Blackberry
2nd April 2003, 06:54
I just completed a 10-minute oral presentation today on the Israel-Palestine issue today. Thought I might post it here, because it might have some interesting information.
Feel free to discuss it, criticise, etc, but please realise I won't be defending it, as it is very general, having only been just after 10 minutes, and plus when it comes to anything in English, sometimes you have to say something just to say it.
I also didn't stick word-to-word with what I wrote, and there may be some spelling errors and mistakes.
I handed out 2 handouts with it to my audience - a list of Israel resolutions and USA vetoes of resolutions critical of Israel, and a UN parititioning map, and a map of Palestine, showing israeli settlements and occupied area at present. I will provide the list of UN resolutions, but won't provide the maps.
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Hello. Today I will be arguing for the removal of Israeli forces in the illegal occupation of Palestinian lands and Syria, back inside the UN border set aside for the Israel State in 1948. The Israel-Palestine conflict s one that continues today, but it has a long history.
It has now been over half a century since the creation of Israel, its history plagued by war. Despite military resistance by neighbouring Arab nations and the Palestinian people the State of Israel has come out on top. They have broken dozens of UN resolutions, been involved in the murder of innocent civilians, and acts of aggression outside their borders.
Although it is necessary to have protection for the world’s Jewish population who live in Israel, acts of war and the oppression of the Palestinian people should not be on Israel’s agenda. Successive Israeli governments have not been the only ones at fault, however, they have caused and participated in many war crimes which I will speak of in more detail later.
The Israel-Palestine issue has been a complex one, and so it is necessary to travel through the history of the conflict, even from before 1948, up to the present.
In biblical time, in 1300 BC, it is said that the migration and conquest of the land of Canaan by the Philistines and the Israelite tribes. Later on in 1000 BC, it is claimed that the Jewish people took control of Jerusalem, under the reign of David.
Zionist leaders claimed to have a right to Palestine on these ‘facts’, although scholars refuse to acknowledge this, saying that it is not true (Zionism being the ideology of creating a Jewish state in the Jew’s ancestral homeland).
Since then, however, this area of the world has been ravaged by war, and came under the ruling of many different imperialist powers.
On Nov 2, 1917, the British issued the Balfour Declaration, after negotiations with Zionist leader Haim Weizmann with the view by Jews and Arabs as promising a “National Home” for the Jews in Palestine. The British overthrew the Turkish Ottoman Empire and occupied the territory themselves.
They saw Palestine as a post for guarding the Suez Canal in Egypt, where they had interests at that time. The Arabs had a good relationship with Germany (the enemy of Britain in the Great War) at that time. Britain felt that with the creation of a Jewish state, it would help to expand their power over the Middle East.
This was the start of what would be the regrettable interference in the affairs and the interests of peace by modern super powers, who should not have been there to start with. This action caused great unrest among the neighbouring Arab nations. The British military quelled any uprisings throughout this era.
On May 15, 1948, the declaration of the Jewish State of Israel was announced. The process of independence was speeded up, after the oppression of Jews in Europe by Nazi Germany, and other European countries. Britain left Palestine since they couldn’t afford their activities in the region anymore, and this was another reason why the process was sped up. The creation of the state was rejected by the Arab League, however. Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan, Saudi Arabia declared war on Israel the very next day.
On April 3, 1949, after the Israeli war of independence, Israel and the opposing Arab states agreed to an armistice, after Israeli victory on the battlefield. Israel gained about 50% more territory than was originally allotted to it by the UN Partition Plan. The war created over 780,000 Palestinian refugees who fled or were evicted from Jewish held areas. Gaza fell under the jurisdiction of Egypt. The West Bank (Strip of land adjoining Jordan, which is supposed to be a part of Palestine) was occupied by Jordan and later annexed by Israel.
At this time, Israel first showed signs of disregarding resolutions that were set by the UN, which in effect violated international law. Between 1955 and 1992 alone, Israel violated 65 UN resolutions!*
Israel has had the chance to show the world and its Arab neighbours its concern for the safety of both the Jewish and Palestinian people. Instead, they became aggressors. Then Israeli Prime Minister, Ben Gurion, said in internal Zionist negotiations before creation of Israel, that he had ambitions to take the whole of Palestine, despite UN partitioning.
