4. Jewish Refugees
The Arab League's first strategic move to irradicate Jewish soveriegnty in the Middle East
JJAC explained: ‘’The Draft Law has seven simple provisions. The first requires registration of Jews and classifies them all as ‘’members of the Jewish minority state of Palestine’’, I.e. that they are citizens of an enemy state, Israel. The second requires freezing of Jewish bank accounts and use of the funds from those accounts to finance the wars of Arab states against the Jewish state. The third states ‘’only Jews who are subjects of foreign countries will be considered as neutrals.’’ That is to say, Jews who are subjects of an Arab country are to be considered as hostile enemies. The fifth clause provides for internment of active Zionists, those who support the right of Israel to exist. Their financial resources will be confiscated. The fourth and sixth provisions state that any Jewish person who meets certain criteria is ‘’free to act as he likes.’’ Subject to two qualifications: that each Jewish person must prove that their activities are anti-Zionist and in active opposition to the right of self-determination of the Jewish people; and they must declare their readiness to join Arab armies, which were at war with Israel. In other words, only a Jew willing to kill other Jews is ‘’free to act as he likes.’’ The final clause says that even if Jews meet these ‘’criteria’’ they still have to register as Jews and will have their bank accounts frozen. These provisions make a mockery of the alleged exception that some Jews would have freedom of action. In reality, under the Draft Law, no Jew is free to act as he or she likes. JJAC then explains that the Draft Law corresponds with actions taken by the individual Arab League member states against their Jewish residents, who had been residing in these states legally for thousands of years. JJAC states that these ’’…repressive measures [were] adopted in early 1948 in each of the Arab League member states…
First, the Draft Law imposes denationalization - ‘’all Jewish citizens of (name of country) will be considered as members of the Jewish minority state of Palestine.’’ Shortly thereafter, as this report documents, a massive denationalization began in each of the member states.
Second the Draft Law requires the freezing of Jewish bank accounts, and Jewish bank accounts [were] subsequently frozen by law.
Third, the Draft Law calls for the diversion of the funds of frozen Jewish bank accounts, in order to finance the Arab wars against Israel. This is exactly what happened, as enshrined in law, in country after country in the region.
Fourth, the Draft Law requires internment and confiscation of property of ‘’active Zionists’’. What follows is that ‘’Zionism’’ then became a criminal offence throughout the region- in some cases even punishable by death- while the reports of Jewish property confiscation became widespread in country after country.’’ JJAC specifically noted the laws of Egypt, Iraq and Libya that corresponded with the Draft Law.
In Egypt, ‘’Many Jews lost their jobs through the enforcement of a 1947 amendment to the Egyptian Companies Law. The amendment required that at least 75% of the administrative employees and 90% of all employees of a company be Egyptian national…In November 1856, a government proclamation declared that ‘’all Jews are Zionists and enemies of the state,’’ and promised that they would soon be expelled. A 1956 amendment to the Egyptian Nationality Law provided that ‘Zionists’’ were barred from being Egyptian nationals. The amendment asserted that ‘’Egyptian nationality may be declared forfeited by order of the Ministry of Interior in the case of persons classified as Zionists.’’ The term ‘’Zionist’’ was undefined.’’
In Iraq, ‘’The propagation of Zionism became a crime punishable by seven years imprisonment. No foreign Jew was allowed to enter Iraq even in transit…In 1952, the permission to leave was cancelled and Jews were barred from emigrating. In 1963, Jews were forbidden to sell their property and forced to carry yellow identity cards. After the 1967 Six Day War, many of the remaining 3,000 Jews were arrested and dismissed from their jobs. Jewish property was expropriated and bank accounts were frozen. Jews were dismissed from public posts. Jewish businesses were shut and trading permits that had been granted to Jews were cancelled. Even telephones of Jewish customers were disconnected. Jews were placed under house arrest or required to remain within the cities.’’
In Libya, after ‘’Libyan independence [from British rule] meant a sequence of anti- Zionist, anti-Jewish laws. A 1957 law provided that profited anyone in Libya from entering into contracts with anyone in Israel. A law of 1958 ordered the dissolution of the Jewish Community Council. A 1961 law provided that only Libyan citizens could own and transfer real property…A 1962 decree provided that a Libyan forfeited nationality if the person had had any contact with Zionism. Any person who had visited Israel after the proclamation of Libyan independence, and any person deemed to have acted in favour of Israel’s interests lost their Libyan nationality under this law. The law was retroactive, applying to those who had visited Israel or done anything else the authorities deemed supportive of Israel before the law was enacted. Libyan Jews were the primary victims of this law.’’
