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Erdan

lines on the record: 378
first: 2021-07-28
most recent: 2023-12-29
sittings or episodes: 26
sources: un-security-council

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“The villages in southern Israel that were invaded by Hamas terrorists were peaceful agricultural villages, just like my grandfather’s village in Transylvania. Entire communities were exterminated, only this time the murderers were Hamas Nazis. Entire Israeli families were turned into smoke and ash, no different than the fate that my grandfather’s family met in Auschwitz. However, the brutality of the crimes is not the only thing that the savage Hamas Nazis share with the German Nazis. They both share a common ideology, and it is not the two-State solution. The Einsatzgruppen Nazi death squads were committed to exterminating the Jews, just as the Nukhba Hamas terrorists are committed to exterminating the Jews and Israel. The Nazis sought a Judenrein — a Jew-free Europe — just as Hamas seeks a Judenrein Israel.”
2023-10-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9462 (2023) · source
“My grandfather Chaim was a farmer. He lived in a small village in Transylvania with his wife, Bracha, and their eight beautiful children. But in the spring of 1944, the small village ceased to exist. Their community was erased. The Nazis forced Chaim, Bracha and their eight children onto cattle cars hurdling towards Auschwitz. Upon arrival, Bracha and seven of their children — Pearl, Zvi, Sarah, Hodaya, Leah, Henya and little baby Mordecai — were murdered in gas chambers and turned to ash. My grandfather’s story was once a horror story of a different era, of a distant time of unfathomable hatred, a time which, until three weeks ago, we referred to as “never again”. Yet “never again” happened again.”
2023-10-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9462 (2023) · source
“Their well- being should come before aiding the supporters of the terrorists who abducted them. Despite the wording of the draft resolution submitted by Russia, there can never be any false immoral comparisons between the Hamas savages and the law-abiding democracy of Israel. Israel is fighting sheer evil, and that should be crystal clear to every person in this Chamber. Hamas has perpetrated the most barbaric massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. Hamas is solely responsible for the Palestinians’ situation in Gaza. Hamas is committing crimes against humanity. In the wake of the Holocaust, we collectively swore — never again. That was one of the main reasons the United Nations was established. Never again is now — we must not forget that.”
2023-10-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9453 (2023) · source
“Furthermore, the alternative draft resolution, the Russian draft resolution (S/2023/795), makes no mention of our right to self-defence and no mention of Hizbullah, the terrorist force on Israel’s northern border that has spent the past weeks firing rockets, mortars and anti-tank missiles at Israeli towns and cities for no reason. Would Moscow or Beijing be given a right to self-defence if faced with the same threat? I believe so. Finally, if this other draft resolution (S/2023/795) truly focused on the humanitarian situation — as it was presented the first time — the more than 220 hostages being held by Hamas would not appear as a general sidenote at the very end of the draft resolution; instead, their release would be the first demand. The hostages held by Hamas must be the top humanitarian priority of the international community.”
2023-10-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9453 (2023) · source
“The absurdity of calling on Israel to rescind the call for a temporary evacuation is truly unbelievable and goes against every value that the Council represents. By demanding that Israel call on Gazans to return north, that draft resolution would serve only to maximize civilian casualties and not to mitigate them. Why would Israel ask Gazans to return to an active war zone? We cherish life and take every measure to minimize civilian fatalities and casualties. We are not fighting the Palestinians. We are fighting only the Hamas ISIS terrorists. Civilians should never be deliberately put in harm’s way.”
2023-10-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9453 (2023) · source
“Those who voted against the United States-led draft resolution (S/2023/792) have shown the world that the Council is incapable of doing the most basic task of condemning Islamic State in Iraq and the Sham (ISIS)- like terrorists and that it cannot affirm the right to self- defence of the victim of those heinous crimes. Israel has been attacked and continues to be attacked. That is a fact. In the south by Hamas and in the north by Hizbullah — what a surprise. Meanwhile, the other draft resolution, the Russian draft resolution voted upon today (S/2023/795), sought to tie Israel’s hands, preventing us from eliminating a threat to our existence and permitting the genocidal terrorists to regroup so that they can massacre us again.”
