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.
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 )
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.
Meanwhile Islamist rockets rain down on Israel every day and UN says nothing.
Screw the UN. If you get hit, hit them back twice as hard and make sure they can’t ever hit you again.
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.
As it should.
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.
Ban Aljizzzzera. Kick ‘‘em out of America.
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.
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
THEN shall be Great Tribulation such as never was nor ever shall be.
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
Actually they aren’t. No one will take them. Even their fellow Muslims know better.
Remodel the building into apartments for American veterans.
Cafeteria on ground floor.
Medical facilities on 2nd floor
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.
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/
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.
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