The Neutral, Humanitarian United Nations

Still from video: IDF soldiers collecting  bodies of slaughtered Israelis

"It is important to also recognize the attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum. The Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation."

"They have seen their land steadily devoured by settlements and plagued by violence; their economy stifled; their people displaced; and their homes demolished."

"Their hopes for a political solution to their plight have been vanishing."

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres

 

"Mr. Secretary-General, in what world do you live? Definitely, this is not our world."

"I will not meet the UN secretary-general. After October 7, there is no place for a balanced approach. Hamas must be erased from the world."

Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen

 

"The shocking speech by the UN secretary-general at the Security Council meeting ... proved conclusively, beyond any doubt, that the secretary-general is completely disconnected from the reality in our region and that he views the massacre committed by Nazi Hamas terrorists in a distorted and immoral manner."

"His statement that 'the attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum', expressed an understanding for terrorism and murder. It's really unfathomable. It's truly sad that the head of an organization that arose after the Holocaust holds such horrible views."

Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan

Screenshot of Hamas body cam footage as terrorists fire on an Israeli vehicle during the terror organization’s October 7 attack in southern Israel, released by the IDF and GPO. (Screenshot)

 

The 'Palestinians' are Arabs who have migrated from all over the Arab-Muslim world over a period under a century to settle in a land where they saw opportunity for themselves to prosper, where they could not in their countries of origin, primarily Egypt and Syria. The very identifying designation of 'Palestine' was one used by the Roman Occupation of 63BCE to denote Judaean heritage lands. These diverse-origin Arabs now identifying themselves as Palestinians took that identity from Jews, just as they're determined to take Jewish ancestral land for their own, claiming indigeneity.

To be clear, Arab Palestinians were offered a state of their own, first by the United Nations, then countless times by Israel, and each time they refused. Their leaders convinced them that the entire area was theirs, not merely the half assigned to them with a split when made, TransJordan taking much of the original area and what was left divided between Israel and a potential Palestinian state. The Palestinians preferred to wait in 1948 while combined Arab armies marched into Israel to destroy the fledgling state. They lost, and so did the Palestinians.

 

Israelis evacuate a site struck by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip, in Ashkelon, southern Israel, on Monday. (Ohad Zwigenberg/The Associated Press)

 

Ever since, their leaders have led them astray. The Palestinian public has been exploited endlessly by their leaders, who milk the sympathy of the wider world of the West by characterizing themselves as victims of Israeli aggression. The 'occupation' that Israel is accused of, is an existential necessity given the penchant of the 'victims' constantly staging deadly attacks against Israeli Jews by Palestinians who have been nursed from childhood on tropes of a Jewish death-wish against Arabs.

The public relations war waged by the Palestinian Authority (Fatah) in the West Bank and Hamas in Gaza has succeeded hugely in its efforts to isolate, punish and demonize Israel and Jews for the plight of the Palestinians many of whom live in poverty, where unemployment is high and opportunities are few because their leaders focus on instilling hatred and a death-cult among their people rather than establishing the infrastructure required for independence and prosperity. The wider world financially supports the Palestinian 'refugees', destined to clasp their refugee victimhood in perpetuity.

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East was established for the express purpose of aiding and supporting Palestinian 'refugees' in perpetuity. As a body of the United Nations, UNRWA is partially responsible for the school curricula replete with lessons of Jewish hatred and violence toward Palestinians, as well as permitting Hamas to store weapons within UNRWA schools. Gaza Palestinians are used as pawns by Hamas, human shields the terrorists hide behind as they send volleys of rockets into Israel.

 

Image shows Palestinian militants riding an Israeli military vehicle that was seized by gunmen who infiltrated areas of southern Israel on October 7, 2023. (Photograph:(Reuters)

 

The vast network of underground tunnels which Hamas and its sister terrorist group Islamic Jihad use to store weapons, to practise attack strategies, to shelter from Israeli reprisals and from which to mount attacks, are intersecting underground corridors built under Gaza's crowded enclaves; when the tunnels are bombed, those living over them are in danger. For the  time being some of those tunnels now house the hundreds of Jewish Israelis and others that Hamas terrorists abducted on October 7 along with their barbaric atrocities that slaughtered 1,400 Israelis and wounded almost five thousand more.

"Terror apologists cannot speak on behalf of the world."

"Days when the United Nations secretary-general supports terrorism are dark days for the world." "Absolutely nothing can justify the slaughter of innocent civilians. Now is the time to stand on the right side of history, or be judged by it."

Former Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz

"By saying this, he [Guterres] is wrongfully legitimizing and justifying the gruesome massacre of men, women, children and babies, and the savage kidnapping of over 222 innocent babies, children and civilians who are still being held by Hamas."

"The UN secretary-general should be ashamed of himself. I call upon him to retract his abhorrent statement or step down now."

Former Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon 

"I had to leave after 35 minutes because I’d seen enough."

"I knew this had happened, but because of the severe backlash—especially on social media by people who refuse to believe this had taken place despite overwhelming evidence—I felt I had to go [to the theater] so I could tell people that I saw it with my own eyes."

"So, if they don’t believe the eyewitnesses, they can believe me."

Danish journalist Jotam Confino

Large pools of blood stain a child's bunk bed and sheets, inside a safe room, as seen through the window, after Hamas terrorists attacked days earlier, on Oct. 19, 2023 in Nir Oz, Israel. (Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images)