31 Jan, 2024: Representative of the State of Palestine at the UN Security Council
“There is no single country on earth that has campaigned so openly & brazenly against the #UN. Why is Israel attacking the UN? Because the UN is the source of evidence of Israeli crimes & Israel wants to discredit the witness to destroy the evidence; Because the UN helps the Palestinian people survive, remain in their land, and Israel wants to uproot them. Israel has launched campaigns against UN officials, including Lynn Hastings, & refused to grant visas to representatives of UN bodies as punishment for upholding their mandates. It has in this assault killed 150 UN staff.
Former Foreign Minister (of Israel) has incited against the Secretary-General and its current Foreign Minister has accused the Commissioner-General of UNRWA of being a supporter of terrorism, an outrageous & despicable claim; Bc the #UN is the forum where Palestinian rights, foremost to self- determination & return, have been recognition & Israel wants to deny & dissolve these rights; Because the UN has identified the requirements for just & lasting peace,& Israel has chosen ethnic cleansing & genocide instead. Israel has sought the defunding of #UN agencies, from UNESCO to UNRWA. It has attacked all the main bodies of the UN, the Security Council, the General Assembly, the Human Rights Council, ECOSOC, & the ICJ”
Ambassador Majed Bamya on X – 7 April, 2024
Deputy Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine to the UN, New York. Palestinian from Yaffa. Refugee
It is time for Palestinians to recognize this is all their fault!
If we are peaceful, it is a sign of weakness If we resort to violence, we are terrorists
If we promote boycott, divestment and sanctions, we are antisemites
If we call for international intervention, we are delusional
If we resort to international courts, we are naive
And if we make any of these choices (or simply because we are Palestinians) we can be killed, maimed, arrested, tortured, punished.
With the very real possibility of being blamed for our own ordeal.
We might be the first nation ever blamed for being dispossessed, displaced, occupied and oppressed.
So it must be our fault!
Can someone tell me what the hell are Palestinians supposed to do to free themselves from their chains?!
Negotiations only work once the occupier has decided to end its occupation, not when it has decided to further entrench its illegitimate and cruel rule.
What can one do when the only options that the occupation is giving us are subjugation, exile or death! Is that our fault too?!
US vetoes Palestine membership in the UN Security Council
Result of the vote:
IN FAVOR: 12
AGAINST: 1 [US]
ABSTAIN: 2 [UK and Switzerland]
State of Palestine @Palestine_UN
“Do you know how it feels to stand here while your people are being slaughtered and starved to death, to explain why your people are worthy of being saved..to sit here in the same Hall as those who have called your people human animals?”
@Palestine_UN “This seat I am sitting in belongs to the Palestinian people…when Council members speak, they should address them, not me. I will vacate this seat now, with one last message: this seat is not empty. It is filled with people enduring unspeakable pain that can not reach you. You have to reach them. Let your actions match your words. Stop this genocide. Or forever remain silent.”