In fact, it was fellow Zionist and future Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir (who was leader between 1986 and 1992) who said in 1943 that terrorism must be used as a means to uphold national honour. “Neither Jewish morality nor Jewish tradition can be used to disallow terror as a means of war... We are very far from any moral hesitations when concerned with the national struggle. First and foremost, terror is for us a part of the political war appropriate for the circumstances of today...”
— Yitzhak Shamir in an August 1943 article titled “Terror”.
In 1967, Israel occupied Sinai in Egypt, motivated by the fact that Egypt may use newly acquired Soviet arms. Egypt closed the straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping and dismissed the UN peacekeeping force that had been there since 1956.
On June 5-11,1967, the 6-day war took place. Israel destroyed the Egyptian air force on the ground, occupied Sinai and Gaza, then further occupied the West Bank in Jordan, and the Golan Heights in Syria. UN resolution 242 called for Israeli withdrawal, and an establishment of peace.
This was the year when the United States of America increased their aid to Israel dramatically and by 1976, they were the largest annual recipient of the US, totaling $US81.3 billion. This so-called aid has since been used for the purchase of chemical, biological and even nuclear weapons. The act of buying nuclear weapons itself is a deplorable act that can only be seen as an intention to continue their acts of aggression. Israel remains one of the very few nations to have not signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Despite this, the USA has used their veto powers in the UN to veto 30 resolutions that were critical of Israel, and hindering any peace deals that may have involved the demand that Israel is disarmed.
On June 6, 1982, a massive Israeli invasion of Lebanon was initiated to fight the PLO (Palestinian Liberation Organisation). UN Security Council Resolution 509 demanded that Israel withdraw all its military forces forthwith, but Israel advances rapidly to Beirut, surrounding the capital by 13 Jun. Despite wanting to eliminate this terrorist group, it became an infamous event where the slaughter of innocent civilians took place.
In Sept. 13, 1993, Oslo Declaration was agreed to by Israel and the PLO, to mutually recognise both parties. Yasser Arafat and PLO were allowed to return to Gaza. PLO and the Palestinian leadership renounced violence and use of terrorism, and agreed to revise the PLO charter to remove chapters referring to destruction of Israel, although this was never done. They changed their name to the Palestinian National Authority. Israel did not dismantle any settlements in the Palestinian areas, however, and the number of settlers and new settlements increased considerably.
In Sept. 28, 2000, Palestinians initiated riots after Israeli opposition leader Ariel Sharon visited the Temple Mount, which is also the location of the Haram as Sharif, which is holy to Muslims. Violence escalated rapidly from rock throwing to machine gun and mortar fire, suicide bombings and lethal road ambushes, including some incidents instigated by settlers against Palestinians. Israeli army killed 15 Israeli Arabs in riots in September/October 2000, and over 2,000 Palestinians in retaliatory raids thereafter. The Palestinians killed over 700 Israelis. Violence continues to the present day.
The state of Israel may have sounded like a good idea, but when looking into its history, the reality is that the creation of Israel was not so innocent. While it was probably necessary for a state to protect oppressed Jews of the world, there is definitely no excuse for taking away the homes and livelihood of so many Palestinian people. Israel’s actions and continued aggression has caused anger and resentment amongst Arab people. This has allowed extremist Muslim groups to prosper and gain followers throughout the Middle East. These groups have directed their hatred towards the West, especially the United States, because of the support of Israel and interference in the Middle East. Leaders such as Bin laden and terrorist groups have turned the struggle of the Palestinian people into a ‘holy war’.
This ‘war’ has spread throughout the world with bombings, hijackings and suicide bombing. Israel should withdraw back to the original 1948 UN borders, help rebuild Palestine, and discontinue their act of aggression, to give some real meaning to the peace talks.
Thankyou for listening.
