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| Ambassador Erdan does the dirty |
Is that a smart thing to do? asks an Occasional Reader.
Yes, say I. Because it’s true. The United Nations General Assembly is shredding its own Charter.
And I know it’s true because what the ambassador did made me go to the Resolution itself, which says:
Recalling that membership in the United Nations is open to all peace-loving States which accept the obligations contained in the Charter and, in the judgment of the Organization, are able and willing to carry out these obligations:
1. Determines that the State of Palestine is qualified for membership in the United Nations in accordance with Article 4 of the Charter of the United Nations and should therefore be admitted to membership in the United Nations; ... [Reference] [Text]
And what is Article 4 of the Charter of the United Nations?
1. Membership in the United Nations is open to all other peace-loving states which accept the obligations contained in the present Charter and, in the judgment of the Organization, are able and willing to carry out these obligations.
2. The admission of any such state to membership in the United Nations will be effected by a decision of the General Assembly upon the recommendation of the Security Council.
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There’s the catch: “peace-loving” and “peace-loving”. You can’t get away from that loving of peace.
BUT, the Palestinian State, run by the Palestinian Authority’ where the U.N. recognised the Palestinian Liberation Organisation as the leaders, and ruled de facto by Hamas in the Gaza strip, is most assuredly NOT “peace-loving”.
The parties above, all Jihadist to more or even more extent, still hold to the “Three no’s policy” of Khartoum Resolution, one of which is “no peace with Israel”.
The Charter of Hamas says that it will not recognise Israel, nor does it seek peace. It seeks the destruction of Israel, and the killing of all Jews. Everywhere in the world.
And then the procedural issue: any resolution regarding membership is to be recommended by the Security Council to the General Assembly, not the other way around.
Thus: the United Nations, and 143 of its members, have voted:
- To reward the terrorist attack on Israel on October 7th 2023, the worst killing of Jews since the holocaust.
- To reward a defined terrorist organisation bent on the genocide of its neighbour and a United Nations member.
- To reward the Hamas tactics of using human shields, often children or even babies, to protect their cowardly “fighters”.
- Thoroughly ignored the very UN Charter clauses that it quotes to justify the resolution. Specifically Article 4, requiring members to be peace-loving.
- Ignored the requirement for a “State” to have (1) a single recognised government (2) clearly defined borders (3) operate according to the rule of law.*
- Ignored the procedural requirements of the United Nations Charter.
Australia supported the resolution. The likes of PM Anthony Albanese and FM Penny Wong seem proud that they managed to go against our oldest ally the United States. They should instead be ashamed. For how they’ve betrayed two staunch allies and rewarded naked terrorism. And helped along the destruction of Israel, the only home of the Jews in the world, and which the new-born United Nations voted into existence in 1947.
This all after some tawdry grandstanding by Wong, the armchair general, lecturing Israel on how it should be conduction the war. And then demanding to send an “investigator” to look into the friendly fire deaths of the food truck convoy. Stick a sock in it, Penny!
ADDED: By the way, try to find anything like the above analysis anywhere on BBC, CNN or the ABC. Nothing. Just signalling how virtuous we all are, because we care for Palestine. Ugh.
ADDED (2): Penny Wong disgraces Australia. Note that one of Wong's excuses for the awful decision to push recognition of Palestine State is that this is done against the interests of Hamas. This was immediacy belied the very next day, when Hamas sent out a statement “Hamas welcomes the UN resolution”. Of course. They will pocket the concessions and then go on to doing what they do so well badly horribly: killing jews.
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*What is a State? Definition from the Brittanica:
The state is a form of human association distinguished from other social groups by its purpose, the establishment of order and security; its methods, the laws and their enforcement; its territory, the area of jurisdiction or geographic boundaries; and finally by its sovereignty. The state consists, most broadly, of the agreement of the individuals on the means whereby disputes are settled in the form of laws. [Reference]How does “The State of Palestine” stack up?
1. “Order and security”: clearly there is none. And the responsibility for that is Hamas in Gaza and the PA on the West Bank. The “governments” of the West Bank and Gaza, such as they may be, spend their time building tunnels and trying to kill Jews. Sad but true
2. Laws and their enforcement. The State of Palestine gets a fail here too. Laws, if applied at all, are arbitrary, confiscatory and pernicious. Sharia law, sometimes: which suppresses rights of women, minorities, and non-believers.
3. The “geographic boundary”: this is not settled because none of the peace proposals, the proposals to hand land to the Palestinians, in return for peace and recognition, has been accepted by the Palestinians.
4. Sovereignty: The “ultimate overseer” of state power. Yet we have warring factions. Hamas, Fatah, the PLO, Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Enough to say there is no real sovereignty over all the lands claimed under The State of Palestine.
In short: a fail. There cannot be a “state” of Palestine, if only, but at the very least, because the preconditions for a state do not exist.
But that doesn’t bother the UNGA. Or the poodles like our Penny, who happily trot along behind, tongues out, panting for their little doggie treats of virtue points. Ad hominem, I know, but I can’t resist.
ADDED: Just look at this lot of scoundrels and ratbags who drafted this wretched Resolution, which we, Australia, have said “yes” to. I doubt there’s a single anti-anti-Semitic place amongst them:
Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belize, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Colombia, Cuba, Djibouti, Egypt, Gambia, Guyana, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritania, Morocco, Namibia, Nicaragua, Oman, Qatar, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Sudan, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of), Yemen and State of Palestine
