Het lijkt soms alsof de VN maar met één doel voor ogen is opgezet: het koste wat kost creëren van een Palestijnse staat, desnoods ten koste van Israël.
Het is Miguel D'Escoto, nota bene een oud-Sandinist, blijkbaar ontgaan dat de Arabieren de VN resolutie uit 1947 afwezen en een oorlog begonnen. De VN had die resolutie toen kunnen afdwingen, maar deed weinig behalve voorstellen doen die nog meer aan de Arabieren tegenmoet kwamen en van een Joodse staat weinig overlieten, maar ook die werden door de Arabieren afgewezen. Tegen de verwachting in werd de oorlog door Israël gewonnen en ook de Arabische staten hadden een deel van wat een Palestijnse staat moest worden ingepikt en waren niet van plan daar een Palestijnse staat op te zetten. Zowel de Arabische staten als de Palestijnen stonden de 'bevrijding' van Palestina voor, door Israël in een volgende oorlog te verslaan. De VN heeft dat nooit duidelijk veroordeeld maar wel de PLO in 1974, twee jaar na de moord op de Israëlische Olympische ploeg, waarnemerstatus gegeven, dit zonder verder enige voorwaarden te stellen.
Zie voor meer informatie ook: Israel en de VN
Het feit dat er nog geen Palestijnse staat is is vooral aan de Palestijnen zelf te danken, en aan de Arabische buurlanden.
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General Assembly chief: UN must adopt 1947 resolution on partition of Palestine
By Shlomo Shamir, Haaretz Correspondent
September 19, 2008
Father Miguel D'Escoto Brockmann, president of the 63rd session of the United Nations General Assembly, on Thursday urged the UN to work toward implementing UN Resolution 181, which in 1947 called for the division of Palestine into independent Jewish and Arab states.
During a speech at the General Assembly auditorium in honor of his election, Brockmann said the UN should work without delay to fulfill its old obligation of creating an independent Palestinian state.
"The greatest case failure of the United Nations is the lack of a Palestinian state," he said. "Article 22 of the covenant of the League of Nations pledged as a 'sacred trust' to establish a Palestinian state on a Palestinian territory that was part of the Ottoman Empire."
Brockmann, 75, is a priest from Nicaragua who served as the country's foreign minister in the 1980s.
The newly elected General Assembly president continued to lament the lack of a Palestinian state, saying, "At this very moment, people continue to die as a result of our incapacity to implement a resolution adopted more than 61 years ago. As the consequence, today the Palestinian situation is at the lowest, most critical point in its tragic history."
Brockmann also criticized the UN's five permanent member nations and claimed that their "veto power has gone to their heads." He also had harsh words for the UN itself, claiming that the organization needs to undergo a process of democratization.
The speech, which came several days before Tuesday's opening of the General Assembly, caused a stir in the auditorium and left delegates looking surprised.
Israeli ambassador Daniel Carmon told Haaretz that Thursday's speech "expressed Brockmann's personal history and his political opinions - something that is unacceptable at the UN."
The Jewish daily Forward reported on Thursday that Brockmann is expected to participate in a dinner next week sponsored by five Christian organizations in honor of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
The newly elected General Assembly president continued to lament the lack of a Palestinian state, saying, "At this very moment, people continue to die as a result of our incapacity to implement a resolution adopted more than 61 years ago. As the consequence, today the Palestinian situation is at the lowest, most critical point in its tragic history."
Brockmann also criticized the UN's five permanent member nations and claimed that their "veto power has gone to their heads." He also had harsh words for the UN itself, claiming that the organization needs to undergo a process of democratization.
The speech, which came several days before Tuesday's opening of the General Assembly, caused a stir in the auditorium and left delegates looking surprised.
Israeli ambassador Daniel Carmon told Haaretz that Thursday's speech "expressed Brockmann's personal history and his political opinions - something that is unacceptable at the UN."
The Jewish daily Forward reported on Thursday that Brockmann is expected to participate in a dinner next week sponsored by five Christian organizations in honor of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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