Letters of Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Security Council
Now that Israel is fighting back against the rocket-launching Iranian-backed terrorists of Gaza, the United Nations has swung into a frenzy of activity, calling for immediate measures to stop the violence and end the crisis. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has rushed to the Middle East, the High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay is firing off press releases to say she is “appalled” and “extremely concerned.” The Security Council has held an emergency closed meeting … and so on.
What a contrast to the UN response earlier this year, when for month after month, the terrorists of Hamas-controlled Gaza fired rockets into Israel, and while Israel complied with the UN’s demands for “restraint,” Israel’s Ambassador to the UN, Ron Prosor, pleaded with the Security Council to condemn the terrorist assaults on his country.
Prosor sent letter after letter to the Security Council, asking that the Council, the UN’s leading body for addressing matters of armed aggression, speak with one voice to condemn the terrorist attacks out of Gaza. This was evidently not a story of much interest to the international press; nor, it seems, was it a crisis of any interest to the UN Security Council. It does provides some illuminating background, however, on the run-up to the current crisis, and on the priorities of the UN (more on that in my article on The UN Tilt to Terrorists).
For the record, here are some brief excerpts from some of the letters Israel’s Ambassador Prosor sent earlier this year to the Security Council, some of them sent also to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:
February 27, 2012
Since I last wrote to you, ten days ago, ten more rockets have been fired from the Gaza Strip into Israeli communities.
Ten days. Ten rockets. Not one word of condemnation from the Security Council.
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March 13, 2012
More than 75 rockets have been fired into Israeli communities from Gaza in the past day. More than 250 rockets have been fired since last Friday. That’s one rocket every twenty minutes…
Yet, the Security Council has uttered zero words of condemnation of these attacks… It is time for the Security Council to speak with one voice against the terrorism that continues to flow from Gaza.
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May 10, 2012 (this was not a letter, but part of a statement to the Security Council)
In southern Israel, terrorists from Gaza — sponsored by Iran — continue to rain down rockets on 1 million Israeli civilians. One rocket that explodes in the wrong place at the wrong time could ignite a dangerous escalation in our region. Yet the Council has not condemned the rocket fire. It has not uttered a single word.
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June 21, 2012
As I write this letter, rockets continue to rain down on the people of Southern Israel. In the past three days, Hamas and other terrorists in Gaza have fired more than 120 rockets into the heart of Israeli homes, cities, and communities. On the night of 19 June 2012. four Israeli soldiers were injured in a rocket attack, one seriously… The Council has a duty to raise its voice above the roar of the rockets that continues to come out of the Gaza Strip.
The international community also has a clear responsibility to prevent the illicit flow of arms into Gaza — a key aspect of resolution 1860 that receives hardly any attention.
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Since my last letter four days ago, 87 more rockets were fired into Israeli communities.
We see the same reality, month after month: as aid flows into Gaza, rockets fly out.
The Security Council has not uttered a single syllable about this appalling terrorism.
Caution: The Security Council’s decision to stay mute could have grave consequences.
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August 29, 2012
Another day. Another rocket. Not one word from the Security Council.
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August 31, 2012
While Israel’s schoolchildren were taking cover in bomb shelters, the UN released yet another biased report about Gaza… How many more rockets must fall on the children of Israel before the Security Council utters a syllable?
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As I write this letter, Hamas terrorists are firing deadly rockets into the heart of Southern Israel. In just the past day, more than 70 rockets have been launched… Life is paralyzed for one million Israelis. Parents cannot go to work — and children are not going to school.
Hamas deliberately provoked this escalation. Yesterday it detonated a bomb on Israel’s border with Gaza, severely injuring an Israeli officer. It is time for the world to take note: Hamas is determined to murder Israelis and escalate conflict in our already very turbulent region.
I call on you — and all the other Security Council members — to condemn Hamas terrorism without equivocation or delay. Hamas and other terrorists in our region will interpret the silence of the Security Council as a green light for terror and provocation.
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November 12, 2012
As I write this letter, rockets are flying into Israeli communities without pause. In the past two days, Hamas and other terrorists in Gaza have fired more than 150 rockets into our homes, schools, and cities…
The serious danger of an even greater escalation hangs over our very volatile region. Many Israeli civilians and soldiers have been injured. Damage to property has been significant…
The time for the Security Council to condemn Hamas terrorism with one voice is now, before it is too late.
The Palestinian leadership also has a fundamental responsibility to clearly condemn Hamas terrorism. The silence that continues to echo from President Abbas’ office speaks volumes.
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The Security Council did nothing.
On November 14, Israel killed Hamas military commander Ahmed al-Jabari, and launched Operation Pillar of Defense against the terrorists operating in Gaza.
The failure of the UN is quite understandable but what substantive steps have Obama and Clinton taken to address this head on as it unfolded? Why do they always pussyfoot around real problems and gush a lot of meaningless words about both sides needing to be responsible? Where is there real leadership?
Leadership? From this administration? Make me laugh.
And this is why Israel’s leaders are MANDATED to ignore them, as well as Washington’s dictates, via the Islamist-in-Chief. Besides, Israel’s leaders have a sworn duty to protect their citizens, international mischief makers be damned.They dare not hew to whatever pressure is exerted!
And for the latest update from the war/home front – /2012/11/21/ceasedeath-fire-or-not-will-israels-leave-bow-to-the-islamist-in-chiefs-dictates-the-jury-is-out-commentary-by-adina-kutnicki/
NOTHING less will suffice! We are the ones on the front lines!
All of this diplomatic charade is just being used by Hamas to break up the mommentum of the Israeli operation and increase pressure on Israel. Now they are using Clinton’s ill timed visit as cover to expand the terror campaign with a bus bombing in Tel Aviv today.
