Remove Israel from the UN!
JVL Introduction
Suspending a member state from the United Nations is a “complicated and politically fraught” business, but it is possible. As Israel’s contempt for the UN system is becoming undeniable, calls for its removal are becoming louder.
“The international order is breaking down in Gaza” said UN experts on October 11, marking one year of genocidal attacks on Palestinians.
Special UN rapporteur Francesca Albanese was unequivocal when addressing UN committee on the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people in New York last week:
“It is time to consider suspending the credentials of Israel as a member state of the UN … I understand the sensitivity because none of you have clean hands when it comes to human rights.”
We reproduce below the Guardian’s account (though we could do without the labelling of Albanese as “divisive”!).
See Al-Jazeera’s report for film of her passionate statement.
NWI
This article was originally published by The Guardian on Thu 31 Oct 2024. Read the original here.
UN should consider suspending Israel over ‘genocide’ against Palestinians, says special rapporteur
Francesca Albanese, who was stopped from appearing at US Congress this week, said Israel defied UN resolutions
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Israel operates in a parallel universe and it isn’t clear to me that its government – plus a high proportion of its citizens – would give a damn if the country was suspended from the UN. So might this not be a distraction? Far more important, surely, is pressure on those countries that are enabling Israel’s genocidal actions via their weapons sales, subventions, special arrangements for Israel etc etc.
The terrorist state of Israel’s sustained mass kiilings of tens of thousands of the indigenous people whose land it has taken is obviously a genocide.
The bias of the Guardian is seen in its labelling of Franscesca as divisive. Oh for goodness sake, Francesca Albanese is stating facts. She is called divisive by supporters of the genocide of the Palestinians – and by the Guardian.
As his nickname suggests, David “double whammy” Lammy is both ignorant and stupid. If his criterion was accepted it would undercut Nato talking points in respect of Ukraine and the Uyghurs.
That’s a new one on me : Patrick Wintour describing Francesca Albanese divisive because she calls out genocide and the refusal of most Western politicians and media to recognise genocide when it’s staring them in the face. How do you report on genocide in a unifying way? ‘Well, I know you’re providing the bombs and planes and tank shells to kill thousands of Palestinians and their children but could you just ask the Israelis to kill one or two less?’ I suppose it’s a more off-beam description than the tired, unevidenced antisemitism slander from the US ambassador but it reflects the same inability to provide any defence to Albanese’s tightly and brilliantly argued accusation.
Albanese is a shining beacon for freedom who won’t bow down to the genocidal terrorist Zionists and their Western backers, up to their necks in the murder of innocent Lebanese and Palestinian babies, women, children and men. Thank goodness, she keeps the flame alive.
I agree with Naomi, they won’t give a damn about being thrown out of the UN, they’ll carry on murdering until the Last Palestinian has been killed or fled, knowing they are being supported by the US and UK, including weaponry.
What’s happening in Gaza is completely different to what is happening in Ukraine. The war in Ukraine was created by the United States, its aim was to cripple Russia’s economy. It built BioLabs right across Ukraine, when challenged they denied it and called it a conspiracy theory, when it was proven, they said, they were for combatting viruses like Covid. If anyone is interested I have plenty of links on the truth about Ukraine.
All words have a power of one kind or another but some words have a special potency and “genocide” is one – not just because of its semantic pedigree, which is strong enough, but because of its associations. If you are not one of those who think that the Nazi holocaust against Jews was some sort of dystopian invention, then you would accept that the word “genocide” applies to it. In that particular case it brings with it images of skeletal figures standing behind fences, hyperventillating crowds in Nuremberg in awe of the strutting cock reaching his pulpit and peering contemptuously over them and so on. It depends which newsreels and films you have seen which images have stuck in your memory.
Some Zionists have tried to make it a case of “antisemitism” to use the word “holocaust” for any other event at all, denying its Greek roots and forgetting that for a time in the sixties and seventies we worried about a “nuclear holocaust”, which was the term in general use, with the implication of a conflagration clearly appropriate.
Forgetting for the moment December 1947 onwards in the whole of Palestine, if what we are seeing in Gaza isn’t genocide, then it’s hard to see what is. The Israelis seem even to rival one another to boast about it; their forces compete to film themselves exulting in it; their explanations for the egregious destruction of all those premises we hold sacred – hospitals, schools, churches, mosques, refugee camps, temporary sanctuaries and so on – are so transparently devoid of regret or any sense of a need to provide an explanation, that we realise that what they promised at the outset – “no food, no water, no power, no medicines” – wasn’t just a fit of national pique, but a statement of intent.
Ilan Pappé wrote about what he called “Incremental genocide”; they’ve just dropped the “incremental”.
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