{"id":54149,"date":"2023-12-08T11:42:01","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T10:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=54149"},"modified":"2024-12-08T01:05:14","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T00:05:14","slug":"the-infamy-of-the-un-it-invokes-against-israel-the-article-that-it-has-never-invoked-against-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/12\/08\/the-infamy-of-the-un-it-invokes-against-israel-the-article-that-it-has-never-invoked-against-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"The infamy of the UN: it invokes against Israel the article that it has never invoked against Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations (UN) has been exhibiting a blatant political and ideological bias for years.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/10\/25\/the-united-nations-contribution-to-hamas-disinformation-and-its-bias-against-israel\/\">The United Nations' contribution to Hamas disinformation and its bias against Israel<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/10\/29\/the-infamous-text-supported-by-the-sanchez-government-with-the-hamas-allies-at-the-un\/\">The infamous text supported by the S\u00e1nchez government with the Hamas allies at the UN<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p><big>The socialist Guterres accepts the death tolls released by Hamas as good<\/big><\/p>\n<p>The organization, headed by Portuguese socialist Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, has once again exhibited that bias this week. In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/situation-in-occupied-palestine-and-israel\/sg-sc-article99-06-dec-2023\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\" _blank\">a letter published on Wednesday, December 6<\/a>, <strong>Guterres has invoked Article 99 of the UN Charter against Israel<\/strong>, alerting the UN Security Council, and does so with the following statement:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\"Civilians throughout Gaza face grave danger. <strong>Since the start of lsrael's military operation, more than 15,000 people have reportedly been killed<\/strong>, over 40 per cent of whom were children.\"<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Guterres does not explain which \"reports\" he is referring to<\/strong>, but coincidentally, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/zQvz9\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the figure of The 15,000 deaths that he indicates coincides with the one published by Hamas last Saturday<\/a>, through the so-called Ministry of Health of Gaza, controlled by that terrorist organization and which <strong>has been disseminating alleged death tolls without any independent verification<\/strong>, since freedom of the press does not exist in the Gaza Strip, unlike what happens in a democratic country like Israel.<\/p>\n<p><big>What Article 99 of the UN Charter says, only invoked four times<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Article 99 of the UN Charter invoked by Guterres, <strong>a tool of pressure on the Security Council<\/strong>, states the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\"The Secretary-General may bring to the attention of the Security Council <strong>any matter which in his opinion may threaten the maintenance of international peace and security.<\/strong>\"<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The BBC has noted that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/mundo\/articles\/cy92z7z8kj3o\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this is the first time that Guterres invokes that article<\/a> since he has been secretary general of the UN, a position he has held since 2017. In its entire history, <strong>the UN has only invoked that article on three other occasions:<\/strong> at the beginning of the Congo Crisis in 1960, during the American hostage crisis in Iran in 1979 and towards the end of the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990) in 1989.<\/p>\n<p><big>Guterres has not invoked that article against Russia<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Let us remember that in recent years, <strong>Russia has invaded neighboring countries three times:<\/strong> Georgia (2008), Ukraine (invasion and annexation of Crimea in 2014) and Ukraine again on February 24, 2022. <strong>In its current invasion of Ukraine, Russia is indiscriminately attacking the civilian population<\/strong>, perpetrating massacres of civilians such as those in Bucha and Izyum, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/es\/europa\/20230916-ni%C3%B1os-ucranianos-deportados-forzosamente-por-rusia-comparten-sus-historias-en-la-haya\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">forcibly deporting tens of thousands of Ukrainian children to Russia<\/a>, developing a terror strategy with missile and drone attacks against residential areas of Ukraine without any military presence and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/05\/28\/the-russian-torture-and-ill-treatment-against-the-ukrainian-prisoners-of-war\/\">torturing and murdering Ukrainian prisoners<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/04\/18\/russian-mercenaries-confess-the-murder-of-ukrainian-children-following-orders\/\">children included<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>All of this is a clear violation of International Law, in which Russia has not been content with directing its violence against Ukraine, but <strong>Moscow has also threatened to attack and invade other countries<\/strong>, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/02\/25\/the-putin-regime-continues-its-campaign-of-terror-and-now-threatens-finland-and-sweden\/\">Finland, Sweden<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/05\/13\/russian-state-duma-threatens-poland-to-be-the-next-attacked-after-ukraine\/\">Poland<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/12\/25\/russias-christmas-message-threaten-with-another-invasion-of-little-moldova\/\">Moldova<\/a>. As