JJAC described the ‘’Decrees and practices discriminating against Jews in Arab countries echo the Nazi Nuremberg Laws on Citizenship and Race…The Nuremberg laws violated basic human rights; the right to a nationality; the right to vote; the right to equality. They were damaging in themselves and a signal of the disaster to come. They depersonalized Jews, by saying that they were not legal persons in the eyes of the state.’’ The disaster that followed the Nuremberg-style Draft Law of the Political Committee of the Arab League and the combined anti-Jewish treatment in the Arab League member states led to the displacement of approximately one million Jews from these Arab countries. JJAC has detailed the displacement of the Jewish population from 10 Arab countries in the chart below:
1948 1958 1968.…
-Aden 8,000 800 0
-Algeria 140,000 130,000 3,000
-Egypt 75,000 40,000 2,500
-Iraq 135,000 6,000 2,500
-Lebanon 5,000 6,000 3,000
-Libya 38,000 3,750 500
-Morocco 265,000 200,000 50,000
-Syria 30,000 5,000 4,000
-Tunisia 105,000 80,000 10,000
-Yemen 55,000 3,500 500
Total 856,000.49 475,050 76,000
JJAC explained that the displaced Jews became refugees. ‘’In numerous countries, Jews were expelled or had their citizenship revoked. In other states, the reasons that many Jews felt compelled to leave or flee varied by country, individual, community and family. Some of the reasons included: discrimination/anti-Jewish legislation; fear of violence/rioting; Arab collusion with fascist/Nazi persecution of Jews in North Africa; and the rising tension of the Arab-Israeli conflict.’’
In Egypt, ‘’in 1948, after the establishment of the State of Israel, bombs in the Jewish Quarter of Cairo killed more than 70 and wounded nearly 200. Rioting resulted in many more deaths. 2,000 Jews were arrested and many had their property confiscated.’’ The Jews were then forced to leave Egypt, when in 1956, ‘’the Egyptian government, coincident with the Sinai war against Israel, ordered almost 25,000 Jews to leave the country and confiscated their property. They were allowed to take only one suitcase and a small amount of cash, and forced to sign declarations giving their property to the Egyptian government.’’ JJAC also reported that in the same year of 1956, ‘’Approximately 1,000 Egyptian Jews were sent in 1956 to prisons and detention camps.’’ Only one year later, ‘’By 1957’’, JJAC reported, ‘’there were only 15,000 Jews in Egypt. In 1967, after the Six-Day War, increased persecution led to more flight; Jewish population numbers dropped to 2,500. Most of those [who] remained were those who were not allowed to leave. By the 1970’s, after the remaining Jews were given permission to leave, only a few families stayed behind.’’
In Iraq, JJAC reported: ‘’In 1950, Iraq Jews were permitted to leave the country within a year provided they forfeited their citizenship. The property of Jews who emigrated was frozen. From 1949-1951, 124,000 Jews were evacuated, or smuggled out through Iran. In 1952, the permission to leave was cancelled and Jews were barred from emigrating…In 1968, dozens of Jews were jailed for alleged involvement with a spy ring and tortured. Fourteen accused, including eleven Jews, were sentenced to death in show trials and, in January 1969, were hanged in public. By the early 1970’s most of the remaining Jews had fled with tacit Baghdad acquiescence. In 1973, the government pressured those few elderly Jews who remained to turn over title, without compensation, to more than $200 million worth of Jewish community property the fleeing Jewish community had left behind.’’
In Libya, JJAC reported: ‘’Rioters murdered 12 Jews and destroyed 280 Jewish homes in June 1948 to protest the founding of the Jewish state. Although emigration was illegal, more than 3,000 Jews fled. The British legalized emigration in 1949. Hostile demonstrations and riots against Jews continued unabated. From 1949-1951, when Libya gained independence, 30,000 more Jews fled…A 1970 law provided that all property belonging to Israelis who had left Libyan territory ‘’in order to establish themselves definitely abroad’’ would pass to the state. The Libyan Government used this law to take possession of property belonging to Libyan Jews without bothering about the fact that these Jews were not Israelis and had not ‘’established themselves abroad. Another law of 1970 decreed that the state would administer liquid funds of Jews as well as the companies and the company shares belonging to Jews.’’
