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UN chief: Israeli occupation imposed heavy humanitarian burden on Palestinians
Itamar Eichner, AP
Published: 06.06.17, 08:51
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1. "Lament" of a lying fool!
(06.06.17)
2. either he is a liar, or he is just ignorant
david ,   hadera   (06.06.17)
the land was held by the Ottomans until the Jordanians occupied it from them. WE just liberated it
3. Mind boggling how idiots get such high positions.
tiki ,   belgium   (06.06.17)
History/Bible lessons for Mr. Guterres.

"Palaestrina", the name the Romans gave to Judea, as it sounded to Jewish.

1921 - 1946 Emirate of Trans Jordan (known in the Bible as GILEAD)
1946 - 1949 The Hashemite Kingdom of Trans Jordan.
1952 Jordan

"In 1947 the world recognized a 2-state solution".
Occupied British mandate of Palestine was divided into states:
1 for the Jews (renamed Israel) and the biggest part for the Arabs.

14/05/1948 Israel was born.......reborn!
15/05/1948 the Arabs attacked!

The reason? To destroy history and what the UN had recognized!.

After the Sinai war, the 6-day war started.
The reason? To destroy history, Israel and drive it's people into the sea.!

Had the Jordanians not decided to join the Egyptians & Syrians in their war effort ......Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem wouldn't be freed and they would have had the opportunity to give "the Palestinians their Palestine", something they refused to do when the "West bank" was under their occupation from 1948-1967.

Mr. Guterres would do himself and the "Palestinians" a favor to learn some history to explain that they live in a pipe dream. There never was neither a Palestine nor a Palestinian people with historic rights & stolen lands.

The 2-state solution was there in 1948, had the Arabs accepted it, which they didn't!

The "solution" the UN falsely has in mind is a solution without Israel.

For this reason the UN & the world are trying to change history.

Arabs have become a "Palestinian people"!

"Palestine" has become their stolen country!

Jerusalem has become "Muslim & Palestinian" and the stolen capital of their stolen land!

Rav Jeshuah // Jesus was a Palestinian!

The Jews of Israel were Palestinians.
Yes indeed they were..

4. Time for the UN to take responsibility for the war
Brian Cohen ,   Judean Peoples Front   (06.06.17)
Guterres should check his history book and apologize for the UN's role in causing the war to happen. Egypt wanted war and urged the Arabs to push the Jews into the sea. That part is fact and well documented. It is also a fact and well documented that the instead of trying to prevent war, the UN put up no resistance to Egypt's demand to remove peace keeping forces that were stationed inbetween the Egyptian and Israeli armies.
The UN's rapid capitulation and feeble attempts to dissuade the Egyptians from their stated goal of committing genocide cemented the UN's reputation as powerless in the face of war.
Since then the UN has polished its reputation as a toothless body that capitulates to warmongering dictators - just ask the hundreds of thousands of dead Rwandans, Bosnians and others who perished as the UN stood by and relied on its ability to pass resolution after resolution, yet take no concrete action and fail again and again to rally the international community to prevent wars.
5. compelled to grow up and live in ever more crowded refugee
Alan ,   SA   (06.06.17)
camps..... Rubbish ....Which refugees from the 1940s Wars are still in "refugee" camps?
6. MR. GUTERRES, SOME HONESTY PLEASE !
FO ,   Belgium   (06.06.17)
I'm rather shocked that I must tell YOU that UN general Assembly (of which YOU are the Secretary- General, Mr. Guterres) that its resolutions are NONE BINDING. UNGA Resolution 181 was just, a proposal, by the way refused by all the Arab states, so it went off the table. But worse, even being none binding, Resolution 181 breached Article 80 of the United Nations' Charter, that you seem, how is it possible, to be unaware of, or rather knowingly willing to ignore. This INESCAPABLE Article 80 that REAFFIRMED ALL the League of Nations' Resolution, including of course the MANDATE FOR PALESTINE, the Mandate that gave the Jewish people the IRREVOCABLE RIGHT in International Law, to settle on the territory between the Sea and the Jordan River, including the Golan Heights, to create their independent State So Mr. Guterres, may we expect some honesty on your part?
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