The United Nations owes the Jewish People
The horrific slaughter of more than 1300 civilians in Israel with more than 150 being taken as hostages to Gaza – has seen expressions of outrage, sympathy and support for Israel from many nations.
However, many of the world’s 193 nations have been silent to their eternal shame.
The United Nations (UN) has become the bastion of Jew-hatred world-wide – following the Security Council passing Resolution 2334 on 23 December 2016:
“Reiterating its vision of a region where two democratic States, Israel and Palestine, live side by side in peace within secure and recognized borders”
A democratic State of Palestine has proved to be an illusion incapable of being realised.
Yet this vision continues to be slavishly pursued by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and his personal appointee since 2020: Tor Wennesland – Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Personal Representative to the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority.
Both continue to peddle the claim that Jews have no legal entitlement to live anywhere west of the Jordan River – although article 80 of the UN Charter preserves that right which was expressly conferred on the Jewish People under Article 6 of the 1922 Mandate for Palestine
Both have acted collusively in failing to bring to the Security Council for consideration an alternate vision to Resolution 2334 published on 8 June 2022: The Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine Solution (HKOPS) – calling for the merger of Jordan, Gaza and part of Judea and Samaria (West Bank) into one territorial entity.
HKOPS trashed Security Council Resolution 2334 in declaring:
“Jordanians and Palestinians are as similar as any people can be. They are Sunni Arabs from the same neighborhood. Merging them will not create any long-term ethnic or sectarian fault lines.”
HKOPS alternative vision – authored by a confidante of Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman – should have received serious consideration and expert analysis by the Security Council – especially as its own vision had gone nowhere since 2016.
Many requests to Guterres and Wennesland in the last 12 months to consider HKOPS as an alternative solution to end 100 years of unresolved conflict between Arabs and Jews went unacknowledged – as Gaza and Judea and Samaria (West Bank) threatened to erupt.
Instead – Guterres and Wennesland kept repeating their mantra: there is only one solution to end the conflict – the vision contained in Resolution 2334.
They buried HKOPS by simply refusing to mention its existence as an alternative solution in their regular reports to the Security Council.
The massacre and hostage-taking perpetrated against Jews on October 7 ensures that HKOPS will never be implemented in its present format.
The UN should arrange for the civilian population of Gaza – a hell-hole since 1948 – to be compensated and resettled in Arab and other countries – to be followed by its razing and transformation into a national park – one eighth the size of Yosemite National Park.
No one – Jew or Arab – should live there again. Enough Jewish and Arab blood has been spilt.
A monster was unleashed on Israel from Gaza on 7 October – but another monster – the UN – was unleashed on the Jewish people for the last 17 months when the Security Council failed to consider HKOPS as an alternative solution to replace Resolution 2334.
The Security Council now needs to try and limit the fallout from the worst Jewish massacre since the Holocaust and concomitant threat to world peace by:
- Rescinding Security Council Resolution 2334
- Demanding Guterres and Wennesland resign.
- Adopting the only way now forward: Negotiations between Israel and Jordan to divide sovereignty in Judea and Samaria (West Bank) between their two respective States.
The United Nations owes the Jewish People.
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
