I am honestly shocked to be sitting here today. I am shocked by the focus of this briefing. I am shocked by the blatant lies being spread. I am shocked at the utter dissonance from the reality on the ground. But most of all, I am shocked by the Security Council’s willingness to waste its time focusi…
Recently, the world has witnessed brutal wars and bloodshed. Nearly two years ago, peace was upended in Europe for the first time since the Second World War. Russia invaded Ukraine, and the entire globe has felt the impact. Food prices and energy prices surged, affecting countries everywhere. Supply…
On 29 November 1947, the United Nations voted to adopt the partition plan and the establishment of the Jewish State. However, while Israel joyfully accepted that resolution, the Arab States rejected it and, instead, tried to annihilate Israel. Today, exactly 76 years later, history is repeating itse…
Is UN-Women not charged with ensuring that all women and girls live a life free from all forms of violence? Does the banner of UN- Women’s website not currently say “#NoExcuses”? Has the world not come to believe women? Has not the United Nations?
To the United Nations and its agencies, Israeli wom…
The Security Council’s primary role is security. Yet, for close to 50 days, the Council has not advanced a solution related to its mandate. We have heard here politicized condemnations, baseless suggestions, distorted calls for calm and extensive
outcry over the humanitarian situation of only one s…
At the outset, I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for your consideration in permitting me to address the Council earlier, in the light of the approaching Sabbath. It is deeply appreciated.
The holy Jewish Sabbath is a day of peace and rest. It is the day on which God rested following the cre…
My grandfather Chaim was a farmer. He lived in a small village in Transylvania with his wife, Bracha, and their eight beautiful children. But in the spring of 1944, the small village ceased to exist. Their community was erased. The Nazis forced Chaim, Bracha and their eight children onto cattle cars…
I would like to begin by expressing our deep gratitude to the United States and every other member of the Security Council that supported draft resolution S/2023/792. Voting for a draft resolution that clearly condemns savage genocidal terrorists while standing up for a Member State’s right to defen…
What is going on here? I am truly shocked and horrified. I truly do not understand what is going on. The most barbaric and wide-scale terror attack in decades — bigger than the 11 September attacks — was perpetrated 11 days ago, and it seems that the Council has already forgotten. The pictures and …
I will begin by saying that if Hamas does not represent the Palestinian people, as President Abbas stated just yesterday, it is puzzling that his representative is present in this meeting, let alone voicing an opinion on behalf of the people in Gaza who elected the Islamic State in Iraq and the Sham…
I need two more minutes to conclude.
And when the situation explodes, which it will, sadly, if immediate action is not taken, the consequences for the region will be disastrous.
Over the past year, the designated terror organization Hizbullah, in flagrant violation of resolution 1701 (2006), has e…
Today is Tisha B’Av, the ninth day of the Jewish month of Av. It is the saddest day on the Jewish calendar. It is a day of solemn mourning, fasting and prayer, during which we commemorate the destruction of both our temples. On this day, 2,600 years ago, the first holy Jewish temple in Jerusalem was…
Last Tuesday, Elisha Antman, a 17-year-old who had just finished high school, was nearing the end of his shift at a restaurant near the town of Eli. That was Elisha’s very last shift. He had been working there for nine months. He had saved up some money and made plans to spend his summer hiking. Las…
Each time I set foot in this Chamber for these open debates, I mentally prepare myself for the bias and the falsehoods and the singling out of Israel — the only liberal democracy in the region. Yet today’s debate has crossed all the lines. Not only am I both appalled and outraged to the very depths…
A disturbing pattern seems to have developed here. Over the past months, closed debates on the situation in the Middle East have been opened at the request of the Palestinians, and numerous emergency meetings have been held at their behest. It seems that the quarterly debates focused solely on conde…
A few weeks ago, a young Palestinian girl recited a poem:
“Daddy gave me a present, a machine gun and a rifle. When I am big, I will join the Liberation Army. The Liberation Army taught us how to defend our homeland. We will achieve victory over America and Israel.”
Amal, the Palestinian girl in q…
What we have just witnessed is, as always, an act — an Academy-Award-winning act of false victimization. In both his letter that he sent out just yesterday — as he has done many times before because he does not want us to be able to check the facts — and his searing performance today, the Palesti…
At the outset, I wish to congratulate you and Japan, Mr. President, as well as Ecuador, Malta, Mozambique and Switzerland, as you begin your terms on the Security Council.
When I heard the news that the Security Council, the body committed to promoting and protecting world peace, was holding an eme…
We will soon vote on a number of draft resolutions (A/77/L.23, A/77/L.24, A/77/L.25 and A/77/L.26), the sole purpose of which is to put all the blame for what is happening in the Middle East exclusively on Israel, while absolving the Palestinians of any responsibility for their situation. Year after…
We just heard from the Palestinian representative. We all read his letters — all the hundreds of them. We heard President Abbas speak from the rostrum of the General Assembly just a month ago (see A/77/PV.10). The message is the same. It has not changed. It is a message of false victimhood, lies of …
