Nadene Goldfoot
The Senate approved the UN Charter on July 28, 1945, by a vote of 89 to 2. The United Nations came into existence on October 24, 1945 in San Francisco, California after 29 nations had ratified the Charter. Saudi Arabia came on June 26, 1945 and ratified on October 18, 1945; Syria Arab Republic came on June 26, ratified on October 19, 1945, and Turkey came on June 26, 1945 and ratified on September 28, 1945.
Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Canada, China, Colombia, France, India, Iran, Iraq, and the United Kingdom joined on October 24, 1945; Iceland joined on November 19, 1946, and Hungary joined on December 14, 1955; Indonesia joined on September 28, 1950, and Cameroon, Central African Republic, and Chad joined on September 20, 1960; Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania joined on September 17, 1991, and Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, the Republic of Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan joined on March 2, 1992; Uganda joined on October 25, 1962, and the United Arab Emirates joined on December 9, 1971
Born from the League of Nations that was a failure, (The League of Nations was formally disbanded on April 19, 1946:)by January 1, 1942, representatives of 26 nations at war with the Axis powers met in Washington to sign the Declaration of the United Nations endorsing the Atlantic Charter, pledging to use their full resources against the Axis and agreeing not to make a separate peace. ; This happened in the middle of World War II.
As World War II was about to end in 1945, nations were in ruins, and the world wanted peace. Representatives of 50 countries gathered at the United Nations Conference on International Organization in San Francisco, California from 25 April to 26 June 1945. For the next two months, they proceeded to draft and then sign the UN Charter, which created a new international organization, the United Nations, which, it was hoped, would prevent another world war like the one they had just lived through.
WWII was the cause of 6 million Jews dying, murdered by the Nazis by shooting whole crowds along pits they were forced to dig, or in gassed filled rooms, etc; anyway they could. Nazis had thought they would have a better society without Jews. The allies won of which the USA was one of them who had entered the fight later than the Europeans who were first involved. The United States officially entered World War II against Hitler on December 11, 1941 when they declared war on Germany, following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941; effectively bringing the US into the war against the Axis powers including Germany. This happened 83 years ago. I was 7 years old then.
Since its founding in 1948, the United Nations Security Council, has adopted 79 resolutions directly related to the Arab–Israeli conflict as of January 2010.
Issues relating to the State of Israel and aspects of the Arab–Israeli conflict, and more recently the Iran–Israel conflict, occupy repeated annual debate times, resolutions and resources at the United Nations, while turning a blind eye on other countries who actually did show reason for debate. What had changed at the UN?
The adoption on 29 November 1947, by the United Nations General Assembly of a resolution recommending the adoption and implementation of a plan of partition of Mandatory Palestine was one of the earliest acts of the United Nations. This followed the report of the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine. Since then, it has maintained a central role in this region, including the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People. The UN has sponsored several peace negotiations between the parties, the latest being the 2002 Road map for peace. Of course it was a failure.
UNSCOP ( United Nations Special Committee on Palestine) was "to prepare for consideration at the next regular session of the Assembly a report on the question of Palestine." UNSCOP consisted of representatives of eleven members: Australia, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Guatemala, India, Iran, Netherlands, Peru, Sweden, Uruguay and Yugoslavia. In the final report of 3 September 1947, seven members of the Committee in Chapter VI "Australia, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Guatemala, India, Iran, and Netherlands, expressed themselves, by recorded vote, in favour of the Plan of Partition with Economic Union" (reproduced in the Report). The Plan proposed "an independent Arab State, an independent Jewish State, and the City of Jerusalem". The Palestinian Arabs and members of the Arab League had rejected any partition of Palestine. They intended to have it all and not allow Jews any land at all, even though they had bought land from landowners as part of their return to their land of Eretz Yisrael.
From the very beginning, Israel has been criticized for issues surrounding its establishment when most of Mandatory Palestine's Arab population fled or were expelled in 1948, for Israel's birth was on May 14, 1948.
The conduct of its armed forces in the Arab–Israeli conflict, establishment and expansion of illegal Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territories, its treatment of Palestinians, and the blockade of the Gaza Strip, with its impact on the economy of the Palestinian territories, the country's nuclear weapons program, and its targeted killings program.
Other criticized long-standing issues include: the refusal to allow post-war Palestinian refugees to return to their homes, and the prolonged occupation of territories gained in war and the construction of settlements therein. Israel's status as a representative democracy has also been questioned because Israeli residents of the occupied territories are allowed to vote in Israel's elections while Palestinian residents are not, leading to accusations of apartheid.
Since 2003, the UN has issued 232 resolutions with respect to Israel, 40% of all resolutions issued by the UN over the period and more than six times that of the second placed country, Sudan.
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So Israel is the most breaker of UN ideals by getting 40% of all criticism and Sudan is runner up getting a little. May I remark that Moses had given this group of people long ago laws of behavior and Jews did their best to abide by them, 613 laws with the first 10 most important ones , that were designed to help people to get along fairly with each other. The Jews were singled out to be the example for others. They have followed this, regardless of any temptations that came along, including death, and this is what the result it. The UN and their declarations against them, as if the Holocaust wasn't enough of a burden to their souls.
Counter-criticisms include the assertion that some critics and their criticisms are aimed at delegitimizing Israel's right to exist, which has led some to debate over the point at which criticism of Israel crosses the line into antisemitism. The term "new antisemitism" refers to criticisms deemed to have crossed this threshold. It could be because so many Arab countries have since joined the UN.
Judy Kupferman of Tel Aviv, Israel asked, "Does the UN support Israel or Palestine? The answer is: From 2015–2022, the UN passed 140 resolutions against Israel and 69 against ALL OTHER COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD. Countries that jail women for wearing their head covering wrong. Countries that imprison and execute journalists. Countries that forbid women to leave the house without a man. Countries that draft eight year olds to the army. Countries that jail and murder gays.
And Israel, a secular multicultural society where huge demonstrations against the government are held freely, a society where one fifth of the citizens are Muslim Arabs with the same rights as anybody else, a society where gays can embrace in the street and have children and raise families, Israel that has given the world ground breaking medical and technological inventions and a disproportionate number of Nobel Prizes, according to the UN, is twice as bad as all those countries put together!?!!!
Why is it that "Palestine" was so terribly important to this group? The Allies would never had won WWII had it not been for Chaim Weizmann, a Jew. He discovered a way to produce acetone from corn, which was crucial for the production of cordite, a vital component of British ammunition during World War I. One answer that comes to mind is that the Arabs didn't want a Jewish state in their midst, for no good reason. I think it is seen to them as competition they didn't want, bringing in the Western culture, as many were Ashkenazis (German Jews), even though they admired Hitler during this period, Hitler didn't want competition either. Nazis presented themselves as the perfect people.
The United Nations Security Council has five permanent members: China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The General Assembly elects ten non-permanent members for two-year terms.
The UN-backed International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defence minister Yoav Gallant, together with a former Hamas commander, citing allegations of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Resource:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_and_the_United_Nations
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Chaim-Weizmann
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