Some weeks ago the Useless Nabobs General Assembly passed a resolution calling for "the protection of Palestinian children from Israeli aggression" by 88 against 4 with 58 abstentions. In an attempt to call the UN's bluff, Israel tabled its first resolution since 1976, calling for the protection of Israeli children (Jewish, Arab, Druze, and others) against terrorist violence (suicide bombings against civilian crowds, drive-by shootings). Yesterday
it was forced to withdraw the resolution
At the United Nations, the lives of Israeli children are worth less than the lives of Palestinian children, Israel's ambassador to the UN Dan Gillerman said Wednesday after he was forced to withdraw a resolution calling for the protection of Israeli children from terrorism."The voice of the immoral majority was once again heard loud and clear," Gillerman told the UN General Assembly's Third (Humanitarian, Social and Cultural) Committee after failing to garner enough support from the organization's 191 members to proceed with a vote.
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Gillerman withdrew the draft after a group of states from the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), led by Egypt, demanded the inclusion of amendments that, if adopted, would have turned the draft into an anti-Israel resolution.
The list of amendments, cosponsored by Bahrain, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Sudan, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen, included deleting of the phrase "Israeli children" from the text and replacing it with "Middle East children," and inserting references to Israeli "military assaults," "occupation" and ""excessive use of force" ahead of all mention of terrorism. Even the title of the draft was changed from "The situation of and assistance to Israeli children" to "The situation of and assistance to children in the Middle East region."
"It's shameful that Egypt, which has a peace treaty with Israel, sabotaged this resolution," said Gillerman. Had Israel not withdrawn the resolution, inclusion of the amendments was virtually assured due to the NAM's majority status at the UN.
Abba Eban, of blessed memory, used to quip that "If Algeria introduced a resolution [in the UN General Assembly] declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions."
What the United Nebbich needs is another Oliver Cromwell. As he spoke in 1653 to another organization with lofty intentions that had denegerated into an offensive parody of itself (and as quoted to Neville Chamberlain when he was sent packing in 1940): "You have been here too long for any good you have been doing. Depart, we say, and let us have done with you. In the name of G-d, go!.
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