By Juliet Moses on LawFuel…
New Zealand recently voted at the UN General Assembly to support a resolution concerning Israel and Palestine that our officials admit has many flaws. Their explanation for why we voted this way was as noteworthy as the resolution itself, and reveals disturbing illogic and moral confusion.
The resolution was drafted by the Palestinian delegation and sponsored by many states that do not recognise Israel and are not known as leading lights in human rights, including Algeria, Iraq, Pakistan, Malaysia, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Bangladesh and North Korea.
The resolution’s 19 paragraphs do not once mention Hamas (a proscribed terrorist entity in New Zealand, and an Iranian proxy) that triggered the current war with its barbaric October 7 invasion of southern Israel, or the over 100 hostages it continues to hold underground in Gaza. Nor does it mention Palestinian terrorism or violence or make any demands of Palestinian leaders.
Instead, it erases Jewish historic and legal claims to the land beyond the armistice lines that resulted from the failed war of annihilation by five Arab states against the nascent state of Israel in 1948 and gives Israel 12 months to withdraw from those lands.
Read Juliet Moses’ full article on LawFuel here.
