: Ex-Con777

Actually they aren’t. No one will take them. Even their fellow Muslims know better.


14 posted on 10/25/2023 6:18:28 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Remodel the building into apartments for American veterans.
Cafeteria on ground floor.

Medical facilities on 2nd floor


15 posted on 10/25/2023 6:54:22 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: ridesthemiles

Sounds good to me. We would probably need the roof to launch Bidenskyyyyyy’s paraglider Air Force to take on the Hamas/Palestinian paragliders once Blinkey moves the 2 million Hammies and Palies to America and America begins its first “historical” Middle Eastern war in America under the Let’s Go Brandon, FJB administration.


16 posted on 10/25/2023 7:01:00 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Don't be an attention ho. Country Music Stars aren't given Grammys by the retarded, "woke" left. )
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To: bert
GOOD!
17 posted on 10/25/2023 7:14:56 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized of man)
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To: FarCenter

This is the statement that’s upset Israel——

“However, Guterres stared that “it is important to also recognize the attack by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum. The Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation. They have seen their lands steadily devoured by settlements and plagued by violence, their economies stifled, their people displaced and their homes demolished. Their hopes for a political solution to their plight have been vanishing.”

https://dailycaller.com/2023/10/24/israel-gaza-hostage-release/


18 posted on 10/25/2023 7:16:01 AM PDT by Right_in_Virginia ( )
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To: FarCenter

I’d slam the door in Guterres’ face, too. There is no “Palestinian people”. There’s just a bunch of muzzlime rejects no other Arab country wants. Guterres is just another antisemite, one of the many in the U.N. That’s why the U.S. should leave the U.N. and throw them the heck outta that high dollar building in Manhattan.


19 posted on 10/25/2023 8:48:01 AM PDT by EinNYC
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