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Makkawi

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1992-12-18
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1994-03-01
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  1. “Lebanon joins those Member States calling for the establishment of a temporary international presence in the occupied territories in accordance with Security Council resolution 681 (1990), and as provided for in the Declaration of Principles as a measure to be taken prior to final-status negotiations. Until that time, the international community must bear in mind that Israeli settlements are, first and foremost, illegal. Secondly, they are an obstacle to the peace process. And, finally, we have learned the lesson that they are time bombs whose explosions reverberate throughout the region.”

    1994-03-01 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3341 (1994) · source

  2. “These empty gestures will do little to affect the situation on the ground unless all settlers are disarmed. After all, if settlers in the territories have no confidence in Israeli military protection, then why should the Palestinians? Either allow all civilians in the territories to carry arms, or disarm them all. I should like to conclude by saying that, in addition to the immediate disarming of settlers, what is urgently needed is for the Security Council to establish an international presence in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem to ensure the safety and security of the Palestinian population.”

    1994-03-01 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3341 (1994) · source

  3. “The Government and the people of Lebanon are standing firm to ensure that the tranquillity that has reigned in Lebanon for the last three years will continue. Furthermore, we will do everything in our power to bring the criminals to justice. At this critical juncture the Government of Israel must make a decision upon which the fate of the Middle East peace process will depend: does it want peace enough to dismantle the illegal settlements and bring back 130,000 settlers to Israel proper, or does it want to jettison the whole peace process and face what is quickly becoming a rising and insurmountable wave of religious extremism? Israel's condemnation of the massacre is not enough. Nor are its promises to arrest, disarm and restrict the movement of a handful of extremists.”

    1994-03-01 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3341 (1994) · source

  4. “In Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt demonstrators rallied vehemently against the massacre, casting a dark shadow over the peace process. The Governments of Lebanon, Syria and Jordan responded by suspending talks with Israel which had been scheduled for this week. Also, in Lebanon, just two days after the massacre, a bomb exploded during a church service, killing nine innocent worshippers and wounding more than 60 people. This proves that the forces which have tried over the years to destabilize Lebanon and undermine our unity and national reconciliation are behind this bombing, which they carried out in order to divert attention away from the massacre at Al-Haram Al-Ibrahimi in Al-Khalil. However, they will not succeed. Lebanon is committed to the peace process and is strong enough to overcome this conspiracy.”

    1994-03-01 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3341 (1994) · source

  5. “As has been echoed time and time here, the need for a just and equitable solution to the Palestinian problem is the root of the broader Arab-Israeli conflict. Such a solution is the only hope for stability in the region and for the triumph of moderation. Peace in the Middle East cannot be achieved unless the Palestinians are granted their legitimate national rights and Israel withdraws from the Palestinian and Syrian territories in accordance with Security Council resolutions 242 (1967) and 338 (1973), and from southern Lebanon, in accordance with Security Council resolution 425 (1978). The reality of the need for a comprehensive peace is demonstrated by the fact that the effects of the massacre have been felt throughout the Arab and Muslim worlds.”

    1994-03-01 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3341 (1994) · source

  6. “Lebanon knows what it is to suffer under the brutal policies and practices of occupation, because we have endured the Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon for the past 16 years. Not a single day passes without the death of innocent civilians and the destruction of homes and property. None the less, the people of Lebanon are thoroughly convinced of the need for a just, lasting and comprehensive peace in the Middle East, which must encompass the Lebanese, Syrian, Jordanian and Palestinian tracks. However, peace cannot prevail so long as the occupation continues, the settlements remain and Jewish extremists continue to threaten the security of Palestinians in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem.”

    1994-03-01 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3341 (1994) · source

  7. “Since 1967 Israel, the occupying Power, has failed to provide protection for the civilian population under its occupation, as it is its obligation to do under the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949. Furthermore, with the growth of militant Judaism in the occupied lands, it is incumbent upon Israel to redouble its efforts to provide this protection. However, Israel's characteristic negligence and brutality is attested to by the fact that Israeli soldiers not only facilitated the massacre by allowing the gunman to enter the mosque, but were responsible for some of the deaths at the scene, as reported by the news media. And, as if this were not enough, soldiers have killed many demonstrators.”

    1994-03-01 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3341 (1994) · source

  8. “The Government of Israel, despite its involvement in the Middle East peace process and its signing of the Declaration of Principles in Washington, has done nothing to discourage settlements or check extremist activity in the territories. Instead it has engaged in tactical manoeuvres aimed at postponing an Israeli troop withdrawal from Gaza and Jericho, such as its petty arguments over Palestinian troop sizes, border controls and Jericho's boundaries. Consequently, the 13 December deadline for withdrawal from Gaza and Jericho has come and gone with no substantive progress achieved. Now, with the news of the massacre, Palestinians are finding that hope is giving way to anger and desperation.”

