[Marxism] Ban Ki-Moon Suggests Israel Expulsion From UN

[Bill Quimby <wquimby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You know, I don't recall this bombshell being reported ANYWHERE!

- Bill

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"I will ask the General Assembly ... to Strip Israel of its Membership"
Transcript of statement by Ban Ki-Moon via Global Research May 15, 2009

United Nations General Assembly,
New York, NY
11 May 2009
Mr. President

Excellencies,

Ladies and Gentlemen:

With each passing year, we come closer to our past. Every year brings with it
momentous anniversaries of events that shaped our world. For example, we have
recently marked the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II and of the
United Nations itself. These two events, inextricably linked, form the basis
of what we have come to know as the modern era, the post-war era.

For me, as SecretaryGeneral, looking back on where the UN started and where
it is now has a special importance, for I am now charged with guiding the
world body through unknown and uncertain territory. Terrorism has long since
replaced arms control and ditente as the focus of international security,
yet the term defies definition. One countrys terrorist is another countrys
revolutionary hero. Some insist that terrorists are opposed to democracy, but
we have all seen democracies behave like terrorists.

In many ways, the world today does not seem to be very removed from the
barbarity of world war. The invasion of Iraq has lasted longer than World War
II, and more tons of bombs have been dropped on that poor country than all the
bombs dropped in that great war. The International Declaration of Human
Rights, so prized and venerated by men and women of honour everywhere, stands
as an impotent relic of a forgotten time because conquest, cruelty, and
arrogance are still with us and growing stronger.

For all of the good the UN has accomplished since its founding, and there have
been successes, the sheer magnitude of human suffering and violations of
international law that have occurred and are still occurring must also be
taken into account.

Few people know that Israel is the only state to be given a conditional
admission. Under General Assembly Resolution 273, Israel was admitted on the
condition that it grant all Palestinians the right to return to their homes
and receive compensation for lost or damaged property, according to General
Assembly Resolution 194 paragraph 11. Suffice to say, Israel has never lived
up to these terms, and never intended to.

For 60 years Israel has violated its terms of admission, and for 60 years the
UN has done nothing about it. It has watched as Israel heaped misery upon
misery on Palestine, and violated international law with impunity.

After Operation Cast Lead, no person, no country, no democracy can look at
Israel without thinking of the inhuman slaughter and destruction committed by
the axis powers in World War II, though one could have said the same about
numerous past massacres. What atrocities might the world have been spared if
the UN had refused to admit Israel 60 years ago?

Of course, the immediate post war world was a different time. The world had
just witnessed the horrors of Hitlers racist excesses, and collective Western
guilt for the Holocaust dictated attitudes toward the idea of Jewish state.
Even the UN could not withstand the moral pressure.

On Nov. 29, 1947, it passed General Assembly Resolution 181, The Partition
Plan, to carve a Jewish state out of Arab Palestine. However, it was never
ratified by the Security Council, and so does not exist in law, which means
the UN played no role in the creation of Israel. Nevertheless, The Partition
Plan was utterly illegal and a violation of the UN Charter, because the UN
had no right or power to take land from one people and give it to another.

If it hopes to play a meaningful role in the 21st century, the UN must do more
than simply promise to enact reforms. It must search deep within its soul to
redress the fundamental violations of its founding principles, which have long
since ceased to have any force. That recommitment must begin now, for it was
60 years ago today, May 11, 1949, that Israel became a member of the UN. The
UN cannot hope to achieve any measure of peace or justice as long as it
condones war crimes, which it does every day that Israel is allowed to flout
its terms of admission.

The past cannot be undone, but the future can change. As its newly elected
Secretary-General, I promise that the UN will no longer be a passive enabler
of genocide. Therefore, I will ask the General Assembly to meet in special
session at the earliest possible time to strip Israel of its membership.

Ordinarily, a motion to expel a member nation would have to come at the
recommendation of the Security Council, but this is not an ordinary motion.
Because Israel is in violation of its terms of admission, it is not a member
in good standing, so the UN has every right to declare General Assembly
Resolution 273 null and void. Since Israels membership depends on adherence
to that resolution, its expulsion is automatic.

Essentially, the unavoidable, lamentable truth of the last six decades is that
the UN has been a moral and political failure because it has refused to
enforce its own rules and defend the Charter. Nothing the UN does can have any
value as long as this illegitimate member occupies a place in the General
Assembly. I want the UN to have value.

I count on your support.

Thank you very much.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=13636

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