by Peter Koenig for The Saker Blog
On 14 of May 1948 – Israel declared unilaterally her independence in a foreign land, called Palestine, supported by a UN Resolution sponsored by the UK (the United Nations “Partition Plan of Palestine” at the end of the British Mandate (euphemism for British ‘colony’), was adopted by the UN General Assembly on 29 November 1947 as Resolution 181 II). 1948 was also the year of the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights – this year, 2018, the UN declared Human Rights are, like Israel, celebrating their 70th Birthday (United Nations General Assembly, Paris, 10 December 1948 – General Assembly Resolution 217 A). During 70 years of Human Rights, the UN has tacitly allowed Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, who lived in their own land, Palestine.
The UN has allowed Israel’s massacre of Palestine against dozens of UN Resolution to restrain Israel from their aggressions on Palestine, killing tens of thousands of unarmed Palestinians, women, children and men. Destroying their livelihood, schools, hospitals and living quarters. Worse, confining 2 million Palestinians in an open torture and terror camp, called Gaza.
All this under the “watchful eye” of the United Nations, thousands of Blue Helmets patrolling ‘disputed’ – aka Israeli stolen territory from Palestine and surrounding Arab nations. And the world at large – by now 193 member-nations that make up the UN – watching, observing, but not saying beep loud enough to be heard.
It is a shame. Israel is a miserable and criminal disgrace – but a worse shame is the United Nations, the collectivity of 193 countries who collectively hide behind the mantle of the UN. Those who have dared to protest in the defense of human rights and in defense of Palestinians’ self-determination are few and far in between, risking the sword of the emperor and his poodles. Most have bent to and are still bending to – the king bull, Washington – and to its master, Israel. This is what is lamentable, that humanity has become a spineless bunch of nations – all kneeling in front of the big Satan, the torturing and killing monster, the US-armed to the teeth killing machine – the little dog that counts on the unlimited support from the most horrific bulldozer. That is an atrocious and unspeakable shame. – At least one honorable country, South Africa, has expelled Israel’s Ambassador over these most recent bloody atrocities.
That is the ignominy of our humanity in the 21st Century. – Yes, there are Russia, China, Cuba, Venezuela, Iran, Syria… and a few more sovereign nations that stand-up in protest, trying to use the corrupted UN system to right the wrongs – to no avail. Of course not. The majority counts – and the majority is being blackmailed by Washington on behalf of Israel into submission – or else – sanctions loom, in the form of blocked trade, blocked international monetary transfers, confiscation of assets abroad – or worse.
Where are the all so revered Human Rights that nobody dares to even cite, let alone enforce, in the case of Israel’s atrocities on Palestine, with the explicit support of the United States and most of her puppet “allies”?
When Trump in December 2017 declared that the US will transfer her Embassy to Jerusalem, he endorsed just once more a promise made over the last 30 years by several US Presidents, from the Bush dynasty to Clinton to Obama – but none of them implemented that promise, lest it would undermine peace negotiations. These promises by Washington were, of course, full of hypocrisy, as Washington always knew that peace was not on the table, that neither Israel or Washington were in favor of peace. Peace would have meant, as per the 1993 Oslo Accord, a two-state solution, meaning Israel and Palestine would live side-by-side in peace; two sovereign nations with equal rights.
The Oslo Accords are a number of agreements between the Government of Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization [PLO]. The Oslo I Accord, signed in Washington DC in 1993; and the Oslo II Accord, signed in Taba, Egypt, in 1995. These Accords marked the start of the Oslo process, aimed at achieving a Peace Treaty, based on UN Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338, fulfilling the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination. The Oslo Accords are valid to this day. They counter then and today the larger objective of Israel and the United States – of a “Greater Israel”, stretching from the Euphrates to the Nile, a nuclearized Israel, dominating the Middle East – and disposing of the energy and other mineral riches of the entire region.
Well, Trump, has made his campaign promise true. He – ordered by his darkest handlers – has cut the hypocrisy, using Israel’s 70th Birthday, 14 May 2018 to make Israel’s obsessive and oppressive dream come true, officially inaugurating the US Embassy in Jerusalem – to the detriment of peace and the total destitution of Palestine. The Oslo Accords saw Jerusalem as the final jewel in the mosaic for peace in a two-state solution – the Capital of both Palestine and Israel.