if all that were not enough, just a year ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/mundo\/noticias-internacional-63897093\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Putin threatened to the free world with a nuclear war<\/a> if it continued sending military aid to Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Well: despite all this and the serious threat it poses to peace and security, <strong>Guterres did not invoke Article 99 of the UN Charter against Russia<\/strong>, but he does invoke it now against Israel, a country that on October 7 suffered the most serious massacre of Jews since the Holocaust at the hands of Hamas terrorists. <strong>Israel is not doing the same as Russia: Putin invaded a sovereign country without any justification or provocation<\/strong>, with no other motivation than his desire to expand his country's power at the expense of its neighbors. On the contrary, <strong>Israel is facing a war that did not start, a war started by Hamas terrorists<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><big>Israel accuses Guterres of being \"a danger to world peace\"<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Con toda raz\u00f3n, el ministro de Exteriores de Israel, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elicoh1\/status\/1732513338049863692\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eli Cohen, ha declarado<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\"<strong>Guterres\u2019 tenure is a danger to world peace.<\/strong><br \/>\nHis request to activate Article 99 and the call for a cease fire in Gaza <strong>constitutes support of the Hamas terrorist organization<\/strong> and an endorsement of the murder of the elderly, the abduction of babies and the rape of women.<br \/>\n<strong>Anyone who supports world peace must support the liberation of Gaza from Hamas<\/strong>.\"<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In a message shared by Cohen on Twitter, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/noclador\/status\/1732520156713095432\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas C. Theiner has noted<\/a>: <em>\"<strong>Calling for a ceasefire now is like calling for one in 1945<\/strong>... then and now a ceasefire would only serve to save the murderous fascists from being annihilated.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p><big>Iran has one of the vice presidencies of the UN General Assembly<\/big><\/p>\n<p>The UN's bias against Israel goes hand in hand with situations that are difficult to explain in an organization that claims to defend human rights. <strong>At the beginning of June<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/06\/03\/scandal-at-the-un-iran-is-elected-for-a-vice-presidency-of-its-general-assembly\/\">the Islamist dictatorship of Iran was elected to a vice-presidency of the UN General Assembly<\/a>, all while that regime, which supports terrorism and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/mundo\/noticias\/2013\/10\/131010_iran_holocausto_jgc_finde\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">denies the Holocaust<\/a>, dedicated himself to massacring hundreds of protesters who were protesting against the dictatorship of the ayatollahs.<\/p>\n<p><big>S\u00e1nchez, congratulated by Hamas, supports Guterres<\/big><\/p>\n<p>As expected, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sanchezcastejon\/status\/1732836554920349960\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the socialist Pedro S\u00e1nchez has shown his support for Guterres<\/a>. A statement that adds to a display of hostility towards Israel that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/11\/30\/is-pedro-sanchez-following-in-the-footsteps-of-the-putin-regime-in-his-policy-against-israel\/\">is setting fire to the relationship between Spain and that country<\/a>, which ministers of the S\u00e1nchez government, who did not condemn the Hamas attack, falsely accused of committing genocide in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>Let us remember that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/10\/29\/the-infamous-text-supported-by-the-sanchez-government-with-the-hamas-allies-at-the-un\/\">at the end of October, the S\u00e1nchez government aligned itself at the UN alongside Hamas allies<\/a>, supporting a text that did not condemn the terrorist group's attack against Israel and omitted any reference to Israeli citizens kidnapped by Hamas. At the end of November, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/11\/25\/hamas-shows-its-gratitude-to-sanchez-israel-was-right-when-it-accused-his-government\/\">Hamas showed its gratitude to S\u00e1nchez<\/a>, a shame for Spain that shows the fact that it has <strong>the most antisemitic government in the European Union<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/un_photo\/36895242880\">United Nations Photo<\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations (UN) has been exhibiting a blatant political and ideological bias for years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,10373],"tags":[11887,20724,829,20307,95,2721,10731,16153,10473],"class_list":["post-54149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-world","tag-antonio-guterres","tag-eli-cohen","tag-gaza","tag-hamas-terrorist-attack-on-israel-on-october-7-2023","tag-israel","tag-pedro-sanchez-castejon","tag-russia","tag-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-of-2022","tag-united-nations"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-12 06:00:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}