    1994-03-01 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3341 (1994) · source

  9. “The world was shocked this weekend to learn that some Jews in Israel and the occupied territories proudly associate themselves with the man who committed this macabre act. This sad truth is underscored by the fact that a thousand fundamentalists attended his funeral procession and by the rabbi who eulogized the murderer with the words that "One million Arabs are not worth a Jewish fingernail." All of us would like to believe that this was the act of a lone, crazed gunman, but the fact remains that Baruch Goldstein was the product of a society and ideology supported by former Israeli Governments and funded by ultra-Zionist groups. Some 300 dead and wounded are hardly the work of one man, a fact which speaks of complicity in the crime.”

    1994-03-01 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3341 (1994) · source

  10. “The whole world is stunned by the horrendous massacre at Al-Haram Al-Ibrahimi in Al-Khalil, Hebron. This is the first time a man has entered a place of worship during the holy month of Ramadan and gunned down hundreds of people prostrated in prayer. Clearly, the root of this tragedy is the continuation of the Israeli occupation, the insidious growth of settlements and the sustained influx of Jewish fundamentalists into the occupied territories. Peace in the Middle East cannot be achieved when Palestinians are allotted only 20 per cent of their historic land and when that 20 per cent is traumatized by 144 illegal settlements within the Palestinian homeland. These settlements are armed camps and hotbeds of extremism openly hostile to the indigenous population.”

    1994-03-01 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3341 (1994) · source

  11. “Sir, allow me first to extend, on behalf of my delegation, sincerest congratulations on your assumption of the presidency for this month. In Lebanon, we are all well aware of your commitment to the cause of peace in the Middle East and are confident that the work of the Council will be conducted most efficiently under your wise and proven leadership. I should also like to thank your predecessor, my brother and friend, the Permanent Representative of the Republic of Djibouti, for the exemplary manner in which he conducted the affairs of the Council during the month of February. In addition, I avail myself of this opportunity to express Lebanon's deep gratitude to the Secretary-General for his expeditious handling of this crisis, and for his wisdom in offering to dispatch United Nations observers to the occupied Palestinian territories.”

    1994-03-01 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3341 (1994) · source

  12. “We repeat our call to the Security Council to perform its role in safeguarding the sovereignty and territorial integrity of States, to apply international and humanitarian law and to ensure that the Palestinians deported from their territory are enabled to return to their homes, even if this involves the application of the stipulations of Chapter 7 of the Charter. It is hoped that this might perhaps help in putting an end to this exceptional status which enables Israel to break international law, defy the resolutions of the Security Council and refuse to implement resolution 425, with impunity.”

    1992-12-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3151 (1992) · source

  13. “Action by the Security Council in that direction would assist the peace process, because it would remove one of the major obstacles, create a climate that would be conducive to the success of that process and prove that the application of international law is the basis for the solution which will not be achieved by occupation or by repressive practices. Such action would also help to lessen the friction in the Middle East. Finally, if peace is to be the future of the region, any delay in achieving it will only increase the number of victims and build up the tensions in the region which has suffered for a long time from destruction and aggression.”

    1992-12-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3151 (1992) · source

  14. “It is also used to steer deportees towards Lebanon, leading to the fear that those people will settle in that part of Lebanon. Lebanon has frequently repeated that it rejects that policy, which represents an imminent danger to the structure of Lebanese society and threatens the very identity of the Palestinian people. For all the foregoing reasons, the Lebanese Government requests the Security Council to enforce its resolution 425 (1978), which stipulates that Israel should withdraw to the international borders in order for Lebanon to be able to exercise its sovereignty over all its territory.”

    1992-12-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3151 (1992) · source

  15. “The violation of Lebanon's sovereignty in the brutal manner of yesterday is a very bad example indeed that shows how Israel deals with the inhabitants of the occupied territories and the neighbouring countries in complete contempt for international norms. This mass deportation which took place yesterday has potentially grave internal repercussions in Lebanon because it frustrates my Government's endeavours to restore a normal situation within our country and poses an obstacle also to the liberation of southern Lebanon occupied by Israel. What Israel calls the buffer zone is in fact the point of departure used to undermine all of Lebanon's efforts to remedy the consequences of the bloody events to which I have referred.”

    1992-12-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3151 (1992) · source

  16. “Instead of taking advantage of the opportune moment to build confidence between all parties, we find Israel pursuing its aggressive policy of repression in the occupied territories and in Lebanon and frenetically going full steam ahead with imposition of a fait accompli by building settlements and placing impediments in its dealings with the parties to the peace process, This mass deportation by Israel yesterday gravely jeopardizes the peace process. It proves that the peace concept has not penetrated yet into the minds of Israeli policy makers and has not had any effect on their practices. The steps they have taken also show that they still hold on to the use of force and the imposition of a fait accompli both in the occupied territories and vis-a-vis neighbouring countries.”