===================================
UN Resolutions Against Israel, 1955-1992
1. Resolution 106: "... 'condemns' Israel for Gaza raid"
2. Resolution 111: "...'condemns' Israel for raid on Syria that killed fifty-six people"
3. Resolution 127: "...'recommends' Israel suspend its 'no-man's zone' in Jerusalem"
4. Resolution 162: "...'urges' Israel to comply with UN decisions"
5. Resolution 171: "...determines flagrant violations' by Israel in its attack on Syria"
6. Resolution 228: "...'censures' Israel for its attack on Samu in the West Bank, then under Jordanian control"
7. Resolution 237: "...'urges' Israel to allow return of new 1967 Palestinian refugees"
8. Resolution 248: "... 'condemns' Israel for its massive attack on Karameh in Jordan"
9. Resolution 250: "... 'calls' on Israel to refrain from holding military parade in Jerusalem"
10. Resolution 251: "... 'deeply deplores' Israeli military parade in Jerusalem in defiance of Resolution 250"
11. Resolution 252: "...'declares invalid' Israel's acts to unify Jerusalem as Jewish capital"
12. Resolution 256: "... 'condemns' Israeli raids on Jordan as 'flagrant violation""
13. Resolution 259: "...'deplores' Israel's refusal to accept UN mission to probe occupation"
14. Resolution 262: "...'condemns' Israel for attack on Beirut airport"
15. Resolution 265: "... 'condemns' Israel for air attacks for Salt in Jordan"
16. Resolution 267: "...'censures' Israel for administrative acts to change the status of Jerusalem"
17. Resolution 270: "...'condemns' Israel for air attacks on villages in southern Lebanon"
18. Resolution 271: "...'condemns' Israel's failure to obey UN resolutions on Jerusalem"
19. Resolution 279: "...'demands' withdrawal of Israeli forces from Lebanon"
20. Resolution 280: "....'condemns' Israeli's attacks against Lebanon"
21. Resolution 285: "...'demands' immediate Israeli withdrawal form Lebanon"
22. Resolution 298: "...'deplores' Israel's changing of the status of Jerusalem"
23. Resolution 313: "...'demands' that Israel stop attacks against Lebanon"
24. Resolution 316: "...'condemns' Israel for repeated attacks on Lebanon"
25. Resolution 317: "...'deplores' Israel's refusal to release Arabs abducted in Lebanon"
26. Resolution 332: "...'condemns' Israel's repeated attacks against Lebanon"
27. Resolution 337: "...'condemns' Israel for violating Lebanon's sovereignty"
28. Resolution 347: "...'condemns' Israeli attacks on Lebanon"
29. Resolution 425: "...'calls' on Israel to withdraw its forces from Lebanon"
30. Resolution 427: "...'calls' on Israel to complete its withdrawal from Lebanon'
31. Resolution 444: "...'deplores' Israel's lack of cooperation with UN peacekeeping forces"
32. Resolution 446: "...'determines' that Israeli settlements are a 'serious obstruction' to peace and calls on Israel to abide by the Fourth Geneva Convention"
33. Resolution 450: "...'calls' on Israel to stop attacking Lebanon"
34. Resolution 452: "...'calls' on Israel to cease building settlements in occupied territories"
35. Resolution 465: "...'deplores' Israel's settlements and asks all member states not to assist Israel's settlements program"
36. Resolution 467: "...'strongly deplores' Israel's military intervention in Lebanon"
37. Resolution 468: "...'calls' on Israel to rescind illegal expulsions of two Palestinian mayors and a judge and to facilitate their return"
38. Resolution 469: "...'strongly deplores' Israel's failure to observe the council's order not to deport Palestinians" 39. Resolution 471: "... 'expresses deep concern' at Israel's failure to abide by the Fourth Geneva Convention"
40. Resolution 476: "... 'reiterates' that Israel's claims to Jerusalem are 'null and void'"
41. Resolution 478: "...'censures (Israel) in the strongest terms' for its claim to Jerusalem in its 'Basic Law'"
42. Resolution 484: "...'declares it imperative' that Israel re-admit two deported Palestinian mayors"
43. Resolution 487: "...'strongly condemns' Israel for its attack on Iraq's nuclear facility"
44. Resolution 497: "...'decides' that Israel's annexation of Syria's Golan Heights is 'null and void' and demands that Israel rescind its decision forthwith"
45. Resolution 498: "...'calls' on Israel to withdraw from Lebanon"
46. Resolution 501: "...'calls' on Israel to stop attacks against Lebanon and withdraw its troops"
47. Resolution 509: "...'demands' that Israel withdraw its forces forthwith and unconditionally from Lebanon"
48. Resolution 515: "...'demands' that Israel lift its siege of Beirut and allow food supplies to be brought in"
49. Resolution 517: "...'censures' Israel for failing to obey UN resolutions and demands that Israel withdraw its forces from Lebanon"
50. Resolution 518: "...'demands' that Israel cooperate fully with UN forces in Lebanon"
51. Resolution 520: "...'condemns' Israel's attack into West Beirut"
52. Resolution 573: "...'condemns' Israel 'vigorously' for bombing Tunisia in attack on PLO headquarters
