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  1. “We cannot sit idly by while these vile, callous terrorists and their sponsors and purveyors of death around the world create countless more lost generations. We have finally 06-44100 learned the lesson of the past that implores us to resolutely resist the creeping ideology of hatred and violence that threatens us all. All nations here must recognize the danger posed by this terror to their own States and, ultimately, to their own children, whom they have the most sacred duty to protect. We ask the entire international community to stand with us and against the devastation visited on children by wanton, indiscriminate terrorism and violence.”

    2006-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5494Resumption1 (2006) · source

  2. “I must say here emphatically that we want nothing more than to ensure the safety of all children, in Israel and throughout the region. The most direct path to that goal is the cessation of terrorist acts emanating from these areas. We have shown time and again that when there is peace on our borders we have no interest in interfering in the internal matters of our neighbours. On the contrary, the terrorist organizations of Hamas and Hizbollah, the Governments of Syria and Iran and the Palestinian Authority have all shown callous indifference to all children in the region by instigating and perpetuating terrorist acts against Israel. Finally, we must ask: What of the children who survive these conflicts around the world? Who can gauge how they will grow up?”

    2006-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5494Resumption1 (2006) · source

  3. “We hold those who have knowingly and deliberately precipitated this violence fully responsible. We must emphasize the difference between terrorists that deliberately target innocent civilians - especially children - including the States that sponsor them, and those States that, acting defensively, target these lawless terrorists. Not to make that distinction is to lend equal legitimacy to terrorists who carry out unprovoked terrorist acts and States acting in self- defence. That would run counter to all international precedent and the Charter of the United Nations itself and would serve to encourage terrorists to commit ever greater numbers of terrorist acts. We have heard today of Israel's alleged indifference to the lives of children in the region.”

    2006-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5494Resumption1 (2006) · source

  4. “How can States exercise their legitimate right to take defensive measures against terrorism without causing undue harm to the civilian population? We wrestle daily with the strategic and ethical complexities of this balancing act. It is, we have observed, a debate that has not entered the halls of government of some of our neighbours, especially those of Lebanon, Syria and Iran. Our foremost obligation as a nation is to protect our civilian population from violence. That is not only an obligation, it is a right recognized by the Charter of the United Nations. Yet we must also take great pains to minimize any harm to other civilian populations, thereby preserving the fundamental values, principles and the democratic rule of law that defines Israel as a nation, which we proudly embrace. We grieve for all civilian casualties on all sides.”

    2006-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5494Resumption1 (2006) · source

  5. “Schoolbooks from all over the region, including from Member States that took the floor only minutes ago, similarly call on children to sacrifice themselves. In a typical example, one text instructs schoolchildren that martyrs have nothing to fear and nothing to be sad about. We must put an end to such virulent indoctrination if there is to be any hope for our future generations to live together in peace. This is probably the most extreme example of the opposite of education. The reality on the ground has created difficult questions for us as a nation, such as how States are effectively to fight terrorist organizations that deliberately endanger both the civilian population they target and those they use as human shields.”

    2006-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5494Resumption1 (2006) · source

  6. “And they are the lucky ones who have not personally experienced the damage and death visited by terrorists' rockets. Palestinian children are victims of a culture of hate and violence. They are indoctrinated from a tender age by their teachers and by textbooks and learn to denigrate and delegitimize the other. Finally, in the ultimate act of hate, they are brought to the point where they are willing to embrace their own early deaths for the sake of other people's deaths. What more shocking abuse of children could one imagine than to strap bombs around them and send them on suicide missions to kill other innocent civilians - when they have probably not had an opportunity to play football with other children and school mates more than a few times?”

    2006-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5494Resumption1 (2006) · source

  7. “By deliberately embroiling the civilian population of Lebanon in this conflict, they have reduced these innocents to mere pawns in their regional strategy. In the south of Israel children have also been subjected to an ongoing barrage of Qassam rockets launched from the Gaza Strip, an area administered by the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority. Israel disengaged from that area almost one year ago. Hundreds of thousands of children in my country have no summer vacation - no time to play in the fields and playgrounds with their friends in what should be a time in their lives free of stress and anxiety. Instead they hear the wail of sirens and know the look of fear on their parents' faces as they scoop them up in their arms and run to bomb shelters.”

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  8. “But Israel also bears the burden of a neighbouring failed State: the failure of Lebanon to fully extend its sovereignty over the whole of its territory and the growth of an ingrained terrorist infrastructure and ideology that has moved into that vacuum. We can sympathize with the inhabitants of those areas who are held hostage to an ideology of hate and death, because we too are held hostage to Lebanon's failure. In the north of Israel children are the victims of wave after wave of rockets and mortars - thousands of them by now - launched indiscriminately by Hizbollah terrorists. May I remind the Council that Israel completely withdrew from that area more than six years ago. Israel must further note the cynical and dangerous exploitation by the State supporters of the Hizbollah terrorist infrastructure, Syria and Iran.”

    2006-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5494Resumption1 (2006) · source

  9. “It is our responsibility to protect them and to instil in them a reverence for life and respect for all their fellow human beings, under whichever national flag they may live. Israel is concerned about the ongoing cases of violence against children during times of conflict throughout the world. We appreciate the emphasis in recent reports on protecting children in armed conflict, and we believe that continuing grass-roots efforts, alongside greater government involvement, can alter this disturbing trend. We note with particular interest the observation of the Council's Working Group that the majority of conflicts today occur within national boundaries. Many of the most infamous civil conflicts of recent decades have been in Africa.”

    2006-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5494Resumption1 (2006) · source

  10. “Mr. President, at the outset, I would like to join my colleagues in expressing my thanks to you for having convened this meeting. I would also like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Ms. Coomaraswamy, for her valuable contribution to today's meeting. Finally, I would like also to thank the Executive Director of UNICEF, Ms. Veneman, for her work and for that of all UNICEF staff in this important area. Israel ascribes great importance to protecting children during armed conflict and is encouraged by the continued efforts of the Security Council and the Secretary-General to that end. We believe that children in particular should live without fear of physical, psychological, and all other forms of abuse emanating from conflict.”

    2006-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5494Resumption1 (2006) · source