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Jerusalem, Israel – On Monday a group of largely anti-Israel countries pushed the UN Security Council to once again turn Israel into its punching bag for simply defending itself against the Iranian regime-backed terrorist movement Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ.)
In his remarks before the session, Israeli UN ambassador Gilad Erdan singled out Norway and Ireland, which often attack the Jewish state, for their role in securing an emergency meeting.
“How would Norway react to Islamists plotting to launch missiles at civilians in Oslo? How would Ireland react if jihadist missiles were raining down on Dublin in an attempt to wipe out the infidels?” she asked.
Israel conducted a three-day conflict with the US-designated foreign terrorist organization PIJ. Erdan said: “Palestinian (Islamic) Jihad deliberately launched eleven hundred rockets at Israeli civilians, with about two hundred landings inside the Gaza Strip, killing innocent Palestinians and among them small children.”
According to Middle East experts, the Islamic Republic of Iran – the worst international sponsor of terrorism in the world – has played a key role in fueling violence against Israel. Erdan observed: “The Palestinian Islamic Jihad is a radical terrorist organization, armed, financed and trained by Iran.”
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China holds this month’s presidency of the Security Council and lent its support to the emergency meeting.
The Council session comes at a time of monumental crisis, in which the UN seems largely paralyzed. A possible nuclear catastrophe is occurring in Ukraine after bombing hit a Russian-controlled nuclear facility.
Observers say the UN Security Council has been largely helpless in its efforts to stop a six-month war of attrition between Russia and Ukraine that has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths, many more injured and millions of displaced. , mainly women and children. Russia faced war crimes charges in Ukraine.
Referring to the recent US neutralization of al-Qaeda commander Ayman al-Zawahiri in late July, Erdan noted the double standards at play.
The Israeli ambassador to the UN, Gilad Erdan, addresses the press outside the Security Council room.
((Courtesy: Israeli Mission to the United Nations.))
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“This is exactly why, when al-Zawahiri was eliminated, this institution, as well as most of the world, gave its full support. This was a step towards the eradication of radical terror from the world. Yet when Israel neutralizes such terrorists in order to prevent an imminent attack on our civilians, UN officials shamelessly express deep concern. This is a blatant double standard and it will not be accepted, “he said.
When the Security Council met Tor Wennesland, UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, he noted that “the preliminary numbers, which have yet to be confirmed, indicate that since August 5, the Israeli Defense Forces have launched 147 air strikes against targets in Gaza. Palestinian militants have fired some 1,110 rockets and mortars into Israel, many of which have landed deep in Israeli territory. ”
He added: “During the escalation, 46 Palestinians were killed and 360 injured, and hundreds of residential housing units were damaged or destroyed, along with other civilian infrastructure. Seventy Israelis were injured, with damage to residential facilities and other civil structures “.
The Israeli government has documented that poorly fired PIJ rockets killed Palestinian children and destroyed Gaza’s infrastructure.
The UN Security Council meeting to discuss the latest situation in the Middle East.
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During his remarks to the council, the Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, did not criticize the terrorist group that Israel had targeted and called the Israeli operation “unprovoked and unwarranted aggression”.
Mansour attributed the Israeli preemptive military operation to prevent PIJ missiles from entering Israel at the “next Israeli elections”. According to conspiracy theories circulating within far-left and radical Islamic circles, Israel eliminated the leadership of the PIJ as an electoral gimmick to increase Prime Minister Yair Lapid’s electoral chances in the November Israeli elections.
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The three European countries that, in addition to the United Arab Emirates and China, asked for the meeting seemed to turn a blind eye to the appointment of the PIJ as a terrorist organization.
The French diplomat spoke of stopping the “spiral of violence”, but omitted any explicit criticism of the PIJ as a terrorist movement.
The Norwegian representative accused Israel of “occupation” and “settlement building” in his remarks. The Norwegian official did not mention the PIJ. The Irish diplomat called Israel the “occupying power”. It is not clear what the Irish diplomat meant by saying that Israel occupies the Gaza Strip.
Israel has not had a presence in Gaza since 2005, when it withdrew from the Palestinian enclave. There are no Israeli soldiers or citizens in Gaza; however, Hamas is holding two Israelis hostage and will not release the bodies of two other Israeli soldiers. The representative of Ireland mirrored Norway and France by not naming the PIJ a terrorist movement and the nature of its ideology.
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In stark contrast to the anti-Israeli reprimands of the three Europeans, US ambassador to the world body Linda Thomas-Greenfield, said: “Let’s be clear: Palestinian Islamic Jihad is a designated terrorist organization in the United States and in many other nations. And he is also an Iranian prosecutor, who has been conducting attacks on innocent civilians for years. ”
He appealed to the fractured body “to unite and unconditionally repudiate the terrorism of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad”. Thomas-Greenfield stressed that “we fully support Israel’s right to defend its people from terrorist threats, including the firing of rockets at civilians”.