2023-10-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9453 (2023) · source
“How would Beijing respond if genocidal jihadists beheaded and murdered its babies? I will give them a moment to reflect on that thought. However, I believe that every person — not only here in this Chamber but across the globe, whoever is watching this discussion — knows exactly how it would respond, so we do not need a moment to reflect. Were the Security Council not to condemn the terrorists and their crimes against its members’ innocent civilians, each of them would be just as shaken as I am. They would feel that there is a blatant double standard, that the international community is blind to their agony, and that the Council is not taking even the most basic steps that anyone with a slight moral compass should take. That is precisely how the State of Israel feels right now.”
2023-10-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9453 (2023) · source
“My elderly parents living in Ashkelon have spent the past 20 days running back and forth to bomb shelters as rockets rain down on them — deliberately on them, on civilians. Are those members unable to condemn even deliberate attacks on civilians perpetrated by terror organizations? If any of their countries were subjected to a similar massacre, I am certain that they would act with much greater force — much greater force — than Israel. There would be no question in their minds that such barbaric slaughter would require a broad military operation against the terrorists who committed such inhumane atrocities — an operation to eradicate their terrorism capabilities in order to make sure that such atrocities can never happen again. How would Moscow react if terrorist death squads wiped out entire neighbourhoods in Moscow?”
2023-10-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9453 (2023) · source
“I would like to begin by expressing our deep gratitude to the United States and every other member of the Security Council that supported draft resolution S/2023/792. Voting for a draft resolution that clearly condemns savage genocidal terrorists while standing up for a Member State’s right to defend itself against terror shows that despite all the libellous falsehoods that are spread in the halls of the United Nations, there are still those who stand up for the values of freedom and security. I thank those members for their moral clarity in such dark times. To those who voted against the draft resolution, I must say that their decision shocks me to the core. In Israel we are fighting for our very survival.”
2023-10-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9453 (2023) · source
“The Council should be purely focused on condemning the Hamas terrorists, supporting Israel’s right to defend itself and demanding that Hamas immediately and unconditionally return its hostages. Israel’s rescue mission can end very quickly if Hamas terrorists turn themselves in and release all the hostages. But the rescue mission will not end until Israel ensures that Hamas’s atrocities can never be repeated again, and there is no way to ensure that other than the obliteration of Hamas’s capabilities.”
2023-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9443 (2023) · source
“The United Nations and some on the Council rushed to adopt the lies of ISIS-like terrorists and refused to accept the hard evidence of a law-abiding democracy. They should apologize. They should apologize for never convening the Council when Hamas rockets are fired deliberately at Israeli hospitals. Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon was directly hit by Hamas rockets just last week. Where was the Council? Council members should apologize for years of burying their heads in the sand while Hamas ceaselessly built up its war machine in Gaza. Council members should stop following Hamas’s script and stop playing by Hamas’s rules. The time has come for the Council to hold Hamas fully and solely accountable for the war crimes committed.”
2023-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9443 (2023) · source
“Israel has lots of footage and even audio recording from Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists to prove that beyond a shadow of a doubt. Nevertheless, the Secretary-General and numerous United Nations officials immediately accepted the claims of baby-killing terrorists. What a disgrace. And today some Council members repeated those lies. How can the Secretary-General forget that he has the obligation to verify the facts before issuing a condemnation? I guess it is easy when it comes to Israel. Mere months ago, the Secretary-General himself signed off on a report detailing how the misfired rockets of Gaza’s terrorists killed and maimed dozens of Gazan children and medical personnel. We demand an apology.”