53. Resolution 587: "...'takes note' of previous calls on Israel to withdraw its forces from Lebanon and urges all parties to withdraw"
54. Resolution 592: "...'strongly deplores' the killing of Palestinian students at Bir Zeit University by Israeli troops" 55. Resolution 605: "...'strongly deplores' Israel's policies and practices denying the human rights of Palestinians
56. Resolution 607: "...'calls' on Israel not to deport Palestinians and strongly requests it to abide by the Fourth Geneva Convention
57. Resolution 608: "...'deeply regrets' that Israel has defied the United Nations and deported Palestinian civilians"
58. Resolution 636: "...'deeply regrets' Israeli deportation of Palestinian civilians
59. Resolution 641: "...'deplores' Israel's continuing deportation of Palestinians
60. Resolution 672: "...'condemns' Israel for violence against Palestinians at the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount
61. Resolution 673: "...'deplores' Israel's refusal to cooperate with the United Nations
62. Resolution 681: "...'deplores' Israel's resumption of the deportation of Palestinians
63. Resolution 694: "...'deplores' Israel's deportation of Palestinians and calls on it to ensure their safe and immediate return
64. Resolution 726: "...'strongly condemns' Israel's deportation of Palestinians
65. Resolution 799: "...'strongly condemns' Israel's deportation of 413 Palestinians and calls for their immediate return.
The following are the resolutions vetoed by the United States during the period of September, 1972, to May, 1990 to protect Israel from council criticism:
1. ....condemned Israel's attack against Southern against southern Lebanon and Syria..."
2. ....affirmed the rights of the Palestinian people to self-determination, statehood and equal protections..."
3. ...condemned Israel's air strikes and attacks in southern Lebanon and its murder of innocent civilians..."
4. ....called for self-determination of Palestinian people..."
5. ....deplored Israel's altering of the status of Jerusalem, which is recognized as an international city by most world nations and the United Nations..."
6. ....affirmed the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people..."
7. ....endorsed self-determination for the Palestinian people..."
8. ....demanded Israel's withdrawal from the Golan Heights..."
9. ....condemned Israel's mistreatment of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip and its refusal to abide by the Geneva convention protocols of civilized nations..."
10. ....condemned an Israeli soldier who shot eleven Moslem worshippers at the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount near Al-Aqsa Mosque in the Old City of Jerusalem..."
11. ....urged sanctions against Israel if it did not withdraw from its invasion of Lebanon..."
12. ....urged sanctions against Israel if it did not withdraw from its invasion of Beirut..."
14. ....urged cutoff of economic aid to Israel if it refused to withdraw from its occupation of Lebanon..."
15. ....condemned continued Israeli settlements in occupied territories in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, denouncing them as an obstacle to peace..."
16. ....deplores Israel's brutal massacre of Arabs in Lebanon and urges its withdrawal..."
17. ....condemned Israeli brutality in southern Lebanon and denounced the Israeli 'Iron Fist' policy of repression...."
18. ....denounced Israel's violation of human rights in the occupied territories..."
19. ....deplored Israel's violence in southern Lebanon..."
20. ....deplored Israel's activities in occupied Arab East Jerusalem that threatened the sanctity of Muslim holy sites..."
21. ....condemned Israel's hijacking of a Libyan passenger airplane..."
22. ....deplored Israel's attacks against Lebanon and its measures and practices against the civilian population of Lebanon..."
23. ....called on Israel to abandon its policies against the Palestinian intifada that violated the rights of occupied Palestinians, to abide by the Fourth Geneva Conventions, and to formalize a leading role for the United Nations in future peace negotiations..."
24. ....urged Israel to accept back deported Palestinians, condemned Israel's shooting of civilians, called on Israel to uphold the Fourth Geneva Convention, and called for a peace settlement under UN auspices..."
25. ....condemned Israel's... incursion into Lebanon..."
26. ....deplored Israel's... commando raids on Lebanon..."
27. ....deplored Israel's repression of the Palestinian intifada and called on Israel to respect the human rights of the Palestinians..."
28. ....deplored Israel's violation of the human rights of the Palestinians..."
29. ....demanded that Israel return property confiscated from Palestinians during a tax protest and allow a fact-finding mission to observe Israel's crackdown on the Palestinian intifada..."
