Saturday, February 1, 2020

The UN has long since lost its moral authority to act as an honest broker

United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov predicted that the Middle East peace plan proposed by President Trump on January 28th will not become the basis of negotiations between Israelis and the Palestinians.

A statement issued by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres' spokesman on Tuesday declared that the UN "Remains committed to supporting Palestinians and Israelis to resolve the conflict on the basis of United Nations resolutions, international law and bilateral agreements and realizing the vision of two States - Israel and Palestine - living side by side in peace and security within recognized borders, on the basis of the pre-1967 lines."

Why should the Palestinians bother negotiating with Israel if the United Nations and the so-called "International community" are completely in their corner and consider anything less than agreeing to the Palestinians' demands as illegitimate?

Why should the Palestinians bother negotiating with Israel if the United Nations and the so-called "International community" are completely in their corner and consider anything less than agreeing to the Palestinians' demands as illegitimate? No wonder Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is seeking to address the UN Security Council shortly on the Palestinians' rejection of the Trump Middle East peace plan.

Knowing the U.S. will certainly veto such a draft resolution, the Palestinians are once again using the UN for their propaganda purposes, hoping to isolate the U.S. and Israel diplomatically.

United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Mladenov, for example, completely ignored major concessions offered to the Palestinians in the plan, which is built around the principle of a two-state solution that incorporates a step by step pathway to an independent Palestinian state.

These non-answers demonstrate in a nutshell why the United Nations has received much legitimate criticism, especially when it comes to the fact that it virtually always takes the Palestinian side in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.


https://canadafreepress.com/article/the-united-nations-comes-to-the-palestinians-rescue-once-again

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