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Alnafisee

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2010-10-18
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2011-01-19
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  1. “In return, these countries continue to await a matching, serious Israeli commitment. In this context, the Israeli side must immediately accept the Arab Peace Initiative, which is the only way to achieve a lasting and comprehensive peace between the two sides and a definitive solution that is equitable for all parties.”

    2011-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6470Resumption1 (2011) · source

  2. “From this rostrum my Government calls on the international community, the United Nations and the Quartet in particular to adopt a comprehensive, strategic approach to achieving the immediate and complete cessation of all settlement activities in the occupied territories. For the past six decades, the Arab-Israeli conflict has dominated all issues in the Middle East. This has led in turn to extremism and the expansion of terrorism and created a critical deterrent to development and reform efforts in the region, which should play a civilized role instead of being torn by conflicts that sap its energy and squander its resources. In conclusion, all the Arab countries have stressed their continued commitment to a just and comprehensive peace based on international legitimacy.”

    2011-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6470Resumption1 (2011) · source

  3. “Such continued expansion, along with the indiscriminate demolition of houses in the occupied Palestinian territories - most recently of the historic Shepherd Hotel - would create obstacles to any peace initiative, as the wall and settlements surrounding most cities of the West Bank will make it nearly impossible to establish a contiguous, viable Palestinian State in the future. Israel's illegal measures and practices against the Palestinian people not only constitute violations of the United Nations Charter, humanitarian law and resolutions of international legitimacy; they also undermine any slim chance for peace. Furthermore, such unilateral practices prevent any international initiative or effort to achieve peace and undermine any international drive to hold Israel, the occupying Power, accountable for its actions.”

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  4. “In addition, the Israeli Government's financing, protecting and arming of settlers has enabled the building of more settlements and resulted in rapid growth over the past few months. Last year, the world witnessed the Israeli project to build 900 housing units in the Gilo settlement, south of occupied Jerusalem. This action was criticized by the entire international community, including the so-called friends of Israel. Moreover, Israel recently decided through its so- called Israeli Building Management Committee to launch a larger project to build 1,400 housing units in the same settlement under the name Gilo: Southern Slopes. Reports indicate that an even larger project includes a vast plan for 4,000 housing units to attract families from other areas.”

    2011-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6470Resumption1 (2011) · source

  5. “That will enable the Palestinian people to exercise their right to self-determination and to establish their independent State on their national soil with East Jerusalem as its capital. It will also require Israel's withdrawal from the Syrian Golan Heights and the Lebanese Shaba'a farms. To address Israeli violations of international legitimacy is to address violations of international law and the international community's lack of will to shoulder its responsibilities for maintaining peace and security. The Israeli occupation forces have exceeded the limits of international legitimacy in their application of any number of policies, including building the apartheid wall, building and expanding settlements in the occupied territories, and increasing illegal colonization measures.”

    2011-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6470Resumption1 (2011) · source

  6. “These actions of the Israeli occupation forces seek to perpetuate the destruction of the Palestinian people and its infrastructure, subject it to greater oppression and suffering, and systematically drive the Palestinians to despair and frustration. The Arabs have chosen peace, not surrender. Their demand was and continues to be for the enforcement of international legitimacy, starting with the implementation of resolutions 242 (1967) and 338 (1973) and the principle of land in exchange for a just and comprehensive peace. This necessarily requires full Israeli withdrawal from the occupied Arab territories to the 1967 borders and the return of Palestinian refugees to their homes with full restoration of their rights.”

    2011-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6470Resumption1 (2011) · source

  7. “The Palestinian people paid the price for each of these scourges due to the international community's complete failure to enforce resolutions of international legitimacy against the occupier. If the United Nations, represented by the Security Council, had fulfilled its role, the Palestinian people would not have had to endure this continued suffering. For more than half a century, Israel has unleashed its worst policies against the people of Palestine, including murder, deportation, imprisonment, blockades, the annexation of land, the confiscation of property, and the looting and plundering of the resources of Palestine.”

    2011-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6470Resumption1 (2011) · source

  8. “Mr. AlNafisee (Saudi Arabia)(sp0ke in Arabic): At the outset, I would like to thank the Council and the Secretary-General for their efforts to achieve international peace and security in the face of changing circumstances and threats throughout the world at this critical stage. I would also like to thank Mr. B. Lynn Pascoe for his detailed briefing on the situation in the Middle East, including the question of Palestine. The suffering of the Palestinian people began at the same time as the idea of giving land to a landless people. In that context, the first issue was land and the refugees became the second. Later issues involved settlements, the revision of history and the demolition of religious sites.”

