00:00 Free Palestine and vote yes for the resolution and I thank you so much.
00:06 You can see exactly what you are inflicting upon the UN Charter with this destructive vote.
00:14 This is...
00:17 You are shredding the UN Charter.
00:26 In a bold act of defiance, Israeli Ambassador Gilad Erdan made a powerful statement at the
00:33 United Nations General Assembly by tearing apart the UN Charter just before the passage
00:39 of a resolution advocating for the full membership of Palestine. The resolution,
00:44 which urged the Security Council to grant Palestine full membership despite its current
00:49 observer status, received overwhelming support with 143 votes in favor, including India's,
00:55 while nine nations, including the US and Israel, opposed it. Ambassador Erdan denounced the
01:02 resolution as a blatant violation of the UN Charter and criticized its undermining of the
01:07 US veto in the Security Council. He symbolically held up the torn remains of the Charter,
01:13 emphasizing his condemnation and urging the General Assembly to reconsider its actions.
01:19 Today, another travesty is being committed here by the General Assembly, an unforgivable act.
01:27 The destruction of the United Nations Charter, the UN Charter, the sacred document which serves
01:38 as the foundation of everything we are supposed to do here, is being trampled upon. It is being
01:45 thrown out the window. You are spitting on the very values that were formulated to bind this
01:53 organization. With today's destructive resolution, you are circumventing the Security Council,
02:02 ignoring its decision, and violating the norms this organization has abided by. You know that
02:10 the Palestinians are the exact opposite of peace-loving. You know this. Since they rejected
02:18 the UN partition plan in 1947, they rejected it. They have only tried to destroy Israel time and
02:27 again. They are terror-loving, not peace-loving. They are anything but peace-loving. Not a single
02:35 Palestinian leader, not even one, has condemned the October 7th massacre. He calls the Hamas his
02:43 brothers. As long as so many of you are Jew-hating, you don't really care that the Palestinians are
02:50 not peace-loving. He also alleged that the resolution opens up the UN for modern-day Nazis
02:57 referring to Hamas. At the end of my speech, I tore the UN Charter to pieces to illustrate
03:03 what the Assembly is doing in its support for the entry of Palestinian terrorism into the UN.
03:08 The United Nations General Assembly recently passed a resolution proposed by the UAE,
03:21 which grants new privileges to the Palestinian Authority as a non-member observer state.
03:26 The resolution calls for the UN Security Council to reconsider the matter favorably
03:30 regarding Palestinian membership. Israel's Foreign Minister, Israel Katz,
03:35 criticized the resolution, labeling it as an absurd decision that underscores the UN's
03:41 structural bias. Katz argued that the resolution rewards the actions of Hamas,
03:46 particularly following their actions on October 7, which he referred to as the largest massacre
03:52 of Jews since the Holocaust. He further stated that the decision to upgrade the status of
03:57 Palestinians at the UN serves as a reward for Hamas terrorists, suggesting that it conveys
04:03 the message that violence is rewarded. Following the passage of the resolution,
04:08 Palestinian envoy Riyad Mansour announced the Palestinian Authority's intention to seek full
04:13 membership from the Security Council. However, the US has issued a warning signaling its likely
04:18 veto of such a request, similar to its veto of an earlier Palestinian membership bid in April.
04:24 In the recent past, the US exercised its veto power to block a UN Security Council resolution
04:30 proposing statehood for Palestine. The veto resulted in a 12-1 outcome, with the US casting
04:36 the sole vote and two abstentions. Consequently, the UNSC did not adopt the draft resolution,
04:42 which aimed to recommend to the General Assembly to conduct a vote involving the broader UN
04:47 membership for Palestine's full UN member-state status. According to UN protocols, for a draft
04:53 resolution to pass, the UNSC requires at least nine members in favour, with none of its permanent
04:58 members – China, France, Russia, the UK and the US – utilising their veto power.
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