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Gino d'Artali
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Gino d'Artali
and: My mother (1931-1997) always said to me <Mi
figlio, non esistono notizie <vecchie> perche puoi imparare qualcosa da
qualsiasi notizia.> Translated: <My son, there is no such thing as so
called 'old' news because you can learn something from any news.>
Gianna d'Artali.
Al Jazeera - Oct 25, 2024 - By Simon Speakman
Cordall
<<Israel's 'war' against the UN
Little is new in Israel's current conflict with the international
community in Gaza and Lebanon.
Israel's attacks on UNIFIL (the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon)
mark a further deterioration in a relationship that has been difficult
since the founding of Israel in 1948. According to a leaked UNIFIL
report, Israel has attacked UN positions 12 times, at times even using
white phosphorus against soldiers mandated by the international
community to keep the peace. The use of white phosphorus, a wax-like
substance that burns at temperatures high enough to melt metal has been
condemned by rights groups. A UNIFIL spokesperson confirmed the attacks,
saying: "Since [Israel's army] began incursions into Lebanon on 1
October, UNIFIL has recorded about 25 incidents resulting in damage to
UN property or premises," referencing the number between 1 and 20
October. The bulk of those attacks, the spokesperson said, had been
Israeli fire or actions. However, others had come from unknown sources,
he added. “Five peacekeepers were hurt in three separate incidents at
our headquarters, and 15 peacekeepers suffered symptoms after inhaling
an unknown smoke released by the IDF (Israeli army) in Ramyah on 13
October, which caused skin irritation and gastrointestinal symptoms," he
said. Without testing capabilities, the spokesperson added, UNIFIL has
been unable to identify what the smoke was. Israel has demanded that the
UN withdraw its troops from the areas it has invaded, with Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claiming that Hezbollah uses UNIFIL as
<human shields>. However, UNIFIL have stressed they remain in Lebanon
under a UN mandate, which includes enforcing the Blue Line that
separates Lebanon from Israel and the occupied Golan Heights. The
mandate was established in 2000 and reinforced by UN Resolution 1701 in
2006. <Our role in monitoring and reporting violations of Resolution
1701 is more important than ever," the spokesperson said, "Hezbollah
[sic] has fired rockets from near our positions, putting peacekeepers in
danger. "IDF tanks have taken shelter inside one of our positions,
saying it was to avoid taking fire. We reiterate that ... the
inviolability of UN premises must be respected." Justifying the attacks
on UN forces in Lebanon, Israeli Energy Minister Eli Cohen referred to
the body as a <failed organisation> and UNIFIL as a <useless force> on
Twitter in mid-October.
Translation: "The UN is a failed organisation and UNIFIL is a useless
force that failed to enforce Resolution 1701, failed to prevent
Hezbollah from establishing itself in southern Lebanon and did not lift
a finger against Hezbollah's harm to Israeli citizens for almost a year.
"The State of Israel will do everything to ensure the safety of its
citizens, and if the UN cannot help at least do not interfere, and move
its people from the combat zones."
A history of violence
The current conflict between Israel and the views of the international
community does not exist in isolation but is the latest in a string of
confrontations Israel has had with the UN. Israel has attacked UN staff
in Gaza, accused staff of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA)
of allying with armed groups, and repeatedly claimed the UN is
anti-Semitic for every comment that is critical of its actions. At
present, a bill is circulating in the Israeli Knesset (parliament) that
will ban UNRWA, the largest humanitarian provider in Gaza at a time of
acute crises, from the enclave. Observers are confident the bill will
pass. On Tuesday, the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu denied on its Hebrew X account the historical fact of the UN's
role in Israel’s establishment, claiming that Israel was founded solely
through <victory....in the War of Independence>, which is what Israel
calls the conflict that resulted in the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians
from their homes in 1948.
Translation: "Prime Minister's Office: A reminder to the president of
France: It was not the UN resolution that established the State of
Israel, but rather the victory achieved in the War of Independence with
the blood of heroic fighters, many of whom were Holocaust survivors -
including from the Vichy regime in France." UN Secretary-General Antonio
Guterres has been barred from entering Israel over what the government
says is his failure to <fully condemn> a missile strike by Iran on
Israel in October.
