12/25/2023–|Last updated: 12/25/202311:32 AM (Mecca time)
The French newspaper Le Monde said that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, when he was his country’s ambassador to the United Nations from 1984 to 1988, chose to launch a campaign to systematically discredit the institution and with an unprecedented level of aggression, and he is still determined to liberate Israel from the rules of international law. In the name of the security necessities that he alone issues and wants to impose on all parties.
French Professor Jean-Pierre Filiu saw – in his blog in the newspaper – that it is ironic that Israel, which was established by a United Nations decision, continues to challenge the sovereignty of this institution since its founding in 1948, recalling that the history of relations between the two parties has been punctuated by many crises, characterized by unparalleled provocation.
According to Filho, an expert on Middle East affairs, Gilad Erdan, the current Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, participated in this provocation on October 30 in New York, when he displayed the yellow star that the Nazis branded Jews as a “symbol of pride” in the face of criticism from the United Nations. United States for the current Israeli campaign in Gaza.
This hidden accusation of anti-Semitism was part of an escalation against the United Nations and its Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, who was described by the head of Israeli diplomacy, Eli Cohen, as a “danger to world peace” and a “supporter of the Hamas terrorist organization,” in his words, in addition to the killing of 134 local UN employees in Israeli bombing of Gaza.
Philo stated that this Israeli approach began early since the outbreak of war between Jews and Arabs, shortly after the United Nations adopted the Palestine partition plan in 1947, with the assassination of the United Nations mediator at the time, Swedish Count Folke Bernadotte, in September 1948 in Jerusalem by an extremist Israeli group after He obtained a truce and proposed a settlement of the conflict, based on the internationalization of Jerusalem and the return of Palestinian refugees.
Continuing American support
The shock of this assassination was enormous in the United Nations – according to the writer – and its General Assembly adopted the “Right of Return” resolution for Palestinian refugees, as an alternative to the choice between return and compensation, but Israel radically opposed the principle of the “Right of Return,” and the United States helped it by transforming the United Nations Refugee Relief Agency. Palestinians to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, which ruled out implementing the return to focus on the “work” of the refugees in their host country.
This American support for Israel in the United Nations became more decisive after the 1967 war, turning Washington into the exclusive mediator in the Arab-Israeli conflict, as happened in the separate peace talks with Egypt and Jordan. This American peace excludes the United Nations, and Washington regularly uses its veto power in favor of Israel, in A continuous bias under which it blocked every draft resolution that was unfavorable to Israel.
Thus – Jean-Pierre Filho says – Netanyahu, who has not changed his aggression towards the United Nations, can continue to rely on the support of American diplomacy, which, during two and a half months of destruction and killing, only allowed votes on two resolutions in the Security Council, one on “humanitarian truces” and the second on “Large-scale” humanitarian aid delivery to Gaza, but without any sign of a ceasefire.