Israel’s ambassador, Gilad Erdan, shredded live the founding charter of the United Nations before knowing the votes of the members of the UN in the General Assembly in favor of the full integration of Palestine. During his speech, he stated that a session like this Friday’s meant the end of the principles that inspired the creation of the organization.
Shortly before, Erdan had raised before the delegates a photo of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar (who is supposed to be hiding somewhere in Loop), and said that granting Palestine Statehood meant that this would be its new president. This, he warned, amounted to “giving all privileges to the future terrorist state of Hamas.”
In total, 143 states, of the 193 members of the UN, asked again this Friday to reconsider the integration of Palestine as a full state, a decision that is the responsibility of the Security Council. Only nine countries voted against, and 25 abstained, in this resolution that was co-sponsored by Spain, Ireland, Norway and Belgium, along with more than seventy countries.
The resolution approved by the Assembly also grants Palestine new skills that exceed its current status as a “non-member observer state” and that define its participation in the General Assembly, but specifies that it will not have the right to vote nor will it be possible to present itself as a candidate for United Nations organizations.
Prize for terrorists
After knowing the results, the Israeli Foreign Minister, Israel Katz, described as “absurd decision” the vote, which he considered “a reward for the Hamas terrorists.”
“The decision to improve the status of the Palestinians in the UN is a prize for Hamas terrorists after committing the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust and perpetrating the most atrocious sexual crimes the world has ever seen,” said the minister, referring to what happened on October 7, 2023, when the Palestinian Islamist group attacked Israeli territory and killed about 1,200 people and kidnapped about 200.
Katz considered that the measure “demonstrates the UN structural bias“, which, in his opinion, under the leadership of the Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, “has become an irrelevant institution.” The minister considered that the message that the UN sends to the “suffering region” is that “violence is worth the sorrow”.
