Amnesty hops on UN bandwagon to demonize Israel and Jews
Amnesty International has hopped on the United Nations (UN) bandwagon aimed at vilifying and demonizing Israel and the Jewish People with the release of its 280-page report entitled Israel’s Apartheid against Palestinians (“Report”).
The Report – like scores of similar reports flowing from the United Nations critical of Israel – will be relied on by Jew-haters to justify continuing violence against Jews wherever they live with the avowed intention of terminating the one fundamental human right common to every human being – the right to breathe.
Protestations by Amnesty International that this was not the organisation’s intention should be rejected. An arsonist who starts a bushfire is responsible for its consequences.
Jew-hating organisations such as Hezbollah, Hamas, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Palestine Liberation Organisation will embrace and welcome the Report wholeheartedly as vindication for the decades they have devoted to murdering and maiming tens of thousands of Jews travelling on buses, planes, eating in restaurants or even asleep in their own beds.
Iran will hail the report as a clarion call to justify its longstanding threat to eliminate the State of Israel.
The General Assembly will no doubt soon brand Israel an Apartheid State. That such a Resolution will have no legal effect is of small comfort.
Thousands of rockets will continue to be fired indiscriminately into Israeli civilian population residential areas from Gaza.
This report fails to acknowledge that there has been an ongoing unresolved conflict for the last 100 years between the Jewish People and the Arab residents of former Palestine. It deliberately makes no attempt to explain the actions required to be taken by Israel in defending its civilian population given the political realities of that conflict.
Only one statement in the Report makes any reference to the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine that existed in Palestine from 1920 until 1948 – which is itself totally false in claiming that:
“… subsequent to 1967, Israel has exercised effective control over the whole territory of British mandate Palestine.”
Jordan – in fact – exercises effective control over 78% of the territory of British mandate Palestine. The Arab residents of former Palestine attained their right to self-determination in this major area of Palestine when Britain granted this area its independence in 1946. Not one Jew lives there. Selling land to Jews is punishable by death.
The Jews were left to exercise their right of self-determination in the remaining 22% of the territory of British mandate Palestine allocated to them by the League of Nations. 5% of that territory has been demanded since 1967 to create a second Arab state in former Palestine in addition to Jordan – but not in the 20 years before when every Jew living there had been expelled and Jordan had occupied it.
Arabs living in the additional area demanded – Judea and Samaria (West Bank), East Jerusalem and Gaza – were Jordanian citizens between 1950 and 1988.
The UN has falsely alleged that:
- Jews have no right to live in Judea and Samaria, East Jerusalem and Gaza
- Jews living there are doing so illegally in flagrant violation of international law
- Jews are the major obstacle to peace
Articles 6 and 25 of the Mandate which encourages close Jewish settlement in these areas rebuts such claim. This internationally- sanctioned right of Jewish settlement still exists today by virtue of Article 80 of the UN Charter.
Amnesty International has acted with deliberate malice and put at extreme risk the lives and well being of Jews – and innocent bystanders – worldwide.
The UN-Amnesty International bandwagon is on a journey to hell as a result of their dishonest machinations against the Jewish People.
David Singer is a Sydney lawyer and a foundation member of the International Analysts Network
Author’s note: The cartoon — commissioned exclusively for this article — is by Yaakov Kirschen aka “Dry Bones”- one of Israel’s foremost political and social commentators — whose cartoons have graced the columns of Israeli and international media publications for decades.
