During the United Nations Security Council's April 18th quarterly "open debate" on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Israel's UN Ambassador Danny Danon delivered an impassioned speech accusing the Palestinian leadership of inciting violence against Israeli civilians and honoring the terrorists. “The endless incitement and the ongoing glorification of violence,” by the Palestinians “is directly responsible for the murder of innocent Israelis,” he said.
In his speech before the Security Council, Ambassador Danon recalled the story of Dafna Meir, who was murdered at the entrance of her home in Otniel, Israel by a fifteen year-old Palestinian. Three of Meir’s children, including her daughter Renana, were home at the time. The terrorist later admitted that he was inspired to kill by video clips and other hate filled content on Palestinian TV and social media.
“Natan [Dafna Meir’s husband] and Renana are here with us in this chamber sitting behind me,” said Ambassador Danon. “The Palestinian culture of hate and constant brainwashing is responsible for the loss of too many Israelis. And it is directly responsible for the murder of Dafna Meir.”
Then, Ambassador Danon dramatically confronted Riyad Mansour, Palestine’s permanent observer at the UN, who was sitting directly across from Ambassador Danon at the Security Council’s horseshoe-shaped table. Ambassador Danon looked right at Mansour and asked him, "Are you ready right now to denounce terror against innocent Israelis?" The Palestinian representative muttered a response, but would not flatly denounce the Palestinians’ reign of terror.
Ambassador Danon did not let up. "Shame on you! Instead of denouncing terror, you are encouraging it!" he shouted to Mansour.
Palestine’s UN envoy Mansour retorted, “Shame on you for killing Palestinian children!”
Ambassador Danon responded, “You cannot say it here. Palestinian children are looking at you right now. ‘I condemn all acts of terrorism’: one sentence you cannot say. Shame on you for that.”
Mansour then repeated “Shame on you!” three times, denounced Israel as “an occupier” and grumbled words about being allowed to be "free," and the words “Leave us alone.”
The president of the Security Council, after allowing the back-and-forth to proceed for a few minutes, called the Security Council meeting back to order. For the first time in recent memory, the Israeli and Palestinian representatives at the UN actually engaged in a real intense face-to-face exchange, rather than confine themselves to their set speeches.
The urgency of the exchange was heightened by news that broke during the Security Council meeting of an explosion on a Jerusalem bus that was subsequently confirmed by police to have been caused by a terrorist bomb. At least 21 people were injured in the attack. Debkafile cited medical sources in reporting that “nuts and bolts were found in the bodies of some of the wounded.”
Not surprisingly, Hamas praised the attack, although it did not immediately claim responsibility for it. Meanwhile, Hamas has been busy diverting materials intended for reconstruction of homes in Gaza to build more terror tunnels. On the same day as the Jerusalem bus bombing attack, the Israeli Defense Force announced that it had discovered a tunnel extending more than two kilometers from Gaza underneath an Israeli community near the Gaza border. According to a Debkafile report, the tunnel “appeared to be wide enough to enable Hamas fighters to infiltrate into Israel and return with Israeli prisoners.”
In his prepared speech to the Security Council, Mansour reprised his customary charges that Israel’s “occupation” violated international law, and he demanded that the Security Council take action.
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The Palestinian Authority is circulating a completely one-sided draft Security Council resolution. The draft reportedly has the support of enough members of the Security Council to be adopted, absent a veto by the United States. In an effort to forestall such a veto, the Palestinian drafters focused the resolution on Israeli settlements, which the Obama administration has routinely condemned.
The Palestinian draft resolution demands that Israel “cease all settlement activities in the Occupied Palestinian territories, including East Jerusalem.” While condemning “all acts of terror” and expressing “serious concern over continuing violence against civilians,” the draft resolution blames specifically only Israeli settlers for “acts of terror, violence, destruction, harassment and provocation.” The draft encourages “a genuine commitment to the two-State solution,” referencing in particular the Arab Peace Initiative. The Arab Peace Initiative, which President Obama has praised, offered Israel normalization of relations with its neighbors in return for Israel’s complete withdrawal from the “occupied territories” (“including East Jerusalem”) to essentially the pre-1967 lines and a "just settlement" of the Palestinian “refugee” problem based on UN General Assembly Resolution 194. Resolution 194 stated that any refugees "wishing to return to their homes and live at peace with their neighbors should be permitted to do so at the earliest practicable date.”
The Palestinian Authority, which Mansour represents at the United Nations, is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. Its leaders are responsible for inciting acts of violence by Palestinians against Israeli civilians. It rebrands murderers as martyrs. Its schools have taught Palestinian children to hate Jews. Its idea of “a genuine commitment to the two-State solution” would establish the pre-1967 lines, with minor adjustments, as the new Palestinian state’s permanent border with Israel, but Israel would not be left alone to remain a Jewish state even then. The Palestinians want to allow potentially millions of Palestinian “refugees” to exercise their so-called “right of return” into the land of Israel as it existed before 1967. The two state solution, as the Palestinian leadership defines it, is one state ethnically cleansed of Jews that is controlled entirely by the Palestinians, and a second state in which Palestinians can become the majority over time and destroy the Jewish character of the state of Israel.
A senior member of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party central committee, Tawfik Tirawi, revealed the Palestinian leadership’s true intentions when he declared last January during an interview, “Palestine stretches from the river to the sea… a Palestinian state in the 1967 borders, with Jerusalem as its capital, is just a phase, as far as I am concerned.”
Mansour spoke in his prepared Security Council speech about the Palestinian “children” whom were killed by Israeli soldiers and police. He portrayed them all as innocent victims of Israeli “occupation” and “brutality.” But this time, he had to face a seventeen-year-old Israeli girl who lost her mother, stabbed to death by a Palestinian teenager who was inspired to kill by what he had seen on Palestinian TV and social media.
The Palestinian teenager may be a “child,” but he is a terrorist who deserves no mercy. His victim’s teenage daughter, Renana Meir, had to witness her mother’s brutal death. She may be traumatized for the rest of her life.
Mansour could not even muster a modicum of humanity to express his condolences and regret for what a Palestinian terrorist “child” had done in taking away an innocent mother from her innocent children. His silence speaks volumes about the Palestinians’ culture of hate and violence against Jews.
During the United Nations Security Council's April 18th quarterly "open debate" on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Israel's UN Ambassador Danny Danon delivered an impassioned speech accusing the Palestinian leadership of inciting violence against Israeli civilians and honoring the terrorists. “The endless incitement and the ongoing glorification of violence,” by the Palestinians “is directly responsible for the murder of innocent Israelis,” he said.
In his speech before the Security Council, Ambassador Danon recalled the story of Dafna Meir, who was murdered at the entrance of her home in Otniel, Israel by a fifteen year-old Palestinian. Three of Meir’s children, including her daughter Renana, were home at the time. The terrorist later admitted that he was inspired to kill by video clips and other hate filled content on Palestinian TV and social media.
