UN General Assembly expected to censure Israel 9 times

                

The UN General Assembly was expected to condemn Israel nine times on Friday as “part of its annual ritual of enacting 20 Arab-sponsored resolutions singling out the Jewish state,” an NGO  said.


While Israel was being slammed for a variety of alleged infringements, there would be no mention made of “Hamas stabbings, shootings or vehicular attacks against Israelis,” said Hillel Neuer, executive director of the Geneva-based monitoring group UN Watch.

According to a statement issued from UN Watch,  this year’s session will include a total of six condemnatory resolutions for the rest of the world combined —one each on Syria, North Korea, Iran, Crimea, Myanmar, as well as one on the US for its Cuba embargo.
Hillel Neuer of UN Watch (photo credit: Michal Fattal/Flash 90)
Hillel Neuer of UN Watch (Michal Fattal/Flash90)

All 193 UN member states were expected to participate in the initial committee vote, with most likely to vote the same way in a second and final vote at the GA plenary in December.

“The UN’s assault on Israel today with a torrent of one-sided resolutions is surreal,” said Neuer.


“Even after Syrian president Bashar Assad has used chemical weapons against his own people within the past year, the UN is about to adopt a resolution — drafted and co-sponsored by Syria — which falsely condemns Israel for ‘repressive measures’ against Syrian citizens on the Golan Heights. It’s obscene,” he said.

“While there will be a total of 20 resolutions against Israel this session, not a single UN General Assembly resolution is planned today or this year for gross human rights abusers such as Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Venezuela, China, Cuba, Pakistan or Zimbabwe.

“At a time when Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and his state-controlled media incite to the continued stabbing and shooting of Israeli Jews, the UN’s response is to reflexively condemn Israel in nine separate resolutions, each of them one-sided, each of them utterly silent on Palestinian abuses,” Neuer said.

The resolution drafted annually by Syria condemns Israel for holding on to the Golan Heights, and demands that Israel hand the land and its people to Syria.


“It’s astonishing,” said Neuer. “After the Syrian regime has killed its own people by the hundreds of thousands over six years, how can the UN call for more people to be subject to Assad’s rule? The timing of today’s text is morally galling, and logically absurd.”

“Today’s resolutions claim to care about Palestinians, yet the UN is oblivious to the dozens of Palestinians who have been slaughtered, maimed and expelled by Assad’s forces, and more than 3,000 victims killed since 2011,” Neuer said.