In his barnstorming speech this week at the United Nations General Assembly, in which he lobbed one uncomfortable home truth after another at member states, US President Donald Trump told the world body itself that it was useless. Instead of stopping wars and saving lives, he said, it produced only empty words.
The problem with the UN is rather more acute than that. Supposedly the guardian of peace and justice in the world, it has become instead an avatar of evil.
Institutionally programmed to single out the State of Israel for systematic defamation, delegitimisation and destruction, it has been captured by an agenda to destroy Israel because it represents the world. Most of the world is run by liberal universalists, Marxist dictatorships or Muslim regimes, which in various combinations hate Israel, the Jews and the West.
So it wasn’t surprising that — as a result of the global strategy of terrorism, war and defamation launched by the Hamas-led atrocities on October 7, 2023 as an all-out push to destroy Israel — 157 countries voted at the United Nations to recognise Palestine.
As Trump said, this rewarded Hamas for October 7 “even while they refuse to release the hostages or accept a ceasefire”.
The unilateral Palestine recognition stunt was led by France and Britain, who thus ripped up the 1993 Oslo Accords which required a negotiated settlement to the Israel-Palestinian issue.
Recognition, which, as the British government concedes, does not create a state of Palestine, is in effect a declaration of war against Israel by creating a fake diplomatic infrastructure to pressure the Jewish state, through both national and international bodies, to cut its own throat.
British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and the French President Emmanuel Macron have done this partly to appease the ever-more powerful Muslim blocs in Britain and France, and partly to save their own skins from their political enemies.
It was also in part because they are genuine believers in the liberal universalist fantasy of a “two-state solution” to this Arab war of extermination against Israel, a genocidal war that they catastrophically mischaracterise as a dispute between two parties with a well-founded claim to the same area of land.
The British government, however, deserves particular censure. Many critics observed not only that a state of Palestine couldn’t be conjured up by merely wishing it to exist, but also that it didn’t even have any geographical borders or shape.
So the British government promptly conjured them up, too. On the UK Foreign Office website, its page of travel advice now sports a map on which the “West Bank” and Gaza are named as “Palestine”.
Strangely, these mapped areas appear not to include Jerusalem or Bethlehem. These are nevertheless described as the “West Bank” in the accompanying text, advising against all but essential travel there in its frequent references to traveling in “Palestine”.
This discrepancy suggests sloppiness, cluelessness or extreme haste — or a combination of all three — by the officials who drew up this map.
The Starmer government’s malicious promotion of a fantasy “Palestine” doesn’t stop there. The British Consulate General in Jerusalem, which deals with Palestinian Arab issues, has now changed its address to “East Jerusalem, Palestine”.
In London, in a ceremony attended by a grisly crowd of Israel-haters, various Labour Members of Parliament and the junior Foreign Office minister Hamish Falconer, the Palestinian mission to London changed its name to the “Embassy of Palestine”.
This ceremony saw the raising of what was described as the “Palestine flag”. In fact, this flag of black, green and white with a red triangle emerged in 1916 as the symbol of the Arab revolt against Ottoman rule. It was then adopted by the Palestine Liberation Organisation when it was created as a terrorist organisation in 1964.
The crowd was addressed by the mission’s head, Husam Zomlot, who has now become the “Palestine ambassador” to Britain.
This is a man who in 2020 pooh-poohed as “a media stunt” a rocket attack from Gaza on Ashdod which injured two people; who has supported BDS; who has denied that the Palestinian Authority’s “pay for slay” programme, which funds terrorists and their families for murdering Israelis, amounts to payments for violence; and who has claimed that the Israelis have “genocidal genes”.
At this ceremony, Falconer told the crowd that “Palestine” recognition was “a rejection of extremist ideas on both sides”.
What kind of delusion is this? The “Palestine” flag is a terrorist flag. The sole purpose of the state of “Palestine” is to exterminate Israel. The Palestinian “ambassador” denies the Palestinians’ genocidal aims and instead ascribes them obscenely to their Israeli victims.
Recognition constitutes the British government’s rejection of civilisation for barbarism.
Most Brits are unaware of the monstrosity of all this because no one in Britain’s media or political classes tells them the truth about the Palestinian Arabs and their history. And crucially, neither Israel nor Britain’s Jewish leadership choose to educate them either.
The vast majority of Brits are unaware that Palestinian identity is a fiction invented solely to destroy Israel and steal from the Jews their own history in the land. They are unaware that even the supposedly moderate Palestinian Authority is committed to the destruction of Israel, makes heroes out of terrorists who slaughter Israelis, and has taught its children for decades to murder Jews and steal all their land.
