Posts Tagged ‘Irrelevant UN’

Security Guard at Iran's nuclear installation at Bushehr

The estimable former US Envoy to the UN has warned that it will be too late after that, as the risks to innocent Iranians could be too high to contemplate:

Israel has “eight days” to launch a military strike against Iran’s Bushehr nuclear facility and stop Tehran from acquiring a functioning atomic plant, a former US envoy to the UN has said.

Iran is to bring online its first nuclear power reactor, built with Russia’s help, next week, when a shipment of nuclear fuel will be loaded into the plant’s core.

At that point, former [UN Envoy] John Bolton warned Monday, it will be too late for Israel to launch a military strike against the facility because any attack would spread radiation and affect Iranian civilians. Read the rest of this entry »

Feel comfortable knowing your money is going to help young Palestinian kids under the auspices of the UN? Think again

The Palestinian Authority continues to incite young schoolchildren to armed struggle against Israel in its textbooks – textbooks that are used by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) to teach incitement in Israel’s capital city, says investigative reporter David Bedein, who spoke in an interview with Arutz Sheva’s Hebrew-language news service.

The books in question include passages praising terrorists killed while attacking Israel as “martyrs”. They also teach children that Arabs descended from those who fled Israel during the War of Independence have a right to “return” to Israel. Read the rest of this entry »

A simple letter. A plea.

A perfect encapsulation of the hypocrisy, Taqiyya and lies faced by Israel as she tries in good faith – and desparate frustration – to negotiate peace with the treacherous, two-faced ‘Palestinians’; and of the impotency and utter irrelevancy of the UN (because you just know that it will fall on deaf ears).

Reproduced below is the communiqué sent yesterday by Gavriel Shalev, Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations, to Ban Ki Moon:

H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon
Secretary General
United Nations
New York

Excellency,

Less than 24 hours after an encouraging development related to the peace process between Israel and the Palestinians, we were reminded by the enemies of peace of the realities on the ground.

It is with grave concern that I write to you in order to inform you that shortly after 8:30 AM today, a Grad-type katyusha rocket was fired from the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun. The rocket landed in the major southern Israeli city of Ashkelon. Less than four hours later, two mortar shells were fired from the Gaza Strip and his the Sha’ar Hanegev region.

The continuous attacks against Israel are an alarming reminder of the dangers emanating from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. While Israel holds the Hamas terrorist organization responsible for these attacks, such dangerous provocations also serve as a warning that unimpeded arms transfers and smuggling into the Gaza Strip, as well as the subsequent attacks against Israel and its citizens, pose a grave threat to peace and security.

In response to the escalating threat of terrorism, Israel will exercise its right of self-defense and will continue to take all necessary measures to protect its citizens. These recent attacks on southern Israel from the Gaza Strip seriously violate international law and should be adequately addressed and condemned by the international community.

In order to fully address this matter, I wish to inform you that this identical letter has been sent to H.E. Ms. U. Joy Ogwu, President of the United Nations Security Council, to be circulated as an official document of the Security Council.

Allow me, Excellency, to renew to you the assurances of my highest consideration.

Yours truly,
Gavriel Shalev
Ambassador
Permanent Representative

Read it and weep.

Clue for the UN: A pictorial summary of what's really going on in Lebanon

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon warned Friday that an increase in tensions between Lebanon and Israel could lead to a new conflict with potentially devastating consequences.

In a report to the UN Security Council, Ban accused both countries of violating the 2006 cease-fire resolution that ended the 34-day Second Lebanon War between Israel and Hezbollah.

The UN chief said Hezbollah continues to maintain “a substantial military capacity” in violation of UN resolutions and an arms embargo, and he again called for Hizbullah and other militias to be disarmed “through a Lebanese-led political process.” Read the rest of this entry »

Another bullseye hellfire missile from the No Laughing Matter team, featuring one of this blog’s favourites, the ineffectual, pointless, corrupted United Nations. Happy Friday!