On December 29, 2022, a new, unabashedly and outspokenly Zionist government was sworn in in the Knesset. A day later, the United Nations voted for a resolution intended to soon see Israel dragged before the International Court of Justice in The Hague to faces charges levelled by those who hate her.
Israel TodayFrom its founding after World War 2 – ostensibly to combat the hate-filled prejudice that had just led to the murder of one in every three Jews on the planet – this rancid and immoral organisation has worked tirelessly to demonise and delegitimise the Jewish state.
The hatred it fuels has grown, exponentially.
Out of the UN’s 193 member states, Israel is exclusively targeted. Israel is the only nation concerning which the UN sets aside a whole day of meetings every year – meetings which end in rafts of condemnation votes against Israel.
And Israel is the only nation that has had an open-ended commission of inquiry set up against it.
Six years ago, just before he departed the White House, the extremely hostile-to-Israel Barack Obama ordered his ambassador to the UN, Samantha Power, to withhold the US veto so that the Security Council could pass Resolution 2334
Among other things, 2334 emphatically ruled that Judea, Samaria and half of Jerusalem are, de facto, “Palestinian national land.” It was the first UNSC edict attempting to set in the stone of international law the Palestinian Arab “nation” as the owner of this land.
This, notwithstanding the fact that these Arabs have never been a nation anywhere in this land (anywhere at all, in fact), and that this resolution established, more or less as an internationally valid statute, the lie that it is theirs.
And notwithstanding the mountains of rock-solid evidence – documentary and archaeological – that these areas are the ancestral lands of the Jews.
Resolution 2334 also “reaffirmed” that Israel’s establishment of communities for Jews in Samaria and Judea had no legal validity, and constituted a flagrant violation under international law.
For decades, the UN has relentlessly pushed forward this brazen double-falsehood: 1) that Israel is an illegal occupier in Judea and Samaria and, 2) that those lands, along with Gaza, rightfully belong to the Palestinian Arabs.
Most of the world has now bought into these lies.
If there is one more thing in which the UN excels, it is in censuring the state of the Jews. It has levelled, down the years, more condemnations against this vibrant, if small, democracy than against all the world’s other nations combined.
In 2018, Israel was the most condemned country in the UN.
In 2020, Israel was condemned 17 times in 2020, versus the rest of the world, which was censured just six times.
Last year, on November 30 alone, the UN passed five separate resolutions against Israel, bringing to 15 the number of condemnations of this nation in 2022, up to that point. Altogether, the rest of the world was condemned just 13 times, and that in the year which, saw Russia’s rape of Ukraine, and the Iran’s vicious crackdown on its own people.
One of the November 30 decisions saw the UN resolve that, from 2023 onwards, it would annually mark the date of modern Israel’s establishment as “a catastrophe.”
The chief sponsor of that resolution was Egypt, supposedly Israel’s peace partner.
A few months ago, the open-ended UN “Commission of Inquiry investigating rights abuses in Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip” called on the Security Council to terminate Israel’s “permanent occupation” of Judea and Samaria, and urged individual UN member states to prosecute Israeli officials.
And now, in its final act of 2022, as we went into the weekend marking the end of that year and the start of the next one on the ‘Christian’ calendar, the international community consolidated all that it has prepared up to now, and made its move.
It passed a resolution calling on the International Court of Justice in the Hague to investigate and rule on the “illegality” of Israel’s presence and on Israel’s behaviour in the land of its national birth.
Said The Jerusalem Post: According to the proposal, the Israeli presence in Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem is illegal, and the court should recommend the steps that the UN and the countries of the world should take in response.
The international community wants Israel in the dock, in front of a judge.
Celebrating, PA Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh crowed that the vote was “a new victory for the Palestinians and their just [SIC] cause on the way to achieving their freedom and national independence.”
Israel rejects this resolution and plans to treat it as it has the multitude of past antisemitic UN rulings: with disdain.