Jews were also forced to leave the following countries due to the threat of losing their lives: ‘’…in Syria, as a result of anti-Jewish pogroms that erupted in Aleppo in 1947, 7,000 of the town’s 10,000 Jews fled in terror…After the French left Algeria, the authorities issued a variety of anti-Jewish decrees prompting nearly all of the 160,000 Jews to flee the country. After the 1947 United Nations General Assembly Resolution on the Partition Plan, Muslim rioters engaged in bloody pogroms in Aden and Yemen, which killed 82 Jews.’’
A massive theft of Jewish property and assets by the Arab regimes took place as JJAC described: ‘’In virtually all cases, as Jews left their country, individual and communal properties were confiscated without compensation provided to rightful owners. There were a variety of lost properties and assets:
I) Personal (e.g. homes, businesses, land, pensions, benefits); and
I I ) Assets belonging to the community or collective (e.g. schools, synagogues, hospitals and cemeteries).
Figures as to total loses vary. The World Organization of Jews from Arab Countries’ (WOJAC) estimate is well over $100 billion.’’
The first strategic move by the Arab League against Jewish sovereignty amongst Arab countries via the State of Israel, resulted in approximately one million Jewish refugees losing an estimate of $100 billion in property and assets. JJAC described the Arab League’s strategic move as ‘’…part of a discernable pan- Arab pattern to force a mass Jewish displacement from Arab countries.’’ JJAC also added that the impact ‘’From 1,000,000 Jews resident in North Africa, the Middle East and the Gulf region at the turn of the century, it is estimated that less than 7,000 Jews remain to-day in 10 Arab countries. It is within the last 55 years that the world has witnessed the mass displacement of over 850,000 Jews from the totalitarian regimes, the brutal dictatorships and monarchies of Syria, Trans-Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon, Yemen, Iran, Iraq, Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco.’’
The Arab League member states have together, nearly wiped out entire Jewish cultures across the Middle East. The Arab League is guilty of ethnic cleansing their Jewish populations from their respective states. In addition to robbing their Jewish populations of property and finances, the Arab League has robbed one of the most precious assets from the world’s population as a whole, which is history. These Jewish populations have been preserved through wars, natural disasters, sicknesses and diseases since time immemorial, only to have the Arab League member states jointly decree to erase their existence. The status of these Jewish cultures went from existing from time immemorial to non-existent within 55 short years {beginning from 1948]. JJAC explains: ‘’There has been an uninterrupted presence of large Jewish communities in the Middle East from time immemorial. The ancient Jewish communities of the Middle East and North Africa existed some 1,000 years before the Arab Muslim conquests of these regions- including the Land of Israel- and about 2,500 years before the birth of the modern Arab states’’. Below is ‘’The Historical Narrative’’ chart of the Jewish populations in the Middle East and North Africa, produced by JJAC:
COUNTRY/REGION DATE OF JEWISH COMMUNITY
-Iraq 6th century BCE
-Lebanon 1st century BCE
-Libya 3rd century BCE
-Syria 1st century CE
-Yemen 3rd century BCE
-Morocco 1st century CE
-Algeria 1st-2nd century CE
-Tunisia 200 CE
For its part, the United Nations also robbed the Jewish populations and the world’s population as a whole of their history. JJAC explains: ‘’ Indeed, the U.N. is a case study in Middle East revisionism. Since 1947, there have been 842 resolutions adopted by the U.N. General Assembly that have dealt with the Arab-Israeli conflict. There have been 126 resolutions that have specifically dealt with the Palestinian refugee plight. In none of these U.N. Resolutions on the Middle East is there any reference to, nor any expression of concern of the 856,000 Jews living in, or having been displaced from, Arab counties…Moreover, since 1947, billions of dollars have been spent by the international community- by the U.N. and its affiliated entities and member states- to provide relief and assistance to Palestinian refugees. During that same period, notwithstanding requests by international Jewish relief organizations, no such international financial support was ever provided to ameliorate the plight of Jewish refugees.’’ JJAC further explains that: ‘’The fact that there is not one recorded UN resolution on Jewish refugees is not due to a lack of trying.’’ For instance:
On November 27th and 30th, 1956, then- Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs Golda Meir wrote two letters to the UN Secretary General ‘’regarding the action taken by the Egyptian Government against the Jewish Community in Egypt.’’
