The annual posturing in the General Assembly, which has no influence and no power to do anything. Essentially they are commemorating the continued thriving of Israel despite all their best efforts to erase the only Jewish state from the map and from history. Woo hoo!
[IsraelTimes] Riyad Mansour blasts United Nations...boodling on the grand scale...
partition plan on its 75th anniversary; Israeli representative unveils display on ’Jewish Nakba’
The General Assembly later passed a series of four pro-Paleostinian items, including one "noting with deep regret" the UN partition plan adopted on November 29, 1947, and "the Nakba." Another item called for a Nakba commemoration event at the General Assembly Hall next year. A fifth resolution calling on Israel to withdraw from the Golan Heights also passed.
The Paleostinians refer to Israel’s establishment as the Nakba, or "catastrophe," referring to the displacement that Paleostinians experienced during the Jewish state’s War of Independence in 1948-1949.
The partition plan adopted by the General Assembly in 1947 called for independent Jewish and Arab states in what was then British-controlled Mandatory Paleostine. The Jews accepted the plan, but the Arab world rejected it and launched the 1948 war. The Paleostinians have rejected additional offers of statehood since.
Israel’s UN representative, Gilad Erdan, presented an opposing story on Wednesday by unveiling an exhibit at the UN on the "Jewish Nakba," the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Jews from Arab countries and Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites....in the 1940s and 1950s following the partition plan.
"For 75 years, the UN has been telling a completely false story about the ’Nakba,’ which the Paleostinians themselves caused by their refusal to accept the Partition Plan," Erdan said. "I will fight in every way the false narrative that the Paleostinians spread at the UN."
The exhibit features documentation about the lives of Jews in Middle Eastern countries and will be on display for a week at the UN Headquarters in New York.
Speaking to the General Assembly after Mansour, Erdan decried the "Nakba Day" resolution.
"Try to imagine the international community commemorating your country’s Independence Day by calling it a disaster. What a disgrace," Erdan said.
"This General Assembly, this body, voted to adopt Resolution 181 — the Partition Plan. My people, the Jewish people, accepted this resolution without hesitation. But the Arabs and the Paleostinians did not," Erdan said. "Five Arab armies, together with the Arabs living in Israel, tried to destroy and annihilate us."
On Tuesday, the UN held an event marking the International Day of Solidarity with the Paleostinian People.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres
...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years...
said at the event that the "occupation must end," blaming the conflict on occupation, settlements, home demolitions, evictions and closures of Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
crossings.
Guterres and other speakers focused on Israeli forces in the West Bank, and did not mention Paleostinian terrorism, the Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, terror group, Israeli security concerns or Israeli victims of violence.
Another Times of Israel article has the details about the resolutions and votes:
The United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday voted to adopt a pro-Palestinian resolution to commemorate the “Nakba,” the Palestinian term for Israel’s establishment.The UN resolution calls for a “commemoration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Nakba, including by organizing a high-level event at the General Assembly Hall” in May 2023. It also urges the “dissemination of relevant archives and testimonies.”
The initiative was sponsored by Egypt, Jordan, Senegal, Tunisia, Yemen and the Palestinians and passed by a vote of 90 in favor, 30 against and 47 abstentions.
Israel, Australia, Austria, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, the UK and the US were among the countries that voted against.
Ukraine did not vote. Kyiv sparked a diplomatic spat with Jerusalem by voting in favor of an anti-Israel resolution earlier this month.
Arab and Muslim states Israel has ties with voted in favor, including Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Sudan and the United Arab Emirates.
The General Assembly Nakba item was one of several similar resolutions put forward during the meeting on the “Question of Palestine.”
Another resolution said it was “noting with deep regret the passage of 55 years since the onset of the Israeli occupation” and 75 years since the UN partition plan and “the Nakba” with no resolution to the conflict.