What does a UN vote mean to Israel?

If the UN fails to protect Israel from her terrorist neighbors, then we must all question the validity and role of the United Nations.

By EARL COX
Earl Cox 311 (photo credit: Courtesy)
Earl Cox 311
(photo credit: Courtesy)
Talk has been circulating wildly for several months now about the United Nations declaring an Arab “Palestinian” state in September. Plans are underway for the UN General Assembly to pass a resolution to declare “Palestine” to be a new, independent state, in the face of the unwillingness of Israel to simply give away half of its little bit of land so that the occupying Arabs can have another Arab state.
It will require a two-thirds vote, or 128 votes, in the General Assembly to pass the resolution, and the Palestinians have stated that they already have assurances of 120 of the 128 votes needed. However, the declaration will not be legal unless the UN Security Council also agrees. Israel is counting on the United States to veto the proposal in the Security Council, but the Palestinians are hoping that US President Barack Obama will side with the Arabs and Muslims and instigate a US approval.
Obviously, approval of a Palestinian state by the UN would be a grossly biased and anti-Semitic act. As everyone knows, the UN has already proven to be strongly anti-Israel and pro-Arab. Some have called it a global forum for anti-Semitism, since two-thirds of all the UN resolutions have condemned Israel for something or another.
The question that should be in everyone’s mind, however, is: What would the declaration of an independent Palestinian state mean to Israel? Is anyone thinking about how it would affect Israel if the UN declares a Palestinian state on half of Israel’s land? Have any of the UN diplomats thought about what such a declaration would mean to the Jewish state and people?       First, the UN would want Israel to simply give to the Arabs all the land that Israel captured in the 1967 Six-Day War. That would negate the Israelis’ miracle military victories and make the loss of life of thousands of Israeli military lives to be meaningless. That would turn the winners of the war into losers and the losers into winners. Can’t the UN experts see it this way?       It would also mean uprooting 650,000 Jewish people from their ancestral homeland of Judea and Samaria. This “West Bank” territory is where the biblical patriarchs lived and Yeshua walked ― and it is part of the land that the God of Israel promised to the Jewish people as “an everlasting possession.”      Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told the US Congress recently that it would be impossible to move 650,000 Jewish people out of the Judea-Samaria territory. They have worked hard to build numerous modern, thriving villages, and there will be no repeat of what happened in Gaza. Obviously, the UN people were not listening very well. And have they not heard about the Gaza results?
Then, too, what about the Golan Heights? The UN would probably demand that Israel return the entire strategic Golan Heights area to Syria. There was nothing in that area in 1967 except several Syrian military installations from which Syrians fired rockets over the Sea of Galilee into Israel.
After the Israelis took over the area in 1967, they built several beautiful new villages and hundreds of acres of fruitful orchards, which now produce a big part of the fruit for all of Israel. Syrians have already declared that they can’t wait to control the water from the north that flows into the main Israeli water source, the Sea of Galilee. Of course, that would make Israel’s water problems even worse.
And would the UN also require that Israel divide Jerusalem and give half of the city to the Arabs, as the Arabs are demanding? They want East Jerusalem for their capital. That would bring all the Christian and Jewish religious sites in that half of the city, including the historic (biblical) Old City, under Muslim control and rule. Can Israel forget that when the Arabs had control of the area before 1967, they destroyed all the Jewish synagogues and many other Jewish and Christian religious sites?         Jerusalem has become a wonderful, thriving and growing modern city — but no credit belongs to the Arabs. To ask the Jewish people to simply relinquish half of this historic city to the Arabs is totally unthinkable to any reasonable mind (except to many of those who are part of the UN).       And what about returning to the 1967 borders? Netanyahu courageously told the US Congress that a return to those borders would be “indefensible” for Israel. Doesn't anyone at the UN care that Israel removed those perilous borders when Israel successfully defended itself from its warring Arab-Muslim neighbors in the Six-Day War? Hamas and Hezbollah enemies are using the present borders as shields to fire hundreds of missiles and rockets into Israel. What will they do if they have more freedom to attack at their will?       Has anyone at the UN actually looked at a map to see what those pre-1967 borders would mean to Israel? Numerous Israel cities along the coast north of Tel Aviv would be within a ten-mile range of the Arab borders. That could bring Israel a step closer to annihilation ― as called for by the Hamas and Hezbollah charters. Do those UN experts really think that the pre-1967 borders will bring peace and peaceful coexistence?       
In fact, a survey by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Opinion has concluded that the result of the Palestinians winning recognition of their own state at the UN in September is likely to be war with Israel. The poll showed that 76 percent of Palestinians believe their security forces will immediately exert control over all of Judea, Samaria and East Jerusalem ― even at the risk of open warfare with the Israeli Army.
      
