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Australian Voting in the United Nations General Assembly Reveals Some Unpleasant Realities

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By James O’Neill*

One of Australia’s best-kept secrets is its voting record in the United Nations on resolutions generally condemning the behaviour of the State of Israel.  Apart from the period of the last Labor government, when the general policy was to abstain on issues in the General Assembly critical of the conduct of Israel, the voting record has consistently been one of support for Israel by voting against any resolution critical of the actions of the Israeli government.

One of the features of this voting pattern is that it is largely unreported in the Australian mainstream media. As there is also editorial silence on the matter, one is left to speculate on what the purpose of the Australian voting pattern is, other than the obvious one of unqualified support for the regime in Tel Aviv.

That support covers a wide range of topics. In recent years the United Nations General Assembly has voted overwhelmingly to condemn, inter alia, the illegal Israeli occupation of the Golan Heights and the treatment of its Palestinian citizens. Let us look briefly at the Golan Heights. In 1968 Israel and Syria fought a brief war, in the course of which Israel captured the Syrian part of the Golan Heights.

It is well established international law that no country can maintain the occupation of territory belonging to another country captured in the course of a war. Yet that is precisely what Israel has done. Repeated United Nations resolutions demanding that the territory be returned to its rightful owners, in this case the Syrians, are simply ignored by Israel. When the matter is voted upon in the United Nations General Assembly the vote is overwhelmingly in favour of Israel vacating the occupied territory. Israel simply ignores the resolution, secure in the support of the United States that the United Nations will not take steps to enforce the will of the General Assembly. Australia votes in favour of Israel’s defiance. That situation has now continued for 52 years and each year Israel increases its hold on the occupied region, including establishing Israeli settlements there.

This week, on 2 December 2020, the pattern was repeated. There were five resolutions before the United Nations General Assembly. They all condemned Israel’s repeated violations of international law. One of those resolutions, A/75/L.34 called for the “Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine.” The vote was 145 in favour and seven against. The seven ‘No’ votes followed a very familiar pattern. They were Australia, Canada, Israel, the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, Nauru, and the United States.

Those seven countries regularly appear as part of a tiny minority to vote against United Nations General Assembly resolutions critical of Israel. Three of the seven are inconsequential islands that owe their existence to either the United States or Australia. The United States and Israel are two of the remaining four, together with Australia and Canada who act in the United Nations as effectively colonies of the United States.

The tiny minority voting “No” to the resolutions are no surprise. They are the “regular seven” that can be relied upon to vote for Israel’s interests and against the overwhelming majority of the world’s countries. What is of interest to the Australian reader, however, is that Australia’s voting pattern, on this as on nearly all such occasions, was unreported in the Australian mainstream media. Newspapers, radio and television were uniformly silent.

 

In such a situation, silence generally implies consent, and this is no exception to that general rule. The one favourable point that may be taken from the overwhelming media silence is that they are ashamed of Australia’s continued subservience to the United States –Israeli viewpoint, fearing that even if it is publicised then it might invoke a negative public reaction. One would certainly hope that was the case.

 

It is difficult to think of a rational reason for Australia’s continued support for what is a history of unparalleled disregard, not only for the rights of the Palestinians but also fundamental principles of international law. By the same token that silence implies consent, the acquiescence of the Labor Party in this ongoing support for arguably the world’s second greatest lawbreaker (after the United States) counts as a shameful blot upon their political credentials.

One thing that Australian silence on Israeli criminality, which includes the assassination of Iranian officials and waging a declared war on Syria, does reveal, is that Australia’s much-vaunted support for the “rules based international order” is no more than empty rhetoric.

It is long past time that Australia acknowledged itself for what its conduct, and not only in the United Nations, reveals to the world. The answer is not pretty, but until that reality is faced there is unlikely to be any measurable change for the better.

*Geopolitical analyst. He may be contacted at jamesoneill83@icloud.com

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  1. “They [supporting Israel, all by their lonelies] were: Australia, Canada, Israel, the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, Nauru, and the United States.”

    Aha. I use to wonder why the Marshall Islands and Micronesia were allowed to maintain “independence.”‘ Now I see.

    Just as, in 1945, two of the Soviet Republics (perhaps Belarus and Ukraine?) were given ther own seats at the UN so as to increase the number of pro-USSR votes.

    What a scream that we are all so dumb.

  2. Dee posted this, three articles ago, but maybe our readers dd not see it. It is a good talk by a British chap on the use of the 305 battalion to grab the servers.

    He says “Today is December 1st” which means the action took place on Tuesday, but now it be Saturday in USA and Trumpie Boy is dong a rally in Georgia without mentioning the great event.

  3. Vaccine Trial Participant Cannot Walk

    Jerusalem Post Admits jews Are Behind Coronavirus Vaccines

    Of course the Jerusalem Post is trying to make it seem like a good thing that a bunch of jewish supremacists are behind the development of vaccines that will put neurotoxins into people and change their genetic structure.

