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Zogby

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2023-06-27
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  1. “Council members can collectively challenge Security Council vetoes, whereas the Governments of individual Member States can take concrete gestures to support the Palestinian right to seek judgment from the ICC or they can implement specific measures holding Israel accountable for its human rights violations. Israel needs to know there are red lines which, if crossed, have consequences. And Palestinians need to know they are not alone, and violence is not the answer. Actions, not statements, will contribute to restoring Palestinian hope, ending Israel’s sense of impunity and empowering those Palestinians and Israelis who seek a peaceful future. Only after we have changed the political dynamic and helped to transform the political deformities infecting both societies, can a political horizon emerge and meaningful negotiations take place.”

    2023-06-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9361 (2023) · source

  2. “If our goal is to reignite the prospects for peace, then our focus must be to stay the hand of the occupier and defend the victims of brutality. Right now, concrete action is required to help free the imprisoned children, the detainees and those living under the threat of demolition, land seizure and settlement expansion. Palestinian rights must be defended, because Palestinians are not children of a lesser God. Their lives and futures are as important as those of any other people on Earth. There are actions that can be taken that make a difference.”

    2023-06-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9361 (2023) · source

  3. “Given that traumatic nightmare visited upon millions of Palestinians for the past 56 years, is it any wonder that a recent poll shows a majority of Palestinians rejecting moderate leadership, despairing of peaceful change and now favouring armed struggle? That tragic deformity in Palestinian political culture is the result of the continued brutality of the occupation. It is also important to see the impact the harshness the occupation is having on the Arab world. While polls we conducted four years ago found a large majority in most Arab countries favouring exploring peace with Israel, saying that it might temper Israel’s behaviour and stop the violence, more recent polling suggests the hope has decidedly diminished.”

    2023-06-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9361 (2023) · source

  4. “Polling data demonstrates that a majority of Israelis do not view Palestinians as equal human beings deserving of having their rights protected, with a substantial plurality supporting the annexation of occupied lands and the expulsion of Palestinians who live there. At the same time, consider the impact that has had on the Palestinian people and their political culture. Think of the Palestinians forced to wait for hours at a checkpoint to get to a job, return home or visit a family friend in a nearby village, knowing that, at the end of the wait, they could be humiliated by a 19-year-old heavily armed soldier or the child who has witnessed his father being treated in that manner, and the fear of families of the little children or the adult detainees.”

    2023-06-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9361 (2023) · source

  5. “Israel is the only country conditionally admitted for membership, obligating it to implement United Nations resolutions adopted prior to its admission. Since then and especially after the 1967 war, Israel has violated a range of laws and conventions and done so with impunity. It is not Israel that is being singled out for criticism, rather it is Israel that is being singled out by some in my country and excused from accountability for its behaviour. The deformities that has created are worrisome. There is an extremist political culture in Israel today that is a by-product of that entitlement and impunity.”

    2023-06-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9361 (2023) · source

  6. “Its resolutions are ignored; the commissions Member States’ create and the human rights monitors they empower are denounced and demonized. And when Palestinians prepare a case for the International Criminal Court (ICC), they are threatened with sanctions. And yet it remains important to note that those violations continue to occur daily, affecting the lives and futures of millions of real people. Their voices must be heard. Their rights must be protected. There are those in my country who denounced the United Nations for its resolutions on Palestinian rights. They charge the United Nations with singling Israel out for criticism and suggest an unhealthy obsession with Israel. Such a charge is both false and a denial of Palestinian humanity. In the first place, the United Nations has a special responsibility for Israel and Palestine.”

    2023-06-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9361 (2023) · source

  7. “And what about the thousands of families given an hour to clear out their belongings before the bulldozers came to demolish their homes to create a so-called security corridor or those awakened in the middle of the night as their homes were invaded, ransacked and photographed by occupation forces in order to map the neighbourhood, or the farmer standing powerless as their 100-year-old orchards were demolished to make way for a security zone? Behind each incident are real people whose lives were upended and futures darkened, their families traumatized and angry. Tragically, those same horrors continued to define the Palestinian reality today. Annually, the General Assembly speaks to those violations of rights.”

    2023-06-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9361 (2023) · source

  8. “I cited concerns with collective punishment of civilian populations, massive home demolitions, prolonged detention without charge, torture, land confiscation and settlement expansion. Instead of presenting numbers, I chose to put a human face on the victims. I did so because while Israeli victims of violence were known, Palestinians were objectified and depersonalized. It did not do justice to simply tally up the numbers of the men in the village whose hands were tied behind their backs, blindfolded, forced to sit in a village square overnight on cold ground or in direct sun in the heat of day. They needed to be known and the impact of that humiliation and abuse on their families had to be understood.”

    2023-06-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9361 (2023) · source

  9. “Mr. Zogby: I thank you very much, Madam President, for the invitation and the opportunity to address all the members of the Security Council today on the human rights conditions of the Palestinian people living under Israeli occupation. From recorded votes in the General Assembly, I know most Member States’ Governments recognize the magnitude and urgency of this concern, but many feel they lack the capacity to end the injustices of the occupation. Meanwhile, those who have the capacity to defend Palestinian rights either make do with statements of concern or take steps that actually enable the nightmare to continue. Almost five decades ago, I was invited to address a United Nations forum on this very issue.”

    2023-06-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9361 (2023) · source