For as the UN intensifies in its loathing of Israel, allowing that detestation to drive its “diplomatic terrorism” (as former Israeli ambassador to that body, Danny Danon, called it), the Jews in Israel have, overwhelmingly, voted into power a nationalist government that will not be intimidated, or dictated to, by that world body.
“Like hundreds of the twisted decisions against Israel taken by the UNGA over the years,” said newly reinstalled Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Friday’s “despicable decision will not bind the Israeli government. The Jewish nation is not an occupier in its own land and its own eternal capital, Jerusalem [and] no UN decision can distort the historical facts” (My emphasis).
It looks like we have passed a milestone and are now on a road it will not be possible to turn around in or reverse out of. The stage seems set for the next, nearly final, act: Israel’s head-to-head confrontation with the Gentile nations of the world.
One more thing to note: How the present repeats the past. Using antisemitic propaganda, Hitler’s media machine infected the thinking of Germans against Jews to the point where the entire nation (and its allies) would not only permit, but actively support, the Holocaust.
In a similar way, the international news media that champions the UN’s antisemitic actions has poisoned the minds of billions against Israel, priming the Gentile world to take a forceful stand against the Jewish state.
Pray Hard says
Remember, Goulash, Bonnie has millions of people like me on her side and the side of Israel and America can destroy the entire Ummah in about 30 minutes. You’ll be maggot lunch before you can hop off your camel.
Ghulam says
I recently checked with my local Mufti in Singapore. He predicts Muslims will wage a final war with the Jews of Israel. Wanted to share that is the prevailing mindset among my kind, sadly.
Too bad you and I would have to fight on the opposite sides, Bonnie (and Mr. BNI).
It will be very difficult for me to kill you in that inevitable final battle. It’s kind of our Armageddon – a very big deal in Islam.
Exactly when? My Mufti says it’s another 5-10 years from now. Exactly as I’ve been hearing throughout my life, this damn fitna keeps getting postponed. 😁
So till it may happen I am at peace with all Jews and Israel.
BareNakedIslam says
Don’t hold your breath, Ghulam, Israel has defeated multiple Arab armies, even when they had a rag tag little army in 1948 and did it again in just 6 days against 5 or 6 big Arab armies in 1967. Now they have one the most technologically sophisticated and strong armies in the world, so I say bring it on! And never forget, they have an ace in the hole…God is on their side. 🥴
Ghulam says
God is supposed to SWITCH sides at the last moment and help Muslims.
All the losses we incur God does that to us to test our imaan (faith) in his monotheism with Muhammad as his last Messenger.
That’s what drives the entire Islamic belief system. It’s the whole nine yards.
The only thing that separates the CORE beliefs of Islam and Judaism are the fact that Jews do not believe in Mohammed as a Prophet.
It’s a simple Yes/No quiz question. Should we side with Mohamed or not?
The thing is our Prophet Mo could attract over 2 billion followers. Since the time he came around, the world’s changed a lot.
We even saw an Islamic Golden Age of which I am a big fan. I wish more of my fellow Muslims were in that mold.
I was at the local mosque recently and there was another sermon on how tabby cats got their “M” on the foreheads. I didn’t pay heed to that story before.
Turns out one of those cats named Muezzin killed a snake that was about to attack our Prophet Mo. In gratitude, he blessed all cats for eternity, and put an “M” across their foreheads.
Maybe the story is apocryphal. The Christians have a similar legend about the Virgin Mary doing the same to a cat that protected Jesus with warmth.
I try to be as liberal a Muslim. But I still can’t change the fact that I am Muslim.
So you see turning my back on Prophet Mo just seems undoable. It’s so deeply wired in my brain since childhood.
BareNakedIslam says
So, if you have no desire to kill Jews right now, and even admit to liking them, why would you then?
Ghulam says
Some things you just don’t do because your heart’s not in it.
You just FOLLOW because you have to.