    “One can’t escape their presence in the forefront of leading companies in the race to find a vaccine that will prevent coronavirus.” –Jerusalem Post

    The article goes on to mention only Albert Bourla, who heads Pfizer, and Dr. Tal Zaks, who is Moderna’s chief medical officer, and how they have been attacked by “anti-semites,” but there are many more jews Cashman could have mentioned.

    For example, Michael Dolsten is the chief scientist at Pfizer, who is leading the company’s vaccine charge. He said, “There has been a strong Jewish tradition around contributing to humanity and a strong tradition within medicine.” He also said that he hope hopes the US
    stays a “melting pot,” which itself was a genocidal concept cooked up by jew Israel Zangwill.

    Pfizer and Moderna received $1.95 and $2.5 billion respectively through Trump’s Operation Warp Speed, and soon they will be seeking emergency use approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) after they cooked their books about the safety and efficacy of their vaccines.

    U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, whose maternal grandmother was a jew (which would make his mother and himself a jew as well), has said that a vaccine will go first to “wherever it’s going to add the most value according to the data and the science and the recommendations of our experts.” Just trust the experts, goyim!

    If you value the health and safety of yourself and your loved ones, you will stay as far away from this jewish vaccine as possible!

    Read the post

    http://www.renegadetribune.com/ jerusalem-post-admits-jews-are-behind-coronavirus-vaccines/

    • Gates is in Pfizer and moderna and says he can get a 20:1 return on his dollar.
      Who wouldn’t want to be in on that, probably most people would abandon any morals.
      One has to wonder, has Gates got a gun to the head of US government and industry, by controlling the operating systems of everything.
      By the way great video CC767

  4. As always, Criss X says what others don’t have the cajones to say.

    Meanwhile, James O’Neill’s article reminds me of a joke (only it’s not a joke because it is a sad reality) :

    Question : Why did the Muslim cross the road ?

    Answer : Because he was being relocated by Israeli authorities to make more room for Jewish settlements on the West Bank.

    • More snippets from Dr Tim Anderson

      • Tim Anderson: the terrorism claims against Iran

      (note the US/Israeli/cabal claims of links to Iran as being responsible for 911)

      • Tim Anderson: minorities in Iran

      • Tim Anderson: Washington’s economic war against Iran

        • Angela Merkel

          Born Angela Dorothea Kasner on 17 July 1954, her father, Horst Kasner was a Communist sympathiser and mother, Herlind Jentzsch, a Communist and member of the Christian Social Democratic Party of Germany. Merkel was educated in East Germany and leader of the official, Communist-led youth movement Free German Youth (FDJ) thus well-schooled in Jewish Bolsheviks Marx, Lenin and Trotsky (Lev Bronstein).

          The biography of Merkel shows that she was “a supreme and very visible Young Communist official in East Germany, responsible for propaganda and agitation.” Beyond leading the Young Communist League, Merkel also held high rank in the Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschland (SED), which was the leading Marxist–Leninist party of East Germany. Members of this party enjoyed ‘special privileges’ denied to ethnic Germans in East Germany after WWII. For example only closely trusted members of the Communist party (SED) were allowed to travel to western countries and Merkel often travelled to West Germany and other Western Nations. Merkel has visited Israel four times.

          On 16 March 2008, she arrived in Israel to mark the 60th anniversary of its occupation of Palestinian land. Merkel has supported all Israeli terror initiatives and opposing the Palestinian bid for membership at the UN. In March of 2008 the B’nai B’rith of Europe presented Merkel with their Award of Merit for ‘services’ to their community.

          Merkel has also received the Leo Baeck Medal, awarded by the Leo Baeck Institute of New York City devoted to the history of German-speaking Jewry.

          It is interesting to note that while Merkel finds it “especially sad that some commentators seem to have lost any inhibitions in telling the Jewish community what is good for them”. She never commented on the eternal lack of inhibition the Jewish Community has for letting Germany and the rest of Europe know what they think is good for them.

          On the 70th anniversary of the incursion into Poland in 2009 Merkel publically apologised and blamed Germany alone for starting WWII when it was international Jewry that sowed the seeds of this war in 1933 by inciting America and Europe to boycott German goods.

          http://antizi onistleague.com/scrapbook/political-movements/politicians/angela-merkel/

      • Who in their right mind, would ever wish to have these insane “One World Dictators” have their way. These people like Angela Merkel are vile and pure evil, along with the judges sitting on the benches. They have the audacity to be called adjudicators of law. What hypocrisy!

        Not one of this type would know anything about justice. Real justice is the roles should be reversed.

  5. Someone raised a question (or two) about China. Read this on the bus earlier today … (it is in the context of China’s extraordinary infrastructure projects – in particular the “South-North Water Transfer Project”)

    “It’s amazing what you can do when you don’t have 100 military bases necklacing Planet Earth, like the United States does, nor spending trillions of dollars reducing countries to rubble, like NATO has and does in Serbia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Syria, Ukraine, South Sudan and, and, and …“

    … Jeff J Brown

  6. Indeed Fish, enriching the Zio-owned MICIMATT (Military-Industrial-Congressional-Intelligence-Media-Academia-Think Tank) complex, as coined by ex-CIA white hat Ray McGovern, and squandering blood and treasure fighting wars for Israel’s geopolitical benefit hasn’t reaped any benefits for the bulk of Americans and humanity elsewhere on the planet.

