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Re: United Nations
DIR By: USIran
Date: October 25, 2023, 12:24 pm
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Blinken tells UN: US doesn't want war with Iran but will defend
itself
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> By Michelle Nichols
>
> UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -The United States told the United
Nations on Tuesday it does not seek conflict with Iran, but
Secretary of State
>
> warned that Washington would act swiftly and decisively if
Iran or its proxies attacks U.S. personnel anywhere.
>
> Blinken spoke to the 15-member U.N. Security Council amid
international fears the conflict between Israel and Iran-backed
Palestinian Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip could spill over
into a wider war, drawing in Lebanon's heavily armed Hezbollah
that is also supported by Tehran.
>
> "The United States does not seek conflict with Iran. We do not
want this war to widen. But if Iran or its proxies attack U.S.
personnel anywhere, make no mistake: we will defend our people,
we will defend our security - swiftly and decisively."
>
> The U.S. military is taking new steps to protect its troops in
the Middle East as concerns mount about attacks by Iran-backed
groups, officials tell Reuters. The U.S. has also sent warships
and fighter aircraft to the region to try to deter Iran and
Iran-backed groups, including two aircraft carriers.
>
> Iran's mission to the United Nations did not immediately
respond to a request for comment on Blinken's remarks. Iran was
due to address the Security Council meeting on the Middle East
later on Tuesday.
>
> "We call on all member states to send a firm, united message
to any state or non-state actor that is considering opening
another front in this conflict against Israel or who may target
Israel's partners, including the United States: don't. Don't
throw fuel on the fire," Blinken said.
>
> Standing with his Arab counterparts, Jordan's Foreign Minister
Ayman Safadi told reporters at the United Nations that the
threat of the conflict spreading was a "real danger."
>
> "We're all doing everything we can to stop it. There's the
threat of this expanding into the West Bank, into Lebanon, into
other fronts. None of us want that, we're all working against
that," he said.
>
> VIOLATIONS IN GAZA
>
> U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres pleaded on Tuesday for
civilians to be protected in the war between Israel and
Palestinian Hamas militants, voicing concern about "clear
violations of international humanitarian law" in the Gaza Strip.
>
> More than 700 Palestinians were killed in overnight Israeli
air strikes, Gaza's health ministry said, the highest 24-hour
death toll since Israel began a bombing campaign to crush Hamas
militants who stunned the country with a deadly Oct. 7 attack.
>
> Guterres told the Security Council that at a "crucial moment
like this," it was vital to be clear that war has rules,
starting with the fundamental principle of respecting and
protecting civilians.
>
> "It is important to also recognize the attacks by Hamas did
not happen in a vacuum. The Palestinian people have been
subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation," Guterres said.
>
> "But the grievances of the Palestinian people cannot justify
the appalling attacks by Hamas. And those appalling attacks
cannot justify the collective punishment of the Palestinian
people," he said.
>
> Israel's U.N. Ambassador Gilad Erdan described Guterres'
speech as "shocking." In a post on X, formerly known as Twitter,
he called on Guterres to immediately resign, while Israel's
visiting Foreign Minister Eli Cohen said that he would no longer
meet with Guterres later on Tuesday as planned.
>
> "I will not meet with the U.N. secretary-general. After Oct. 7
there is no room for a balanced approach. Hamas must be erased
from the world!" Cohen wrote.
>
> (Reporting by Michelle Nichols; Editing by Howard Goller and
Deepa Babington)
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HTML https://news.yahoo.com/un-chief-pleads-gazans-safety-152239623.html
Palestine being Palestinian is water on the fire the EU, US, and
Israel, started in the middle-east...
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Re: United Nations
DIR By: UN
Date: October 26, 2023, 2:20 pm
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Israel Blasts Russia, China At UN Security Council Amid War; ‘If
You Faced Similar Attacks…’ | Watch
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> A massive faceoff erupted in the UN Security Council over the
ongoing Gaza conflict. Israel's UN Envoy slammed Russia and
China for vetoing the U.S. resolution on the Hamas attack. The
resolution called for Israel's right to self-defence and
"humanitarian pauses". The Israeli Envoy said he was shocked by
those who voted against it. Watch for more.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSDoTbDyPJ8
China rebuts Israel's accusations
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> “We have always advocated equal attention to the security
concerns and legitimate rights of both Israel and Palestine…We
also believe that the root cause of the conflict lies in the
fact that the two-state solution has not been well settled,”
said Zhang Jun, China’s UN envoy.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2V6JyXyhtc
Comment:
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> Thank you China for speaking up for Palestine and keeping a
balanced approach.