2023-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9443 (2023) · source
“Muscroft was transferred because, according to United Nations information and assessments, there was danger to her life. If a United Nations official received death threats for telling the truth about the terrorists, try to imagine how any Gazan feels about telling the truth. Not only are official Gazan sources absolutely unreliable, as they are terrorists, but they would also be immediately murdered if they say something that Hamas does not like. Therefore, I have to ask Council members a question. What does that say about whoever decides to believe the claims of a terror organization without any fact-checking? The Al Ahli Hospital was hit by — and only by — a Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket. What happened yesterday, including the tragic loss of life of civilians, was the sole fault of Hamas.”
2023-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9443 (2023) · source
“In August 2022, Sarah Muscroft, the former Head of Office for the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Gaza, tweeted a condemnation of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad for their in indiscriminate rocket fire at Israeli civilians. It was in August 2022 — Council members can check. Almost immediately, Ms. Muscroft, the Head of OCHA, was removed from her post and deleted her tweet. That made Israel very upset, obviously. Therefore, I asked her boss — I hope he is still with us — Under-Secretary- General Griffiths, why the United Nations would remove an official from her post for condemning acts of terror that deserve United Nations condemnation. Do Council members know what he told me? He said that Ms.”
2023-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9443 (2023) · source
“Perhaps the most fundamental part of this issue is that some have still not internalized what Hamas truly is. This emergency meeting and draft resolution S/2023/773, which the Council voted on, were triggered — we all know it — by the propaganda of savage jihadists. Let that sink in. Claims made by baby-killing terrorists were accepted in this Chamber and repeated today, by the way, at face value without a second thought, and that is what triggered this meeting. Any piece of information that comes out of Gaza cannot be trusted. Hamas runs Gaza; Hamas runs all Gazan institutions. Therefore, whatever comes out of the Gaza Strip is not the truth. It is what Hamas wants Council members to hear. Sadly, transparency and the truth are not central values for genocidal terrorists.”
2023-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9443 (2023) · source
“Calling for calm, restraint and ceasefires is like putting a Band-Aid on a bullet wound. Such steps will not eradicate the cancer that is Hamas. Humanitarian corridors will not prevent the next atrocity. The only thing that will is the utter obliteration of that satanic entity. What are Council members doing to prevent that evil? Perhaps if, for once, the Council condemned Hamas, the people of Gaza would begin to comprehend the absolute destruction its leaders have brought upon them, perhaps they would stand up to those barbaric savages. Yet every time the international community pressures Israel and attempts to tie its hands, it serves only to embolden those genocidal terrorists, increases their popularity and ensure that this evil lives to see another day.”
2023-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9443 (2023) · source
“So, it wants to terrorize its citizens — deliberately, only citizens — and then weaponize the United Nations to prevent Israel from obliterating it so it can rebuild, rearm and continue terrorizing Israelis. It has a lot of patience while working towards annihilating Israel. That is Hamas’s script. That is its playbook, and shockingly, even after the recent slaughter, it is still working for Hamas. Do Council members not understand that just by holding this meeting with its focus the Council is showing Hamas that it can fool everyone again and again and again? I reiterate that, so far, the Council has not even condemned Hamas for the atrocity perpetrated, let alone held Hamas fully responsible for the situation in Gaza, but here we are discussing humanitarian corridors. Does nobody else see how ludicrous this is?”
2023-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9443 (2023) · source
“The United Nations knew all of this, but it remained silent. Hamas then spent the following 17 years terrorizing Israel by firing tens of thousands of rockets indiscriminately at Israeli towns and cities while hiding behind their own civilians. Where has the Council been? As we speak, right now, sirens are wailing, and millions of people in Israel are running to find shelter. Hamas does this so that once Israel strikes back, they can parade the bodies of the civilians in Gaza that they hid behind. Their strategy is to exploit their civilian casualties as propaganda, to leverage the international community to tie Israel’s hands. Its goal is to increase civilian casualties in Gaza. That is part of its script. It knows that it cannot beat Israel on the battlefield. Of course, it knows it.”