Hamas will stop when they have been defeated and not before.
The UN continues to be about as useful as mammary glands on a boar hog. Ditto Obama & Clinton.
“The UN continues to be about as useful as mammary glands on a boar hog.”
Are you kidding me? For once they are quiet, saying nothing about Israel. It is a manner the Arab League is basically green-lighting Israel’s attack on Hamas. However, Barack’s need to show his choice to move the Mus. Brotherhood into power in Egypt was a good and useful move trumped what, as liberals call it, “what the world thinks.”
Hamas didn’t even thank Egypt, but Iran for its victory.
The UN is a Club for retired or incompetent diplomats, exclusive those from G7 to G20. It is an international chatter house, today particularly to give 3rd world countries an air of importance and inclusiveness.
The UN is a shame, and I wonder why the West hasn’t stopped financing it since a long time, or at least attempted to better and change the rules. The West is also rotten, and directly the UN can serve some of West’s interests and strategies.
The UN is a breeding ground for islamo terrorists and rogue nations worldwide and it is based right here in the U.S. which makes us participants in the destruction of freedom and the annilation of Israel.
That said, I request the Prime Minister of Israel to unleash its arsenal on nuclear weapons on every country that continuies to attack them. Just make sure the wind is blowing in the right direction Bibi.
The Isrealis need to finish this once and for all. Go through and pacify Gaza. Lock up every fighting age male-then go house to house and remove every single firearm in the country, destroy all structures housing rockets-including hospitals.
Keep Hamas operatives captive as POW’s, let the rest go. Build a tent city in the middle of the desert like Arpio, and feed these guys MRE’s, with one hot meal a day.
Lets get serious!! Do not listen to the US for a change.
This American and non-Jew gives his full support to Israel. As far as I am concerned Israel can move back into Gaza and kick the Palestinians out – they can move to Egypt or Jordon or Iran for all I care (though they should reimburse the Gazans for their land). The UN is a waste. I hope that if we ever have the chance to elect a conservative as President he/she will cut off all funding for the UN. You are either for or against the savages.
Retake the Philadelphi Corridor… w/o boots on the ground. Go in, destroy the tunnels and sow mines throught the corridor. Fly drones overhead to police the corridor. Declare it to be a no man’s land. Use sensors to detect any new tunnelling underneath. Come in ONLY when you need to destroy them. Stop the flow of arms through tunnels and only let in, overland, non-military materiel. Let them import to be fed but starve them from rearming. They can prosper if the chose. If not, they can go to hell.
This reminds me of the old days when Egypt, Syria, etc. tried to create another Holocaust in Israel (four times!). As long as Israel was in danger, not a peep. When Israel mamanged to fight back, the calls for a cease-fire erupted.
Worse, because of fears of the USSR, the US would not let Israel ever win a decisive victory. So they had to wait for the next attempted holocaust.
The rockets have been landing for years. The UN, EU, et al paid no attention.
Now Israel (Jews) fight back and everyone notices. Everyone (well, not the USA) now screams, protect those poor Palestinian civilians. Who of course are only threatened because of terrorist acts.
Enough is enough. No ceasefire until they beg for mercy!
I’ve never been this angry in my life!
November 23, 2012
Because the Security Council has failed to respond to, much less condemn, the rocket fire from Gaza into Southern Israel these many months, Israel hereby announces it’s withdrawal from the U.N. We also give notice that any Palestinian civilians that wish to leave have 24 hours before Gaza is leveled and turned into a parking lot.
That should be the next letter.
WE should leave the UN too. in fact, without America’s largess, the UN wouldn’t last a week. we provide fully 1/4 of their funding, and we give them some nice real estate in Manhattan to boot. I can’t understand why, since they exist to bash Israel and ignore us.
“Behold a nation that dwells alone and among the peoples it will not be included.”
That’s a blessing, by the way, from an Arab.
There is an article a friend showed me in their local paper, “Wear keffiyeh for support” (“The Torch” November 21 2012). Some of the article indicated that those behind the campaign to wear keffiyeh this coming Friday want to show their support for the freedom of Gazans. It also reported that the onslaught began earlier this month after a Palestinian boy was shot dead by armed Israeli forces while playing soccer. Then Hamas retaliated and fired rockets into Israel. Several days later Hamas’ chief negotiator was killed, and an all-out war followed.
http://www.thetorch.com.au/read/Torch_Bankstown_21_November_2012/index.php
It is on Page 5.
From this article we can see that asking the UN for help is about as successful as asking Democrats for help from Benghazi !
Israel should recognize Gaza as a country, then, the next very next time a rocket or mortar is fired from their territory, issue a declaration of war. Then, fight to win. Period.
For all practical purposes, this is what we are doing. Except the last part.
Why is this man wasting his time. It would be like Czechoslovakia complaining to the League of Nations that Hitler intends to attack them. It would be like Jews complaining to the Vichy government that Jews are being shipped to concentration camps. The UN is in bed with terrorists! To the UN, a thousand dead Jews is a “legitimate response to Zionist oppression” while a Palestinian with a hangnail is a crime against humanity!
We need it for ourselves, and for our allies in the US. Otherwise, the MSM drumbeat gets so loud that we start to doubt ourselves. I know this happened to me during the First Lebanese War (a very similar situation to today, and much more successful), and now I don’t even understand what the issue was.
(Before that war, they had been shelling Nahariya. Do you know what civil defense gives as the warning time for Nahariya? ZERO.)
Claudia, from what I have been able to find out, you are rooting for the wrong team.
Here’s a taster, a vid by the son of a Jewish general.
“When Everything You Know Is Not True”
http://www.voltairenet.org/article176272.html