As we reflect on the years since the 1995 World Summit for Social Development in Copenhagen, we find ourselves at a momentous crossroads. Globalization and the new information age promise to bridge geographic distances, transcend borders and replace traditional sources of global wealth — based on na…
I wish only to reiterate the determination of the people of Israel to reach peace with all of Israel’s neighbours, including peace with Syria. This is a commonly held wish and hope of all the people of Israel, to lead to a peace which will make Israel more secure tomorrow, not less secure. But what …
The statement by the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Syrian Arab Republic, Mr. Farouk Al-Shara’, asserts that commitments were made by the parties during past Syrian-Israeli negotiations that constitute internationally binding undertakings which have been deposited with the United States. These …
Orwellian language that has really not been used since the breakup of the Soviet empire is in high gear again in the United Nations. For us to create a new world order based on peace and security, certain basic definitions have to be agreed upon by Member States. That language does not seem to be ag…
First, I would like to reiterate that the State of Israel supports the continued funding and strengthening of United Nations peacekeeping forces in general. Moreover, we point to certain examples, such as the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF), as models of the good work that peacek…
Israel has strong ties to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that go beyond the values the Declaration enshrines. Both the State of Israel and the Declaration sprang forth in the wake of the same international outcry to restore rights that were violated as never before.
The rights recognized…
As representatives of a nation that emerged from the ashes of the Holocaust, the most extreme, brutal and incomparable instance of genocide in human history, we the people of Israel have a unique role in punishing and preventing this atrocity. As witnesses to the crime at its worst, we have spearhea…
The situation in Lebanon has become a microcosm of the situation in the entire Middle East. The continuing failure of the Government of Lebanon to assert its authority over its own territory has produced a dangerous vacuum that has been exploited by the forces determined to undermine the stability o…
Nations arise over a certain land because of their historical experience, which preserves them as a distinct people over time, attaches them to a defined territory and allows them to be empowered with self- government. For centuries, the people of Israel were forcibly denied the latter quality of th…
Israel embraces the opportunity to host a historic in gathering of Christian pilgrims, marking two thousand years since the birth of Jesus in the ancient land then known as Judea. The Israeli Government, through its newly founded 2000 Authority,
This follows in a proud tradition of promoting religi…
Israel opposes the draft resolution on participation of the Palestinian Observer Mission in the work of the United Nations because of both the preambular language, which serves as the basis of the draft resolution, and the operative elements proposed. The preambular part seriously misrepresents prev…
Fifty years ago the Jewish quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem surrendered. Its Jewish inhabitants were expelled. Fifty-eight synagogues, including the 700-year-old Hurva synagogue, were destroyed and desecrated. Free access of the Jewish people to their holy places, particularly the Western Wall, …
Israel follows with great interest the question of equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council. The membership of the United Nations today is several times what it was at the inception of the Organization. States in areas and regions which had not yet attained …
There is a myth being advanced in this Chamber by certain speakers: that the peace process over the last three to four years was in an idyllic state until the May 1996 elections that brought the current Israeli Government to power. Those speakers have forgotten that hundreds of Katyusha rockets fell…
Discussion about the situation in the Middle East requires a broad analysis of the major
The collapse of the Soviet Union and the Communist bloc in Eastern Europe put an end to global super-Power competition. The Arab-Israeli conflict could finally be apprehended as a major regional issue devoid of…
In the last four years, the people of Israel have witnessed two contrasting realities in their
But the people of Israel witnessed another reality as well. From the 1993 signing of the Declaration of Principles between Israel and the PLO until the May 1996 election of the current Israeli Government,…