2023-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9443 (2023) · source
“How is it possible that the Council is only dealing with draft resolutions such as the one voted upon today? It is tragic to say, but the Council is playing the exact role that Hamas had written for it in their script of death and terror, and I will explain. Israel unilaterally withdrew from Gaza 18 years ago. Hamas was then elected by the people of Gaza — I hear frequently that Hamas does not represent the people, but it was elected. After murdering the Palestinian Authority officials by throwing them off rooftops, Hamas proceeded to convert every inch of the Gaza Strip into a war machine. Where was the Council then? Where was the Council when Hamas exploited the billions of dollars of international aid to embed terror infrastructure within and below densely populated residential areas? Where was the United Nations?”
2023-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9443 (2023) · source
“Complete obliteration is the only way to ensure such atrocities will never be repeated. Nevertheless, look at what is going on here, 11 days after ISIS-like Hamas terrorists attempted to carry out another Jewish genocide. The Council is not even focused on their heinous crimes. Up until today, members have not even done the most basic thing — they have not condemned, as a Council, Hamas’ brutal terror attack. It really is unfathomable that members cannot unite even on that basic thing. The Council is not focused on what needs to be done to free Gaza from Hamas and ensure that the oppression of the Gazan people by their tyrants ends. Instead, the Council is fixated solely on humanitarian corridors and aid. Those are important and noble causes, but they are certainly not a solution to prevent Hamas’s next atrocious massacre.”
2023-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9443 (2023) · source
“Although there are some here who choose not to designate Hamas as a terror organization for political reasons, it still does not change the facts: Hamas deliberately targets civilians and massacres children when given the chance, which makes Hamas a terror organization, no different from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Sham (ISIS). They do not believe in dialogue and do not want a dialogue or believe in political solutions. They only believe in exterminating Jews and annihilating the Jewish State. Nothing can change their genocidal ideology. They do not even recognize the existence of international law — this is to all those who are talking about a two-State solution and international law. There is only one way to cure a cancer, and that is the evisceration of every cancerous cell, just as was done with ISIS and Al-Qaida.”
2023-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9443 (2023) · source
“There were many paramedics — speaking of medical teams — who were murdered on their way to treat the wounded. Mothers watched as their babies were slaughtered, and there were elderly Holocaust survivors who endured the Nazis only to be executed in their own living room. The approach was planned and carried out deliberately by the terrorists that rule Gaza today, as we speak. It was not done by accident or by mistake but deliberately. Two hundred innocents were violently taken hostage, many of whom are nationals of members’ own countries. I read the Hamas charter aloud to the Council just two days ago. Hamas’ words were not empty threats. Hamas’ charter is their action plan. Their goal is the annihilation of Israel, and if Hamas has the opportunity to commit such atrocities again, they will, and the Council knows it.”
2023-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9443 (2023) · source
“What is going on here? I am truly shocked and horrified. I truly do not understand what is going on. The most barbaric and wide-scale terror attack in decades — bigger than the 11 September attacks — was perpetrated 11 days ago, and it seems that the Council has already forgotten. The pictures and footage from the pogrom on 7 October are forever seared into my brain and that of every Israeli, but it seems that I must remind some members what happened. Thousands of barbaric Hamas Nazis invaded Israel and brutally murdered 1,400 innocent Israelis as they slept, celebrated or hugged their families in fear and cried for mercy. Some were raped, others beheaded, and some were burned alive while bound and gagged. Many were children, and hundreds were young people at a music festival.”
2023-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9443 (2023) · source
“As all Council members know, we are facing a genocidal terror group that does not even recognize the existence of international law. The Council must remember that. Then how can it be that the focus of the Security Council is not, first, to designate Hamas as a terror organization; secondly, to hold Hamas fully and solely accountable for the situation in Gaza; thirdly, to fully support Israel’s right to defend itself; and fourthly, to immediately and unconditionally demand that Hamas release all the abducted hostages. I urge all Council members to think about those objectives and to ensure that they are all addressed in any future discussions. Israel will not accept having our hands tied while we are fighting for our security and our children’s future.”