They are unaware that Britain is ultimately responsible for the Arab-Israel impasse, having torn up international law in the 1930s when it offered the Arabs part of Mandatory Palestine that the League of Nations had said should be settled by the Jews alone. That was a reward for genocidal terror against the Jews — a “two-state solution” — that the British are still promoting to this very day.
Many in Britain and the West have no idea that there’s no illegal “occupation” because Israel is the only state with a legal, historical and moral claim to the disputed territories of the “West Bank” and Gaza.
They have no idea that the Palestinian Arabs they so naively support are obsessed by hatred against not just Israel but against the Jews as Jews, who are routinely and hysterically demonised in Palestinian society through Nazi and medieval antisemitic imagery portraying them as rats, insects, snakes and octopuses holding the entire world in their demonic grip.
People in Britain and the West have no idea about any of this because Israel and diaspora Jewish leaders don’t tell them. One reason for this is a deeply rooted, deeply problematic attitude by both Israel and diaspora Jews to their position in the world.
In his 2011 book, Perspectives of Psychological Operations in Contemporary Conflicts, Dr. Ron Schleifer, an Israeli researcher into psychological warfare, analysed Israel’s utter inadequacy in countering the defamation, demonisation and delegitimisation used against it for decades by the Palestinian Arabs.
As the root of this, he suggested, was the Jews’ desperate need to be loved and accepted in the world. Throughout history, they always took an apologetic, defensive approach to their enemies. They made no attempt to condemn their persecutors’ own culture or behaviour. Concerned almost entirely with their own image, they wanted above all to convince people not to hate them.
That’s partly why Israel has never called out the Islamic world or the Palestinians in general for their barbaric attitudes and behaviour towards the Jews. It has always been preoccupied instead by the need to achieve legitimacy in the eyes of the world.
The disastrous result is all around us — a global loss of legitimacy for Israel, and the legitimis ation instead of the bogus state whose sole purpose is to destroy the Jewish homeland.
Israel should now throw out British and French diplomats, and start to withhold critical intelligence from these countries. Trump should withdraw from the United Nations and its kangaroo courts, and shut them down as the menace they are.
Britain and France are going down. Israel and America alone are fighting for civilisation. Now they have to start tackling the so-called champions of global peace and justice and holding their feet to the fire.
Melanie Phillips is a British journalist, broadcaster and author - you can follow her work on her website HERE.
So it wasn’t surprising that — as a result of the global strategy of terrorism, war and defamation launched by the Hamas-led atrocities on October 7, 2023 as an all-out push to destroy Israel — 157 countries voted at the United Nations to recognise Palestine.
As Trump said, this rewarded Hamas for October 7 “even while they refuse to release the hostages or accept a ceasefire”.
The unilateral Palestine recognition stunt was led by France and Britain, who thus ripped up the 1993 Oslo Accords which required a negotiated settlement to the Israel-Palestinian issue.
Recognition, which, as the British government concedes, does not create a state of Palestine, is in effect a declaration of war against Israel by creating a fake diplomatic infrastructure to pressure the Jewish state, through both national and international bodies, to cut its own throat.
British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and the French President Emmanuel Macron have done this partly to appease the ever-more powerful Muslim blocs in Britain and France, and partly to save their own skins from their political enemies.
It was also in part because they are genuine believers in the liberal universalist fantasy of a “two-state solution” to this Arab war of extermination against Israel, a genocidal war that they catastrophically mischaracterise as a dispute between two parties with a well-founded claim to the same area of land.
The British government, however, deserves particular censure. Many critics observed not only that a state of Palestine couldn’t be conjured up by merely wishing it to exist, but also that it didn’t even have any geographical borders or shape.
So the British government promptly conjured them up, too. On the UK Foreign Office website, its page of travel advice now sports a map on which the “West Bank” and Gaza are named as “Palestine”.
Strangely, these mapped areas appear not to include Jerusalem or Bethlehem. These are nevertheless described as the “West Bank” in the accompanying text, advising against all but essential travel there in its frequent references to traveling in “Palestine”.
This discrepancy suggests sloppiness, cluelessness or extreme haste — or a combination of all three — by the officials who drew up this map.
The Starmer government’s malicious promotion of a fantasy “Palestine” doesn’t stop there. The British Consulate General in Jerusalem, which deals with Palestinian Arab issues, has now changed its address to “East Jerusalem, Palestine”.
In London, in a ceremony attended by a grisly crowd of Israel-haters, various Labour Members of Parliament and the junior Foreign Office minister Hamish Falconer, the Palestinian mission to London changed its name to the “Embassy of Palestine”.
