Ignore United Nations

President Mahmoud Abbas: "Here we declare that as long as Israel refuses to commit to the agreements signed with us, which renders us an authority without real powers, and as long as Israel refuses to cease settlement activities and to release the fourth group of Palestinian prisoners in accordance with our agreements, Israel leaves us no choice but to insist that we will not remain the only ones committed to the implementation of these agreements, while Israel continuously violates them."


They’ve got all of Israel and they’ve got all of Jerusalem and they want to keep it all and they don’t have any intention of sharing it with anybody. “‘We don’t care if the whole world says we’re wrong; we know we’re right. It doesn’t matter what we do to the Palestinians, it doesn’t matter how selfish we are with our land and Jerusalem, with the other religions, we know we’re right and we’re not going to back down an inch!’

Israel has made it a policy to ignore United Nations resolutions. The most famous one, UN Security Council Resolution 242, passed just after the Six Day War, talked of the “inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war and the need to work for a just and lasting peace in which every State in the area can live in security.” It demanded the “withdrawal of Israeli armed forces from territories occupied in the recent conflict.” Israel had to withdraw from the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem. 48 years have passed and Israel has yet to comply. Subsequent UN resolutions urged Israel to cease building Jewish settlements on conquered lands. Israel consistently ignored them, without suffering any adverse consequences in the U.S.

Ted Rudow III, MA