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The United Nations is currently made up of 193 member nations and two permanent non-member observer states: Vatican City and the “State of Palestine.” The Palestinians, however, are on their way to full member status. The Times of Israel reported Wednesday that “Palestinians took a seat among member states at the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, a new right accorded to the Palestinian Authority’s delegation despite it not being a full member of the body.” This is how the UN responds to jihad terrorism: by rewarding those who engage in it.
The initiative to give the “State of Palestine” a seat in the General Assembly began six months after Palestinians murdered 1,200 Israelis on Oct. 7, 2023. “In May,” the Times of Israel notes, “an overwhelming majority of the General Assembly asserted that Palestinians deserved full membership, a move that has been blocked by the United States, which along with Israel says recognition of Palestinian statehood must come through a peace agreement.” One of the conditions of Palestinian statehood has always been that the “State of Palestine” recognize Israel’s right to exist, and pledge to live in peace with it. That is something that Palestinian leaders have never been willing to do.
Nevertheless, the UN charged ahead with the plans to reward the Palestinians, apparently under the delusion that a Palestinian state will end all the strife. Thus, “starting with the 79th General Assembly session, which began Tuesday, the Palestinians can submit proposals and amendments, and sit among member states.” Riyad Mansour, the envoy of the “State of Palestine” to the UN, “took his place on Tuesday afternoon at a table marked “State of Palestine” between Sri Lanka and Sudan.”
Egyptian Ambassador Osama Mahmoud Abdelkhalek Mahmoud was thrilled, saying: “This is not merely a procedural matter. This is a historic moment for us.” Jonathan Miller, deputy Israel ambassador to the UN, was more realistic, observing that “any decision and or action that improves the status of the Palestinians, either in the UN General Assembly or bilaterally, is currently a reward… for terrorism in general and the Hamas terrorists in particular.”
Indeed. Any doubts about what kind of state the “State of Palestine” might be were removed in late July, when Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations, Mahmoud Al-Habbash, declared:“Our religion is the religion of tolerance and the religion of human brotherhood. But we are also the people of Jihad and the people of force against those who deserve it from us and against those who want to harm our dignity, desecrate our holy sites, or deprive our rights…Palestine is giving its blood abundantly for your sake, nation of Islam.”
Then in early August, al-Habbash amplified his call for jihad against Israel: “Your best Jihad is Ribat (i.e., religious conflict over land claimed to be Islamic), and your best Ribat is Ashkelon. Where is Ashkelon? Ashkelon is a city in Palestine (sic., an Israeli coastal city), and the land of Palestine is a land of Ribat and Jihad until Judgement Day. His [Prophet Muhammad’s] dear followers came while carrying out Jihad for Allah to Palestine and Greater Syria, and they liberated it from the Byzantine occupation. Saladin liberated it from the Crusader occupation. And today it will be liberated [again], Allah willing. Palestine will return and be liberated, sooner or later.”
Does this sound as if al-Habbash and his comrades will be pacified with a “State of Palestine” and stop making war against Israel? No. Al-Habbash’s jihad will continue “until Judgment Day,” and he is by no means the only one. The Qur’an commands Muslims to “drive them out from where they drove you out” (2:191), and even though it is a historical myth that the Israelis drove the Palestinian Arabs out of Israel, that is the guiding principle of the entire conflict. The Palestinian struggle (in Arabic, “jihad”) will continue until all of Israel is destroyed.
That holds true no matter what the United Nations does. No number of rewards for the Oct. 7 jihad massacre will blunt the force of the jihad against Israel; in fact, such rewards will only embolden the jihadis. When the “State of Palestine” took its seat in the UN General Assembly, the message to the “Palestinians” was clear: murder more Jews, and you’ll get even more of what you want. The “State of Palestine” is only a stepping-stone to the total eradication of Israel and a new genocide of the Jews.
john blackman says
the world will pay the price for its betrayal of israel . the jews have no friends , even those of the jewish left who believe they can do deals with terrorists . the left dont learn from history no matter where they reside . when the tribulation of the book of revelation occurs the antichrist will be emboldened to wipe the remaining jews off the map . the messiah will step in and at the end of the 7 year tribulation to save them . until then the jews will continue to be a byword . no amount off hand wringing and deals will bring peace to the M.E. because all western powers want the same as islam . no jews anywhere .