This ceremony saw the raising of what was described as the “Palestine flag”. In fact, this flag of black, green and white with a red triangle emerged in 1916 as the symbol of the Arab revolt against Ottoman rule. It was then adopted by the Palestine Liberation Organisation when it was created as a terrorist organisation in 1964.
The crowd was addressed by the mission’s head, Husam Zomlot, who has now become the “Palestine ambassador” to Britain.
This is a man who in 2020 pooh-poohed as “a media stunt” a rocket attack from Gaza on Ashdod which injured two people; who has supported BDS; who has denied that the Palestinian Authority’s “pay for slay” programme, which funds terrorists and their families for murdering Israelis, amounts to payments for violence; and who has claimed that the Israelis have “genocidal genes”.
At this ceremony, Falconer told the crowd that “Palestine” recognition was “a rejection of extremist ideas on both sides”.
What kind of delusion is this? The “Palestine” flag is a terrorist flag. The sole purpose of the state of “Palestine” is to exterminate Israel. The Palestinian “ambassador” denies the Palestinians’ genocidal aims and instead ascribes them obscenely to their Israeli victims.
Recognition constitutes the British government’s rejection of civilisation for barbarism.
Most Brits are unaware of the monstrosity of all this because no one in Britain’s media or political classes tells them the truth about the Palestinian Arabs and their history. And crucially, neither Israel nor Britain’s Jewish leadership choose to educate them either.
The vast majority of Brits are unaware that Palestinian identity is a fiction invented solely to destroy Israel and steal from the Jews their own history in the land. They are unaware that even the supposedly moderate Palestinian Authority is committed to the destruction of Israel, makes heroes out of terrorists who slaughter Israelis, and has taught its children for decades to murder Jews and steal all their land.
They are unaware that Britain is ultimately responsible for the Arab-Israel impasse, having torn up international law in the 1930s when it offered the Arabs part of Mandatory Palestine that the League of Nations had said should be settled by the Jews alone. That was a reward for genocidal terror against the Jews — a “two-state solution” — that the British are still promoting to this very day.
Many in Britain and the West have no idea that there’s no illegal “occupation” because Israel is the only state with a legal, historical and moral claim to the disputed territories of the “West Bank” and Gaza.
They have no idea that the Palestinian Arabs they so naively support are obsessed by hatred against not just Israel but against the Jews as Jews, who are routinely and hysterically demonised in Palestinian society through Nazi and medieval antisemitic imagery portraying them as rats, insects, snakes and octopuses holding the entire world in their demonic grip.
People in Britain and the West have no idea about any of this because Israel and diaspora Jewish leaders don’t tell them. One reason for this is a deeply rooted, deeply problematic attitude by both Israel and diaspora Jews to their position in the world.
In his 2011 book, Perspectives of Psychological Operations in Contemporary Conflicts, Dr. Ron Schleifer, an Israeli researcher into psychological warfare, analysed Israel’s utter inadequacy in countering the defamation, demonisation and delegitimisation used against it for decades by the Palestinian Arabs.
As the root of this, he suggested, was the Jews’ desperate need to be loved and accepted in the world. Throughout history, they always took an apologetic, defensive approach to their enemies. They made no attempt to condemn their persecutors’ own culture or behaviour. Concerned almost entirely with their own image, they wanted above all to convince people not to hate them.
That’s partly why Israel has never called out the Islamic world or the Palestinians in general for their barbaric attitudes and behaviour towards the Jews. It has always been preoccupied instead by the need to achieve legitimacy in the eyes of the world.
The disastrous result is all around us — a global loss of legitimacy for Israel, and the legitimis ation instead of the bogus state whose sole purpose is to destroy the Jewish homeland.
Israel should now throw out British and French diplomats, and start to withhold critical intelligence from these countries. Trump should withdraw from the United Nations and its kangaroo courts, and shut them down as the menace they are.
Britain and France are going down. Israel and America alone are fighting for civilisation. Now they have to start tackling the so-called champions of global peace and justice and holding their feet to the fire.
Jewish News Syndicate
Melanie Phillips is a British journalist, broadcaster and author - you can follow her work on her website HERE.
6 comments:
Gaza is run by Hamas, already declared a Terrorist organisation. Israel is the only democratic country in the Middle East. Hamas invaded Isarael and slaughtered and butchered some 1100 people of all ages and genders, Hamas took hostages also and will not release them, dead or alive.