Trump’s decision – although refuted vehemently by the UN – has not only pushed peace light-years away into a phantom distance, but it has brought about a massacre – an unpardonable massacre – with Israeli soldiers armed to the teeth killing with live ammunition. Tens of thousands of unarmed Palestinians were protesting on the Gaza-Israeli border, in the middle of nowhere, at least 100 km away from the US Embassy inaugural celebration in Jerusalem. Israeli soldiers and police killed at least 60, twenty or more of them children and women, and injuring about 3,000 – people who could not be properly treated at hospitals. Israel has blocked the shipment of medication and is systematically bombing Palestinian health facilities.
The protesters were far away from Jerusalem, where the inaugural US-Embassy celebrations took place, cordoned-off by armed security forces and where the protesters could do no harm. The demonstrations were an expression of anger, of helplessness in the face of so much injustice which nobody, but nobody on this planet manifestly and effectively objected and intervened against. Palestinians know, this will mean more oppression, more subjugation to Israel’s terror tyranny – more killing, more starvation as Israel is blocking vital food shipments to Gaza – where 50% of children below 5, are already chronically malnourished.
What happened on 14 May 2018 in Palestine, those who are behind the apartheid, ethnic cleansing and outright Holocaust Israel has imposed on Palestine during the last 70 years, belong, no doubt, before a Nuremberg-type tribunal – with sentences as harsh as those inflicted by the allies after WWII on the Nazis and their Holocaust.
Trump and his Zion-handlers are responsible for a massacre of unprecedented dimensions since Israel’s war on Gaza in 2014. And how many vassals of the tyrannical and criminal pair, United States and Israel, will now also shift their Embassies from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem just to stay in the limelight of US favors, and, of course, to cement this universal Wrong?
And where are the UN declared Human Rights, ironically also celebrating their 70th Birthday this year? – Under the Human Rights Act the UN has a right to intervene in countries and situations, where massive human rights infractions are committed, like in Palestine. Dozens of such resolutions had been submitted to the UN Security Council, they were all vetoed by Washington. What good is the UN? None, whatsoever. No longer, not today, the system is totally corrupted, bought and blackmailed into submission to the wishes and political whims of the US and Israel.
Likewise have all the related UN agencies been corrupted and swayed to favor the Exceptional Nation and the Chosen People. There is no way that the International Courts of The Hague would ever prosecute a war crime committed by the west, let alone by the west’s chief criminals, the US and Israel. It’s simply not going to happen. Not while the current power structures are in place. Why then even believe in this fake justice system? And who still dares quoting them as beacons of international justice? – This is a farce, if there has ever been one.
The noble ideas behind the creation of the United Nations and the Declaration of universal Human Rights have in the last 70 years been corrupted to the point of non-recognition. Corrupted by political pressure, blackmailing, by fear of sanctions, or actual economic sanctions – all of which is only possible because the west is also living with a totally fraudulent US imposed fiat dollar-based monetary system that controls every financial transaction of every “sovereign” nation, hence can block any monetary move, seize assets abroad, and block international contracts, as they (almost) all are written in US dollars.
The latter is gradually fading, as nations are aware of their vulnerability by sticking to the US dollar. Many are now dealing directly in their own currencies, trying to circumvent the US monetary control. But that recognition, again, is weakened itself by the fear of sanctions, or condemnation by US courts which have in fact absolutely no jurisdiction in another sovereign land. But, since under the current western Ponzi fiat scheme all financial transactions have to flow through a US bank either in New York or London, potential non-adherence to the rule is “punishable”, and that mostly by economic strangulation, regime change or death. – It’s a vicious circle, under which Human Rights are just a slogan and a farce; and under which the rights of sovereign nations, for example of Palestine, remain not more than a pipe dream.
But despite all war crimes and massacres – JUSTICE – as human spirituality is still there, cannot be killed. It may be pushed away, subjugated, ignored, castrated and violated, but it doesn’t go away. It’s in all of us; just deep down and asleep in western minds, indoctrinated and brain washed by daily propaganda lies.
The combined neoliberal onslaught with impunity from all sides reaches a level of increasing awareness and rejection; the fearlessness of diabolical actions by neofascist governments is about to cause an awakening, a consciousness that dares to say – enough is enough. Take France’s Macron’s labor reforms – since February this year France has been plagued by strikes no-end – and no end is in sight. This is the worst – or the best – France has known since the 1968 student up-raisings. France, under Macron, the Rothchild-implant, is also the most militarized country in Europe. The European Union – at least for now – and since Washington’s stepping out from Iran’s Nuclear Deal, is distinctly distancing herself from the extremist, unfettered neoliberal politics of Washington. It’s perhaps too soon to call Victory – but this abject, unjustified and criminal slaughter of Palestinians, of another blow of violent oppression of Palestine (there is no word that can properly describe what happened on 14 May 2018), may signal that the monster vessel on high sea is losing notch-by-little-notch its diabolical North.
