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[Editor’s note: Make sure to read Robert Spencer’s masterpiece contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]
The United Nations arose out of the ashes and rubble of World War II with the promise of genuine international cooperation and lasting world peace. But that promise has long since turned into a cruel joke, as was vividly and revoltingly demonstrated on May 15, when for the first time in its history, the UN observed Nakba Day, the Palestinian Arabs’ lamentation over the “catastrophe” of the founding of the modern state of Israel in 1948. Would the UN mark the founding of any other nation as a “catastrophe”? Of course not. But the august international body has become a mouthpiece for the most genocidally minded advocates of the “Palestinian” jihad, while the supporters of Israel lack both conviction and unity.
The centerpiece of the UN festivities was a vicious speech from Palestinian Authority President-For-Life Mahmoud Abbas, who at 87 years of age makes Old Joe Biden look youthful and vigorous. Abbas, now in the nineteenth year of the four-year-term to which he was elected in January 2005, lashed out at Britain and the U.S. for inflicting Israel upon the poor, suffering Palestinian people: “Britain and the United States, specifically,” he declared, “bear direct political and moral responsibility for the Nakba of the Palestinian people. They are the ones who participated in making our nation a victim, when they decided to establish and plant another entity in our historical homeland, and this for their own colonialist purposes. It was called a land without a people so that it would be given to Israel. The truth is that these countries, the Western [countries], wanted to get rid of the Jews and enjoy having them in Palestine – two birds with one stone.”
These statements, as you likely expect, are riddled with falsehoods. As The Palestinian Delusion demonstrates, the Jewish presence in the land that now comprises the State of Israel has been continuous for several thousand years. The Romans did formally expel the Jews from the area in 134CE, after the Bar Kokhba revolt, but many Jews never left; they remained there through the Arab invasion, the Turkish occupation, and up until the advent of the Zionist movement in the nineteenth century. That movement had its impetus in the work of Theodor Herzl and others, who argued that the persecution of Jews worldwide could be ended if they had their own land, and indeed, reclaimed the land of their forefathers, in which some had always remained. The impetus for this didn’t come from Britain and the U.S., but from Jews themselves.
Nor was Abbas telling the truth when he said that “it was called a land without a people so that it would be given to Israel.” In reality, in 1857, the British consul in Palestine wrote that “the country is in a considerable degree empty of inhabitants and therefore its greatest need is that of a body of population.” Henry Baker Tristram, an English traveler, reported in the 1860s that “the north and south [of the Sharon plain] land is going out of cultivation and whole villages are rapidly disappearing from the face of the earth. Since the year 1838, no less than 20 villages there have been thus erased from the map and the stationary population extirpated.” The most celebrated chronicler of Palestine’s pre-Zionist desolation was Mark Twain, who wrote in 1869 that “Nazareth is forlorn; about that ford of Jordan where the hosts of Israel entered the Promised Land with songs of rejoicing, one finds only a squalid camp of fantastic Bedouins of the desert; Jericho the accursed, lies a moldering ruin, to-day, even as Joshua’s miracle left it more than three thousand years ago; Bethlehem and Bethany, in their poverty and their humiliation, have nothing about them now to remind one that they once knew the high honor of the Saviour’s presence….Renowned Jerusalem itself, the stateliest name in history, has lost all its ancient grandeur, and is become a pauper village.”
Undaunted by facts, Abbas called on the UN to suspend Israel’s membership. Emboldened by the organization’s recognition of the founding of Israel as a “catastrophe,” he added: “I am certain and hope that this international organization will spare no effort to restore the Palestinian people’s status… through action to realize the Palestinian people’s national rights, including the right to self-determination… and the refugees’ [right to] return to their homes from which they were removed.”
Ironically, the “Palestinian people” didn’t even exist when Israel was founded. The world didn’t start hearing about them until the 1960s, after the KGB and Yasir Arafat devised their existence as a strategy to undercut Israel’s image as a plucky underdog facing off against twenty-two massive and hostile Arab states. What’s more, the Arab “refugees” were not “removed” from their homes. In reality, the Arabs for the most part left Israel because they were ordered to do so by Muslim Arab leaders. Contrary to the contention of the Palestinians and their allies today, the Arab Higher Committee actually exhorted Arabs to leave the new State of Israel, and they obeyed in large numbers.
The Economist magazine reported on October 3, 1948 that “of the 62,000 Arabs who formerly lived in Haifa, not more than 5,000 or 6,000 remained. Various factors influenced their decision to seek safety in flight. There is but little doubt that the most potent of the factors were the announcements made over the air by the Higher Arab Executive, urging the Arabs to quit…. It was clearly intimated that those Arabs who remained in Haifa and accepted Jewish protection would be regarded as renegades.” The Jordanian daily Falastin complained on February 19, 1949, that “the Arab state which had encouraged the Palestine Arabs to leave their homes temporarily in order to be out of the way of the Arab invasion armies, have failed to keep their promise to help these refugees.” The Near East Arabic Broadcasting Station confirmed this on April 3, 1949: “It must not be forgotten that the Arab Higher Committee encouraged the refugees’ flight from their homes in Jaffa, Haifa, and Jerusalem.”