On December 21, 1956, Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., the U.S. Representative to the U.N., stated that he shares ‘’concern about reports of the plight of Jews in Egypt.’’ The US made a statement expressing its concern from the rostrum of the UN General Assembly in order to put the US on record as ‘’abhorring such practices as have been alleged.’’
On January 11th, 1957, Philip Klutznick, on behalf of the Coordinating Board of Jewish Organizations, wrote to Secretary of State General Dag Hammarskjold, urging him to use his ‘’good offices to induce the Government of Egypt to desist from the prosecution of a policy…to bring total ruin to the old-established Jewish community in Egypt.’’
On December 2, 1968, The International League of the Rights of Man, a non-Jewish organization, wrote to Secretary General U-Thant calling attention to ‘’situations in Egypt, Syria and Iraq, representing continuing and serous infringements of Human Rights.’’
On October 10, 1977, then-Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs Moshe Dayan addressed the 32nd Session of the UN General Assembly and spoke forcefully on the discriminatory treatment of Jews in Arab countries.’’
The United States was also directly warned and well informed of the real immediate danger the Jews in Arab countries faced. David G. Littman wrote in the National Review, as reported by frontpagemag.com: ‘’On January 18, 1948, the president of the World Jewish Congress, Dr. Stephen Wise, appealed to U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall: ‘’Between 800,000 and a million Jews in the Middle East and North Africa, exclusive of Palestine are in ‘the greatest danger of destruction’ at the hands of Moslems being incited to holy war over the Partition of Palestine…Acts of violence already perpetrated, together with those contemplated, being clearly aimed at the total destruction of the Jews, constitute genocide, which under the resolutions of the General Assembly is a crime against humanity.’’
The Jewish communities who were the target of this genocide spoke out for help: ‘’…Here is a description from the official report in 1945 by Tripoli’s Jewish community president, Zachino Habib, describing what happened to Libyan Jews in Tripoli, Zanzur, Zawiya, Casabat, Zitlin, Nov. 4-7, 1945: ‘’The Arabs attacked Jews in obedience to mysterious orders. Their outburst of bestial violence has no plausible motive. For fifty hours they hunted men down, attacked houses and shops, killed men, women, old and young, horribly tortured and dismembered Jews isolated in the interior…In order to carry out the slaughter, the attackers used various weapons: Knives, daggers, sticks, clubs, iron bars, revolvers, and even hand grenades.’’ In addition to the harrowing accounts from the Jewish victims and the pleas from the Israeli government and organizations, the UN was directly informed of the Jewish populations’ imminent danger from the perpetrators themselves. JJAC notes: ‘’In a key address before the Political Committee of the U.N. General Assembly on the morning of November 24, 1947, just five days before that body voted on the partition plan for Palestine, Heykal Pasha, an Egyptian delegate, made the following statement: ‘’…The United Nations…should not lose sight of the fact that the proposed solution [Partition Plan] might endanger a million Jews living in the Moslem countries [emphasis added}. Partition of Palestine might create in those countries anti-Semitism even more difficult to root out than the anti-Semitism which the Allies were trying to eradicate in German. If the United Nations decided to partition Palestine, it might be responsible for the massacre of a large number of Jews.’’ The Egyptian delegate actually said that the Jews could be in greater danger in the Moslem countries more than they were under Hitler’s regime. The Arab League was so utterly against any kind of Jewish sovereignty amongst Arab-Moslem countries, that they threatened a larger massacre upon the Jews than the Nazis had done. JJAC also noted that at that same U.N. Political Committee meeting, during the afternoon session, the Palestinian delegate to the UN, Jamal al- Hussayni, representing the Arab Higher Committee of Palestine to the UN General Assembly, made the following threat: ‘’It should be remembered that there were as many Jews in the Arab world as there were in Palestine whose positions might become very precarious…’’
Shortly thereafter, at the November 28, 1947 Plenary meeting of the UN General Assembly, ominously similar threats appeared once again in a statement by Iraq’s Foreign Minister Fadil Jamali, noted JJAC: ‘’Not only the uprising of the Arabs of Palestine is to be expected but the masses The masses in the Arab world [emphasis added] cannot be restrained. The Arab-Jewish relationship in the Arab world will greatly deteriorate…’’
