Ban Ki Moon is a liar

Salomon Benzimra writes to Ban Ki-Moon

In your latest speech in Beirut on January 15, 2012, you declared that “Settlements, new and old, are illegal.”  This is not new, as you expressed a similar opinion at a press conference at the UN in December, 2010, where you condemned “all settlement construction, including construction in East Jerusalem.”

 

Repetition of a falsehood does not make it true.  Of all institutions, the United Nations should be particularly aware of the legacy of past agreements enshrined in international law and of the immutable acquired rights of peoples, as spelled out in the UN Charter.  By condemning specifically the construction of Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria – a territory commonly known by its unfortunate misnomer, “the West Bank” – you are advocating a return to the untenable ethnic cleansing that prevailed prior to 1967.

 

Besides, this is not the first time where you brandish, rather thoughtlessly, the illegality of an action undertaken by the Israeli government.  In June, 2010, following the “flotilla” events on the MS Mavi Marmara, you joined the chorus of baseless accusations of Israel.  You were “shocked” by the intervention of the Israeli Navy and you supported the views of your trusted collaborators Navi Pillay, High Commissioner of the UNHRC (“The Israeli Government treats international law with perpetual disdain”) and Richard Falk, Special Rapporteur (“It is essential that those Israelis responsible for this lawless and murderous behavior…be held criminally accountable for their wrongful acts.”).  However, a year later, your own Palmer Commission restored some sanity when it clearly concluded that “the naval blockade was imposed as a legitimate security measure in order to prevent weapons from entering Gaza by sea and its implementation complied with the requirements of international law.”

 

I trust you will do the honorable thing and withdraw your sweeping declaration on the “settlements.”  For the sake of UN credibility, I urge you to refrain from adopting the triumphant, passing lies which are so pervasive in anti-Israel circles and not to echo in your statements the idiotic applause you may have received from your audience in Beirut.

 

Respectfully

 

Salomon Benzimra, P.Eng.

Toronto – Canada

www.cilr.org

sbenzi@sympatico.ca

 

January 17, 2012 | 14 Comments »

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  1. “You have to be a fellow lawyer.”

    Actually, no, Andrew — though my my mother, of blessed memory, thought I should be.

    Still, I’ve had to do enough parrying, thrusting & riposting with the law that the terrain has acquired a bit of familiarity for me.

  2. according to Goebbels repetition of a lie does make it true. Yet Israeli incompetents cannot even be capable of repeating, or even learning, the truth of the global swindles of the jews led by the 2000 year chronic, congenital, serial jew killers and swindlers of Europe. If Israel cannot even repeat the truth to itself then what is its point

  4. “Hope you had a good Christmas/Hannakah break. I did.”

    I caught up on sleep — as I usually do on holidays.

    Glad it was good for you though.

    “Just made up that 10.35am not the 21/12/2012.”

    Whew!

    — five minutes would’ve been such a short time for a 10:30 coffee break.

    (And what would the unions have had to say about it?!)

  5. Seriously. A good post as usual by you Dweller. Hope you had a good Christmas/Hannakah break. I did. Just made up that 10.35am not the 21/12/2012.

  6. “irony.alert@dweller.org”

    Windows seems unable to make the jump to lightspeed in this matter, or so says the text box I’m getting. Apparently I must pass on it.

    “Mayan calendar says the world will end 21 December 2012 (around 10.35am I think)…”

    “10:35 am” in which time zone?

  7. The Mayan calender says the world will end 21 December 2012 (around 10.35am I think). So 25 December 2012 will not happen.

  9. “PRECISELY WHEN THE MESSIAH ARRIVES IN A WHITE CHARIOT ON DEC 25th 2012…”

    Dec 25th, eh?

    So the Messiah is the fat guy?

    (red suit, big white beard, bag of toys, elves, reindeer, sleigh bells, all that — him?)

    But he always leaves again. . . .

  10. We all can hope that Israel will withdraw from the UN. And that Israel will annex the territories and eject the Arabs in their midst. ALL OF THIS IS SCHEDULED TO OCCUR WHEN, DO YOU ASK? PRECISELY WHEN THE MESSIAH ARRIVES IN A WHITE CHARIOT ON DEC 25th 2012 – AND WE ALL SAY AMEN.

  11. “Settlements, new and old, are illegal.”

    “Repetition of a falsehood does not make it true. Of all institutions, the United Nations should be particularly aware of the legacy of past agreements enshrined in international law and of the immutable acquired rights of peoples, as spelled out in the UN Charter.”

    Quite so.

    If Mr Ban believes that the Jerusalem & heartland Jewish communities are ‘illegal,’ then let him make his case (so we can have the pleasure of taking it apart, like a faulty transmission), rather than just making bald, unsupported claims.

    “[Settlements] work against the emergence of a viable Palestinian state.”

    So?

    “A two-state solution is long overdue.”

    Only to a time traveller.

    There’s already existed a Palestine Arab state for two years longer [1946] than the Palestine Jewish one

    — it’s named for the River separating the two.

    If ONE state in Mandate Palestine is enough for the Jews

    — then why isn’t one state in Mandate Palestine enough for the ‘Palestinians’?

    “The status quo offers only the guarantee of future conflict.”

    Get used to it, bunny rabbit.

    Because the truth is that there is NOTHING that doesn’t offer only the guarantee of future conflict.