2023-10-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9439 (2023) · source
“The first step that the Council must take — before any calls for aid, calm or restraint — is to designate Hamas as the murderous terror organization that it is, just as the Council did with the Islamic State in Iraq and the Sham and Al-Qaida. Secondly, and no less important, the Council must support Israel’s right to defend itself. But supporting that right does not mean echoing empty words. It means standing in solidarity with Israel in our rescue mission to obliterate the terror capabilities of Hamas. If Hamas is not obliterated, such atrocities will be repeated — and not only in Israel. Supporting Israel’s right to defend itself means supporting Israel’s goal of eradicating those cancerous jihadists. Israel is a law-abiding country that upholds international law.”
2023-10-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9439 (2023) · source
“Therefore, let me be clear. Israel is on a rescue mission: a rescue mission to save our hostages; a rescue mission to save our future and to save the people of Gaza from their savage tyrants. It is a rescue mission. This rescue mission can end quickly. Should Hamas put down its arms tomorrow, return our hostages and turn itself in, this war can end without one more shot being fired. Why are Council members not calling on Hamas to do that? Why is that not part of the draft resolutions? I want to reiterate that the Security Council now stands at one of its most pivotal crossroads. Will the Council support the fight for civilization, or will it incentivize the genocidal jihadists who aim to murder all the infidels? For a body dedicated to security, that should not even be a question.”
2023-10-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9439 (2023) · source
“Nothing can change a genocidal ideology. There is only one way to cure a cancer, and it is the evisceration of every cancerous cell. The international community has poured billions of dollars into Gaza, and all of it went to Hamas’s war machine and its subterranean city of terror. Abundant resources and aid destined for the people of Gaza were squandered by those barbaric terror monsters. Every inch of the Gaza Strip has been exploited for Hamas’s violent goals. To Hamas, Gazan civilians are nothing more than cannon fodder. They are human shields who in death become pawns in Hamas’s libellous propaganda campaign. Right now, as we speak, they are warning Gazans against evacuating towards the south — as we evacuated our own civilians near our southern border — so as to then use their bodies to recruit countries to pressure Israel.”
2023-10-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9439 (2023) · source
“The world has kept its head in the sand while Hamas has embedded its missiles and rockets and its war machine within and beneath the civilian population of Gaza. It accepted the absurd reality of a law-abiding democracy living side by side with cancerous, genocidal terrorists thirsty for Israeli blood who fire tens of thousands of missiles and rockets indiscriminately at our civilians. Future generations will look back in disbelief on the fact that the world could be so naive, a mere 80 years after Hitler. But that is no longer the case. We have seen with our own eyes that nothing will change Hamas’s ideology — not the rehabilitation of Gaza, not economic incentives and not any promise of a brighter future. The United Nations has tried. The United States has tried. Many in this Chamber have tried, but everyone has failed.”
2023-10-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9439 (2023) · source
“That is why, for the safety of our people and the security of our future, Israel must obliterate Hamas first. We must do so not for revenge or retaliation but for self-preservation. Such atrocities must never be committed again, and the only way to ensure that is by eliminating this barbaric terror group’s capabilities. More than 1,400 Israelis were butchered. Thousands were injured. Nearly 200 hostages — dozens of different nationalities represented among them — were taken to Gaza to be tortured, raped and defiled. Proportionally, that atrocity is 15 times bigger than the attacks of 9/11, but America’s enemies were 7,000 miles away, while Israel’s are 7,000 feet away. For the past 16 years, the international community and the United Nations have been complacent about Hamas’s terrorist build-up.”
2023-10-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9439 (2023) · source
“Article 7 of the Hamas Charter says that “the day of judgment will not come until Muslims fight the Jews and kill them”. Council members should read it for themselves — it is Hitler’s Mein Kampf on steroids. Hamas’s very name is an acronym for Harakat Al-Muqawamah Al-Islamiyyah, which means the Islamic Resistance Movement. It is not a political organization. It is a terror organization no different from ISIS or Al-Qaida. Hamas does not seek to liberate. We withdrew from Gaza 18 years ago. Hamas seeks to exterminate. That is its purpose and stated goal. After the horrors that we suffered more than a week ago, we must all understand that those are not empty threats but rather an action plan. If Hamas has the opportunity to commit those atrocities again, it will. It will not stop until Israel is obliterated.”