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What is missing from the speech of many non-western leaders in
regards to Israel is the fact that Zionism is western
colonialism masked in Jewish victim-hood.
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Re: United Nations
DIR By: UN
Date: October 26, 2023, 6:28 pm
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HTML https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/after-israel-demands-he-quit-un-secretary-general-says-he-never-sought-to-justify-hamas/article_a18631f9-fbde-5143-86bb-77b97725cfb5.html
After Israel demands he quit, UN secretary general says he never
sought to justify Hamas attacks
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>
>
> United Nations Secretary General António Guterres says he
never sought to justify acts of terror by Hamas when he said the
Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel didn’t happen in a vacuum and
came after the Palestinian people were “subjected to 56 years of
suffocating occupation.”
>
> Guterres attempted to walk back the impact of a statement he
made to the UN Security Council a day earlier in which he said
there were “clear violations of international humanitarian law”
taking place in the besieged territory of Gaza and called for an
“immediate humanitarian ceasefire.”
>
> The head of the UN had sharply criticized Israel’s military
response to the Oct. 7 attacks, saying its “relentless
bombardment” of Gaza was alarming and amounted to
disproportionate “collective punishment.”
>
> “The grievances of the Palestinian people cannot justify the
appalling attacks by Hamas. And those appalling attacks cannot
justify the collective punishment of the Palestinian people,”
Guterres said on Tuesday.
>
> It infuriated the government of Israel, with Israel’s UN
ambassador, Gilad Erdan, calling for Guterres to resign in a
post on X, formerly Twitter.
>
>
> Guterres’ original comments led off a day of intense emotional
debate at the UN, with Canada’s UN Ambassador Bob Rae in an
early evening speech reiterating that “Canada is unequivocal in
our support for Israel’s right to defend itself.”
>
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United Nations General Assembly is holding an emergency special
session on the war in Gaza
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>
> The Palestinian Ambassador to the UN Riyad Monsour has
addressed an emergency sitting of the General Assembly in New
York. It follows two failed security council resolutions tabled
by the US and Russia. He called on countries not to allow Israel
to violate international law.
>
> Gilad Ezdan, Israel's Ambassador to the UN, says the current
conflict can't be seen in the context of previous history.
>
> Iran's Foreign Minister says western powers have double
standards in their attitude to the war:
>
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mv-MpcbOrzc
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Re: United Nations
DIR By: UN
Date: October 27, 2023, 6:36 pm
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HTML https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/27/united-nations-votes-overwhelmingly-in-favour-of-humanitarian-truce-in-gaza
United Nations votes overwhelmingly in favour of humanitarian
truce in Gaza
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>
>
> The United Nations General Assembly has voted overwhelmingly
in favour of a resolution calling for an immediate humanitarian
truce between Israel and the Palestinian armed group Hamas.
>
> The 193-member body passed the resolution, drafted by a group
of 22 Arab countries, by a margin of 120 to 14, with 45
countries abstaining. The United States and Israel voted no.
>
> Speaking before the vote, Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman
Safadi said that voting against the resolution “means approving
this senseless war, this senseless killing”. Israel denounced
the vote as “infamy”.
>
> The resolution is non-binding, but serves as a barometer of
global opinion as fighting between Israel and Hamas nears the
end of its third week, following an assault by Hamas on southern
Israel that killed more than 1,400 people.
>
> The General Assembly voted after the UN Security Council had
failed to take action over two weeks, with the US and Russia
using their veto powers to block proposals supported by the
other.
>
> The adopted resolution calls for an “immediate, durable and
sustained humanitarian truce leading to a cessation of
hostilities” and “firmly rejects any attempts at the forced
transfer of the Palestinian civilian population”.
>
> Israeli UN ambassador Gilad Erdan said that “a ceasefire means
giving Hamas time to rearm itself,” and that the vote was not
intended to bring peace but to “tie Israel’s hands”.
>
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HTML https://www.cp24.com/news/un-rejects-canadian-push-to-call-out-deliberate-cruelty-of-hamas-attacks-1.6620524
UN rejects Canadian push to call out "deliberate cruelty" of
Hamas attacks
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>
>
> A Canadian-led effort to formally condemn Hamas for the
“deliberate cruelty” of its deadly Oct. 7 attacks on Israel went
down to defeat Friday as the United Nations instead endorsed a
call for a humanitarian pause in hostilities.