The UN knows all this, or should know it. Yet it sides with entities that have repeatedly declared their determination to destroy Israel utterly, which would result in a new genocide of the Jews and the deaths of millions of innocent people. The UN is, accordingly, a terrorist organization. It is no surprise that the criminal Biden regime would support it wholeheartedly, but if we get an administration that has the best interests of the American people at heart, it should end all funding for the UN and expel it from New York. Would we tolerate an organization that marked the destruction of National Socialist Germany as a “catastrophe”? So why tolerate the UN?
“Would the UN mark the founding of any other nation as a “catastrophe”? ”
They do not consider Pakistan a catastrophe, and it was created to separate muslims from Hindus because the muslims refused to live peacefully with the rest of India. Of course this was Britain’s fault too.
The UN has exposed itself to what it really wishes to be and that is a tyrannical world government. It owns the World pHarma Organisation too.
Defund the UN now!
-Decades ago a friend who worked at the UN invited me to tour the place and to have lunch in the delegates’ dining room. Great food and even better views outside that remarkably beautiful building. I walked in feeling quite privileged and walked out wanting the delegates to go home. The places should be turned into condos. Why? Delegates from countries that didn’t have paved streets walking around in $1000 suits with $10,000 watches on their wrists. Clearly the UN is a racket.
I worked with them in my current position and was amazed to learn how big it is, turtle bay is a tiny fraction of its global size and absolutely none of their offices are in what we would call a third world country.
Corrupt.
the un is pushing the agenda 21 plan for a one world communist government no one talks about! no one will own a home or property! nthe push is for public-private partnership in business, so the government gets half of all earnings! Horrible future if this really gets implemented. I went to UN web site because I couldn’t believe it & found the document & alslo found UN has an “Office of Disarmament Affairs”, so I got that document also & one line says “we must confiscate weapons from civilians so we can finish implmenting Agenda 21”!! Also called Agenda 30, think they wanted it going by 2021, didn’t so aimming for 2030!!
One word. One word to the ignorant and the liars explains all: Torah
Remember the Ragu spaghetti sauce ad?
“It’s [all] in there.”
Everything else necessary to know and define who we are and why we are and where we live and how we live flows from Torah: the psalms, prophets, scrolls of Esther, Aicha, Kohelet, Shir haShirim and Lamentations, and the Talmud.
I suggest the world leaves Israel-land-and-people alone whilst spending the next millennium or two studying Torah.
That’s what we’ve been doing the last two thousand years plus and continue and will continue to do every day.
And God’s blessing, the God of Torah‘s blessing, has kept us alive and brought us back to our home.
Abbas castigates Britain; but he knows the irony- totally intentional- because Britain has yet to redeem itself for trashing the Balfour Declaration and, thus, enabling the Holocaust with its evil strangling quota against Jews fleeing from nazi Europe, inciting and weaponizing Arab terror for their own anti-Semitic purposes, chopping up the land and creating countries for rival Arab tribal leaders over huge chunks of sandy but oil rich land, because, in true colonialist mentality, the British could shred up and shrink the Jewish population and also reap the sp”oil”s of its profitable Mandate. That’s two birds with one stone.
Note the “man” in mandate. Not God’s plan.
Correction: Aicha is Lamentations.
I meant to add the scroll of Ruth.
And fools in the West think that there is some formula that would give the Fakestinians a state and leave Israel as a Jewish state with defensible borders. Utterly delusional.
“Fakestinians”.
I like it, and will borrow that descriptive word from you.
There is no “Palestine”, in spite of the bullshit fantasy of the thankless bitch, Rep Talieb who shamelessly had a map of the Middle East on her wall with no Israel -replaced completely with all Palestine.
I just refer to them as Islamofascists.
That’s what they are. The Bush administration was calling them that after 9/11, but the left eventually forced them to quit. Just like they did with ‘illegal aliens’.
Why not? We have the whole place bugged. Probably their cars and homes too.
HOW ABOUT a United Civilized Nations and kick out all the Arabs/others that support Jihad, Hamas, Hezbollah, and the destruction of Israel? Communist nations? And then deport all Americans who support these Uncivilized Nations.
Start by handing out FREE, THEY LOVE FREE STUFF, innertubes to then meet at Key West to then be the FIRST, THEY LOVE FIRSTS, to float TO Cuba to live in Communist Utopia! Leading the Flotilla, their new leader who will carry on the Castro Legacy…. BARACK OBAMA!
The Palestinians define Oppression and Humiliation as their inability to kill Jews and destroy Israel as they please. Their message to Israel and the world is basically, “Stop Oppressing us and let us kill you,” Let’s get a few things straight:
1.. Self defense is not Oppresssion.
