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14 out of 15 UNSC member states condemn Israeli sovereignty on Golan
The US stood alone at the United Nations Security Council, as the 14 other member states condemned its recognition of Israel’s 1981 annexation of the Golan Heights during an emergency meeting held late Wednesday night in New York.
Just as the debate began, Israel launched an aerial strike against an Iranian ammunitions depot near Aleppo in Syria.
“We have had an Israeli air strike in Aleppo. [There was] material damage. The Syrian air defenses were able to intercept some of the missiles that were launched,” Syrian Ambassador Bashar Jaafari told the council.
The UNSC held the debate to protest a Trump administration declaration earlier this week that it recognized Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, which Israel captured from Syria during the Six-Day War in 1967.
All of the 15 UNSC members took the floor to speak, with 14 of those nations condemning the US and Israel. But no formal vote was taken. The US, which is one of five UNSC permanent members with veto power, would have thwarted any such action.
“World public opinion is isolating the US and Israel, they are operating outside of international law and they are a direct threat to peace and security,” said Jaafari, who had asked the UNSC to hold the meeting.
Syria is not a UNSC member, but was asked, along with Israel, to join the meeting. Both Jaafari and the 14 UNSC members who spoke explained that the US action violated past UNSC resolutions 242 and 497 against Israeli Golan sovereignty.
“The US administration is trying to protect its Israeli friends, but there is a real risk for international peace and security” Jaafari said.
He accused the US of manufacturing wars to sow chaos in Middle East and of acting now on the Golan by way of helping Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu win the April 9th election in his country.
If the UNSC had taken the US to task much earlier, even if it is a permanent member of the council, then it would not be taking a step now that shows so much distain for the UN international law, Jaafari said.
UN inaction coupled with US action “will leave people under occupation with just one choice, which is the principle of using force, it will be the only way to restore peace,” Jaafari said.
“The Syrian Arab Golan is ours, it will come back to us,” Jaafari said. To Israel, he added, “Don’t be misguided by thinking that one day this land will be yours.”.
If the US wanted to be nice to Israel, why not give it one or two of its 50 states, Jaafari suggested. “Give Israel a couple of [US]n states if this administration really wants Israeli support,” Jaafari said.
Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon said, “no nation in the world would give up strategic land to its most dangerous enemy."
For the first two decades of state’s history, the Syrian Army shot at Israeli civilians from the Golan Heights, Danon said.
“Israel must ensure that this territory will never again be used to target our people,” Danon said.
“Without the Golan Heights, Israel will find Iranian soldiers on the tip of the Sea of Galilee. We will never let that happen,” he added.
Danon accused Jaafari of turning a blind eye to his government’s killing of hundreds of thousands of its citizens.
The US stood alone at the United Nations Security Council, as the 14 other member states condemned its recognition of Israel’s 1981 annexation of the Golan Heights during an emergency meeting held late Wednesday night in New York.
Just as the debate began, Israel launched an aerial strike against an Iranian ammunitions depot near Aleppo in Syria.
“We have had an Israeli air strike in Aleppo. [There was] material damage. The Syrian air defenses were able to intercept some of the missiles that were launched,” Syrian Ambassador Bashar Jaafari told the council.
The UNSC held the debate to protest a Trump administration declaration earlier this week that it recognized Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, which Israel captured from Syria during the Six-Day War in 1967.
All of the 15 UNSC members took the floor to speak, with 14 of those nations condemning the US and Israel. But no formal vote was taken. The US, which is one of five UNSC permanent members with veto power, would have thwarted any such action.
“World public opinion is isolating the US and Israel, they are operating outside of international law and they are a direct threat to peace and security,” said Jaafari, who had asked the UNSC to hold the meeting.
Syria is not a UNSC member, but was asked, along with Israel, to join the meeting. Both Jaafari and the 14 UNSC members who spoke explained that the US action violated past UNSC resolutions 242 and 497 against Israeli Golan sovereignty.
“The US administration is trying to protect its Israeli friends, but there is a real risk for international peace and security” Jaafari said.
He accused the US of manufacturing wars to sow chaos in Middle East and of acting now on the Golan by way of helping Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu win the April 9th election in his country.
If the UNSC had taken the US to task much earlier, even if it is a permanent member of the council, then it would not be taking a step now that shows so much distain for the UN international law, Jaafari said.
UN inaction coupled with US action “will leave people under occupation with just one choice, which is the principle of using force, it will be the only way to restore peace,” Jaafari said.
“The Syrian Arab Golan is ours, it will come back to us,” Jaafari said. To Israel, he added, “Don’t be misguided by thinking that one day this land will be yours.”.
If the US wanted to be nice to Israel, why not give it one or two of its 50 states, Jaafari suggested. “Give Israel a couple of [US]n states if this administration really wants Israeli support,” Jaafari said.
Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon said, “no nation in the world would give up strategic land to its most dangerous enemy."
For the first two decades of state’s history, the Syrian Army shot at Israeli civilians from the Golan Heights, Danon said.
“Israel must ensure that this territory will never again be used to target our people,” Danon said.
“Without the Golan Heights, Israel will find Iranian soldiers on the tip of the Sea of Galilee. We will never let that happen,” he added.
Danon accused Jaafari of turning a blind eye to his government’s killing of hundreds of thousands of its citizens.