2023-10-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9439 (2023) · source
“This is a turning point for the Council, a moment of truth that will tell humankind whether the Council’s very existence retains its legitimacy and whether the United Nations still has any semblance of a moral compass. This institution was founded upon the ashes of the Holocaust, the genocide of the Jewish people, and just over a week ago, we witnessed yet another attempt at Jewish genocide — the Nazi Hamas massacre of babies, mothers, fathers and the elderly. Every Council member should understand that Hamas is driven by an ideology no different from that of the Nazis. In the group’s original Charter, it makes that message very clear. “Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it”.”
2023-10-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9439 (2023) · source
“I will begin by saying that if Hamas does not represent the Palestinian people, as President Abbas stated just yesterday, it is puzzling that his representative is present in this meeting, let alone voicing an opinion on behalf of the people in Gaza who elected the Islamic State in Iraq and the Sham (ISIS)- like Hamas murderers in Gaza 17 years ago. I hope that all of us here understand that should any representatives of the Palestinian Authority choose to enter Gaza today, or on any other day, they would probably meet the same fate that befell many of their colleagues in 2007 — they would be thrown off 15-storey buildings by Hamas. The Security Council is facing one of the most pivotal moments in its history.”
2023-10-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9439 (2023) · source
“If this body and the Organization it is part of refuse to hold the terrorists accountable for their crimes, the situation on the ground will only continue to deteriorate. And as long as the Security Council does not address the true impediments to reconciliation, a solution will never be possible. The only way to de-escalate is to hold those accountable accountable and to put an end to Palestinian obstructions.”
2023-07-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9387 (2023) · source
“Those inflammatory steps are not only a spit in the face to the Council and its resolutions, but they are also going to be the spark that ignites the entire region. Why does the Council not hold emergency meetings on that deteriorating situation before it is too late? I truly have no answer to that question. Israel can protect its borders and citizens from any and all threats — whether by terror organizations or by rogue regimes that call for its annihilation — but the time has come for the international community to stand alongside Israel in this fight or at the very least refrain from falsely condemning Israel. We are defending ourselves from extremist forces that want to export their violent ideologies globally.”
2023-07-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9387 (2023) · source
“I need two more minutes to conclude. And when the situation explodes, which it will, sadly, if immediate action is not taken, the consequences for the region will be disastrous. Over the past year, the designated terror organization Hizbullah, in flagrant violation of resolution 1701 (2006), has erected concrete military outposts and observation towers along the Blue Line. Recently, Hizbullah terrorists crossed into sovereign Israeli territory and erected tents guarded by Hizbullah operatives. Hizbullah continues to operate freely in the area of operations of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, holding military drills with live fire and attacking United Nations peacekeepers.”
2023-07-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9387 (2023) · source
“Iran and its terror proxies are becoming more emboldened every day. The Ayatollah regime is responsible for providing funds, weapons manufacturing, know-how and directives to terror groups both along Israel’s borders and in Gaza and Judea and Samaria. As a result, tensions have been drastically increasing, but it is along Israel’s border with Lebanon that those rising tensions are reaching a point of no return. And when the situation explodes —”
2023-07-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9387 (2023) · source
“That is a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law which must be at the top of the Council’s agenda. Nevertheless, hardly any action has been taken to pressure Hamas to return our boys. The Council could play a focal role in rehabilitating the Gaza Strip. Hamas and the other Gaza terror groups, hell-bent on destroying Israel, are an obstruction that the Council should focus on. Yet in these meetings many Council members prefer to fixate upon marginal non-issues, while falsely branding Israel as the primary impediment to improving the lives of Palestinians in Gaza. While the Palestinians, with their incitement, terror and rejectionism remain the only obstacle to any solution, they are not the only threat that Israel faces or the singular danger to regional stability.”
