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Netanyahu complains about UN bias to Ban
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Published: 01.10.14, 16:02
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1. THE UN SAID...
FO ,   Belgium   (10.01.14)
Ban had also voiced "deep concern at (Israel's) continued settlement activity"...And what was Netanyahu's reply?....Instead of plunging Ban's nose into ARTICLE 80 of the UN CHARTER, the UN who's chief he is. This is of course to expect too much from Netanyahu whose own father, Benzion, was one of those who draw up ARTICLE 80! With ARTICLE 80 the UNITED NATIONS engages itself to respect, fulfill and implement ALL LEAGUE OF NATIONS' decisions, of course including its decision of 1922 to create a Jewish state on the territory between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, and the Golan Heights! This decision became International Law! Aware about all this, honorable Israeli diplomats and journalists? Was it part of your curriculum at university?
2. Boycott the Commission
Jason, Ph.D. ,   Charlotte   (10.01.14)
Israel should completely boycott this Commission, and announce clearly and loudly that it is a horribly biased kangaroo court, and is in fact laughable. Cooperating with this Commission at any level gives it a legitimacy it does not deserve.
3. Netanyahu complains about UN
Dan Frank ,   Montreal Canada   (10.01.14)
A waste of time to complain. Israel should leave the UN , period. It has always been and will be anti Israel and always starting with the UN Sec. General . Should a motion be set in the UN that the world is flat no doubt it will receive a 2/3 majority vote.
4. The United Nations ...
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (10.01.14)
... in allowing their schools to be used as missile and mortar storage places and in allowing those schools to be used by Hamas to fire missiles and mortars at Israeli civilian population centers, has simply underscored its complete lack of legitimacy as a supposedly neutral body. The United Nations is, quite simply, guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity -- not only did they permit their facilities to be used as a launching pad for Hamas attacks against Israeli civilians, but they did so while allowing Gazan civilians to take shelter in those schools, knowing full well that by allowing the schools to be used as weapons storage centers and as missile launching sites, those schools became legitimate military targets. The United Nations is a corrupt, biased agency that has outlived its usefulness. Time to dismantle the United Nations and build something better in its place -- preferably, in Geneva. We're tired of having them in New York, where they have far outlived their usefulness and their arrogance is utterly unbearable. Believe it or not, the parking laws apply to even those tinpot dictators.
5. Complaints to UN
Bobby ,   USA   (10.01.14)
Complaining to the UN about anti-Israel bias is like complaining to Miley Cyrus that her shorts are too revealing--duly noted...next complaint.
6. TALK ABOUT TALKING TO THE WALL...
stude ham   (10.01.14)
7. "Israel"'s UN creation
graczek ,   Maryland, USA   (10.01.14)
In the greater sense, "Israel" was created by the rump UN in November 1947. Were the UN constituted then as it is today, the Partition Resolution never would have passed. There is no "bias" as such in the UN; it is merely aiming to rectify and reverse the gross error it committed in Nov. 29, 1947. The Zionist state thus must go.
8. Agree with #4
Beary White ,   Norway   (10.01.14)
UNRWA, the special body for pal-refugees, has more than 30.000 people on its pay-list, with 99% being palestinians. For sure members of the hamass terrorists are in the same pot, receiving welfare from UN, which is the reason why UN protects its biggest body-part and dis-credit Israel.
9. #7 graczek
solomon ,   bklyn   (10.02.14)
The UN did not create Israel. Jews re-created Israel. We do understand how much the truth hurts as you avoid it all the time.
10. TO GRACZEK # 7.
FO ,   Belgium   (10.02.14)
If I was an ignorant as you are, I wouldn't write the nonsense you wrote. So to improve your knowledge, here a short and free lesson: the UN did not create the State of Israel. The UN Resolution of Nov.1947 was just a proposal, as UNGA resolutions are none-binding, and anyhow it was a breach of Article 80 of the same institution! The decision to create a Jewish state was taken at the San-Remo Conference in 1920 and got its legal form by the unanimous vote of all the 51 members of the League of Nations in1922 under the Mandate for Palestine. This Mandate gave the Jews the Irrevocable right in International Law to settle on the territory between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, including the Golan Heights. By the way, under the same Mandate system, two other states were created, Iraq and Syria-Lebanon. As the successor of the League of Nations, the United Nations took, under Article 80 of its Charter, the engagement to respect, fulfill and implement all the League's decisions, including of course the Mandate for Palestine. Feel a little more intelligent now, Graczek?
11. To: No. 7
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (10.02.14)
But the United Nations' composition in 1947 had bearing only insofar as the resolutions before it in 1947. What was done in 1947 -- and do keep in mind that the resolution which passed proposed partition. The Arabs REJECTED partition, and chose to go to war instead. It's a bit late to change their minds now. They had their chance, and they blew it. Stupid choices made by Arabs are not Israel's problem, and not for the United Nations to "rectify" no matter how the composition of that body has changed, decades after the fact. Do the words "ex post facto" mean anything to you? Of course not -- you're a moron. Go tighten your cilice and whip yourself into a frenzy; you'll feel much better, you sick, Opus Dei freak.
12. Cry me a river ,...
split ,   US   (10.02.14)
UN staff dismissed accusations that Hamas allegedly was using their facilities as storage for their $25 per dozen flying gutters called rockets so did the civilized world but he keeps peddling this crap in their face just like accusations ''of firing rockets from densely - populated civilian areas'' despite that everyone else except him knows that Gaza was the most densely populated area in the world created artificially by expelling native residents from 1 mile deep territory around Gaza called a “no-go” buffer zone, extending last summers to 2 mile wide that represents 43% of Gaza's territory with 21,951 Palestinians per square mile in Gaza for comparing with Israel’s population at 964 persons per square mile.
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