30. ...called for a fact-finding mission on abuses against Palestinians in Israeli-occupied lands..."-
Feel free to discuss it, criticise, etc, but please realise I won't be defending it, as it is very general, having only been just after 10 minutes, and plus when it comes to anything in English, sometimes you have to say something just to say it.
I also didn't stick word-to-word with what I wrote, and there may be some spelling errors and mistakes.
I handed out 2 handouts with it to my audience - a list of Israel resolutions and USA vetoes of resolutions critical of Israel, and a UN parititioning map, and a map of Palestine, showing israeli settlements and occupied area at present. I will provide the list of UN resolutions, but won't provide the maps.
=========================
Hello. Today I will be arguing for the removal of Israeli forces in the illegal occupation of Palestinian lands and Syria, back inside the UN border set aside for the Israel State in 1948. The Israel-Palestine conflict s one that continues today, but it has a long history.
It has now been over half a century since the creation of Israel, its history plagued by war. Despite military resistance by neighbouring Arab nations and the Palestinian people the State of Israel has come out on top. They have broken dozens of UN resolutions, been involved in the murder of innocent civilians, and acts of aggression outside their borders.
Although it is necessary to have protection for the world’s Jewish population who live in Israel, acts of war and the oppression of the Palestinian people should not be on Israel’s agenda. Successive Israeli governments have not been the only ones at fault, however, they have caused and participated in many war crimes which I will speak of in more detail later.
The Israel-Palestine issue has been a complex one, and so it is necessary to travel through the history of the conflict, even from before 1948, up to the present.
In biblical time, in 1300 BC, it is said that the migration and conquest of the land of Canaan by the Philistines and the Israelite tribes. Later on in 1000 BC, it is claimed that the Jewish people took control of Jerusalem, under the reign of David.
Zionist leaders claimed to have a right to Palestine on these ‘facts’, although scholars refuse to acknowledge this, saying that it is not true (Zionism being the ideology of creating a Jewish state in the Jew’s ancestral homeland).
Since then, however, this area of the world has been ravaged by war, and came under the ruling of many different imperialist powers.
On Nov 2, 1917, the British issued the Balfour Declaration, after negotiations with Zionist leader Haim Weizmann with the view by Jews and Arabs as promising a “National Home” for the Jews in Palestine. The British overthrew the Turkish Ottoman Empire and occupied the territory themselves.
They saw Palestine as a post for guarding the Suez Canal in Egypt, where they had interests at that time. The Arabs had a good relationship with Germany (the enemy of Britain in the Great War) at that time. Britain felt that with the creation of a Jewish state, it would help to expand their power over the Middle East.
This was the start of what would be the regrettable interference in the affairs and the interests of peace by modern super powers, who should not have been there to start with. This action caused great unrest among the neighbouring Arab nations. The British military quelled any uprisings throughout this era.
On May 15, 1948, the declaration of the Jewish State of Israel was announced. The process of independence was speeded up, after the oppression of Jews in Europe by Nazi Germany, and other European countries. Britain left Palestine since they couldn’t afford their activities in the region anymore, and this was another reason why the process was sped up. The creation of the state was rejected by the Arab League, however. Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan, Saudi Arabia declared war on Israel the very next day.
On April 3, 1949, after the Israeli war of independence, Israel and the opposing Arab states agreed to an armistice, after Israeli victory on the battlefield. Israel gained about 50% more territory than was originally allotted to it by the UN Partition Plan. The war created over 780,000 Palestinian refugees who fled or were evicted from Jewish held areas. Gaza fell under the jurisdiction of Egypt. The West Bank (Strip of land adjoining Jordan, which is supposed to be a part of Palestine) was occupied by Jordan and later annexed by Israel.
At this time, Israel first showed signs of disregarding resolutions that were set by the UN, which in effect violated international law. Between 1955 and 1992 alone, Israel violated 65 UN resolutions!*
Israel has had the chance to show the world and its Arab neighbours its concern for the safety of both the Jewish and Palestinian people. Instead, they became aggressors. Then Israeli Prime Minister, Ben Gurion, said in internal Zionist negotiations before creation of Israel, that he had ambitions to take the whole of Palestine, despite UN partitioning.
In fact, it was fellow Zionist and future Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir (who was leader between 1986 and 1992) who said in 1943 that terrorism must be used as a means to uphold national honour. “Neither Jewish morality nor Jewish tradition can be used to disallow terror as a means of war... We are very far from any moral hesitations when concerned with the national struggle. First and foremost, terror is for us a part of the political war appropriate for the circumstances of today...”
