Palestine – United Nations Bedazzled By Abbas Word Wizardry

October 4, 2015 by David Singer
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PLO Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s speech to the UN General Assembly last week contained a concoction of half-truths and outright lies that everyone listening to him should question…writes David Singer.

Here are some prize porkies:

  1. “The question of Palestine was one of the first just issues brought before the United Nations from the time of its inception, and yet it remains unresolved until this moment”

Abbas failed to mention that it has remained unresolved since then because:

  1. The Arabs did not accept the 1947 UN Partition Plan to partition western Palestine into a Jewish State and an Arab State – whilst the Jews did.
  2. The Arabs – instead – unsuccessfully sent six Arab armies to invade Palestine in May 1948 to rout the newly declared Jewish State – Israel – and drive its Jewish population into the sea
  3. Jordan and Egypt successfully drove out and permanently expelled the Jewish population living in the Gaza Strip, East Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria (later termed “the West Bank”) – keeping those areas Jew-free from 1948 until 1967
  4. No attempt was made between 1948 and 1967 to create the Palestinian state Abbas says he will now accept. That opportunity has been well and truly missed.
  1. Abbas described the Palestinian Arabs as “a people who had lived peacefully in their land and made genuine intellectual, cultural and humanitarian contributions to mankind.”

Abbas was gilding the lily.

  1. The Arab riots in Jerusalem in 1920, the Hebron massacre of the Jewish community in 1929 and the Arab riot between 1936 and 1939 give the lie to his claims.
  2. No genuine intellectual, cultural and humanitarian contributions have been made to mankind by the Palestinian Arabs – unless airline hijackings, suicide vests, and indiscriminate targeting of Jews is what Abbas had in mind
  1. “While Palestine was partitioned into two states – according to which Israel was established 67 years ago – the second part of that resolution still awaits implementation.”

Abbas suffers from a selective memory.

  1. Palestine was effectively divided 92 years ago in 1923 –- when 78% – originally designated for the Jewish National Home by the 1920 San Remo conference and the Treaty of Sevres – was denied to Jewish settlement by article 25 of the Palestine Mandate.
  2. This area subsequently became the Jew-free independent Hashemite Kingdom of Transjordan in 1946 – renamed Jordan in 1950 after being unified with Judea and Samaria.
  1. “We recall here the words of the late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1976, when he stated that Israel will become an apartheid state if it continues its occupation of the Palestinian territory and described the Israeli settlements on Palestinian land as “cancer”.

Abbas misleadingly failed to tell the General Assembly that Rabin’s view had changed markedly just before his assassination in 1995 – after experiencing 19 years of unremitting terrorism and rejectionism by the PLO – telling the Knesset:

  1. The borders of the State of Israel would be beyond the lines which existed before the Six Day War. Israel would not return to the 4 June 1967 lines.
  2. Jerusalem would be united and would include both Maale Adumim and Givat Zeev as the capital of Israel under Israeli sovereignty
  3. The security border of Israel would be located in the Jordan Valley, in the broadest meaning of that term
  4. Gush Etzion, Efrat, Beitar and other communities in the area east of what was the “Green Line” prior to the Six Day War would be included in the State of Israel;
  5. Blocs of settlements would be established in Judea and Samaria like the one in Gush Katif
  6. No single settlement would be uprooted in the framework of the Interim Agreement, nor building hindered for natural growth
  1. “Palestine is a country of holiness and peace. It is the birthplace of Christ, the messenger of love and peace, and the Isra’and Mi’raj(ascension to heaven and night journey) of Mohammed”

Abbas omitted any mention of the Jews – the forebears of the Christians

  1. “It is no longer useful to waste time in negotiations for the sake of negotiations; what is required is to mobilize international efforts to oversee an end to the occupation in line with the resolutions of international legitimacy.”

Abbas supposedly supports “resolutions of international legitimacy” – yet the PLO he heads has declared that the Balfour Declaration, the Mandate for Palestine, and everything that has been based upon them, are deemed null and void.

The League of Nations Mandate for Palestine and article 80 of the United Nations Charter are resolutions of international legitimacy that cannot be swept away because Abbas does not like them.

  1. The state of Palestine, based on the 4th of June 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital, is a state under occupation, as was the case for many countries during World War II.”

  1. “The state of Palestine” does not meet the legal requirements of customary international law as encapsulated in the 1933 Montevideo Convention.
  2. There were no borders – only armistice lines.
  3. How can “Palestine” be a state under occupation since there was no such State in existence prior to 1967?

The applause accorded Abbas in the UN General Assembly indicates how his deceptively misleading word wizardry continues to confound attempts to end the 100 years old Jewish-Arab conflict.

Exposing its false peddlers must never cease.

Time the United Nations woke up and restored its own credibility.

David Singer is a Sydney Lawyer and Foundation Member of the International Analysts Network

Comments

5 Responses to “Palestine – United Nations Bedazzled By Abbas Word Wizardry”
  1. Debbi Weiss says:

    It takes far greater intelligence and minds to know the historical truth than to fall for the pack of lies and dirty tricks narrative that the UN and the world is fed by Abbas and his cronies. Sadly, intelligence doesn’t seem to be a strong point amongst those falling for this bull dust.

  2. danny kid says:

    Actually, all that needs to be said is: Abbas had taken a combination of hallucinogenic mushrooms and peyote before climbing the lectern and if the gathered multitude believed any of it there must have been LSD in the coollaid.

    • Gil Solomon says:

      The reality is that Abbas is a dangerous propagandist who knows exactly what he is doing. The gathered multitude simply hate Israel so it doesn’t matter that they believe him or not. They simply want Israel destroyed, so if Abbas whips up hatred of Israel by lies, they couldn’t care less.

      • Ben Eleijah says:

        Israel should pull out of the UN and cut relations with all countries that have supported Abbas!

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