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Nations United Against Israel

United Nations, World Bank attack Israel


By Stan Goodenough
May 01, 2009

The United Nations - whose vehicles, frequently driven by Arabs, cruise arrogantly through the streets of Israel's capital in brazen assertion of their "right" to "decide" the city's future - has demanded that Israel freeze all pending demolition orders against illegally-built Arab homes in Jerusalem.

Ha'aretz reported Friday that the world body has issued a new report justifying this "Palestinian" breaching of Israeli laws because, asserts the UN, those laws constitute "serious obstacles" that inhibit legal Arab building in the city.

The UN claims that 35 percent of eastern Jerusalem has been zoned for Jewish neighborhoods (which it calls settlements) "in violation of international law" while only 13 percent is available to the Arabs.

This is unacceptable to the UN, which rejects Israel's 3000-year-old claim to the city and insists that the Jews hand "back" to the "Palestinians" all the parts of Jerusalem that were under Jordanian occupation between 1949 and 1967.

Israeli Ambassador to the UN, Gabriela Shalev, Thursday called the organization "a world of double standards, doublespeak and hypocrisy."

Shalev delivered her broadside after slamming the UN's recent conference on racism - referred to as Durban II - as a "farce."

Meanwhile, in another report underscoring the international community's determination to behave prejudicially towards Israel, the World Bank has blamed the Jewish state for water shortages being experienced by the Palestinian Arabs in Judea and Samaria.

The World Bank alleges that Israel is taking three times more water from the aquifers under the Samarian and Judean hills than it agreed to in the long-ago disqualified Oslo II Accords.

According to Israel, however, it has more than kept to its side of that agreement, while the Palestinian Arabs have flagrantly violated their commitments, drilling more than 250 wells to withdraw water from the delicately-balanced underground reservoirs, and allowing sewage to pour unchecked into streams, thereby polluting the groundwater.

Israel's Foreign Ministry slammed the World Bank for blithely ignoring all the factual details and Israel's position on the situation which had been presented to the authors of the report.

"The authors of the report met with Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) officials and were briefed on all the factual details. They were also presented with the Israeli position paper on the subject, which contained verifiable facts that contradict all the objections presented in the bank's report," stated the MFA, according to The Jerusalem Post.

"Significantly, the authors chose to ignore the MFA position and declined to take the facts presented to them into consideration in the published report."

Instead, the authors had chosen to rely "totally on unsubstantiated information" provided by the PLO, "which raises serious question marks over the credibility of the report and the intention of its authors."

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