On top of the warnings and threats that the UN received regarding the endangered Jewish population in the Arab League member states, the UN was given concrete evidence of the Arab League’s Draft Law. The photocopy of the Draft Law obtained by JJAC as shown previously, was, as JJAC noted, ‘’…affixed to a Jan. 19, 1948 Memorandum submitted to the UN Economic and Social Council warning that ‘’all Jews residing in the Near and Middle East face extreme and imminent danger’’. This memorandum was summarized in UN Economic and Social Council Document E/710, released by the Committee on Arrangements for Consultation with Non-Governmental Organizations, entitled: ‘’Report on the Memoranda of the World Jewish Congress in Regard to the Situation of the Jewish Populations in Arab Countries, February 24, 1948.’’ JJAC points out a disastrous facture that accompanied the memorandum to the Council: ‘’Unfortunately, the fate of this memorandum rested in the hands of the President of the Council, Dr. Charles H. Malik, the representative of Lebanon to the United Nations and the person designated by Arab states to be their representative at the Council. Lebanon was one of the founding members of the Arab League, one of the state which had deliberated upon the anti-Semitic draft law. Mr. Malik used a procedural maneuver to ensure that nothing was done in response to the World Jewish Congress memorandum.’’
JJAC was able to obtain a report of activities of the political department of the World Jewish Congress for November 15, 1947 to May 15, 1948 contains this entry: ‘’Item 37 of the agenda of the Council containing the reports of the NGO Committee to the Council was on the agenda for three days. It appeared as Document E/706 (containing a number of recommendations to the Council) and Document E/710 (containing a summary of our memoranda and suggestions without recommendations.) On March 5th Document E/706 was disposed of and it was expected that Document E/710 would come up under the same item of the agenda. At this point Dr. Malik (who at the beginning of the discussion of Item 37 mentioned that it consisted of two documents and that E/706 would be discussed first) made a remark that the Council had disposed of all questions referred to it by the NGO Committee where recommendations were contained and that - if the Council did not wish to discuss anything else - he would proceed to the next item of the agenda which dealt with quite another matter. None of the delegates raised any objection and the Council proceeded in the manner proposed by Dr. Malik. It was obvious that Document E/170 (E/710) was dropped through a maneuver on the part of the President (emphasis added). Six days later, on March 11, 1948 when the Council was ready to resume its deliberations, Mr. Katz-Suchy, the representative of Poland objected to this procedural ploy and requested that the matter of Document E/710 (which detailed the World Jewish Congress alarm about ‘’The extreme and imminent danger to Jews residing in the near and Middle East) by reconsidered. He said that he himself had raised no objection at the time to what the President had done because he had been led to believe that some other organ of the Council would be instructed to act on the document. Mr. Katz-Suchy then charged that ‘’[an] agreement had been reached among the five major Powers not to discuss document E/710’’ and argued that ‘’usual’’ Council procedure was not followed. The President, still Dr. Malik, ruled the Polish motion out of order, saying that discussion on the item had already been disposed of and could only be re-opened by a decision of the Council. Mr. Kaminsky (Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic) declared that ‘’he could not condone a practice whereby items of the agenda were allowed to disappear from the agenda.’’ A resolution recommending that this mater be discussed in full at the next Council meeting (July 1948) was adopted by a vote of 15-1. The lone dissenting vote was cast by the representative of Lebanon who stated that he resolution ‘’was tantamount to prejudging the issue.’’ The NGO Committee then met to discuss this resolution under the chairmanship, as one might have guessed, of Dr. Charles Malik. The Committee came up with a report on August 9, 1948 which stated that the Council ‘’has at the present time no competence to judge and hence to recommend any useful action on the statement of the World Jewish Congress.’’ During the course of the debate which led to this conclusion, Dr. Malik temporarily stepped down from the chair to speak as representative of Arab states in support of what was eventually decided.’’
‘’Incompetence‘’, was the United Nations’ unjustifiably excuse after hearing the Egyptian delegate saying that one million Jews in the Arab countries will be in greater danger than they were under Hitler and after viewing the Arab League’s Draft Law, which clearly decreed the removal of every human right from the Jewish population, including stripping their citizenship, confiscating their property, freezing their bank accounts and imprisoning them.