    1992-12-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3151 (1992) · source

  17. “Lebanon has taken part in that peace process and the negotiations on the basis of Security Council resolutions 242 (1967) and 338 (1973) and on the basis of the invitation extended to it, in the hope of bringing about Israel's total withdrawal from southern Lebanon pursuant to Security Council resolution 425 (1978), as an essential first step towards the establishment of a just, comprehensive and lasting peace in the Middle East. Now, after 14 months of negotiation, we find ourselves still marking time, in square one, without any tangible progress.”

    1992-12-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3151 (1992) · source

  18. “On top of its being an action that breaches international law, this deportation of Palestinian citizens has been compounded by the fact that the deportees were deported into Lebanese territory regardless of the opposition of the Lebanese authorities. This constitutes yet another violation and a serious breach of the principle of sovereignty and the rights of States. Over and above the illegal nature of these actions, their consequences on the political level will be serious indeed with respect to the internal situation in Lebanon and for the peace process as a whole.”

    1992-12-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3151 (1992) · source

  19. “It is surprising indeed that the Security Council in particular, and the United Nations in general, have been totally excluded from the efforts that aim at achieving a peaceful settlement of the Arab-Israeli conflict and which have been under way for more than a year, at a time when the Security Council is increasingly involved in the search for solutions to all regional and local problems in the four corners of the earth, Lebanon, which has suffered for 16 long years of bloody turmoil and which has been invaded twice by Israel is now doing its utmost, through its people and its Government, to re-establish normality in all its territory. But Israel persists in its policy of subversion against Lebanon, against its very being and its institutions, despite the reassuring noises made by Israeli authorities from time to time.”

    1992-12-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3151 (1992) · source

  20. “It is time for this Council to take practical steps to put an end to Israel's breaching of international law, to enable all the deportees to return, and thereby put an end to this shameful practice which is still being pursued by the Israeli authorities with impunity. Lebanon calls on the Council to use its authority, including the authority conferred by Chapter 7 of the Charter, to adopt the draft resolution now before us and to ensure implementation of all other previous resolutions in this respect. The fact that the Security Council may not have been in a position to stand up to Israeli policies in the past has complicated the situation in the region further and resulted in flagrant violations of the Palestinian citizens' rights to life, freedom, property and self--determination.”

    1992-12-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3151 (1992) · source

  21. “My Government condemns this Israeli policy of repression, which is increasing tension in the region as a whole. It dares to violate flagrantly the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Lebanese Republic. This is in contravention of the United Nations Charter, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the pertinent resolutions of the Security Council: resolutions 607 (1988), 608 (1988), 636 (1989), 641 (1989), 681 (1990), 694 (1991) and 726 (1992). 8/PV.3151 16 The question is how long will the Security Council allow Israel to exempt itself from the international principles and criteria of today - especially since Israel has already defied all those resolutions which condemned the deportation of civilians and called for their return to their homes.”

    1992-12-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3151 (1992) · source

  22. “The fact that this takes place under the eyes of the whole world while the peace talks continue in Washington, is further proof that Israel, in pursuing such policies, is not interested in the establishment of total, comprehensive peace in the region but wants peace that is imposed by force. It wants to impose a fait accompli on all the populations of the region and takes into consideration none of the disastrous consequences of such a policy for the possibilities for coexistence in the region. The Lebanese Government has frequently condemned the Israeli policy of deporting Palestinian citizens, which is a breach of article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, stipulating that civilian citizens should not be deported, whatever the cause.”

    1992-12-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3151 (1992) · source

  23. “They have been blindfolded and deported by bus and then left in harsh weather conditions in Lebanese territory. This has happened despite the fact that Lebanon had already announced that it would not receive them on its territory. This shows an unacceptable attitude on the part of Israel and constitutes active defiance of international law, the principle of sovereignty and respect for humankind as enshrined in the Fourth Geneva Convention. It is an act of defiance to the United Nations and a challenge to the Security Council, its resolutions and its authority.”

    1992-12-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3151 (1992) · source

  24. “Mr. MAKKAWI (Lebanon) (interpretation from Arabic): First of all, allow me to convey to you, Sir, my delegation's congratulations on your assumption of the presidency of the Council for this month. We know you as an able friend representing a friendly country to which we are bound by many ties of friendship and commonality of views. I am fully convinced that the work of the Council will be successful under your skilful guidance. I also take pleasure in conveying thanks and commendations to Ambassador Erdos of Hungary for his excellent guidance of the work of the Council last month. For a second time, the Security Council is faced with an exceptional situation, as a result of the deportation of almost 400 Palestinian civilians from their villages and their territory.”

    1992-12-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3151 (1992) · source