UN embrace of anti-Israel BDS movement endangers the very peace it claims to support
August 30, 2017
"While the United States and many European countries continue to oppose the anti-Israel boycott movement because it imposes a double-standard and harms peace efforts, the United Nations is set to engage in full-throated BDS by the end of this year.
BDS, or Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, is a pressure-point campaign that seeks to impose conditions on the Jewish state outside of negotiations between the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Israeli government. Many of the BDS demands, including the 'right of return' for all Palestinians everywhere, would mean the abolition of a Jewish state...
Last week, The Washington Post reported that Jordanian Prince Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, the UN high commissioner for human rights, plans to publish a 'blacklist' of U.S. and other companies operating in the disputed territories. The blacklist is UN-sanctioned BDS...
What can the US and Europe do? The U.S. along with many European countries sit on the 47-member Human Rights Council. The UN's economic warfare targeting Israel and companies that trade with it should prompt a counter-attack that includes the U.S. and morally-principled countries resigning from the UNHRC.
A joint announcement at a press conference by Haley with her counterparts, including the German and British ambassadors, warning of a mass resignation if the blacklist is implemented, would be a good first move. After all, many U.S. and EU companies will be directly affected by the counter-productive and discriminatory blacklist.
Put simply, the UNHRC should not be in the business of using the tools of economic warfare to bring about precisely the result it claims it wishes to avoid: a powerful setback to the Israel-Palestinian peace process."
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This reminds me of a black being a member of the KKK.
The biggest underminer of peace between Palestinians and Israelis is the Israeli government's complicity in allowing settlements in occupied territories and the building of barriers that cuts farmers in those areas off from their farms and other properties, the coersive and strong-arm methods of forcing non-Jewish (including Christian citizens of Israel) to move. These practices are all violations of both understandings and formal agreements the Israeli government has made with every US administration since 1967. The Israeli government even ignores its own judicial rulings to keep these violations going. This isn't the opinion of anti-Israeli elements around the world. It's documented regularly by the Israeli press and honest Israelis:
The only people who remain voluntarily blind to these facts are the rightwingers in this country who don't give a fuck about Jews or Israel. They only care about killing Muslims and sustaining Israel so it can be the fodder for some fucking insane religious notion that its destruction is necessary for the end times. Of course, the extreme nationalists in Israel play those suckers for all the money they can get, even while knowing that at some point those suckers may have to be dealt with for Israel's survival. It's a marriage made in hell.
Brilliiant!!
You took an extremely complicated, age-old conflict, and encapsulated it into 2 paragraphs, with a very specific cause of this deadlock.
You're baiting.
Not hungry.
The biggest underminer of peace between Palestinians and Israelis is the refusal of the terrorist Palestinian government to renounce violence.