Trying to discredit the UN
<The UN matters to people in Israel. That the country was founded by UN
charter [in 1948] is part of the collective memory,> analyst Nimrod
Flaschenberg said from Tel Aviv. <However, we've been seeing a gradual
process of delegitimisation of the UN throughout the last few decades,
when it has been portrayed as a bastion of anti-Israel or even
anti-Semitic sentiment by Israel's leaders.> Ironically, one of the
leading critics of the UN is Netanyahu, himself Israel's former
ambassador to the body from 1984 to 1988. Under his right-wing Likud
party - in power since 2009 - and more recently during its alliance with
Israeli extreme-right and ultra-Orthodox factions, confrontations have
grown with the UN and, with them, the international body's legitimacy
challenged in the eyes of many. <The UN often makes it easy for its
critics,> Flaschenberg cautioned. <Guterres [the former
secretary-general of Portugal's Socialist Party] is a problem for many,>
he said, describing the distrust of left-wing and liberal thought among
Israel's growing right wing. Flaschenberg explained that <the UN Human
Rights Council's 'obsession' with Israel/Palestine is undeniable. The
fact that a disproportionate amount of time is dedicated to us, makes it
easy for Israeli critics of the UN to call it anti-Semitic.> Contacted
by Al Jazeera, a spokesperson for the UN's Office for the Coordination
of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said, "The mandate of the high
commissioner is to promote - universally and specifically with member
states - the respect and protection of human rights in accordance with
applicable international law and standards." Referring to High
Commissioner Volker Turk, the spokesperson continued: "The high
commissioner carries out his mandate impartially irrespective of by
whom, when or where abuses and violations of international human rights
law are committed. "All actions of the Office are based on facts
obtained through a rigorous monitoring and reporting methodology and
assessed in accordance with relevant international legal standards
(International Human Rights Law and International humanitarian law),” he
added. Earlier this year, the international community's report on
Israel's action in Gaza, Anatomy of a Genocide, which contained numerous
documented instances of rights abuses, was dismissed as biased or
anti-Semitic by both Israel and its close military and diplomatic ally,
the United States. The US has also led condemnation of the UN's
open-ended Commission of Inquiry (COI) into the frequent accusations
against Israel for its breaches of international human rights law in its
treatment of the Palestinians under its control. The same year, UN
Watch, an NGO described by the AFP news agency as “a lobby group with
strong ties to Israel", claimed that the UN General Assembly (UNGA) had
adopted 15 resolutions against Israel, compared with seven against the
rest of the world. Two of the UN’s 2023 resolutions concerned Israel's
actions in Gaza of that year, where more than 20,000 people had been
killed. Other resolutions reinforced previous rulings, such as those
condemning Israel's settlements in the occupied West Bank, or the
construction of its security barrier, condemned as an apartheid measure
by numerous rights groups. Still others included the environmental
damage Israel was charged with carrying out in the Palestinian territory
it occupies, as well as in Lebanon.
Hardwired conflict
"Israel was both created by and early on was in violation of much of
international law," Paul Salem of the Middle East Institute said.
"There's a built-in conflict." Almost immediately after Israel was
created by UN mandate came the Nakba, the ethnic cleansing of more than
700,000 Palestinians, who to this day are refugees, barred from
returning, many living in refugee camps in the occupied West Bank or
neighbouring countries. Likewise, the occupation of the West Bank, Gaza
Strip, and East Jerusalem, which Israel has maintained since 1967, puts
it on the wrong side of the fourth Geneva Convention and demonstrates
its disregard for UN edicts and international law, seen as inviolable
the world over. Some areas of dispute between the UN and Israel are more
recent. Not least are the ongoing attacks on UN forces operating to
enforce a resolution that Israel had been party to.
However, as Israel pivots its war northwards towards Lebanon, it has
seemed to focus on UNIFIL. "UNIFIL is in the way. They want them out of
the way but this is not a legitimate or legal way to do it," Salem said,
pointing to diplomatic and legal restraints that protect UN
peacekeepers.
"Perhaps Israel should withdraw from the UN and no longer claim that it
wants to resolve things through diplomacy. "Diplomacy is frustrating, I
get it. It doesn't always work, but that's why the UN was created, so
that things are not resolved by military force," he said.
That the UN has changed since Israel's creation is a fact.
The 51 member states in the UN that gave birth to Israel have grown to a
General Assembly (UNGA) of 193 as countries gained their independence
from colonisers. In the UNGA, most of the world’s countries view the
Palestinian cause as important. Likewise, recently Israel has diverged
even more dramatically from other members of the GA. "I am pessimistic
about Israel’s future as a liberal democratic state," Richard Caplan of
Oxford University said. "At the moment, Israel is in survival mode,
responding to immediate threats with blatant disregard for international
humanitarian law, notwithstanding its repeated assertions that it
operates the 'most moral armed forces' in the world." Even during a
relatively optimistic period, with the Israeli economy strong after the
COVID pandemic and relations between Israel and some Arab states
warming, Caplan noted, Israel chose not to seek a political settlement
to its conflict with Palestine and, by extension, help heal the rift
with the UN. "To the contrary, the brutal colonisation of the Occupied
Territories continued unabated, with Netanyahu pledging to prevent the
emergence of a Palestinian state," Caplan wrote by email.
UN Palestinian Statehood bid
"While there may be broad opposition to Netanyahu among Israelis, by and
large Israelis tolerate, if not support, the occupation. "Who are the
members of the Knesset who have been elected on a platform to end the
occupation? The only hope may be if Israel's allies work earnestly
towards establishing a Palestinian state and use their leverage ... to
pressure Israel to alter its behaviour." he wrote.
"Otherwise I fear the future will bring more deracination, more ethnic
cleansing, more violence."
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA>>
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/25/israels-war-against-the-un
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