UN General Assembly Demands Gaza Truce Now But Rejects Condemning Hamas

Retaliatory airstrikes against the Iranian regime itself, such as destroying its Persian Gulf oil export facilities, might become necessary if the Iranian regime makes good on its foreign minister’s threat and significantly escalates its attacks agai

Joseph A. Klein, CFP United Nations Columnist

World News | October 29, 2023

The Hamas terrorists hoard fuel and other necessities to feed their genocidal war machine rather than share their storehouses of supplies with the desperate Gazan civilians they govern. Hamas continues to fire rockets at Israeli civilians from densely populated civilian areas in Gaza and allegedly uses Gaza’s largest hospital as a cover for its military command and control center hidden underneath.

Nevertheless, on October 27^th the United Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly passed a one-sided resolution, presented by Jordan, calling for “an immediate, durable and sustained humanitarian truce leading to a cessation of hostilities.” The resolution did not mention by name, much less denounce, Hamas’ horrific terrorist attacks on Israel, nor demand the return of the hostages that Hamas and other terrorist groups are holding in Gaza. Instead, Jordan’s resolution expressed “grave concern at the latest escalation of violence since the 7 October 2023 attack and the grave deterioration of the situation in the region…” (Emphasis added)

"Since the 7 October 2023 attack?" What a convenient selective memory Jordan

"Since the 7 October 2023 attack?" What a convenient selective memory Jordan and those countries that supported this resolution have! It was Hamas’ genocidal massacre of Jewish babies, young concertgoers, families, the elderly, and other helpless civilians on October 7th that caused the “violence” and “grave deterioration of the situation in the region” in the first place.

Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the United States ambassador to the United Nations, expressed outrage that Jordan's resolution approved by the General Assembly “fails to name the perpetrators of the 7 October terrorist attack. These are omissions of evil.”

The General Assembly shamelessly rejected Canada’s proposed amendment to Jordan’s resolution that would have fixed the resolution’s fundamental flaws. The proposed amendment explicitly condemned “the terrorist attacks by Hamas that took place in Israel starting on 7 October 2023 and the taking of hostages.” But it fell short of the two-thirds vote in favor that was necessary for the General Assembly’s approval. The votes in favor of Jordan’s resolution, minus any amendment, easily exceeded the required two-thirds threshold for approval.

The United Nations was formed in the wake of the Holocaust to prevent such atrocities in the future'

Riyad Mansour, the Permanent Observer for the so-called “Observer State of Palestine,” applauded the defeat of Canada’s proposed amendment that would have condemned Hamas specifically. He proved once again that the repetitive claims of the Palestinian Authority he represents - that it is seeking a peaceful resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict consistent with international law -is one big lie. Hamas and the Palestinian Authority are equally dedicated to achieving the destruction of the Jewish State of Israel, no matter what particular tactics they decide to use.

“We are one in seeking an end to the killing,” Mansour said, with one notable exception, of course - the massacre of Jews in Israel.

The United Nations was formed in the wake of the Holocaust to prevent such atrocities in the future. However, today's General Assembly did precisely the opposite. It rejected a condemnation of Hamas’ Nazi-like massacre of Jews and voted to tie Israel’s hands so that it would not be able to prevent such genocidal atrocities from ever happening again. In so doing, the General Assembly has continued serving as an apologist for the Palestinian terrorists' evil.

Iranian terrorist proxies in Syria and Iraq have already launched at least twenty-one attacks against U.S. military personnel

No wonder Israel’s UN Ambassador Gilad Erdan tore into the General Assembly for “not holding Hamas accountable” and declared that the United Nations “no longer holds even one ounce of legitimacy or relevance.”

Iran, the world’s number one state sponsor of terrorists including Hamas, lambasted Canada’s proposed amendment to Jordan’s resolution as a whitewash of what the Iranian representative falsely claimed to be Israeli aggression. Just the day before the disgraceful General Assembly vote, Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian issued a threat to the United States during his remarks to the General Assembly. Iran’s Foreign Minister warned, from the global stage the UN provided to him at UN headquarters in New York City, that unless the United States stops “supporting genocide in Gaza and Palestine” the U.S. “will not be spared from this fire.” He should never receive a visa to enter the United States again for any purpose.

Iranian terrorist proxies in Syria and Iraq have already launched at least twenty-one attacks against U.S. military personnel in those countries this October alone, causing injuries including brain trauma in some cases. So far, as of October 28th, the United States carried out airstrikes in response to those attacks against a couple of facilities in eastern Syria used by Iran’s Islamic

Maximum economic pressure on the scale that former President Trump had exerted on Iran is necessary to starve the Iranian regime

Revolutionary Guard Corps and their terrorist militia proxies to store weapons. Otherwise, the U.S. has played defense. The limited pinpointed airstrikes that the Biden administration did conduct have done nothing to stop more Iranian-backed militias’ attacks against U.S. military personnel.

The Biden administration needs to do much more. Further offensive military actions could include conducting full-scale strikes on all known Iranian-sponsored militia bases and operation and control centers in Syria and Iraq, and bombing Iranian arms supply lines in those countries, including to Hezbollah in Lebanon. The administration must also reverse its disgraceful appeasement of Iran and finally enforce to their fullest extent the oil sanctions against Iran, as well as against government and private entities that purchase oil from Iran.

Maximum economic pressure on the scale that former President Trump had exerted on Iran is necessary to starve the Iranian regime of the major source of revenues it has used to fund Hamas and its other terrorist proxies. But even that might not be enough to stop the Iranian regime’s aggressive designs against the United States. Retaliatory airstrikes against the Iranian regime itself, such as destroying its Persian Gulf oil export facilities, might become necessary if the Iranian regime makes good on its foreign minister’s threat and significantly escalates its attacks against United States assets and personnel.

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Joseph A. Klein is the author of Global Deception: The UN’s Stealth Assault on America’s Freedom.