Showing posts with label Ban Ki-Moon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ban Ki-Moon. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 16, 2016

UN and US Demand Israel Return “Confiscated” Land by Abra Forman - BREAKING ISRAEL NEWS

The Judean plain. (Shutterstock)


The Judean plain. (Shutterstock)

UN and US Demand Israel Return “Confiscated” Land


“And the LORD appeared unto Avram, and said: ‘Unto thy seed will I give this Land’.” Genesis 12: (The Israel Bible™)
The US State Department spokesman and United Nations Secretary-General both released statements on Tuesday condemning Israel’s recent appropriation of about 600 acres of land in Judea, accusing the Jewish state of illegal settlement activity which the State Department said will “undermine the prospects for a two-state solution.”
“We strongly oppose any steps that accelerate settlement expansion, which raises serious questions about Israel’s long-term intentions,” State Department spokesman John Kirby said at a news briefing.
The UN’s Ban Ki-moon issued a similar statement through spokesman Stephane Dujarric, who declared, “Settlements are illegal under international law and the secretary-general urges the government of Israel to halt and reverse such actions in the interest of a just and comprehensive peace and a just final status agreement.”
The criticism came after Israel declared 234 hectares, or 580 acres, of West Bank territory to be state land. The area is located south of Jericho and close to the Dead Sea.
It is the largest land “confiscation” since 2014, when Israel declared 4,000 dunams of land in the Bethlehem area to be government property.
All of the “confiscated” lands are located within the Biblical borders of Israel, which stretched east to west from the Dead Sea to the Mediterranean. However, these are not boundaries respected by international law.
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In a report by Peace Now, a leftist Israeli NGO, on the “land grab”, the organization said that Israel’s intention was to prevent Palestinian expansion and build up Jewish settlements in the area.
“Control over this area is meant to split the West Bank in half and prevent the possibility to establish a viable and contiguous Palestinian State,” read the report, which also stated that the declaration of appropriation had been made and signed during US Vice President Joe Biden’s Israel visit on March 10.
Issues of building in the so-called settlements – Jewish communities located in Judea, Samaria and the Golan – have loomed large in Israel’s relations with the US, which has repeatedly condemned such expansion and urged Israel to freeze construction in the settlements.
The position of the US, the UN and other international bodies is that the freezing of settlements is necessary to make peace in the region, which they believe can be reached through the implementation of a two-state solution.
Israel, however, does not see the settlement issue as the main obstacle to peace, pointing instead to the fact that though the PA has been offered many generous deals, it has rejected all of them.
Most recently, the PA refused a deal which would give it security control over much of the West Bank, incorporating all of Area A, which includes most large Palestinian cities and villages. The IDF will continue to operate in the area as usual.

Monday, January 11, 2016

Netanyahu attempts to stop Obama’s plan to be next head of U.N. - TRUNEWS

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Netanyahu attempts to stop Obama’s plan to be next head of U.N.

Jan. 11, 2016

(TRUNEWS) Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is attempting to thwart U.S. President Barak Obama’s plan to succeed Ban Ki-moon as the head of the United Nations.

Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jarida has reported Netanyahu has been working with some Arab countries to sabotage Obama’s plan to be the next secretary-general, when Ki-moon’s term ends at the end of the year.

Netanyahu’s push to prevent Obama from getting the job may be pay back for the Iran nuclear deal, which Israel strongly opposed.

“Obama is the worst president Israel has had to deal with and the worst president for the Middle East and its allies, the moderate Arab states,” a Netanyahu aide is quoted as saying.



Kelly Sloan is a reporter and anchor for TRUNEWS Headlines on radio stations across the U.S. She was previously an anchor and reporter for USA Headline News and USA Radio News, where she also served as Assistant Religion Editor.

Thursday, October 16, 2014

UN's Ban Ki-Moon 'Shocked' by Hamas Terror Tunnels

UN's Ban Ki-Moon

UN's Ban Ki-Moon 'Shocked' 

by Hamas Terror Tunnels



JERUSALEM, Israel -- In a week when the international community pledged billions of dollars to rebuild the Gaza Strip after this summer's conflict between Israel and Hamas, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was given a look at Hamas attack tunnels that ran under the border from the Gaza Strip to Israeli communities.

"I was shocked and alarmed by this underground tunnel, which had been used for penetration for terrorist purpose[s]. I have been repeatedly condemning these rocket attacks from Hamas by the air," Ban told reporters.

The secretary-general made his comments on a trip to Kibbutz Nirim, where he met with the family of Daniel Turgeman, the four year old killed by a Hamas mortar launched from a U.N. school.

"We told the secretary-general that Daniel was killed in his home by a mortar bomb that was fired from a school," his aunt, Maya Turgeman, told CBN News. "In that school [there] were staying at the time refugees that Hamas was willingly putting in danger while firing from there to civilian targets."

Turgeman said the U.N. must do what it's meant to do: "That is protecting human rights, and protecting human rights means standing and saying that Hamas is a terrorist organization, not looking for peace that they target civilians."

Earlier Tuesday, Ban visited the Gaza Strip where he condemned Israel for striking U.N. properties during the summer conflict. He mentioned the U.N. investigation of Israel, but he never said anything about investigating Hamas.

Meanwhile in Jerusalem, Christian parliamentarians with the International Israel Allies Caucus issued a resolution, in part calling for a U.N. investigation of Hamas.

"The conflict, the rockets, the barrage, the total disregard for human rights on either side of the border that Hamas represents, rightly labeled a terrorist organization in our view. You cannot negotiate with people who embrace terrorism as an end to their means," Member of Parliament Dr. James Lunney with Canada's House of Commons told CBN News.

The resolution came a day after British parliamentarians symbolically voted to recognize a Palestinian state. The passed by a vote of 274 to12, 364 lawmakers (56 percent) were absent during the vote, and Prime Minister David Cameron abstained. The move by liberal parliamentarians doesn't change British foreign policy, but it does give impetus to the Palestinian push for statehood.

The Christian MPs told CBN News calling for unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state would have repercussions.

"I'm very angry about it. It's absolutely not helpful what's now going on in different parliaments of Europe," said C.G. van der Staaij, Member of Parliament with the Dutch House of Representatives. "It's saying to the Palestinians violence is a good way. It's helping the Jihadists."

"I saw it among Latin America already," Guatemalan parliamentarian Pedro Galvez said. "There have been a lot of countries that recognize the Palestinian Authority and now one year later, two years later they have been having a lot of trouble in their countries. They have been having a lot of trouble with some of these people and they want now to reverse their decisions and they have understand [sic] that being a supporter of Israel it's being a supporter of democracy."