Peter Koenig is an economist and geopolitical analyst. He is also a water resources and environmental specialist. He worked for over 30 years with the World Bank and the World Health Organization around the world in the fields of environment and water. He lectures at universities in the US, Europe and South America. He writes regularly for Global Research; ICH; RT; Sputnik; PressTV; The 21st Century; TeleSUR; The Vineyard of The Saker Blog; and other internet sites. He is the author of Implosion – An Economic Thriller about War, Environmental Destruction and Corporate Greed – fiction based on facts and on 30 years of World Bank experience around the globe. He is also a co-author of The World Order and Revolution! – Essays from the Resistance.
After the First World War we had the League of Nations. After the Second World War we see the introduction of the United Nations, ostensibly created to prevent war. And yes, Peter Konig is correct; all the UN agencies have been corrupted, as intended.
The point is that the UN is not a post World War Two creation. It’s blueprints were introduced before World War One, when the German Foreign Ministry discovered plans for it’s inception. The intent was to provoke at least one, if not two world wars, and then introduce a world body which would “prevent” any such conflicts from occurring again. The intent, of course, was the exact opposite. This world body would in fact be a master colonial entity, keeping all the small and weak countries in check. How many wars has it prevented ? The Korean War ? More than three million dead. The Vietnam war ? Between three and five million dead. The Iraqi and Afghan wars ? More than three million dead. In 1999 NATO attacks the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia without declaration of war. The UN does not stop it. In 2017 Trump attacks Syria without declaration of war. The UN does not stop it. In 2018 the US, UK and France attack Syria without declaration of war. The UN does not stop it.
The UN either needs to be moved from New York City (too close to Wall Street), or else abolished, as it’s being used by the globalists as their own personal tool for subjugation and plunder of weak countries.
Nakba, the Great Tragic Comedy and Forgiveness in the Face of Israel^s Great Global
Arrogance and Cruel Indifference Towards Palestinians
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2018/05/16/the-nakba-forgiveness-in-face-of-israels-great-global-arrogance-and-cruel-indifference-towards-palestinians/
The reality is that murder in pursuit of a political goal is the method, but not limited to Palestine…
“…After all, if Israel’s actions are justified, would not US forces deployed on the Mexican border be justified in opening fire on refugees walking toward US territory? Would the European border police not be justified in sinking boats of migrants fleeing to Europe?
The answer to both of these questions would obviously be “yes.” The universal defense of Israel’s actions makes clear that the imperialist powers have adopted the mass murder of unarmed civilians as a legitimate policy tool…”
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/05/16/pers-m16.html
The UN was always a CFR/Rockefeller agency, old Rocky even bankrolled the land deal …
United Nations – Celebrating 70 Years of Human Rights Hypocrisy.
Whenever one hears the phrases “human rights,” “democracy,” “freedom,” “liberty,” “rule of law” or similar propaganda slogans, it should be a warning sign to prepare for war–whether that be a covert destabilization war, economic war, colored coup d’etat war, or actual shooting war.
That is what these lofty slogans like “human rights” truly represent: pretexts for aggression by America and its Free World crime partners.
To hell with “human rights.”
South Carolina Passes Law Defining Critism of Israel as “Anti Semitic” Just As They Kill 60 Civilians
https://www.globalresearch.ca/south-carolina-passes-law-defining-criticism-of-israel-as-anti-semitic-just-as-they-kill-60-civilians/5640837
As Voltaire observed, you can see who is in charge in a society by noting who it is that you are not allowed to criticise.
It’s just the issue of having a Security Council with permanent veto holding members. There should only be one permanent member and veto power – a representative of the general assembly, with everyone else rotating. That way it’s democratic and not hegemonic.
Russia,China,Cuba,Venezuela,Iran,Syria… the problem is that those countries have more than enough issues with human rights infractions themselves,past and present,and so their protests are not completely credible
@Anon(troll?)
“More than enough issues”. Now it would be nice of you if you came up with any credible proof to that. Most of the accusations against the countries you named are fabrications of the western lie factories and their MSM and NGOs.
I do not intend to deny that what the Israeli government is doing,or trying to do, to the West Bank and Gaza amounts to an ethnic cleansing in slow motion. However,it probably would have a better chance of furthering the Palestinian cause if the protests came from some party with less of a political axe to grind,and with fewer skeletons in their closets.As for skeletons,just one example:today the deportation of the Crimean Tartars in 1944,during which thousands died,is being remembered .That,also, was an attempt at ethnic cleansing.
