{"id":268386,"date":"2017-05-08T09:16:24","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T13:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=268386"},"modified":"2020-11-13T16:45:26","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T21:45:26","slug":"israeli-govt-debates-evicting-un-from-jerusalem-in-wake-of-scathing-unesco-resolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/fa\/israeli-govt-debates-evicting-un-from-jerusalem-in-wake-of-scathing-unesco-resolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli govt debates evicting UN from Jerusalem in wake of scathing UNESCO resolution"},"content":{"rendered":"
RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n
Typical of Zionists’ behavior: they are never wrong even if the whole world is against their policies. The perfect model of a rogue state. Much more than North Korea\u2026<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

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The Israeli government held a debate on Sunday, vowing to kick out UN and affiliated agencies from its longstanding offices in East Jerusalem, as proposed by a minister of culture, after UNESCO passed a strongly-worded resolution, labelling Israel \u201cthe occupying power.\u201d<\/p>\n

While no information on the outcome of the meeting is yet available, there is only a slight chance that such an idea could be actually translated into action with the Israeli Foreign Ministry reportedly warning of repercussions.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe professional opinion that will be presented is that Israel is signatory to an agreement with the UN and other international conventions under which the UN headquarters is granted diplomatic immunity,\u201d\u00a0a senior Foreign ministry source said ahead of the meeting, as\u00a0cited\u00a0by Haaretz.<\/p>\n

The unnamed official added that the Foreign Ministry would remind Culture and Sports Minister Miri Regev, who has been a driving force behind the initiative, and the like-minded ministerial officials, of the necessity to heed international treaties.<\/p>\n

The adverse consequences can be avoided in only one case, he said, which, however, appears to be highly unlikely.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe only way to expel the UN headquarters from the Armon Hanatziv neighborhood is if the UN decides to vacate it on its own accord,”\u00a0the ministry was expected to warn, according to the official.<\/p>\n

The controversial proposal from within Israel\u2019s power circles was triggered by an Arab-sponsored resolution passed by the UN culture body, the UNESCO, last week, provoking massive backlash in Israel.<\/p>\n

The resolution, introduced by Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Oman, Qatar and Sudan and passed by UNESCO on Tuesday saw 22 countries casting their votes for the motion versus 10 against. Three countries did not attend the vote while a majority, 23 representatives, declared their abstention.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0document\u00a0chastised Israel for its rampant construction activity in East Jerusalem, in particular, calling out\u00a0\u201cIsraeli occupying authorities\u201d\u00a0for their failure to\u00a0\u201ccease the persistent excavations, tunneling, works and projects in East Jerusalem, particularly in the Old City of Jerusalem, which are illegal under international law.”<\/p>\n

It went on to stress that all steps by the Israeli authorities that\u00a0\u201chave altered or purport to alter the character and status\u201d\u00a0Jerusalem should be deemed\u00a0\u201cnull and void and must be rescinded forthwith.\u201d<\/p>\n

The resolution and its wording immediately drew ire from the Israeli officials, with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu\u00a0blasting\u00a0it as a\u00a0\u201cdelusional resolution\u201d\u00a0and a\u00a0\u201charassment\u201d\u00a0which\u00a0\u201chas a price.\u201d<\/p>\n

Following up his menacing words with a deed, Netanyahu announced that he had tasked the Foreign Ministry to cut $1 million form the Israeli funds bound to the UN.<\/p>\n

Israel is no stranger to such penalties in response to what it perceives as hostile actions on the part of the UN. Back in March, the Israeli government already employed a similar measure, slashing $2 million from its annual UN contribution, citing\u00a0\u201chostile resolutions\u201d\u00a0by UN\u2019s Human Rights Council (UNHRC).<\/p>\n

The Israeli Foreign Ministry, which was later the one calling for restraint, also took aim at the resolution, referring to it as an\u00a0“unnecessary politicization of UNESCO.\u201d<\/p>\n

Regev then went even further, saying that there is no point of harboring a UN compound in East Jerusalem, claiming that Israeli authorities\u00a0\u201chave been sovereign in the city for 50 years, so there is no need for UN monitors.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were given use of the compound to oversee the ceasefire agreement from the Six-Day War. It\u2019s an agreement that is no longer relevant. This saga has to end,\u201d\u00a0the minister said last week in an interview to Israel\u2019s Channel 2, as cited by The Jerusalem Post.<\/p>\n

Contrary to the outrage voiced by Tel Aviv, Palestine hailed the resolution. In a statement, following the vote, Palestine\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs commended the organization for not caving in to \u201cthe campaign of intimidation, political bullying, and misinformation\u201d it said Israel was waging to undermine the discussion and deflect attention \u201cfrom the real and important issues addressed in the resolution.\u201d<\/p>\n

The UN headquarters is in Armon Hanatzv, a neighborhood in southern East Jerusalem, hosting officers of the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO), those of UNESCO and the UN special coordinator for the Middle East peace process.<\/p>\n

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RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: Typical of Zionists’ behavior: they are never wrong even if the whole world is against their policies. The perfect model of a rogue state. Much more than North Korea\u2026  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":282757,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}