Spurwing Plover says
Its way past time to evict the whole UN nest of Vipers by far the UN is the worlds biggist Terrorists group by simply trying to Disarm all law abiding Americans and force us to take in the Migrants(Terrorists)and Springfield Ohio is one example
Mo de Profit says
Riyad Mansour, the envoy of the “State of Palestine”
Was he elected?
Martina Vaslovik says
The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct ‘Palestinian people’ to oppose Zionism.” — Zuheir Mohsen, PLO official, Trouw, March 31, 1977.
World@70 says
That statement by Mahmoud Abbas and Mahmoud Al-Habbash is full of contradictions, full of evil from the past and the promise of more evil to come.
The promise of “force against those who deserve it”, and in this day we know who that refers to.
Intrepid says
Considering the number of reprehensible “states” that belong to the UN why should anyone be surprised the non-state “state” of Palestine is sitting there.
When we finally stop pretending that the UN is an organization worthy of anyone’s respect then maybe we can start the exit process for those original charter members from the late 1940s. After all what is the UN now but a rogue collection of terror states that routinely condemn Israel and the US.
Time to defund the UN by leaving it. Time to tear down that monstrosity on the Hudson River. Time to end the canard that the UN and it’s phony sub-organizations promote peace.
Long past time to get the UN out of the US and move it to Brussels. Let the Euros deal with the scummy diplomats.
Gabrielle says
The real UN motto:
Give us enough money and we’ll seat you anywhere you like, affirm your lies, and protect your deceit!
Human trafficking -check
UN Peacekeeper Sexual Abuse – check
Security Council -Check
Human Rights Council -Check
Humanity does, in large measure, prefer comfortable lies to being confronted with the truth!
Israel and worldwide Jewry better get off this propaganda-based merry-go-round and face the truth before it’s too late!
It is shameful to me how so many Jews simply remain staunch appeasers to the world. We’ve seen this before!
We are commanded in the Torah to have compassion and understanding for the foreigner and the sojourner BUT NOT WHEN THEY ARE INTENT ON DESTROYING ALL OF US!,
This isn’t rocket science…it is however, survival. What about that don’t we understand ?😡😡😡
Onzeur Trante says
Like Harris said, she will support the two=state solution because it’s the ONLY one. A UN seat for Palestine is a step towards that end. Pray for Israel and a victory for Trump.
Larry says
So the openly and blatantly genocidal fakestinians get a seat in the UN and yet Taiwan doesn’t even have observer status?
Time to prang a metaphorical plane into Turtle Bay and demolish the entire organisation.
It hasn’t been fit for purpose for decades, this just underscores that fact.
MuggsSpongedice says
So this is how Bible prophesy is coming to pass – will the UN kick Israel out – USA pays for the UN to be in New York – when President Trump is back in office, can he do anything about the UN? I dunno – but what POTUS Trump will do is stave off the impending antichrist that we are dead heading to to allow more people to focus on YHVH to escape the antichrist and the rest of the world we will see will cry out — we did not know!!
Bullshit —
Revelation 12
Revelation 12:11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
Revelation 6:16 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:
Allan Goldstein says
I am not a man of great faith when it comes to the fate of humanity.
I do have faith that the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to Zion.
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It occurs to me that in as far as Jews are fed to the Muslims, we can feed every remaining non-Muslim to the Muslims …..secure in the knowledge that half our enemies are torturing the the other half, with the only innocent victims left on Earth being the remnant of Christian Zionists.
The moral dilemma thus is: Do we abandon the Christian Zionists by throwing in the towel?
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There has been a lot of back and forth in this comments section dancing around “Atlas shrugged”.
What happens if Elijah Shrugs ???
What happens if Elijah shrugs at we Jews, and …..
What happens if He shrugs at the otherwise righteous among nations ???
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….. Keeping in mind that before ethical monotheism, there was child sacrifice and cannibalism.
R Clifton says
Time to evict the UN from NYC…lock, stock and barrel.
Jerry Gros says
I think we need to reclaim the Dome of the Rock as a part of Israel and demolish it.
Allan Goldstein says
We could repurpose that mosque as an insane asylum. ~
Steve Chavez says
The UN has been taken over by Communists and Jihadist Nations… all enemies of the West, who they are now invading to win and take over, not on the battlefield, but at the BALLOT BOX! Add the Enemy Within who supports every enemy with their goal: The Downfall of the United States!
Why don’t we close the UN? My suspicion, because we have the whole building, all diplomats, BUGGED so we know what they are doing. Those GUESTS are the threat because at any time, any one of them could bring in a weapon of mass destruction in a coordinated attacked on many cities and we wouldn’t know who did it!