UNICEF: More than 1,000 children injured in Gaza since beginning of Return Marches
https://sana.sy/en/?p=137960
Thank you Mr. Koenig for this sobering read.
It’s hard to fathom the immense crimes of the Jews against the Palestinian people. It’s harder yet to witness the silence of the world’s peoples in light of these crimes against humanity. 70 years of daily terror, destruction, suffering, massacres and death. And no end in sight.
That the majority of the world’s population are mostly ignorant about these crimes is proof enough that the tribe controls the majority of the world’s media, at least in the West.
The only shimmer of light is that zionist accusations of anti-semitism, as soon as some brave people points out these horrendous crimes, is starting to wear thin. The same can be said about the gigantic public relations project based on the legend of the six million. For the sake of Justice and Righteousness, there must come a day of reckoning soon.
A brave veteran IDF soldier tells the truth about the Nakba;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=KS4OXOom_vk
Names and faces of some of those killed in cold blood by israeli snipers this week in Gaza;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=KS4OXOom_vk
Sorry, wrong link. Here are the names and faces of the Palestinian martyrs, all young people, incl. an eight mos. old baby;
https://desertpeace.wordpress.com/2018/05/15/names-and-faces-of-this-weeks-martyrs/
here’s some interesting quotes about the fraud called UN:
Ambassador Bush on October 25, 1971…
“Never have I seen such hate.”
after witnessing Albania of all nations make a motion to expel the Republic of China from the Security Council which apparently was agreed upon by many other smaller nations. An action that left a permanent blemish on the record of the UN. and caused David Lawrence, the respected journalist and editor of the US News and World Report say:
“Can any nation be safe in an atmosphere of such irresponsible and emotional action.”
International Lawyer Ambassador J. Reuben Clark Jr.
“There seems no reason to doubt that such real approval as the Charter has among the people is based upon the belief that if the Charter is put into effect, wars will end….The Charter will not certainly end war. The Charter provides for force to bring peace, but such use of force is itself war…The Charter does take from us the power to declare war and to choose the side on which one must fight.”
August 10, 1962, Herbert Hoover…
“I urged the ratification of the United Nations by the Senate, but now we must realize the United Nations has failed to give us even a remote hope of lasting peace. Instead it adds to the dangers of wars, which now surround us.”
U Thant August 23,1970…
A world under law is realistic and obtainable. The ultimate crisis before the UN is the crisis authority.”
Joseph Clark…
“…an executive with substantially greater powers than those exercised by the Secretary-General of the UN. A judiciary system modeled after the world court. Decisions enforced by a world police force, under the command of a world executive.”
some unknown at the original convention….
“If the price of avoiding all-out thermal nuclear wars should prove to be acquiescence in the Communistic domination of the world, it seems probable that such a price would be paid.”
and Willard’s last paragraph from his chapter book….
And if the question was asked,”Why?” perhaps the answer would best be expressed by Adlai Stevenson, who in a speech to the United Nations Correspondents Association said…
“Interpret us…as puzzled, yet aspiring men, struggling on the possible brink of Armageddon.”
How to fix the United Nations?
Expel the United States and Israel.
Move the UN HQ from NYC to Geneva.
The UN Charter is the agreement that all nations had to sign and adopt to join the United Nations. Both the United States and Israel are regular and gross violators of the UN Charter. How can nations that regularly violate the agreement that formed the UN remain as active members of the UN?
Recent violations of the UN charter.
— The US violations of the JCPOA (Iran nuke deal)
— The US, France, UK and Israel all executing air strikes within the sovereign nation and UN member Syria.
— The US, Saudi Arabia and others all backing ‘rebel’ groups in Syria with the design to overthrow the government of the sovereign nation and UN member Syria.
… and that’s just what I can come up with off the top of my head and type in a few seconds. I’m sure the list could be much longer.
How can nations that regularly violate the agreement that all UN members made when they joined the UN still be considered UN members? Expel the USA and Israel, and possibly Saudi Arabia, and issue a stern warning to other nations such as France, UK, and Turkey to either live up to the agreement they made to join the UN or they’ll follow the others out the door.
I’m afraid if it wasn’t for the U.S. there would be no UN period.
