U.N. PIG-PILE ON ISRAEL

UN General Assembly Approves Six Pro-Palestinian Resolutions Over U.S. and Israeli Objections
The UN General Assembly approved six pro-Palestinian resolutions over U.S. and Israeli objections Friday. The U.S., Israel, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, and Palau voted against all six resolutions. A resolution that declared any attempt to impose Israel's laws, jurisdiction, and administration on Jerusalem illegal was approved by a vote of 157-6 with 10 abstentions. A resolution demanding that Israel withdraw from the Golan Heights was approved 107-6 with 60 abstentions. (AP/International Herald Tribune)

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"These resolutions don't promote peace and don't contribute anything to the Israelis or the Palestinians. The resolutions damage the status of the UN and its capacity to be involved in the Arab-Israeli conflict," said the Israeli Foreign Ministry. "Unfortunately for us, for a number of decades, the UN General Assembly tends to automatically pass a series of one-sided, unbalanced, anti-Israel resolutions from year to year."

Before the vote was held, Vice Premier Shimon Peres met with incoming UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon and said, after the meeting, "The Muslims and the Palestinians in the UN are presenting a one-sided and distorted picture. If the situation continues, UN forces in the region will weaken." Peres gave the example of the commission of inquiry into the Israeli shelling of Beit Hanoun, saying that whoever wants to investigate needs to start with the Palestinian aggression, and not the Israeli response to it. (Ynet News)

UN Calls for Peace, Yet Promotes War - Fiamma Nirenstein
The UN General Assembly has once again used its automatic anti-Israel majority of Arab states and non-aligned authoritarian countries to pass a series of anti-Israel decisions. This time the resolutions seem especially bizarre. One resolution stressed the need for Israel's withdrawal from the territory occupied since 1967, a request that contradicts UN Security Council Resolution 242 following the 1967 war. The original decision calls for a negotiated withdrawal from "territories" (not all territories) to secure borders. None of these conditions (negotiated, territories, secure borders) are mentioned in the current GA demand. (Omedia)