U.N. Ignores Atrocities in Syria and Yemen yet Calls for Investigation of Israeli Defensive Measures Against Hamas at Gaza Border See note please
Note: 1) There are 22 Muslim countries and only ONE Jewish state. 2) Arab Muslims started all FIVE wars against Israel and lost every one of them. 3) Both the Fatah and Hamas Constitutions call for the destruction of Israel. 4) Israel ceded most of the West Bank and all of Gaza to the Palestinian Authority.
Janet Levy,Los Angeles
U.N. Ignores Chemical Attack on Syrian Civilians
Israeli Defense Minister, Avigdor Liberman said, “Over the weekend, 48 innocent people were killed in Syria, including 8 children and 6 women.”
“I have not heard the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres speak [of the chemical attack]. We have not seen the UN Security Council and the Arab League convene,” Liberman said.
“Over this weekend hundreds were also killed in Yemen, but that doesn’t interest anyone,” he said, adding that when Israel kills Palestinians in self-defense there is an immediate outcry.
On Friday, Israeli soldiers repelled an assault on its border fence with Gaza, killing nine Palestinians who had participated in the “Great March of Return,” a massive protest along the barrier’s route. Participants in the six-week event that began on March 30 hope to enter Israel by breaking down the fence.
Since the beginning of the march, the IDF has killed 31 Palestinians on the Gaza border, most of which the IDF says were Hamas operatives, while the Palestinians argue that they were peaceful protesters.
“We have no interest in perpetuating the conflict on the southern border. We will certainly do everything that is required in the South and in the North. But if they [the Palestinians] try to break the quiet and normal routine [along that border] we will respond accordingly,” Liberman said.
U.S. Blocks U.N. Call for Gaza Probe
US blocks UN Security Council statement calling for investigation of Palestinian protesters’ deaths
April 8, 2018
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The United States blocked a United Nations Security Council statement supporting the right of Palestinians to “demonstrate peacefully” on the border with Israel.
The statement, sponsored by Kuwait, which represents the Arab world on the council, also called for an independent investigation into the deaths of Palestinian protesters on two consecutive Fridays.
It is the second week in a row that the United States has blocked such a statement.
Nine Gazans were killed, including a Palestinian journalist and a teen, and more than 1,000 injured during the Friday protest on the Gazan border, according to Palestinian sources. About 20,000 Palestinians participated in Friday’s protest, dubbed the tire protest, due to the thousands of tires burned during the demonstration in an effort to thwart Israeli sharpshooters.
Prior to Friday’s protest, the U.S. State Department issued a statement on the Gaza protests in the name of Jason Greenblatt, the Trump administration’s special representative for international negotiations.
The statement said that the United States “strongly urges protest leaders to communicate loudly and clearly that protestors should march peacefully; should abstain from all forms of violence; should remain outside the 500-meter buffer zone; and should not approach the border fence in any way or any location.”
The statement also said that the U.S. “condemn leaders and protestors who call for violence or who send protestors – including children – to the fence, knowing that they may be injured or killed. Instead, we call for a renewed focus by all parties on finding solutions to the dire humanitarian challenges facing Gazans.”
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