2. Refusing to go quietly to your death is not Oppression.
3. Winning a war you did not desire or start is not Oppression.
Only Jews are considered to be Oppressors when they refuse to die.
For thousands of years people slaughtered Jews as they wished with impunity, secure in the knowledge that the Jews were powerless to defense themselves. Now the Jews have a state, an army and the means and will to defend themselves. And the Politically Correct Peace Loving World can’t stand it.
If the State of Israel means anything it must at least mean this: No one gets to kill Jews for free anymore. Jews can and will defend themselves. Deal with it.
Genesis 12:2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: 3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
Hear, hear! 🍻
I couldn’t have stated it better.
Yes, killing Jews is the issue. If the “right” to kill Jews had been included in the various “peace” deals offered to Arafat, he would have accepted.
Move the whole rotten UN to Moscow without America to push around turn the whole Facility into a Homeless Shelter tear up all those UN Treaties and revoke all the World Heritage Sites and Biosphere Reserves that are under the UN
There’s an old expression, “Lies, damned lies and statistics.” New version: “Lies, damned lies and ‘Palestinian’ history.”
If Abbas was a wooden puppet, his nose would have reached across the East River by the end of his ‘speech’.
Don’t leave the U N but stop funding it, America, UK, Australia, Canada and N Z, then watch it collapse in internal squabling between the Muslim majority of member nations.
I just love how Israel is accused of genocide when the Islamofascist invaders have only increased in population 1,000% in the last 74 years
Senior Palestinian Islamic Jihad Official Warns Islam Will ‘Conquer’ Europe
Europe will be conquered by Islam, according to a senior Palestinian Islamic Jihad official who claims the continent’s subjugation is part of the fulfillment of an ancient Islamic prophecy.
Speaking on Al-Quds Al-Youm TV on Islamic Jihad’s Gaza television station earlier this month, Samir Zaqout, who heads the political bureau of the Islamic Jihad in Gaza, warned that the European continent would yet fall to Islamic domination.
And they are conquering Europe with the help of asswipe politicians who think importing islamic thugs is somehow a great idea.
The “religion-of-peace” is showered with welfare checks and a protection racket of excuses and/or praise.
As their numbers swell, they sit on sidewalks to force pedestrians to walk in the street, take over tables at cafe’s, and commit robberies & theft to supplement their welfare.
When Notre Dame burned, politicians/news media rushed in to blame contractors . . . while suppressing the fact that a muslim bitch parked a car-bomb in front the day before.
Germany & France suffer TWO acts of vandalism on cathedrals, icons, & monuments A DAY.
“No Go Zones” grow & multiply. (England’s worst example was in Rotterham.)
Report: Fulani Jihadists Slaughter 700 Christians as ‘Farewell’ to Nigeria’s Buhari
Islamist Fulani militants slaughtered some 700 defenseless Christians during May 2023 as a parting gift to outgoing Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari, a leading human rights organization reports.
Emeka Umeagbalasi, a Catholic human rights activist and chairman of the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, declared in a June 12 report that Plateau State was the worst hit, accounting for the murders of 350 Christians, while another 110 Christians were massacred in Benue State.
Coffee Cup Annan needs a whole new job as Janitor
The Biden regime wants the WHO(the healthcare wing of the UN) to assume control over US public health policy.
Biden said this just last month.
DEMS are ceding US sovereignty to the globalist new world order on all fronts……..including American healthcare policy.
Not only is the DEM/Communist revolution not leaving the UN…….it is accelerating its capitulation to it.
Curt Schilling, the great baseball pitcher, understands a lot more than most political commentators.
“Somebody needs to pull a trigger” on the woke revolution was his declaration of FOX.
The UN is a third world organization. It should be relocated to Venezuela or Nigeria.
The UN is a creature of the United States, no matter how anyone tries to deny that basic fact. The United States largely created the UN, the United States organized the UN, the United States hosts the UN Headquarters, the United States largely funds the UN, and, on important issues, the United States gets our way in the UN. All this neo-John Bircher nonsense is just that.
The United States should have withdrawn from the U.N. many years ago. The organization is a failure.
A couple of decades ago some Iman from the Middle East spoke at the UN and stated he wanted an International Law making it illegal for anybody in any country of any Faith to say anything negative about islam and its teachings, I guess he got his wee feeeeelings hurt when somebody called him a nutter.
The UN was 100% in favor of the creation of Israel in 1948 and now we have some fascist prick deciding that was a wrong move and must be changed.
Move the entire UN to its place in Geneva Switzerland and let others pay for its upkeep as America pays much more than every other Nation for that building which stands on Prime NYC Real Estate.
Abbas is a member of a Fascist Religious Cult called islam that tells its people lies and lies 24/7/365 for decades already.
sadly, the US ‘woke’ transforce will probably end up wearing baby blue UN helmet covers. US independence is over.