>
> On the second day of an emergency session of the UN General
Assembly, delegates debated the language of a draft resolution
calling for a “truce” to allow aid to enter the Gaza Strip and
trapped civilians to escape.
>
> But the resolution, introduced by the UN's 22-nation Arab
coalition, made no mention of Hamas, the attacks or the tactics
employed by a group that has long been considered a terrorist
organization by Canada and the U.S., among others.
>
> Bob Rae, Canada's permanent UN envoy, sought to rectify that
with an amendment that “unequivocally rejects and condemns” the
attacks while demanding the “immediate and unconditional” safe
release of all hostages.
>
> Jordan's ambassador, Mahmoud Hmoud, dismissed the amendment as
an effort to “whitewash” Israel's response: a relentless and
ongoing campaign of airstrikes in the Gaza Strip, widely seen as
a precursor to a ground offensive.
>
> “We in this assembly have an obligation to name two things not
mentioned in the draft resolution,” Rae said in his impassioned
response in the UN's cavernous assembly hall.
>
> “The organization that bears responsibility for those events
and its consequences, and the deliberate cruelty of the murders,
and the hostage-taking, that is still underway.
>
> “Our amendment does just that. No more and no less.”
>
> In the end, the amendment failed, unable to garner the
required two-thirds majority of votes
>
> Gilad Erdan, Israel's UN emissary, left little doubt about his
feelings when it was over.
>
> “The spectacle we just saw proves beyond a doubt that the UN
is committed - sadly, tragically - not to preventing, but
ensuring further atrocities,” he said.
>
> “We saw exactly what (Hamas) dreams of doing to every Israeli
and Jew and we will not sit idly by to let them re-arm and
commit such atrocities again. We won't, just as every single
other member state in this room wouldn't.”
>
>
>
>
>
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Re: United Nations
DIR By: UN
Date: October 28, 2023, 1:26 pm
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Hamas Not Mentioned In UN Resolution On War; Israel & U.S. Lash
Out, India Abstains | Details
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> India has abstained from the UN General Assembly on a
resolution that called for an immediate humanitarian truce in
Gaza amid the Israel-Hamas conflict. A total of 120 countries
voted in favour of the resolution; 14 countries voted against
it, including Israel and the United States, while 45 others
abstained, including India. The Jordanian-drafted resolution did
not make any mention of the militant group Hamas, with the US
and Israel expressing outrage, calling it an "omission of evil".
Watch this video to know more.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbkTWicbqbI
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Re: United Nations
DIR By: Pakistan
Date: October 28, 2023, 2:17 pm
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Full Speech Pakistan UN Envoy Munir Akram: "Israel Committed
Original Sin" | Dawn News English
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> Pakistan Ambassador to the UN Munir Akram has said Israel’s
occupation and killing of Palestinians “is the original sin” and
not what happened on Oct 7.
>
> He passed these remarks during a UN General Assembly session,
where a resolution calling for a “humanitarian truce” in Gaza
was adopted.
>
> “We all know who started this. It is 50 years of Israeli
occupation and the killing of Palestinians with impunity,” he
said.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eBfVSyzsfI
'I am shocked': UN chief responds to Israel's calls for
resignation
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> UN Secretary-General António Guterres says he is 'shocked by
the misrepresentations' by some over his UN Security Council
speech.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIeIUoPeT9A
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Re: United Nations
DIR By: FiftySixYears
Date: October 28, 2023, 11:07 pm
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UN's Navi Pillay: Israel has 'no intention of ending occupation'
| Talk to Al Jazeera
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> Navi Pillay chairs the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on
the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel.
>
> Weeks before Hamas carried out its October 7 surprise
offensive in southern Israel, and Israel launched a major
military operation in Gaza, Pillay released a report.
>
> It says: "The commission finds the increasingly militarised
law enforcement operations of Israel and repeated attacks by
Israel on Gaza are aimed at maintaining its unlawful 56-year
occupation."