And yet we see UK, France, Canada and Australia, all leftwing democracies, recognising a non-existent state of Palestine and calling on Israel cease far and make peace with this terreorist organisation.
Where is the outrage at Hamas' invasion, the killing of hostages, the butchering of innocent people, adults, children and babies ? Why are the marchers demanding always that Israel ceases to fight this war ? If the marchers want to stop the war, why are they not demanding that Hamas terrorists lay down their arms and surrender ? It's like a Covid-19 epidemic, these people who march for the obviously wrong solution, one gets a stupid idea and the rest of the idioits follow it unthinkingly.
And it has spread so far that we have the leftwing governments (perhaps I should use the Left's hyperbole and say Far-Left governments) stupidily recognising a state that does not exist.
Far from New Zealand being cowardly, as the media opinions flow, and far from being on the wrong side of history (as that arrogant, all-knowing, self-righteous ex PM, Clark, keeps snarling, New Zealand has been brave in not joining the foolish, unthinking group of leftwing government but standing for its own opinion on this matter. It is a sensible decision, one that the leftwing foolish governments may well come to regret in the near future.
The answer for Palestine is to rid the world of Hamas, lay down their arms, and then enter discussions for the future whether it be a two-state solution or otherwise.
On another note, how long before these left wing governments are thrown out by the people: a Macron, Stasi Starmer, a Carny, and an Albanian.
Some sane and well considered comment from Fred H.
Most of us here in NZ know only what is seen on TV. And TV only show what they think we should see.
The inevitable comment from other political parties shows their lack of geo politics as befits Isreal - Hamas.
NZ position is well considered, our government is to be congratulated for our stance.
Why is it, that truth so obvious, remains hidden from so many.
So, what the hell? My understanding is that both UK and Straya's recognition is conditional. One of those conditions is that Hamas have no part to play in governance of a future Palestine state. To the best of my knowledge that condition (or others) haven't been satisfied, therefore UK and Australia haven't recognised Palestine. I am but a simple soul and I am sure there are others who share my confusion.
Glenn McConnell would like you to know New Zealand is in a “tiny club” of nations that don’t recognise Palestine — despite the bulk of his readers telling him Winston did the right thing if Stuff’s poll is anything to go by.
“Exclusive club” is the phrase, as though Winston Peters is on the door at Studio 54, stamping hands and spinning the decks. The intended impression: shame, isolation, regression.
The reality: it’s a list of some of the world’s most advanced democracies and highest-performing economies.
And yet, in a story about geopolitics, democracy, international law and terrorism, McConnell manages to quote precisely one expert: Professor Robert Patman.
Of course he does. In New Zealand media, Patman is the Batphone they pick up when they need a Foreign Policy Concerned Adult to murmur about “soft power” and “sending signals” — and crucially, to imply that any non-progressive policy is an act of Trumpian cosplay.
Patman is no mystery man. He’s a liberal-internationalist academic at Otago whose public record brims with soft-focus multilateralism and broadsides against Donald Trump. Perfectly legitimate views — but not neutral. When you only quote him, you’ve baked the angle into the pie.
That angle is obvious. “NZ joins small club of nations” — cue tut-tutting about how 85% of countries recognise Palestine. Missing from the copy: the fact that those 33 “holdouts” include Germany, Finland, Denmark, Italy, Japan, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan — basically the parts of the world whose GDP doesn’t depend on oil, aid cheques or Hamas PR firms.
Also missing: any legal reasoning. The Government’s position (statehood requires effective control over territory, functioning institutions and elections) isn’t some fever dream from ACT HQ; it’s the standard Montevideo criteria for statehood. But hey, why clutter a good morality tale with facts?
The pièce de résistance is Patman’s “analysis” that the decision comes down to domestic politics and anti-woke sympathies, Donald Trump, yadda yadda. Because of course nothing says “serious foreign policy” like reducing New Zealand’s stance to an episode of Fox & Friends.
And that “exclusive club”? None of New Zealand’s Pacific neighbours — Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu, Palau, the Marshalls, Nauru — have recognised Palestine either. Not at New Zealand’s behest, but because they’ve made their own independent calculations about security, aid and law. Funny how that escaped McConnell’s attention.
Strip away the framing and you find shallow advocacy journalism dressed as analysis: one predictable voice, one morality-play framing, zero balance. You can be for or against recognising Palestine. But when the media narrative is built on selective sourcing and half the picture, it stops being journalism and becomes a sermon — and the congregation is starting to walk out.
Absolutely correct.
all because the Jews suffer from an inferiority complex.
Which is wrong, as they should be proud, as they are as worthy as anyone else.
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