Peter Valdo says
The Hadith discredits the Quran. It is written in ‘Repentance’ Volume 6, Book 61, Number 509 (Narrated by Zaid bin Thabit) that when it was realized that many of those who knew the Quran by heart were dying in battle, a fear arose that the Quran would as a complete work be lost. So the leaders at the time directed it be compiled before that could happen.
After searching for what could be found written on palm stalks, thin white stones and from the memories of men … it is recorded that one particular verse was found with “… Khuzaima Al-Ansari and I did not find it with anybody other than him.”
Here’s what the Hadith accidentally revealed:
If one particular verse could be found ONLY with one guy and no one other than hm, then the Quran as a complete work had already disappeared from humanity. Otherwise, someone else would also have that verse. Something like that could not happen to the words of Almighty God. Only the words of a lessor being could pass out of existence. The Hadith (written by those who compiled the Quran) proves that the Quran is not the words of God.
Walter Sieruk says
It ranges from absurd to ridiculous that the United Nations, in any way or form would recognize the man –made fiction of what is called “The State of Palestine” as something that is artificial as an actual “State.”
For never in history was even ever a “Palestinian State.” Such an entity never existed. In other words , it has no Historical foundation whatsoever. Likewise, it’s an outright lie that there are is such a things a “Palestinian people.” Those so called “Palestinians” are Arabs. Likewise, the “Palestine flag” is a bogus flag.
Furthermore, history reveals that the ancient Philistines recorded in the Bible and history reveals the people who came from the Greek Islands and some parts of the mainland Greece. They have no connection, at all, the to the Arab /Muslim of modern times who called themselves the “Palestinians.”
From those ancient people, the Philistines, the word “Palestine” .came into being.
There is no genuine ethic group or race who are the “Palestinians.”
Early in the last century a anyone living in that land, Arab or Jew, who lived in that land was called a ”Palestinian.”
Only after 1964 did the Arab/Muslims start to refer to themselves , exclusively , by the word “Palestinian.”
The reason for that is that they felt that by giving themselves that title they would appear to have some kind of valid claim on that land.
Indeed , there never was a “Palestinian state.”
TruthLaser says
The Philistines were removed by the Assyrians in 604 BCE and vanished from history. The Romans used the term Syria Palaestina to erase the Kingdom of Judea. The term Palestine was derived from the Greeks, who used it for the land because the Philistines came from the Greek world.
Whiskey Jack says
That’s like Count Dracula taking a seat on the Vatican council… after sundown of course!
Moshe says
Israel has already carried out an important humanitarian act by expediting Gaza ‘s receipt of polio vaccine (for which no other country has given Israel any credit). That needed to be done, because the specter of hundreds of thousands of children being crippled for life and needing unavailable iron lungs was horrific. But Israel should announce that unless the hostages are released within 7 days, all electricity, communications, and pumped water to Gaza will be shut off.
TruthLaser says
Aid to the enemy during war is absurd.
James Troutman says
Since the October 7, 2023 military incursion into Israel by Hamas, a group of non-uniformed, state-backed soldiers who carry out attacks on civilian populations, i.e., a terrorist organization, I now hear non-stop, the words Palestine and Palestinians as though there is no such place as Israel and no such people as Israelis. The terrorists may have won without ever winning a single battle. Whenever these terrorist attacks occur, world leaders always clamor for a proportional response from Israel. How about a response that ends the threat of any future attacks?
Ronald Nuxon says
It’s high time Americans take seriously the suggestion by the late Arizona senator John McCain: “The free nations must establish their own international organization separate from the UN.” If such a structure is created, countries on the cusp would be invited to join and make the decision.: “Which side are you on?”
America could hold its place as moral world leader.
MARYLOU LEEMAN says
How could this have happened? I know, just like all the other unbelievable events of history. Still, it defies belief.
NL Celt says
The right thinking, free and democratic countries should get up and walk out and stay out and suspend their dues and any other monies until the non-country of terrorists is kicked out of the UN. The place doesn’t exist.
But, unfortunately too many of the countries I think should walk out support the terrorists over Israel, so I won’t be holding my breath.
Old Fogey says
What’s next? A UN seat for the District of Columbia?
DrLarry says
When the UN was being formed my grandfather said that almost everybody he knew thought it would help maintain world peace. He was against it saying, “one day they’ll use it against the Jews.”
Roark says
Israel should walk out of the United Nations.