— Yitzhak Shamir in an August 1943 article titled “Terror”.
In 1967, Israel occupied Sinai in Egypt, motivated by the fact that Egypt may use newly acquired Soviet arms. Egypt closed the straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping and dismissed the UN peacekeeping force that had been there since 1956.
On June 5-11,1967, the 6-day war took place. Israel destroyed the Egyptian air force on the ground, occupied Sinai and Gaza, then further occupied the West Bank in Jordan, and the Golan Heights in Syria. UN resolution 242 called for Israeli withdrawal, and an establishment of peace.
This was the year when the United States of America increased their aid to Israel dramatically and by 1976, they were the largest annual recipient of the US, totaling $US81.3 billion. This so-called aid has since been used for the purchase of chemical, biological and even nuclear weapons. The act of buying nuclear weapons itself is a deplorable act that can only be seen as an intention to continue their acts of aggression. Israel remains one of the very few nations to have not signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Despite this, the USA has used their veto powers in the UN to veto 30 resolutions that were critical of Israel, and hindering any peace deals that may have involved the demand that Israel is disarmed.
On June 6, 1982, a massive Israeli invasion of Lebanon was initiated to fight the PLO (Palestinian Liberation Organisation). UN Security Council Resolution 509 demanded that Israel withdraw all its military forces forthwith, but Israel advances rapidly to Beirut, surrounding the capital by 13 Jun. Despite wanting to eliminate this terrorist group, it became an infamous event where the slaughter of innocent civilians took place.
In Sept. 13, 1993, Oslo Declaration was agreed to by Israel and the PLO, to mutually recognise both parties. Yasser Arafat and PLO were allowed to return to Gaza. PLO and the Palestinian leadership renounced violence and use of terrorism, and agreed to revise the PLO charter to remove chapters referring to destruction of Israel, although this was never done. They changed their name to the Palestinian National Authority. Israel did not dismantle any settlements in the Palestinian areas, however, and the number of settlers and new settlements increased considerably.
In Sept. 28, 2000, Palestinians initiated riots after Israeli opposition leader Ariel Sharon visited the Temple Mount, which is also the location of the Haram as Sharif, which is holy to Muslims. Violence escalated rapidly from rock throwing to machine gun and mortar fire, suicide bombings and lethal road ambushes, including some incidents instigated by settlers against Palestinians. Israeli army killed 15 Israeli Arabs in riots in September/October 2000, and over 2,000 Palestinians in retaliatory raids thereafter. The Palestinians killed over 700 Israelis. Violence continues to the present day.
The state of Israel may have sounded like a good idea, but when looking into its history, the reality is that the creation of Israel was not so innocent. While it was probably necessary for a state to protect oppressed Jews of the world, there is definitely no excuse for taking away the homes and livelihood of so many Palestinian people. Israel’s actions and continued aggression has caused anger and resentment amongst Arab people. This has allowed extremist Muslim groups to prosper and gain followers throughout the Middle East. These groups have directed their hatred towards the West, especially the United States, because of the support of Israel and interference in the Middle East. Leaders such as Bin laden and terrorist groups have turned the struggle of the Palestinian people into a ‘holy war’.
This ‘war’ has spread throughout the world with bombings, hijackings and suicide bombing. Israel should withdraw back to the original 1948 UN borders, help rebuild Palestine, and discontinue their act of aggression, to give some real meaning to the peace talks.
Thankyou for listening.
