OPINION:
This week’s vote at the United Nations Security Council exposed the body’s blatant anti-Israel bias. This trend runs deep in the organization and it is no secret that the U.N. constantly seeks to demonize Israel. But the resolution put forward this week is a step too far: It all but denies Jerusalem being the capital of Israel, a member state of the organization itself. And the fact that such a motion was even put up for a vote is an utter disgrace to everything the U.N. should stand for.
The members who voted for the motion claim that President Trump’s move to relocate the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem jeopardizes the stability of the Middle East. Yet this very same U.N. has granted “Palestine” special status, granting it a seat in the organization despite the fact that no state of Palestine yet exists. It gave the Palestinians this privilege, one denied to other, stateless people such as the Tibetans, Kurds, Basques and Chechens.
The past several months has seen the U.N. actively act against the interests of maintaining peace and stability in the Middle East. Several motions were put to a vote that deliberately sought to erase Jewish history from the city of Jerusalem. In this alternate universe, the Jews have no history in the land of Israel and the Jewish Temple never existed in Jerusalem. This narrative is amusing, and not only because there is endless evidence from archaeology, history and linguistics that prove Jews have a long and storied connection to Israel.
It is also amusing because the nations that have pushed this agenda, some Christian and some Muslim, deny their own history by supporting it. For Christians, Jesus (a Jew) preached in Jerusalem and had his own encounters with the Jewish temple there. For Muslims, the Koran itself speaks of Allah giving the Children of Israel the Holy Land. And yet these nations seek to erase any and all such links at the behest of the Palestinian cause.
HAROLD OHAYON
Osaka, Japan
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