United Nations chief Ban launches “Year of Solidarity with the Palestinians,” calling for “viable, sovereign State of Palestine”.
Ron Prosor, Israel’s envoy to the United Nations condemned on Thursday the UN over its declaration of its International Year of Solidarity with the Palestinian people.
“The UN is used as a tool in the service of Palestinian propaganda. Instead of trying to end the campaign of Palestinian incitement against Israel, the UN provides a stage for Palestinian productions for the media,” Prosor said.
“While the Palestinians seek UN solidarity, they continue to educate an entire generation to hate Israel and deny the connection between the Jewish people to their homeland,” he added. “It’s time to stop the hypocrisy and ask, where is solidarity with the victims of terrorism in Israel and their families?”
Earlier Thursday, UN Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon launched the beginning of the International Year of Solidarity with the Palestinians.
“This will be a critical year for achieving the two-state solution, bringing an end to the occupation that started in 1967, and securing an independent, viable and sovereign State of Palestine living in peace and security with the State of Israel where each recognizes the other’s legitimate rights,” Ban said in a statement.
On November 26, the UN General Assembly passed Resolution A/68/12 that calls on the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (UNISPAL) to “organize activities to be held during the year.” In the same week, the General Assembly passed six resolutions concerning Israel and marked the one-year anniversary of the recognition of “Palestine” as a non-member observer state.
UNISPAL has not yet announced the program of events for this year, but said on its website that the International Year of Solidarity with the Palestinians will promote “international awareness… of the obstacles to the ongoing peace process… including the settlements, Jerusalem, the blockade of Gaza, and the humanitarian situation in the occupied Palestinian territory.”
“I call on all members of the international community and, in particular, Israelis and Palestinians, to work together for justice and a durable peace,” Ban said on Thursday.
“Israel and Palestine need to live-up [sic] to their commitment to a negotiated two-state solution and resolve all permanent status issues.”
If the so called Palestinian People have an inalienable right to self-determination under natural law, is is not one supported by International Law. That is because the Arabs want to break up an existing sovereign state to exercise their right of self-determination. It is hornbook International Law that when there is a tension between the right of a “people” to self-determination, and the right of a sovereign state to territorial integrity, the right of the state is paramount. That is because territorial integrity of a sovereign state is the mainstay of the new world order established in 1648 after the Peace of Westphalia. International Law does support the self-determination of a guanine people but only in the case of decolonization where the boundaries of a sovereign state will not be affected. Since 1922 the Jewish People have been recognized as the owners of the political rights to Palestine west of the Jordan River. These political rights entitle a people, here the Jewish People, to engage in self-determination. However when in 1922 these rights were initially recognized by some 53 states, the recognition of the Jewish Peoples right to Palestine west of the Jordan was described to take place under the policy of the Balfour Declaration that was adopted word for word on April 25 at San Remo. That policy recognized that the Jews at the time of the Balfour Declaration in 1917 and the time of the San Remo resolution, the jews had only a small percentage of the population of all Palestine even though they had attained a majority population in the Jerusalem area as early as 1863 and had been a plurality since 1845. To avoid having an antidemocratic government they decided to place the political rights they recognized as belonging to the Jews by virtue of their long association with Palestine in trust with the US or Britain as trustee. This would give the trustee legal dominion over the political rights until such time as the trust res would vest — said to be when the Jews attained a population majority and the capability of exercising sovereignty. By now, the Jewish People have a majority of the population of Palestine, west of the Jordan River in the territory they define as their own, exclusive of Gaza. And through the Government of Israel they have unified control over that territory. The Government of Israel has not asserted sovereignty over Judea and Samaria, but the secession desired by the so called Palestinian People would split off Eastern Jerusalem from the State of Israel so its sovereign territory would be taken from it as well. As International Lawyers well know, there is no unilateral right to secede from a sovereign state. At best the group of Arabs calling themselves the “Palestinian People” can negotiate for internal autonomy. That is exactly what the State of Israel has committed itself to and has been engaged in for some 20 years. The Palestinians are demanding more then they are entitled to under International Law. Prosor should make this known to the UN.
@ Yidvocate:
Me neither. Ron Prosor might as well be appealing to a Nazi to show leniency for all the difference it makes.
None of these are “obstacles”
They are rather all symptoms of the true obstacle – Arab intransigence and genocidal obsession against Jews generally and a sovereign Jewish state anywhere in the ME or any size in particular.
This is obvious to all but the willfully blind and the antisemitic body know as the United Nations Against Israel.
I don’t know why Israel remains a member.
I see this as a zero sum game.
It is either Israel or Palestine.
In 1948, it was either the Jews or the Palestinians who were going to be ethnically cleansed.
You cannot divide a land as small as Israel which is why I do not approve of the TSS, or bi-national solution.
The US should get out of the UN.