===================================
UN Resolutions Against Israel, 1955-1992
1. Resolution 106: "... 'condemns' Israel for Gaza raid"
2. Resolution 111: "...'condemns' Israel for raid on Syria that killed fifty-six people"
3. Resolution 127: "...'recommends' Israel suspend its 'no-man's zone' in Jerusalem"
4. Resolution 162: "...'urges' Israel to comply with UN decisions"
5. Resolution 171: "...determines flagrant violations' by Israel in its attack on Syria"
6. Resolution 228: "...'censures' Israel for its attack on Samu in the West Bank, then under Jordanian control"
7. Resolution 237: "...'urges' Israel to allow return of new 1967 Palestinian refugees"
8. Resolution 248: "... 'condemns' Israel for its massive attack on Karameh in Jordan"
9. Resolution 250: "... 'calls' on Israel to refrain from holding military parade in Jerusalem"
10. Resolution 251: "... 'deeply deplores' Israeli military parade in Jerusalem in defiance of Resolution 250"
11. Resolution 252: "...'declares invalid' Israel's acts to unify Jerusalem as Jewish capital"
12. Resolution 256: "... 'condemns' Israeli raids on Jordan as 'flagrant violation""
13. Resolution 259: "...'deplores' Israel's refusal to accept UN mission to probe occupation"
14. Resolution 262: "...'condemns' Israel for attack on Beirut airport"
15. Resolution 265: "... 'condemns' Israel for air attacks for Salt in Jordan"
16. Resolution 267: "...'censures' Israel for administrative acts to change the status of Jerusalem"
17. Resolution 270: "...'condemns' Israel for air attacks on villages in southern Lebanon"
18. Resolution 271: "...'condemns' Israel's failure to obey UN resolutions on Jerusalem"
19. Resolution 279: "...'demands' withdrawal of Israeli forces from Lebanon"
20. Resolution 280: "....'condemns' Israeli's attacks against Lebanon"
21. Resolution 285: "...'demands' immediate Israeli withdrawal form Lebanon"
22. Resolution 298: "...'deplores' Israel's changing of the status of Jerusalem"
23. Resolution 313: "...'demands' that Israel stop attacks against Lebanon"
24. Resolution 316: "...'condemns' Israel for repeated attacks on Lebanon"
25. Resolution 317: "...'deplores' Israel's refusal to release Arabs abducted in Lebanon"
26. Resolution 332: "...'condemns' Israel's repeated attacks against Lebanon"
27. Resolution 337: "...'condemns' Israel for violating Lebanon's sovereignty"
28. Resolution 347: "...'condemns' Israeli attacks on Lebanon"
29. Resolution 425: "...'calls' on Israel to withdraw its forces from Lebanon"
30. Resolution 427: "...'calls' on Israel to complete its withdrawal from Lebanon'
31. Resolution 444: "...'deplores' Israel's lack of cooperation with UN peacekeeping forces"
32. Resolution 446: "...'determines' that Israeli settlements are a 'serious obstruction' to peace and calls on Israel to abide by the Fourth Geneva Convention"
33. Resolution 450: "...'calls' on Israel to stop attacking Lebanon"
34. Resolution 452: "...'calls' on Israel to cease building settlements in occupied territories"
35. Resolution 465: "...'deplores' Israel's settlements and asks all member states not to assist Israel's settlements program"
36. Resolution 467: "...'strongly deplores' Israel's military intervention in Lebanon"
37. Resolution 468: "...'calls' on Israel to rescind illegal expulsions of two Palestinian mayors and a judge and to facilitate their return"
38. Resolution 469: "...'strongly deplores' Israel's failure to observe the council's order not to deport Palestinians" 39. Resolution 471: "... 'expresses deep concern' at Israel's failure to abide by the Fourth Geneva Convention"
40. Resolution 476: "... 'reiterates' that Israel's claims to Jerusalem are 'null and void'"
41. Resolution 478: "...'censures (Israel) in the strongest terms' for its claim to Jerusalem in its 'Basic Law'"
42. Resolution 484: "...'declares it imperative' that Israel re-admit two deported Palestinian mayors"
43. Resolution 487: "...'strongly condemns' Israel for its attack on Iraq's nuclear facility"
44. Resolution 497: "...'decides' that Israel's annexation of Syria's Golan Heights is 'null and void' and demands that Israel rescind its decision forthwith"
45. Resolution 498: "...'calls' on Israel to withdraw from Lebanon"
46. Resolution 501: "...'calls' on Israel to stop attacks against Lebanon and withdraw its troops"
47. Resolution 509: "...'demands' that Israel withdraw its forces forthwith and unconditionally from Lebanon"
48. Resolution 515: "...'demands' that Israel lift its siege of Beirut and allow food supplies to be brought in"
49. Resolution 517: "...'censures' Israel for failing to obey UN resolutions and demands that Israel withdraw its forces from Lebanon"
50. Resolution 518: "...'demands' that Israel cooperate fully with UN forces in Lebanon"
51. Resolution 520: "...'condemns' Israel's attack into West Beirut"
52. Resolution 573: "...'condemns' Israel 'vigorously' for bombing Tunisia in attack on PLO headquarters
