ckaihatsu
16th May 2009, 22:53
Yosef M <[email protected]> Sat, May 16, 2009 at 4:08 PM
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[Full story at <http://www.marxmail.org/msg61699.html>] [What follows is exclusively my own opinion: Sometimes atrocities really do have consequences! Israel's actions are apparently so awful that not all the imperialists want to be around her representatives! Just because the US government always dances to the tune of the Zionists does *not* mean that everyone does. What is the slogan? Sanctions, divestment, boycott? Sounds like a plan to me! -- YM]
"I will ask the General Assembly ... to Strip Israel of its Membership"
Transcript of statement by Ban Ki-Moon via Global Research May 15, 2009
United Nations General Assembly,
New York, NY
11 May 2009
... In many ways, the world today does not seem to be very removed from the barbarity of world war. The invasion of Iraq has lasted longer than World War II, and more tons of bombs have been dropped on that poor country than all the bombs dropped in that great war. The International Declaration of Human Rights, so prized and venerated by men and women of honour everywhere, stands as an impotent relic of a forgotten time because conquest, cruelty, and arrogance are still with us and growing stronger....
Few people know that Israel is the only state to be given a conditional admission. Under General Assembly Resolution 273, Israel was admitted on the condition that it grant all Palestinians the right to return to their homes and receive compensation for lost or damaged property, according to General Assembly Resolution 194 paragraph 11. Suffice to say, Israel has never lived up to these terms, and never intended to.
For 60 years Israel has violated its terms of admission, and for 60 years the UN has done nothing about it. It has watched as Israel heaped misery upon misery on Palestine, and violated international law with impunity.
After Operation Cast Lead, no person, no country, no democracy can look at Israel without thinking of the inhuman slaughter and destruction committed by the Axis powers in World War II, though one could have said the same about numerous past massacres. What atrocities might the world have been spared if the UN had refused to admit Israel 60 years ago? ...
On Nov. 29, 1947, [the UN] passed General Assembly Resolution 181, The Partition Plan, to carve a Jewish state out of Arab Palestine. However, it was never ratified by the Security Council, and so does not exist in law, which means the UN played no role in the creation of Israel. Nevertheless, The Partition Plan was utterly illegal and a violation of the UN Charter, because the UN had no right or power to take land from one people and give it to another....
The past cannot be undone, but the future can change. As its newly elected Secretary-General, I promise that the UN will no longer be a passive enabler of genocide. Therefore, I will ask the General Assembly to meet in special session at the earliest possible time to strip Israel of its membership.
Ordinarily, a motion to expel a member nation would have to come at the recommendation of the Security Council, but this is not an ordinary motion. Because Israel is in violation of its terms of admission, it is not a member in good standing, so the UN has every right to declare General Assembly Resolution 273 null and void. Since Israels membership depends on adherence to that resolution, its expulsion is automatic....
Reply-To: [email protected]
[Full story at <http://www.marxmail.org/msg61699.html>] [What follows is exclusively my own opinion: Sometimes atrocities really do have consequences! Israel's actions are apparently so awful that not all the imperialists want to be around her representatives! Just because the US government always dances to the tune of the Zionists does *not* mean that everyone does. What is the slogan? Sanctions, divestment, boycott? Sounds like a plan to me! -- YM]
"I will ask the General Assembly ... to Strip Israel of its Membership"
Transcript of statement by Ban Ki-Moon via Global Research May 15, 2009
United Nations General Assembly,
New York, NY
11 May 2009
... In many ways, the world today does not seem to be very removed from the barbarity of world war. The invasion of Iraq has lasted longer than World War II, and more tons of bombs have been dropped on that poor country than all the bombs dropped in that great war. The International Declaration of Human Rights, so prized and venerated by men and women of honour everywhere, stands as an impotent relic of a forgotten time because conquest, cruelty, and arrogance are still with us and growing stronger....
Few people know that Israel is the only state to be given a conditional admission. Under General Assembly Resolution 273, Israel was admitted on the condition that it grant all Palestinians the right to return to their homes and receive compensation for lost or damaged property, according to General Assembly Resolution 194 paragraph 11. Suffice to say, Israel has never lived up to these terms, and never intended to.
For 60 years Israel has violated its terms of admission, and for 60 years the UN has done nothing about it. It has watched as Israel heaped misery upon misery on Palestine, and violated international law with impunity.
After Operation Cast Lead, no person, no country, no democracy can look at Israel without thinking of the inhuman slaughter and destruction committed by the Axis powers in World War II, though one could have said the same about numerous past massacres. What atrocities might the world have been spared if the UN had refused to admit Israel 60 years ago? ...
On Nov. 29, 1947, [the UN] passed General Assembly Resolution 181, The Partition Plan, to carve a Jewish state out of Arab Palestine. However, it was never ratified by the Security Council, and so does not exist in law, which means the UN played no role in the creation of Israel. Nevertheless, The Partition Plan was utterly illegal and a violation of the UN Charter, because the UN had no right or power to take land from one people and give it to another....
The past cannot be undone, but the future can change. As its newly elected Secretary-General, I promise that the UN will no longer be a passive enabler of genocide. Therefore, I will ask the General Assembly to meet in special session at the earliest possible time to strip Israel of its membership.
Ordinarily, a motion to expel a member nation would have to come at the recommendation of the Security Council, but this is not an ordinary motion. Because Israel is in violation of its terms of admission, it is not a member in good standing, so the UN has every right to declare General Assembly Resolution 273 null and void. Since Israels membership depends on adherence to that resolution, its expulsion is automatic....