Kick Israel Off the United Nations! - VT Foreign Policy
VT Condemns the ETHNIC CLEANSING OF PALESTINIANS by USA/Israel
$ 280 BILLION US TAXPAYER DOLLARS INVESTED since 1948 in US/Israeli Ethnic Cleansing and Occupation Operation; $ 150B direct "aid" and $ 130B in "Offense" contractsSource: Embassy of Israel, Washington, D.C. and US Department of State.
The United Nations has never expelled any member state.
However, in 1974, an attempt was made to expel apartheid South Africa: a case that presents several analogies with today.
Now the cup is full.
The State of Israel can no longer be in the United Nations.
(by Former Deputy Secretary General of the UN Professor Pino Arlacchi)
It has become an outlaw state that breaks one after another the cornerstones of international law and that flaunts its impunity by being able to count on the political protection and unlimited military support of the United States.
If this were not the case, Netanyahu would never have dared to insult the UN, in full General Assembly, calling it “a swamp of anti-Semitic bile”, and he would not have had, during 2023 alone, 230 UNRWA employees killed during bombings, fires and attacks on schools, food depots, and UN-branded humanitarian aid convoys.
UNRWA is the agency created in 1949 by the General Assembly to assist the Palestinian refugees created by the “Nabka”, the catastrophe of 1948 that saw 700,000 Palestinians violently driven from their homes and their land by the Zionist militia that became Israel’s army.
All this while making a mockery of the settlement plans established by the UN, and inaugurating a long series of crimes and illegalities that continues to this day.
And which is at the root of the foundation of the State of Israel as well as Al Fatah, Hamas, Hezbollah and the like.
Alongside UNRWA, the second largest victim of Israeli hostility towards the United Nations is UNIFIL, a mission composed of 50 countries, created in 1978 by the Security Council to promote peace in Lebanon.
UNIFIL has paid so far with 337 human lives for the implementation of its mandate.
Not all its losses are due to Israeli attacks, but it is precisely in these weeks that all the impatience of Tel Aviv against possible witnesses of atrocities planned and about to be implemented has exploded.
From 1948 until today, there are over 24 Security Council resolutions that criticize or condemn the illegal occupation of territories and the cruelties of Israel against the Palestinians.
Some of these resolutions have become famous for being frequently invoked during crises triggered by Israel.
Resolution 242 of 1967 establishes the withdrawal of Israel from the territories occupied after the Six-Day War in order to promote lasting peace in the Middle East.
Resolutions 446 of 1979, 904 of 1994, 1073 of 1996 and 1394 of 2002 join the 155 resolutions approved by the General Assembly since 2015 and which concern the three military interventions in Lebanon preceding the current one, the illicit settlements in the West Bank, the withdrawal from occupied territories, the massacres and deportations of Palestinian civilians.
These resolutions of the global majority are so many stages in the gap that has been dug between the governments of Israel on the one hand, and the United Nations and the rest of the world on the other.
The 41,000 dead in Gaza, the 100,000 wounded, the millions of displaced people in Lebanon and Gaza, the repeated attacks on Iran, Yemen and Syria, the targeted assassinations of individual foreign personalities that have occurred over the last year are in no way justifiable.
They are not excesses of legitimate defense caused by the massacre of 1,200 Israeli civilians.
We are faced with a UN member state affected by a degenerative process.
It has become a serial aggressor that cannot refrain from committing crimes against humanity, war crimes, attempted genocides and repeated massacres and then plays the victim and takes refuge behind the shield of the United States.
No member state has ever been expelled from the United Nations.
However, the organization came very close, in 1974, in the case of South Africa, a case that presents clear analogies with today’s case of Israel. The debate at the UN on the expulsion of South Africa was not only sparked by growing international aversion to apartheid, but also by the continued South African occupation of Namibia, which the International Court of Justice has ruled illegal, as is the case with the current Israeli occupation of Lebanon and the West Bank.
It all started in 1969, with Resolution 269, which stated that if South Africa did not withdraw from Namibia, the Security Council would “convene forthwith to determine effective measures” to be taken.
The issue of the application of Article 6 of the UN Charter was raised, which concerns the procedure for expelling a member state, to be voted on by the General Assembly on the proposal of the Security Council.
South Africa was not expelled from the UN only because three out of five members of the Security Council – the US, France and the UK – vetoed the proposal. It was still an anti-communist bastion that needed to be protected.
But the General Assembly circumvented the obstacle in 1974 by refusing to accept, by an overwhelming majority, the credentials of the South African delegation. South Africa thus remained excluded from participation in the General Assembly for twenty years, until 1994, returning only after the end of apartheid.
The current situation in Israel is much more serious than that of South Africa in the 1970s.
In both cases, we are faced with rogue, “delinquent” regimes on the margins of the international community.
But the white racist state – faced with attacks committed by the terrorist wing of the liberation movement led by the young Mandela and with huge street demonstrations – did not attempt genocide or the deportation of the black population.
The years of transition to democracy, therefore, cost black South Africans “only” 14,000 deaths.
In the last decades of its life, the Johannesburg regime did not wage war on the UN or on UN missions. Its demise occurred with an agreement between the parties and with the promise of future reconciliation.
Sending Israel out of the UN is a drastic, but necessary, measure.
We need to break the bubble of hysteria and omnipotence in which a regime of psychopaths lives, who do not realize that they are at war not against the Palestinians and the Middle East, but against the entire world.
The shock can also be healthy for its protector, a declining superpower tempted to go in the same dangerous direction.
By Pino Arlacchi Former Deputy Secretary General of the UN
Claudio Resta was born in Genoa, Italy in 1958, he is a citizen of the world (Spinoza), a maverick philosopher, and an interdisciplinary expert, oh, and an artist, too.
Grew up in a family of scientists where many sciences were represented by philosophy to psychoanalysis, from economics to history, from mathematics to physics, and where these sciences were subject to public display by their subject experts family members, and all those who they were part of could participate in a public family dialogue/debate on these subjects if they so wished. Read Full Bio
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