UN Leaders’ Unconscionable Moral Equivalence in the Face of Pure Evil

United Nations Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres and the president of the United Nations General Assembly Dennis Francis delivered remarks on October 9^th regarding the war between Hamas and Israel that Hamas initiated two days earlier. They illustrate yet again the moral equivalence syndrome that the UN displays whenever the Palestinian terrorists attack innocent civilians in Israel and the Jewish state responds in self-defense. But it is especially reprehensible to continue pontificating along these same lines in the face of Hamas's pure evil when the terrorists invaded Israel and went on a bloody rampage.

Moral equivalence syndrome that the UN displays whenever the Palestinian terrorists attack innocent civilians in Israel

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres and the president of the United Nations General Assembly Dennis Francis delivered remarks on October 9^th regarding the war between Hamas and Israel that Hamas initiated two days earlier. They illustrate yet again the moral equivalence syndrome that the UN displays whenever the Palestinian terrorists attack innocent civilians in Israel and the Jewish state responds in self-defense. But it is especially reprehensible to continue pontificating along these same lines in the face of Hamas's pure evil when the terrorists invaded Israel and went on a bloody rampage.

The terrorists slaughtered hundreds of defenseless civilians and abducted women, children, and the elderly (including a Holocaust survivor in a wheelchair). Israel did not start this war, but the Jewish state has every right to end it by whatever means necessary to ensure that a genocide of Jews never happens again, whatever the UN and the “international community” may think.

Secretary General Guterres did start out his remarks on an encouraging note by condemning “the abhorrent attacks by Hamas and others against Israeli towns and villages in the Gaza periphery, which have left over 800 Israelis dead and more than 2,500 injured.” He also noted that “over one hundred, possibly more, Israelis – civilians and military – have been reported captured by armed groups, including women, children and the elderly.” Too bad that the Secretary General did not stop there while he was ahead.

The massacres committed by Hamas and other Islamist terrorist groups have arisen from their single-minded determination to eliminate the Jewish state of Israel

While Mr. Guterres said that “nothing can justify these acts of terror and the killing, maiming and abduction of civilians,” he appeared to do just that later in his remarks when he said that the “violence does not come in a vacuum.” Secretary General Guterres declared that the violence grew out of “a 56-year long occupation and no political end in sight.”

Not true. The massacres committed by Hamas and other Islamist terrorist groups have arisen from their single-minded determination to eliminate the Jewish state of Israel from the face of the earth. As Robert Spencer, an expert on jihad and Islamic ideology, wrote in his article for Frontpage Magazine, the barbaric attacks against Israel are “happening not because of al-Aqsa, or because of any ‘occupation,’ since the ‘occupation’ is a propaganda fiction anyway. It’s happening because of the Islamic imperative to fight Jews.”

Secretary General Guterres went on to criticize Israel for its retaliatory measures, including Israeli missile strikes in Gaza aimed at Hamas facilities and weapons sites that have caused some unintended collateral loss of civilian lives and damage to civilian infrastructure. He failed to mention how Hamas uses civilians as human shields and locates facilities and weapons in civilian locations. And he failed to mention that, unlike the Israeli military’s attempts to save civilian lives with warnings to Gazan civilian residents to evacuate before co-located Hamas facilities were attacked, Hamas terrorists deliberately slaughtered as many Israeli civilians as they could.

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Failed to condemn Hamas’s attacks

The Secretary General also said that he was “deeply distressed by today’s announcement that Israel will initiate a complete siege of the Gaza Strip.” He failed to mention that Israel’s previous good faith gestures to open up access to and from the Gaza Strip for movements of Gaza residents and goods were exploited by Hamas.

The Secretary General still held out for “a negotiated peace” based on “a two-State solution, in line with United Nations resolutions, international law and previous agreements.” Hamas, Hezbollah, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and their state sponsor of terrorism Iran have no interest in a two-State solution in which Israel would remain as a Jewish state. They want one Palestinian state with no Jews allowed to reside there.

The UN General Assembly President Dennis Francis failed to condemn Hamas’s attacks, let alone use the terrorism label to describe the attacks. He referred to “the State of Palestine” and Israel in one sentence as if they are co-equal. There is no real State of Palestine. There are two territories administered by two fiercely rival Palestinian factions. One territory is Gaza – a terrorist sanctuary. The other territory is the West Bank, which is administered by the Palestinian Authority, a corrupt Palestinian governance entity that has repeatedly rejected all good faith peace proposals offered by successive Israeli governments.

Israel has tried that route with devastating consequences for its people

Mr. Francis called “for an immediate cessation of violence, for all parties to exercise maximum restraint, and for all stakeholders to engage in diplomatic discussions to de-escalate the situation, to protect civilians, and to chart a path to a two-state solution that offers peace, progress and prosperity for all.”

Israel has tried that route with devastating consequences for its people. Israel withdrew completely from Gaza, including all settlers, in 2005, only to see Gaza turned into a launching base for escalating terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians. Israel has agreed to ceasefires with Hamas on multiple occasions to pause the violence initiated by Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Time and again, Israeli civilians have suffered the consequences as the terrorists exploited the pauses in fighting to build up even more lethal arsenals of weapons, leading to the massacres and abductions of civilians that Hamas unleashed on October 7^th.

This time, Israel must say “never again” and take all military actions accordingly to make sure that the Palestinian terrorists can never conduct such strikes again.

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