‘’Incompetence’’, was the United Nations unjustifiable excuse after witnessing six million Jews being murdered in the Holocaust only a couple years before.
This UN Council actually said of itself, that it was ‘’incompetent to judge’’ and therefore the Arab League member states were allowed to do any inhumane treatment they wanted to their Jewish populations. It is inconceivable that the world body, the United Nations, would proclaim ‘’incompetence’’ at a time following the Holocaust in Europe and the beginning of the Arab League’s ethnic cleansing of its Jewish population. Moreover, proclaiming ‘’incompetence’’ does not excuse the UN’s actions of turning a blind eye to the suffering of 1,000,000 people, just as ‘’incompetence’’ or ‘’insanity’’ doesn’t excuse a murderer when he’s facing trial.
The expectation of the UN is to prevent future Holocausts and genocides, instead the UN had allowed such atrocities to take place when it had the power to prevent them. The UN could have prevented the Arab league’s mass displacement of 1,000.000 Jews, but they chose not to- the UN stepped aside and gave the Arab League the green light to implement the Draft Law. This explains the fact that virtually no genocides have been prevented since the UN’s creation, such as Rwanda, the killing fields in Laos (which many of the perpetrators have not been brought to justice) the Congo, Sudan, and the mass human rights violations committed by the Arab League against its Jewish populations’. Even at present day, the UN has not changed its stance on ignoring the plight of the Jewish refugees. JJAC explains: ‘’In perhaps the most egregious demonstration of U.N. injustice, the U.N. Council on Human Rights- the successor to the U.N. Commission on Human Rights- adopted 11 resolutions of condemnation in 2006-7, its first year of operation; all 11 resolutions of condemnation were passed against one member-state of the international community, namely Israel. Not one resolution of condemnation was adopted against any of the other 191 member states of the international community.’’ JJAC also noted: ‘’…while Israel was being singled out for differential and discriminatory treatment, the major human rights violators- such as Iran and Sudan- were enjoying exculpatory immunity.’’
For 60 years, the UN has shown utter contempt for the lives of Jews and therefore cannot be trusted for protecting them. JJAC concludes: ‘’If one looks at UN involvement in the matter of ‘’a just resolution of the refugee problem,’’ the exclusion of Jewish refugees raises serious questions about the integrity of the United Nations role in the Quartet (EU, Russia, United States and UN), or the peace process as a whole. For it is inconceivable and unjust for a U.N. narrative of the Middle East not to make any reference to the plight of Jewish refugees from Arab countries and their rights to redress.’’
In looking further into the UN‘s bias against Israel and its contempt for human rights for Jews, Joshua Muravchik, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute wrote in the Jewish World Review on April 30, 2003:
- ‘’Representation on the Security Council and other U.N. bodies is chosen by region. Israel, however, is the only U.N. state that has not been allowed membership in any regional body.’’
- Only in 2003, ‘’U.S. pressure resulted in Israel’s inclusion in the Western Europe and Others Group… but only on condition that Israel not be eligible for nomination to the Security Council.’’
- ‘’Israel has likewise never served on the U.N. Human Rights Commission.’’
- In 2003, ‘’the UNHRC adopted no fewer than eight resolutions castigating Israel, while adopting no more than one on any other country and none whatsoever concerning the large majority of the world’s dictators. Among the eight resolutions on Israel was one that endorsed the Palestinian’s right to fight for their cause ‘’by all available means, including armed struggle,’’ which implicitly meant suicide bombings. (Six of the nine E.U. members of the body voted for this.)’’
- In 2002, ‘’…no fewer than 40 percent of the few hundred resolutions put to a vote [by the General Assembly] were also devoted to the denunciation of Israel.’’
- ‘’…the U.N. maintains three permanent bodies devoted exclusively to Israel- bashing. They are the Division for Palestinian Rights of the U.N. Secretanat, the Committee to Investigate Israel Practices in the Territories, and the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People…’’
- ‘’The quartet itself, according to the New York Times, was the creation of Terje Roed-Larsen, the U.N. special envoy to the Middle East, who proclaimed last year that ‘’the government of Israel has lost all moral ground in this conflict’’.
These resolutions and Mr. Roed-Larsen’s statement against Israel was at a time when innocent Israeli civilians were being blown up during the second intifada; again proving that the UN cannot be trusted with the lives of Jews.