Friday, November 17, 1972 in the Los Angeles Times carried an article which read:
Russia urges U.S. to increase UN aid. The normally humdrum budgetary committee broke into oratorical fireworks…V.S. Safronchuk speaking to the General Assembly said, ‘The U. S. should be assessed 38.4 % instead of its present 31.5%.’ This brought U.S. Ambassador George Bush to his feet; pointing to Safronchuk, Bush asserted that his government pays 40% of the overall costs those outside as well as inside the regular budget, compared with the Soviet’s contribution of 7%.
Then if that wasn’t enough UNICEF revealed in 1970 that Russia gave $5.2 million compared to America’s $159 million. This meant Russia gave 1.47% compared to America’s 45%.
I guess when you spend that much money and it’s really the tip of a much larger iceberg given the who, where and foundations that put up the money originally its expenditures actually amounts to some 9.2 billion and you can do whatever you please?
There’s no fixing the UN and look for those who realize that the problem is authority and who ultimately deserves to have that kind of authority the words of H. G. Wells:
“It is necessary to discover a head capable of directing it, endowed with an intelligence surpassing the most elevated human level.”
For the spiritually conscience that of course would be Christ Himself, however for the Rabb? they believe in someone else who is apparently going to arrive and in the mean time they work to do what force the Noahide laws upon us?
If what this video says is true the time has surely arrived regarding what Christ Jesus prophesied 2 thousand years ago. The Abomination of Desolation.
The good news however, rests with Hebrews 10:29
How much more severely do you think someone deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified them, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace? For we know him who said, “It is mine to avenge; I will repay,” and again, “The Lord will judge his people.” It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
Can you imagine someone cursing the true Messiah by calling him the son of a whore and that He is boiling in excrement for all eternity? Wow!
As it would appear USA and Israel are about to suffer humiliating attack and defeat, it seems important to arrange refuge for the Jews, probably in Jordan as mentioned in Scripture. As for the USA, it is of existential importance to make preparations for EMP/HAMP attacks resulting in eventual famine as the breakdown of transport/food distribution take hold. In the United States and Canada, 100’s of rail branch lines into agricultural districts should be rebuilt with all due haste.
Canadian branch lines into the Wheat Trust Districts were more recently abandoned, and also need rebuild.. RR track material cannot be quickly set up for manufacture, meaning thousands of miles of abandoned and paved over rail track will need to be salvaged and relocated to food supply corridors. Normal life is out of reach for a decade, but railway famine hedge can maintain de minimus nutrition until trucking is retrofitted with mechanical controls for solid state fuel systems.
Several blogs assigning, -including ME sovereign states- destruction and, Palestinian (read Muslim) controls over Biblical Covenant Israel would do well to at least note a number of dates lining up with prophetic writings, and downright unexplainable events in battle having occurred since General Allenby entered Jerusalem in December 1917. Specific battle events and outcomes so extraordinary the US Army War College at West Point refuses to include accounts in their instruction program for battlefield tactics.. Outcomes related in Isaiah 17 and Psalm 83 are on the horizon now…Of course, subjugation of Israel without harm to adversaries or collaborating parties like Russia would put prophecy into ill repute! What the hey- this is gambling country!
A few more words on the US Famine Hedge- 3000+ US County Planning Bureaus are able to determine abandoned rail track in their respective areas of responsibility and a compendium of supply can be4 made into a national registry of track material available. Warehousing and US military bases with track spur in place can be immediate sites for victuals distribution. Reformed US Military RR Battalions on the Ft Eustis VA template will work with the American Short line Regional RR Association to determine order of work for connecting good supply branch lines into national matrix.
EMP/HAMP event in Troposphere by PDRK/Iran or “False Flag” by parties unknown made to blame NOKO will have devastating results for sovereign states remotely involved, Asian, Muslim and otherwise. Muslims have a death wish, (demonstrated by Muslim alliance with Hitler in 1920’s) but the Russian proximity to forces meddling with Israel is downright perplexing..
Pearl Harbor and 911DAY motivated Americans. The world has never seen America ENRAGED.. .Putin, with Christian background, leader of a Christian Heritage nation is without excuse. Sad result of making devil’s bargain (like Hitler) with Mohammedanism for a few air and naval bases along North African and Levant Coasts could bring the curtain down on the new iron curtain. As for you Mr. Mr. Scott Humor/Saker, make note King David bought Mt. Zion from a family running a threshing floor on what is now known as the Temple Mount. This is written and stone on stone archeological fact. You may feel perfect justification in your work, and I offer you my best wishes. It is later than you think. Warn Vladimir.
prof prem raj pushpakaran writes — 2018 marks the 70th year of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights!!!