2023-07-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9387 (2023) · source
“So, if the aim of these meetings is to remove the obstructions to solving this conflict, then here is one of the most fundamental obstructions: the perpetuation of Palestinian refugeehood, both by the Palestinian Authority and sadly, by that very organization, UNRWA. Yet that is not the only obstruction ignored by the international community. On 1 August 2014, two hours into a United Nations-brokered humanitarian ceasefire, Hamas terrorists murdered Lieutenant Hadar Goldin and abducted his body. Almost exactly nine years later, Hamas still refuses to return Hadar’s body, nor the remains of Oron Shaul, another soldier they murdered and abducted. The same can be said of Avera Mangistu and Hisham Al-Sayed, two Israeli civilians suffering from mental illness who are currently being held captive by the terror organization in Gaza.”
2023-07-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9387 (2023) · source
“UNRWA continues to feed the Palestinian people a lie that the world supports their right of return; that as long as the original refugees, along with their children, grandchildren and great- grandchildren, have still not returned to where they came from, they will always be excluded from society, and they will forever remain branded as refugees. Let me be clear: there is no right of return. Council members all know that. The demand of returning millions of descendants of refugees is the demand to obliterate the Jewish people’s right to self-determination, and that will never happen.”
2023-07-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9387 (2023) · source
“Why must there be a separate United Nations Agency for Palestinian refugees while all other refugees from Syria, the Sudan, Ukraine or Afghanistan are aided by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees? Why, for Palestinians, is their refugeehood hereditary? Why is not UNRWA’s primary goal to settle refugees to end their identity as refugees? That dysfunctional system has no parallel anywhere else in the world and is a huge part of the problem. When the United Nations and the international community promote an Agency that preserves refugee camps and the refugee identity nearly a century after the problem began, then all that is accomplished is the perpetuation of the conflict.”
2023-07-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9387 (2023) · source
“The aim of the Palestinian leaders is not to live beside the Jewish State but rather to destroy and replace it, and they plan to do so one day by flooding Israel with more than 5 million so-called Palestinian refugees. That is why there are still refugee camps in Palestinian administrative areas, from Nablus, Jenin and Tulkarm to Bethlehem, Ramallah and Jericho. That is why the descendants of Palestinian refugees are still separated from Palestinian society. However, that plot to destroy the Jewish State would be impossible without the help of a very important partner — the United Nations and its destructive agency UNRWA. What makes the descendants of Palestinian refugees different from all other refugees?”
2023-07-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9387 (2023) · source
“Why have they not been integrated into Palestinian society? What is the reason for that? We are talking about camps in Palestinian cities. If the Palestinian Authority’s main goal were truly to establish an independent State, those second- and third generation refugees would be living in regular Palestinian cities, not camps. But that is not the Palestinians’ goal. Their goal is the annihilation of the Jewish State, and one of their weapons for achieving that goal is by brainwashing generation after generation of Palestinians that Palestinian cities are not and will not be their homes. After all, they are still refugees. Their home is in Israeli cities such as Haifa, Tiberias, Safed and many others.”
2023-07-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9387 (2023) · source
“It is mind-boggling that after nearly a century, there are still Palestinian refugee camps in Syria, Lebanon and Jordan, where, by the way, the residents are treated like third- class citizens. In most of the camps Palestinian refugees are not even given citizenship and are prevented from working in decent jobs, all in order to preserve the problem and perpetuate the conflict with Israel. It is impossible to fathom the fact that today, within an entity that claims that its goal is to establish a functioning Palestinian State — and peace, of course, peace — there are still Palestinians who are relegated to refugee camps decades after first arriving in them. Have Council members ever stopped to ask themselves why the descendants of the descendants of Palestinian refugees are still living in refugee camps?”