Israel fears that the UN vote could lead to a third “intifada,” or uprising, along the lines of the Arab Spring, with hundreds of thousands of Arab Palestinians being aroused to march on Israeli sites in terrorist-like attacks.
      
This may happen even if the United States vetoes the creation of a Palestinian state in the UN Security Council. Israel will be counting on the US to use its veto power when the issue comes up, but some are wondering if the current US President will be strong enough to resist his own favorable feelings toward Arabs and Muslims.
      
What is Israel supposed to do? While I cannot answer that question, I know what I am personally to do. On Sept. 22nd I plan to speak to a large gathering of supporters for Israel who will be assembled outside the United Nations building in New York for the purpose of speaking along with other supporters of Israel for the purpose of demonstrating to the United Nations and the International community that Israel is not alone. Our presence will make known that there is serious opposition to the absurd proposal that Israel should give more of her real estate to the Palestinian Authority in order that people who will not even recognize Israel as a sovereign state may have a state of their own.
 
In 2005 Israel gave the Palestinians the land called Gaza and the results speak for themselves.  Gaza is, or at least was, prime beach front, real estate with beautiful buildings and houses, a thriving economy and an established and solid infrastructure.  Since receiving this land, what have the Palestinians done to improve it and how have they used the land to improve their own living standards?  What the Palestinians have done is rip the land to shreds.  They have not used the land for farming or to build additional roads, schools and hospitals but rather have turned it into a giant launching pad from which they continue to hurl rockets into southern Israel maiming and killing innocent Israelis.
Surely the leaders of the United Nations are insightful enough to recognize that for Israel to give additional land will only place Israelis in greater danger from the Palestinians who have proven that they are not good neighbors and who refuse to recognize Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state.  No sovereign nation should ever be placed in such a position as is being contemplated by the UN at the request of the Palestinian Authority to unilaterally grant land for a Palestinian State unless, of course, they grant this land from Jordan’s holdings who has much unused and unpopulated land to spare versus from Israel who has no land to spare. 
 
If the UN fails to protect Israel from her terrorist neighbors who have openly expressed their desire to see Israel removed from the face of the earth, then we must all question the validity and role of the United Nations.  It would be best for Israel if the world would take a “hands off” approach thus forcing the Palestinians back to the peace table with Israel.  Israel has certainly demonstrated her willingness to negotiate terms which will give the Palestinians what they want but which will also give the Israelis what they need – defensible borders.  The land of Israel cannot be divided and scattered like islands across the ocean.  This would be suicidal and the world knows it.  Without defensible borders, Israel will be unable to protect its citizens, both Jew and Arab, from Palestinian rocket attacks which will be able to reach even farther into Israel if she surrenders more of her land. 
How dare the United Nations even consider placing Israel in such a precarious and dangerous position?  If the UN does put pressure on Israel to surrender more of her tiny parcel of land to the Palestinians then perhaps the United Nations should move from New York to Israel in order to gain a firsthand perspective of the torment and danger which they will have inflicted upon Israel and her people.  I’ll bet the UN would have a real blast if they were to relocate to, say, Sderot.