And we follow our Prophet Mo in the end.
But as I said, I will not kill anyone as it’s a terrible crime. I was speaking hypothetically for such scenarios.
I do not support the misguided Palestinian suicide bombers. Muslims worldwide are not in danger yet except in their region. Much of it can be resolved by doing a hijrah to Egypt, Jordan, or Lebanon.
But as you have covered many times on your website, The Arabs living in Israel don’t want to migrate to neighboring countries because Israel is a first-world country with the best medical and education facilities.
I don’t subscribe to a paradigm where you hate the host society you’re living in. If you’re a Muslim and you don’t like Israel, move out from that place and continue your activism from a Muslim majority country.
And fight a just war if you feel you have a right to the Holy Land right now. It has belonged to Muslims for around 1200+ years – throughout history it has changed sides. Christians and before that Jews have controlled the Holy Land.
So it’s not a big deal if Muslims aren’t there right now.
I am a big opponent of suicide bombings. Using women and children as shields is a big no in my book. This is something the Palestinians are doing all too often.
An Islamic war should always be direct and just. For example, the 1453 Fall of Constantinople is held as a just Islamic war by most Islamic jurists.
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So you see I may not support the Palestinians at all.
I may like the Jews.
I may not want to kill anyone. Except in self-defense to protect my family of course.
I may even get along with all non-Muslims.
But I cannot turn my back on whatever our Prophet Mo says in our Holy Book.
BareNakedIslam says
Even the part in your Holy book which calls for the killing of unbelievers simply because they are unbelievers in Islam?
You seem to be straddling both sides of the fence.
Nevertheless, I don’t consider you a threat, because when push comes to shove, I don’t see you joining an Arab army to attack
Israel or any other Western country that is not trying to eradicate the country you are living in.
Am I wrong?
Ghulam says
No, you’re not wrong.
That’s because I’m an Islam reformist at heart.
I am not straddling both sides of the fence. Was just stating what’s there in our books, and the kind of sermons we sometimes have to listen to.
I was really disturbed when I had to reflect on this. Hatred against Jews is deeply ingrained among a majority of Muslims,
But you’re right. I want no part of it. I do not want to hate anyone for who they are, or the religion they follow. It’s unnecessary baggage.
I just see this hate (against Jews and other non-Muslims) everyone around me.
It makes me question myself: why? And I have no answers.
BareNakedIslam says
That’s why we like you, Ghulam. You are a man of courage.
Siddi Nasrani says
Ghulam, you seem a nice guy, why do YOU have to kill anyone because their religion is different from yours?
Look forward to your reply.
Ghulam says
Siddi Nasrani
I was speaking hypothetically here. Saying that I want to kill someone is against the law in my country (Singapore) and would court arrest.
You can’t even threaten anyone here “I’m going to kill you” without legal repercussions.
Ghulam isn’t anything if not law-abiding.
I just wish standard Islamic discourse didn’t contain so much vitriol against the Jews. I personally happen to LIKE Jews but I can’t turn my back on Prophet Mo and Islam.
It’s a huge, huge moral dilemma for me.
I also wish to have more Islamic preachers advocating tolerance and acceptance of Jews, Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, and what not. It doesn’t have to be an end game.
But that’s not gonna happen.
Maybe we Muslims are on the wrong. But we can’t turn our backs on Islam. We’re so deeply involved in this whole thing.
As a Muslim, I try to be as liberal as I can. But at the end of the day, I’m still a Muslim.
Regards
Ghulam
Aaaa says
They only brave against the tiny Jewish state and nation.
But Israeli government was forced to recognize the Muslim immigrants as the “Palestinians” even though they can’t even pronounce Palestinian in Arabic.
Jews will yet again be forced the bow their head and plea guilty for the sins of others.
xenonman says
The only real positive change over that period is that the USSR and its bloc of nations are no longer around to underwrite the PLO financially and materially.