2023-07-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9387 (2023) · source
“Suddenly, as we heard here today, following Israel’s counter-terror operation President Abbas felt safe enough to visit Jenin for the first time in a decade, and the Palestinian Authority security forces are finally beginning to show signs that they are enforcing law and order. Yet here in this Chamber the truth is ignored while Palestinian lies are accepted at face value. However, today I would like to take advantage of the fact that we are focused on Jenin’s refugee camp to share with the Council the ultimate proof that the Palestinians are interested not in peace but only in the Jewish State’s destruction. The proof is the very existence of Jenin’s refugee camp and all the other Palestinian refugee camps. How can it be that after so many decades there are still refugee camps inside Palestinian cities?”
2023-07-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9387 (2023) · source
“We hear constant calls for de-escalation, and statements are made about improving the situation on the ground. We agree. Yet how can any responsible actor utter such words while completely ignoring the side that is truly responsible for the death and destruction? Precision strikes on terror targets were necessary only because the Palestinian Authority neglected Jenin, handing it over to terrorist groups. Time after time, Israel requested that the Palestinian Authority combat the growing terror infrastructure in Jenin, but time after time the Palestinian Authority refused.”
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“The fact that the Secretary-General chose to condemn Israel, a law-abiding democracy, as opposed to the bloodthirsty Palestinian terrorists seeking to murder innocent Israelis, is a disgrace, and such remarks only embolden the terrorists. Words carry immense weight, and if we have not taken the time to study and analyse the facts, it is far better to refrain from saying anything that may do harm. Rockets have already been fired at Israel from Jenin, and if Israel did not take action now against the growing terror, we would have to do it later on and on a much larger scale. This preventive operation should have had the full support of all Council members, but since it did not, I would like to ask what the Council would have us do instead.”
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“Imagine my shock, therefore, when rather than commending Israel for uprooting terrorists with surgical precision, the Secretary-General — the Secretary-General — condemned only Israel, making claims completely detached from reality. Rather than lambasting a terror organization for exploiting innocent Palestinians and murdering Israelis, he panned Israel for defending itself. The Secretary-General, and United Nations bodies, which we also heard here today, are repeating brazen Palestinian lies about Israel preventing access for humanitarian and essential care. The exact opposite is true. Throughout the operation Israel ensured that there was a constant humanitarian corridor and that ambulances could tend to the wounded. Any other claim is a fabrication.”
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“Explosives were stored mere metres from a United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) school and kindergarten. Terrorists planted IEDs all along the main roads in the centre of the camp. Yet despite the terrorists’ cynical use of Palestinian civilians as human shields and critical civilian infrastructure as cover, thanks to Israel’s efforts and care there was not a single civilian casualty during the operation. Any military expert will attest that that is a remarkable achievement that defies all odds. Israel does everything possible to avoid collateral damage and civilian casualties.”
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“For Israel, like any other country, the answer is clear. Action must be taken in order to prevent the next terror attack. Here are the facts of what really happened in Jenin, and any other version of the events is a blatant lie and a distortion of reality. Israel launched a two-day surgical counter-terror operation focused solely on Jenin-based terror infrastructure targeting innocent Israeli civilians. During the tactical operation, 12 Palestinian terrorists were killed, two terrorist command centres uncovered, two shafts to terror tunnels sealed, five labs making explosives found and hundreds of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and weapons discovered. Weapons caches were uncovered in mosques. The Jenin governmental hospital was taken over by terrorists, who used it as cover when firing at Israeli forces.”
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“Today I want not only to describe the situation on the ground but to ask what Council members would do in the face of relentless terror. Would they sit patiently and wait for the next attack? Would they rely on the international community to come to their aid? In the past few years Jenin, and its refugee camp in particular — I will get to that later — has become a hotbed of terrorist activity. It is a place ruled by organizations such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad that are designated as terrorist. It is where so many — more than 50 — of the recent deadly terror attacks were planned and carried out from, and it is a city of refuge for terrorists on the run. Jenin is a cancerous tumour of violent Palestinian extremism and terror. And I therefore ask Council members once again what they would do.”
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