World has failed Palestinians, Palestine’s UN envoy says
Riyad Mansour has slammed the UN Security Council for failing to secure a ceasefire and bring an end to Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip.
“We have collectively failed. This council has failed,” the Palestinian envoy said during a special council session on the humanitarian response in Gaza.
“We can continue counting aid trucks and speaking of routes and imagining alternatives, but the only true measure of our success is our ability to alleviate human suffering – and the suffering of Palestinians is Israel’s goal and desire,” Mansour said.
“Whatever solutions you come up with, [Israel] will continue ensuring they fail until it is forced to change course. And the first, indispensable step is an immediate ceasefire.”
‘We have collectively failed,’ Mansour told the UN Security Council
Seems to be a theme with the UNSC, still failing in Ukraine as well.
Why is this guy not thrown out of the UN. I guess let him embarrass Israel for the word to see?
Israel’s UN ambassador says Israel will defend itself from those ‘who seek to annihilate us’
Israeli UN Ambassador Gilad Erdan began his address to the UNSC retelling the story of his family’s extermination at the hands of the Nazis.
“To this time of unfathomable hatred, we refer to as ‘never again’,” he said. “Yet, never again happened again.”
Erdan said this time the perpetrators of the October 7 attacks were “Hamas Nazis” who have the objective of exterminating the Jews.
He blamed Iran for fomenting hatred and argued that if Hitler could have had a profile on X, it would have looked like that of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
“We will defend ourselves from those who seek to annihilate us,” he said.
Using Nazism analogy to describe Gaza war ‘not useful’: Palestinian official
Majed Bamya, deputy permanent observer of the State of Palestine to the UN, has said that while the anger and outrage at the horrors Israel is inflicting on people in Gaza is legitimate, making historical comparisons with Nazism or Holocaust analogies should be avoided.
“I continue to believe that such historical comparisons are not useful. They do not enlighten minds nor further knowledge. On the contrary. There are many historical examples we can draw from without having to use the Nazism or the Holocaust analogy,” Bamya said in a post on X.
He also acknowledged that while many aspects of that particular historical era are relevant to the Gaza war, “shortcuts and un-nuanced parallels do not allow to draw the necessary lessons from the tragedies that occurred then.”
“As for the use of the Holocaust to justify atrocities, we have a duty to engage on that matter and reject such instrumentalisation and distortion. But we must do so with the utmost respect for the victims of the Holocaust, including the survivors, as we continue making ours the pledge ‘Never Again’, a pledge that is relevant regardless of the identity of the victims or the perpetrators."
I know that legitimate anger and outrage and the failure of words to grasp the scale of human suffering and the horrors Israel has inflicted upon the Palestinian people in Gaza create the temptation to make historical comparaisons aimed at generating as strong a reaction as…
— Ambassador Majed Bamya 🇵🇸 (@majedbamya) July 26, 2024
