Israel and the UN

from israel today magazine. I just enclose this to read Wednesday, September 23, 2009 WEEKEND SPECIAL Get them at Jerusalem Depot >> Netanyahu puts peace process back in proper perspective For decades the international community has let the Arabs define the Middle East peace process as the rectifying of wrongs done to the Palestinians by the Israelis. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought to correct that error when he addressed the UN General Assembly on Thursday. In a brief but powerful speech, Netanyahu reminded the world that it was the ancient prophets of his people that once inhabited the Holy Land and whose words are today holy scripture for billions of people. "The Jewish people are not foreign conquerors in the Land of Israel. This is the land of our forefathers," declared Netanyahu. "Inscribed on the walls outside this building is the great Biblical vision of peace: 'Nation shall not lift up sword against nation. They shall learn war no more.' These words were spoken by the Jewish prophet Isaiah 2,800 years ago as he walked in my country, in my city - in the hills of Judea and in the streets of Jerusalem. We are not strangers to this land. It is our homeland." The Israeli leader said he is ready and willing make peace based on giving part of that land to the Palestinian Arabs who live there, but will not do so based on lies and false accusations against his people. In particular, Netanyahu said he wants the Palestinians to finally acknowledge Israel as a Jewish state, just as the UN itself did in 1947 when it divided the Holy Land between Jews and Arabs, a decision the Jews accepted but the Arabs rejected. "We ask the Palestinians to finally do what they have refused to do for 62 years: Say yes to a Jewish state." Netanyahu also devoted a large chunk of his speech to blasting the recent UN-mandated Goldstone Commission report, which accused Israel of committing war crimes in its invasion of the Gaza Strip earlier this year in response to years of Hamas rocket fire. The prime minister recalled how the world cheered when Israel withdrew from Gaza and promised to "back our right of self-defense" should anything go wrong, only to turn around and accuse Israel of the most heinous crimes when it was forced to defend itself. And that despite the fact that Israel went to extraordinary lengths to avoid Palestinian casualties, unlike the way self-righteous Western powers responded when one of their cities was rocketed decades earlier. "There is only one example in history of thousands of rockets being fired on a country's civilian population. It happened when the Nazis rocketed British cities during World War II," said Netanyahu, in a short history lesson. In response, "the Allies leveled German cities, causing hundreds of thousands of casualties." Netanyahu insisted that if Israel cannot count on fairness, even when is goes the extra mile to protect innocent lives on the other side, then it will find it increasingly difficult to take risks with its security in the name of peace. The bulk of Netanyahu's speech focused on Iran, and the Islamic Republic was even mentioned in those sections of the speech dealing with the peace process. Netanyahu said that without firmly dealing with existential regional threats, the international community could not reasonably hope to oversee a viable peace between Israel and its neighbors. He also strongly condemned the UN for providing a podium to Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a day earlier, despite Iranian leader's repeated denial of the Nazi Holocaust and his open desire to destroy Israel. "Yesterday, the man who calls the Holocaust a lie spoke from this podium. To those who refused to come here and to those who left this room in protest, I commend you. You stood up for moral clarity and you brought honor to your countries," said Netanyahu. "But to those who gave this Holocaust-denier a hearing, I say on behalf of my people, the Jewish people, and decent people everywhere: Have you no shame? Have you no decency?" Netanyahu warned the international community that "history has shown us time and again that what starts with attacks on the Jews eventually ends up engulfing many others."

The current UN is a very different entity to the one that grew out of League of Nations The main aim then was to make sure nothing like WW2 ever happened again but in latter years it has been hijacked by countries with left wing/Islamist leanings & it very anti Israel.Dore Gold's briiliant book Tower of Babble is very enlightening on what the UN has become. Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East where Jewish & Arab citizens have equal rights so how can Toby call it "a state of apartheid"?Israel has had to continually defend it's very existence surrounded as it is by so many huge Arab countries who would prefer it not to be there.It does not use the Christian church or western media to draw up untold sympathy for itself.The western media is very biased against Israel & frequently distorts the truth about events there.There are many in the Christian church who do not support Israel & believe God has no further use for the Jews.But there are many Christians like myself who recognise from our reading of the Bible that God gave the original land of Canaan to Abraham & his descendants through Isaac & Jacob (whose name He changed to Israel) & the original Divine plan was a much larger area than the sliver that is modern day Israel.We stand on the unchanging truth of what Adonai said about Israel as that never changes.Many times the Jews have been dispersed from the their land but God always brings them back & continues to fulfill His purpose for them.

i find it disgusting that whenever Israel is critiscised for anything, it is called "bashing" and bias. if the UN was really biased against the israel then there should be sanctions on israel imposed by the UN. we all know that israel has ignored more UN resolutions than all other nations combined. We are very aware of the arab/islamic extremist fundamentalism. however this is equally matched by the israeli extremist fundamentalism. the only difference is that this extremism is used from the pulpit of the WWII allies who constantly feel guilty for the war crimes of Germany. but let there be no mistake that israeli atrocities carried out since WWII continually make a mockery of the holocaust, and insult those who died in it. lets take the issue of nuclear armament. Has israel EVER has any IEAE inspections? what is the position of israeli nuclear arms? do they or do they not have them? as long as the unfair western bias towards israel prevails, hiding the state of apartheid that exists in israel. I mean what other nation on earth lays claim to the nation based on a 'group' or race of people alone. a JEWISH STATE? but that is secondary to the untold suffereing that israel imposes on the palestinian people. using the christian church, and western media to draw up untold sympathy for israel, has been the state of israel's most powerful weapon in this evil propaganda against justice. no body rejects the right to israel's destiny, however the world cannot be coerced to participate in the unfair bias that israel enjoys from the western powers. certainly not the arab world. Israel wants its cake and wants to eat it at the same time. i felt that both Ahmejinadad AND netanyahu insulted the principles of the UN by speeches. i bet, the readers of this comment of mine will now want to label me "anti-semitic" ! thats another foolish attempt to silence those who stand for truth regardless of race or religion. have a good day, and stand for truth not racist, xenophobic, ideology which has and will continue to plague the world and lead it to further destruction. two extremes do not make a right.