    Similarly, there’s a template from the Russians that the Yanks would do well to follow :

    “The superiority of Russian diplomacy over Washington’s is clear to all.

    Putin’s position is :’We are here for you, we can work things out’.

    Washington’s position is :’Do as we say or we will bomb you into the Stone Age’.”
    ….. Paul Craig Roberts (from his article ‘World War II: The Unknown War -June 9, 2014).

  7. OFF TOPIC
    This is what will be in place forever.  The police are enforcing these from the evil mandates of the freemason politicians for control Containment & compliance. Welscne to their NWO!

    The SA Police has assessed your Cross Border Traveller Application in accordance with the South Australian Emergency Management (Cross Border) Direction 2020.Your application (ET0560285) was APPROVED under the following category:

    None of the Above
    Overseas Arrivals.If you are entering South Australia after travelling from New Zealand, having not been in any other overseas location you are categorised as entering from a low community transmission zone and are not required to quarantine or submit to a COVID-19 test.If you are entering from any other overseas location, you will be directed to a quarantine location.If you enter South Australia from overseas (including returning South Australians) you must submit to a COVID-19 test—(a) within 24 hours after entry to South Australia; and(b) on the twelfth day after entry to South Australia.Any person who refuses or fails to comply with a reasonable requirement or direction of a person in relation to the conduct of the COVID-19 test, may be required to complete an additional 10 days quarantine.This applies to children under the age of 16.Note: You will also be required to obtain an approval from Department of Home Affairs to enter Australia.

    This approval is valid until 06 Mar 2021 only, subsequent travel will require a separate application to be made.

    Please ensure you have photo ID and a copy of this email whilst in South Australia. You will need this for verification purposes if you are stopped by police during your travel in South Australia. SAPOL USE ONLY
    Application Name: Mcleod, Karen
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  8. Australia has a dismal record and a dismal reputation concerning the Communist UN. It struts the world stage as if its all embracing self importance yet fails miserably to stand up to vital issues as it has shown to be nothing but a docile and subservient ‘client state’ to the Fascist US Imperial Empire and the evil Zionist Regime and lobby in Australia. I is just another block for the US and Israel. I will use the Australian term of Gutless Wonder

    Israel’s use of biological weapons in 1948
    https://thegharqadtree.com/israels-use-of-biological-weapons-in-1948/

    Israel’s History of Chemical Weapons Use
    https://www.globalresearch.ca/israels-history-of-chemical-weapons-use/5352003

    How Zionists use racial myths to deny Palestinians the right to go home
    https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/how-zionists-use-racial-claims-deny-palestinians-right-their-homeland

    The Zionist Colonization of Palestine
    https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-zionist-colonization-of-palestine/

    A Flashback Of Zionist Events: poison water and poison gas used on Palestinians then and now
    https://windowintopalestine.blogspot.com/2008/02/flashback-of-zionist-events.html

    PALESTINIAN GENOCIDE: 5,100,000 Palestinians have been killed since 1948
    https://prepareforchange.net/2019/06/20/palestinian-genocide-5100000-palestinians-have-been-killed-since-1948/

  9. Where is the UN to take back the occupied territory as they have been involved in the North Korea war and a number of others?
    https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/modern-world-history-1918-to-1980/the-united-nations/the-united-nations-and-the-korean-war/
    List of United Nations peacekeeping missions
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_Nations_peacekeeping_missions

    The Role of the UN in the Unending Korean War. “United Nations Command” as Camouflage
    https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-role-of-the-un-in-the-unending-korean-war-united-nations-command-as-camouflage/5350876

    Major Events in the U.N.’s History
    https://www.cfif.org/htdocs/freedomline/un_monitor/background/events_in_un_history.htm
    The Iran-Iraq war began. The United Nations called for an immediate ceasefire. The war continued until 1988. August 2, 1990. Iraq invaded Kuwait. The U.N. Security Council subsequently authorized the use of force to expel him. The United States responded by leading Operation Desert Storm and liberating Kuwait. 1992 . The U.N. Security Council dispatched peacekeepers to Somalia to restore order …

    They didn’t do anything about he Vietnam war either

  10. More than 200,000 Households in England Will Be Homeless this Christmas
    by Internationalist 360°

    Ceren Sagir A homeless person sleeps rough near Windsor Castle, Berkshire More than 200,000 households in England will be homeless this Christmas, new research from Crisis revealed today. Those affected will be forced to sleep on the streets, hunker down in sheds and garages, or stay in unstable situations such as in B&Bs or on […]

    Read more of this post

    https://libya360.wordpress.com/2020/12/03/more-than-200000-households-in-england-will-be-homeless-this-christmas/

      • Criss,
        Here the homeless used to hang around Woollooommoolloo. Not visible these days, occasionally you’ll see some under motor ways, but they disappear after a few days.
        When collected where are they taken?
        On the surface Oz is a pleasant place.

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