The fact that Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu was allowed in late September 2023 to publicly hold a map of the “New Middle East” inside the General Assembly of the United Nations without #Palestine showing on this map speaks volumes about the United Nations’ lack of impartiality in this conflict and its outright support to Israel committing war crimes against the Palestinian people, children, and women.
An Organization that advocates for the respect of human rights and international humanitarian law yet fails systematically to hold its member states, namely Israel, accountable for violating every article of its Charter.
An Organization that threatens its staff, namely the UN local staff in the Middle East and within #UNRWA to refrain from publishing any comment condemning the killing and ethnic cleansing of its own community under the pretext of neutrality when all the principles of neutrality have been decimated in its own General Assembly when it allowed the PM Netanyahu to wipe out the name of the state of Palestine from the Middle East Map.
An Organization that stayed silent when the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court’s only statement when prompted by journalists to issue a statement was:
“If there is evidence that Palestinians,…..has committed crimes. Yes, we have jurisdiction …”
in total disregard of the large-scale genocide of the Palestinian people being broadcast live 24/7 on Al Jazeera news channel.
An Organization that allows Israel to dictate its war plans by swiftly evacuating its international staff out of #Gaza in response to Israel’s request to wipe out Gaza and the Palestinians from the map of the Middle East.
Israel is moving to erase Gaza and the West Bank from the Middle East, and the United Nations is its first accomplice.
On 07 April 2004, the former Secretary-General Kofi Annan addressing the Commission on Human Rights on the United Nations’ failure to avert the Genocide in Rwanda, said
“We must never forget our collective failure to protect at least 800,000 defenceless men, women and children who perished in Rwanda 10 years ago.
Such crimes cannot be reversed.
Such failures cannot be repaired.
The dead cannot be brought back to life.
So what can we do?
First, we must all acknowledge our responsibility for not having done more to prevent or stop the genocide.
When we recall such events and ask “why did no one intervene?
No one can claim ignorance.
All who were playing any part in world affairs at that time should ask, “what more could I have done? How would I react next time –- and what am I doing now to make it less likely there will be a next time?”
Mr. Annan’s words resonate clearly and loudly more than ever today.
An Organization that fails repeatedly to prevent genocide and to act decisively to stop it, is a failed Organisation.
Thirty years after the Rwanda #genocide of 800,000 people, will the United Nations allow another genocide of Gaza’s two million people while it sits idle, making useless statements?
To the #UnitedNations, we say:
Your silence is deafening.
Bravo Nadine!