By Joseph A. Klein, CFP United Nations Columnist ——Bio and Archives--September 21, 2024

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With a recorded vote of 124 nations in favor, 14 against, and 43 abstentions, the United Nations General Assembly passed its most virulently anti-Israel resolution yet on September 18th. Canada was one of the member states abstaining rather than voting against this despicable act of “diplomatic” jihad against the Jewish state, which was set in motion by the UN’s Observer State of Palestine.

The Palestinians exploited the privilege previously granted by the General Assembly to introduce (but not vote upon) draft resolutions to the General Assembly for its consideration. Fortunately, General Assembly resolutions, including this outrageous one, have no legally binding effect under international law.

Not surprisingly, the Palestinian crafted resolution paints Israel as the sole villain in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The barbaric terrorist massacres, torture, rapes, and kidnappings of innocent civilians committed by the Iran-backed Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad monsters on October 7th receive no mention. The General Assembly has refused in the past to brand Hamas a terrorist organization. The vast majority supporting this Palestinian resolution considers them legitimate “resistance” fighters.

This resolution calls for Israel not only to immediately cease all new settlement activity but also to remove Jews who settled from whatever areas the United Nations calls “Occupied Palestinian Territory.” This would include Jerusalem’s Old City, the location of Judaism’s holiest sites, in what the UN refers to as East Jerusalem. Doing the Palestinians’ bidding, the General Assembly has backed what amounts to judenrein – i.e., no Jews allowed to enter or reside in the Old City. This would mean reverting to the time when Jordan illegally occupied Jerusalem before June 1967 and kicked out the Jews living there.

The General Assembly resolution also demands that Israel pay “reparation for the damage caused to all the natural and legal persons concerned in the Occupied Palestinian Territory” and that Israel allow “all Palestinians displaced during the occupation to return to their........

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