53. Resolution 587: "...'takes note' of previous calls on Israel to withdraw its forces from Lebanon and urges all parties to withdraw"
54. Resolution 592: "...'strongly deplores' the killing of Palestinian students at Bir Zeit University by Israeli troops" 55. Resolution 605: "...'strongly deplores' Israel's policies and practices denying the human rights of Palestinians
56. Resolution 607: "...'calls' on Israel not to deport Palestinians and strongly requests it to abide by the Fourth Geneva Convention
57. Resolution 608: "...'deeply regrets' that Israel has defied the United Nations and deported Palestinian civilians"
58. Resolution 636: "...'deeply regrets' Israeli deportation of Palestinian civilians
59. Resolution 641: "...'deplores' Israel's continuing deportation of Palestinians
60. Resolution 672: "...'condemns' Israel for violence against Palestinians at the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount
61. Resolution 673: "...'deplores' Israel's refusal to cooperate with the United Nations
62. Resolution 681: "...'deplores' Israel's resumption of the deportation of Palestinians
63. Resolution 694: "...'deplores' Israel's deportation of Palestinians and calls on it to ensure their safe and immediate return
64. Resolution 726: "...'strongly condemns' Israel's deportation of Palestinians
65. Resolution 799: "...'strongly condemns' Israel's deportation of 413 Palestinians and calls for their immediate return.
The following are the resolutions vetoed by the United States during the period of September, 1972, to May, 1990 to protect Israel from council criticism:
1. ....condemned Israel's attack against Southern against southern Lebanon and Syria..."
2. ....affirmed the rights of the Palestinian people to self-determination, statehood and equal protections..."
3. ...condemned Israel's air strikes and attacks in southern Lebanon and its murder of innocent civilians..."
4. ....called for self-determination of Palestinian people..."
5. ....deplored Israel's altering of the status of Jerusalem, which is recognized as an international city by most world nations and the United Nations..."
6. ....affirmed the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people..."
7. ....endorsed self-determination for the Palestinian people..."
8. ....demanded Israel's withdrawal from the Golan Heights..."
9. ....condemned Israel's mistreatment of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip and its refusal to abide by the Geneva convention protocols of civilized nations..."
10. ....condemned an Israeli soldier who shot eleven Moslem worshippers at the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount near Al-Aqsa Mosque in the Old City of Jerusalem..."
11. ....urged sanctions against Israel if it did not withdraw from its invasion of Lebanon..."
12. ....urged sanctions against Israel if it did not withdraw from its invasion of Beirut..."
14. ....urged cutoff of economic aid to Israel if it refused to withdraw from its occupation of Lebanon..."
15. ....condemned continued Israeli settlements in occupied territories in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, denouncing them as an obstacle to peace..."
16. ....deplores Israel's brutal massacre of Arabs in Lebanon and urges its withdrawal..."
17. ....condemned Israeli brutality in southern Lebanon and denounced the Israeli 'Iron Fist' policy of repression...."
18. ....denounced Israel's violation of human rights in the occupied territories..."
19. ....deplored Israel's violence in southern Lebanon..."
20. ....deplored Israel's activities in occupied Arab East Jerusalem that threatened the sanctity of Muslim holy sites..."
21. ....condemned Israel's hijacking of a Libyan passenger airplane..."
22. ....deplored Israel's attacks against Lebanon and its measures and practices against the civilian population of Lebanon..."
23. ....called on Israel to abandon its policies against the Palestinian intifada that violated the rights of occupied Palestinians, to abide by the Fourth Geneva Conventions, and to formalize a leading role for the United Nations in future peace negotiations..."
24. ....urged Israel to accept back deported Palestinians, condemned Israel's shooting of civilians, called on Israel to uphold the Fourth Geneva Convention, and called for a peace settlement under UN auspices..."
25. ....condemned Israel's... incursion into Lebanon..."
26. ....deplored Israel's... commando raids on Lebanon..."
27. ....deplored Israel's repression of the Palestinian intifada and called on Israel to respect the human rights of the Palestinians..."
28. ....deplored Israel's violation of the human rights of the Palestinians..."
29. ....demanded that Israel return property confiscated from Palestinians during a tax protest and allow a fact-finding mission to observe Israel's crackdown on the Palestinian intifada..."
30. ...called for a fact-finding mission on abuses against Palestinians in Israeli-occupied lands..."-