>
> With the latest escalation now in its third week, Navi Pillay
talks to Al Jazeera.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz1th-a_2M4
Best comment with a ton of likes:
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> Thank you Judge Pillay: As South Africans, we are proud of
your courage and commitment to justice. Following last night's
vote by the UN General Assembly and immediate defiance by Israel
with further bombardments of Gaza and still more deaths of
civilians, it is time for the General Assembly to vote again to
revoke the November 1947 vote on the partition of Palestine. The
so-called Two State Solution is a non-starter, and a one
democratic and secular state must extend "from the river to the
sea", and includes the return of Palestinian refugees. A two
state solution is an apartheid solution: if apartheid in South
Africa was rightly unacceptable to the international community,
why should apartheid be imposed on Palestinians?
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Re: United Nations
DIR By: un
Date: October 29, 2023, 1:24 am
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HTML https://www.dw.com/en/israel-and-the-un-a-tricky-relationship/a-67240528
Israel and the UN: A tricky relationship
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>
>
> Guterres said that the Palestinian people had been subjected
to more than 50 years of "suffocating occupation," and expressed
his concern over the "clear violations of international
humanitarian law that we are witnessing in Gaza."
>
> It didn't take long for Israel to express its outrage. An
Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesperson said Guterres had crossed
a red line and justified Hamas' atrocities.
>
> The Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Israel also chimed in,
saying the UN chief had "failed the test." Israel's ambassador
to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, immediately called for
Guterres' resignation. The Israeli government even announced it
would stop issuing visas to UN envoys.
>
> Resolutions dead in the water
>
> A never-ending story in the Middle East
>
> No other crisis-prone region has generated as many UN
resolutions as Israel and the Palestinian territories, and
Israeli-UN relations have consistently been strained as a
result.
>
> According to UN Watch, a non-governmental organization in
Geneva, the General Assembly passed 140 resolutions criticizing
Israel between 2015 and 2022 alone, condemning the construction
of settlements and the annexation of the Golan Heights.
>
> In the same time period, only 68 resolutions were passed
concerning the rest of the world, including just five on Iran,
for example.
>
> Israel has long felt it is treated unjustly by the UN, which
perhaps explains why the country's reaction to Guterres' speech
was so strong.
>
> Israel is described in the text as an "occupying power" and
its right to self-defense is not mentioned.
>
> Back then, the UN was formed of just 57 member states, but
amid a wave of decolonization, that number grew quickly.
>
> After the Six-Day War in 1967 and the Israeli occupation of
the Palestinian territories that followed, the relationship
between Israel and the UN soured significantly, and the number
of critical resolutions passed by the General Assembly soared.
>
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Israel is trying to take the world down with them.
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Re: United Nations
DIR By: un
Date: October 31, 2023, 8:42 pm
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HTML https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/31/un-chief-guterres-says-aid-trickling-into-gaza-is-completely
UN chief Guterres says aid trickling into Gaza is ‘completely
inadequate’
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>
>
> United Nations chief Antonio Guterres has said that
humanitarian aid deliveries to Gaza are “completely inadequate”
amid deteriorating conditions within the Gaza Strip.
>
> In a statement on Tuesday, Guterres reiterated that
humanitarian need in Gaza is far outpacing existing levels of
assistance. Aid trucks have been trickling into Gaza from Egypt
over the past week via Rafah, the main crossing that does not
border Israel.
>
> Guterres also voiced concern over military escalation as
Israel steps up ground raids in Gaza and continues to bombard
the besieged territory.
>
> “I am deeply alarmed by the intensification of the conflict
genocide
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> Gaza a ‘graveyard for thousands of children’
>
> Nebal Farsakh, a spokesperson from the Palestine Red Crescent
Society, called the situation “absolutely horrific”.
>
> “Hospitals are already overwhelmed, and they barely can deal
with the increasing number of casualties they are dealing with
every single hour,” Farsakh told Al Jazeera.
>
> Speaking before the UN Security Council on Tuesday, UN High
Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi urged the council to
push for a ceasefire in order to end a “spiral of death”.
>
> Speaking last week, Guterres called the small amounts of aid
being allowed into Gaza from the Rafah crossing with Egypt “a
drop of aid in an ocean of need”.
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Re: United Nations
DIR By: rp
Date: November 1, 2023, 4:44 pm
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HTML https://twitter.com/jacksonhinklle/status/1719813060271943727
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>
> Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸
> @jacksonhinklle
> 🇮🇱🇺🇳 ISRAELI Ambassador KICKED
OUT of the United Nations General Assembly!
>
> #HinkleCensored
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