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Countering Benjamin Netanyahu's Orwellian Spin at the UN
By Eileen Fleming (about the author) Page 1 of 10 page(s)
For OpEdNews: Eileen Fleming - Writer
He is "N" and I am "E" and so it begins:
N: Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen
Nearly
62 years ago, the United Nations recognized the right of the Jews, an
ancient people 3,500 years-old, to a state of their own in their
ancestral homeland. I stand here today as the Prime Minister of Israel,
the Jewish state, and I speak to you on behalf of my country and my
people.
The United Nations was founded after the carnage of
World War II and the horrors of the Holocaust. It was charged with
preventing the recurrence of such horrendous events. Nothing has
undermined that central mission more than the systematic assault on the
truth.
E: In agreement on principal and the brutal truth is:
Israel has been targeted by at least 65 UN resolutions and the Palestinians have been targeted by none. [1]
"Aside
from the core issues—refugees, Jerusalem, borders—the major themes
reflected in the U.N. resolutions against Israel over the years are its
unlawful attacks on its neighbors; its violations of the human rights
of the Palestinians, including deportations, demolitions of homes and
other collective punishments; its confiscation of Palestinian land; its
establishment of illegal settlements; and its refusal to abide by the
U.N. Charter and the 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention Relative to the
Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War. [2]
"Israel
holds the record for ignoring United Nations Security Council
resolutions"Since 1968, Israel has violated 32 resolutions that
included condemnation or criticism of the governments' policies and
actions"The resolutions Israel violated were either about its
annexation of East Jerusalem or settlements in the territories. Israel
also ignored UN Security Council resolutions that called for Israel to
cease using harsh measures against the Palestinian population and to
cease expelling Palestinians. [3]
N: Yesterday the President of
Iran stood at this very podium, spewing his latest anti-Semitic rants.
Just a few days earlier, he again claimed that the Holocaust is a lie.
E:
I am no fan of the President of Iran-or any politician, for they all
get addicted to power and I don't trust any of them; but it is way
past time to move on from the useless canard of labeling anyone who
denounces the policies of Israel as an anti-Semite.
According
to Webster's New World Dictionary a Semite is: 1. a person regarded as
descended from Shem 2. a member of any of the peoples speaking a
Semitic language, including the Hebrews, Arabs, Assyrians, Phoenicians,
etc.
Daniel McGowan, Professor Emeritus at Hobart and William
Smith Colleges and Founder and Executive Director of Deir Yassin
Remembered, wrote:
"For more than fifty years Jewish scholars
have spent hundreds of millions of dollars to document each Jewish
victim of the Nazi Holocaust. The Nazis were German, obsessed with
paperwork and record keeping. Yet only 3 million names have been
collected and many of them died of natural causes. So why is it heresy
to doubt that fewer than 6 million Jews were murdered in the Second
World War?
"'Holocaust Denial' might be no more eccentric or no
more criminal than claiming the earth is flat, except that the
Holocaust itself has been used as the sword and shield in the quest to
build a Jewish state between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan
River, where even today over half the population is not Jewish.
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