Soccer Dad urges UN SG to end ‘disproportionate’ sanctimony

Secretary-General’s address to the 11th Summit of the Organization of the Islamic Conference

As I told the Security Council when I briefed them earlier this month, Israel’s disproportionate and excessive use of force has killed and injured many civilians, including children. I condemn these actions and call on Israel to cease such attacks. Israel must fully comply with international humanitarian law and exercise utmost restraint.

And what did the SG say to the Security Council?

While recognizing Israel’s right to defend itself, I condemn the disproportionate and excessive use of force that has killed and injured so many civilians, including children. I call on Israel to cease such attacks. Israel must fully comply with international humanitarian law and exercise the utmost restraint. Incidents in which civilians have been killed or injured must be investigated and accountability must be ensured.

Notice what’s missing from the Secretary General’s talk to the OIC?

… recognizing Israel’s right to defend itself

So he doesn’t even have the moral fiber to defend Israel’s right to self-defense in front of the discriminatory OIC.

And by the way the head of the UN knows bupkes about “international humanitarian law.” Here are some relevant provisions:

Art. 28. The presence of a protected person may not be used to render certain points or areas immune from military operations.Art. 29. The Party to the conflict in whose hands protected persons may be, is responsible for the treatment accorded to them by its agents, irrespective of any individual

Or as David Horovitz illustrates (h/t Boker Tov Boulder)

Israel unilaterally left Gaza in the summer of 2005. It relinquished all claims to the Strip even as it continued to ensure that vital supplies reached the populace. Gaza was free of Jews. The Palestinians had an unprecedented opportunity to start building their nation there – to establish the necessary institutions of government, to rehouse the hundreds of thousands of people in its refugee camps, to attract international investment and start to thrive economically.One happy consequence – for the Palestinians – would have been the bolstered Israeli confidence in their ability to foster a viable, peaceable state. Thus Israel would have been emboldened in considering drastic territorial compromise in Judea and Samaria, too, offsetting profound security concerns, and contemplating the sacrifice of a biblical and historical connection to land that forms the centerpiece of the Jewish narrative, in the cause of Palestinian independence and Israeli-Arab reconciliation.

Instead – precisely as the critics of disengagement had warned would happen, and even the advocates had feared – the Palestinians filled the post-Israeli vacuum with a terror state. They exploited Israel’s departure to smuggle weaponry into the Strip, even as they wailed to the international community about the “prison” in which they said they still lived – a malevolent reference to Israel’s failing efforts to prevent that weapons flow. They continually fired rockets across what should have been a tranquil border into sovereign Israel – yes, sovereign Israel, Mr. Scardino. They diverted some of Israel’s continuing power supply to build more of those rockets. They fired their rockets from their own civilian areas – deliberately using their own civilians as human shields against an Israeli response.

They sought to legitimize these attacks by declaring that they were seeking the liberation of all their territory before the fighting would stop, when plainly the constructive path to “liberation” would have seen Gaza turned into a model nascent state and, plainly too, the liberation they have in mind is from any Israeli sovereign presence. They celebrated openly when their attacks drew Israeli civilian blood – a maimed child here, a dead father there. And they protested to the international community when Israel’s despairing military responses caused the very Palestinian civilian fatalities they had so cynically orchestrated.

Mr. Ban, I thought you would be an improvement over your predecessor. The truth is that until you actively aid a terrorist organization as he did with Hezbollah you will be superior. However I am still disappointed. Please don’t lecture Israel until you can defend it rhetorically before its enemies and until you familiarize yourself with the finer points of international law.

Jammie Wearing Fool does a little editing. Lebz shows that Ban isn’t nearly as toxic as his predessor.

Crossposted on Soccer Dad.