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  9. “The Government of my country hopes that the wish expressed by President Barack Obama at the opening of the sixty-fifth session of the General Assembly, that the Palestinians will take their seat as a full member in next year's session of the General Assembly, will come true. We hope that Israel will avail itself of the opportunity of direct negotiations to respond, howsoever late, to the Arab Peace Initiative and prove that it is a real partner capable of making peace by participating in the two-State solution in order to end six decades of bloodshed, conflict and continuous threats to international peace and security.”

    2010-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6404Resumption1 (2010) · source

  10. “Will the Council respond to the positions of concerned Member States by compelling Israel to stop new settlement activities and dismantle existing settlements? Unfortunately, however, it is clear that things are not going in the right direction if we wish to reach the two-State solution, mainly due to Israel's insistence on continuing to build illegal settlements. Indeed, the Israeli Government announced last week the start of construction on 238 new housing units in East Jerusalem. In Lebanon, the ongoing threat posed by Israel to the sovereignty of the people of that country further complicates an already complex situation. Finally, Israel is ignoring or disregarding the call of the international community to start negotiations in good faith on the return of the occupied Golan to its legitimate owner, Syria.”

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  11. “If Israel claims that it wants negotiations and is committed to peace, then it should first cease all settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territories and dismantle existing settlements. The Secretary-General confirmed in a recent statement the illegitimacy of settlement activity and called on Israel to fulfil its commitment, in accordance with the Road Map to peace, to freezing all new settlement, including so-called natural population growth, and dismantling all existing settlements built since March 2001. The international community has demanded in concert the cessation of settlement activities on the basis of their illegitimacy. Will these demands be met with concrete action from our Security Council?”

    2010-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6404Resumption1 (2010) · source

  12. “Since Israel annexed East Jerusalem in 1967, a bitter transformation of the holy city has displaced the city's Arab population to create a Zionist East Jerusalem. Stripping Arab citizens of their identities and resettling them elsewhere is akin to ethnic cleansing. The situation in East Jerusalem deteriorates daily as Israel's policies demolish homes, destroy identities, displace people and alter records in order to rewrite history and change Jerusalem's demographics. In light of these illegal activities, the Kingdom reaffirms its condemnation of the continued resettlement of Arab Israeli citizens and calls for the immediate cessation and dismantling of Jewish settlements in the occupied territories. We reiterate that the building of settlements is illegal under international law and constitutes an obstacle to peace negotiations.”

    2010-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6404Resumption1 (2010) · source

  13. “Two years have passed since Israeli occupation forces invaded the Gaza Strip and the Security Council adopted resolution 1860 (2009). Nonetheless, the widespread destruction of Gaza remains unabated, in spite of all assistance efforts. Israel's occupation forces continue to hinder the delivery of assistance by closing key crossings, increasing checkpoints, building a wall that now isolates Gaza from the rest of the world, pursuing a policy of collective punishment against the population of Gaza, and creating obstacles to the reconstruction process to heal the damage that Israeli war machine caused. All of these practices and others committed by the Israeli occupying forces clearly show the persistence of Israeli aggression towards the Palestinian problem.”

    2010-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6404Resumption1 (2010) · source

  14. “In spite of all of the efforts of the Palestinian Authority to restart direct negotiations towards the establishment of a two-State solution based on the 1967 borders, the Israelis continue to build these illegal settlements and bring more irrelevant questions to the negotiating table, such as the recognition of Israel as a Jewish State - a clear indication from the Israeli side that it is not seriously interested in reaching a just and peaceful solution, which is an internationally supported objective. In light of the ongoing situation, my Government repeats its call on the international community to demand that Israel, the occupying Power, restart direct negotiations with the Palestinian Authority and halt all illegal settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territory, in particular East Jerusalem.”

    2010-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6404Resumption1 (2010) · source

  15. “I should like to congratulate you, Sir, on your country's assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for a second term. I should also like to thank Assistant Secretary- General Fernandez-Taranco for his detailed briefing on the subject today. At the outset, I should like to express my appreciation for the convening of this debate to address the situation in the Middle East, including the question of Palestine, at a time when the Middle East has a dire need to resume direct peace process negotiations and to prevent a stalemate situation as a result of the ongoing illegal Israeli settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territory, particularly East Jerusalem.”

    2010-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6404Resumption1 (2010) · source