Some ResistRefuse To Acquiescence To Lie Down and Play Dead To Surrender Humankind’s (our) Essential Character of Goodness
“Within the framework of its principled position of respect for life, we are sending this official statement to the State of Israel”— María Nela Prada Tejada, Bolivian diplomat and public official serving as the minister of the presidency since 2020.October 31, 2023, Orinoco Tribune reporting on Plurinational State of Bolivia whose government has announced “its decision to sever relations with ‘Israel’ in consideration of the war crimes being committed in the Gaza Strip against the Palestinian people” and “to communicate officially through the diplomatic channels established between both countries consistent with the principles and purposes of the United Nations charter.” Orinoco Tribune October 31, 2023 “Bolivia Severs Diplomatic Relations with Israeli Entity,” https://orinocotribune.com/bolivia-severs-diplomatic-relations-with-israeli-entity/
United Mexican States and Federative Republic of Brazil Leaders have “demanded cease-fire.”
October 31, 2023, The Guardian-U.S. reports: Republics of Chile and Colombia have “recalled their ambassadors from Israel.”
- Plurinational State of Bolivia’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Erwin Freddy Mamani Machaca said his government’s decision sends a message of “‘repudiation and condemnation of the aggressive and disproportionate Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip’” and the far-reaching “‘threat to international peace and security.”.
- Republic of Colombia’s President Gustavo Francisco Petro Urrego pointed to the grounds for his country’s recall of ambassador as Israel’s “massacre of the Palestinian people”.
- Republic of Chile’s President Gabriel Boric Font withdrew his country’s ambassador “to discuss “Israel’s ‘unacceptable violations of international humanitarian law’ being committed in Gaza.”
“‘For the first time, we are witnessing a war in which the majority of the dead are children…For the love of God, stop!”The Guardian U.S. “South American countries recall ambassadors and cut ties with Israel over war with Hamas,” October 31, 2023, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/31/bolivia-israel-hamas-gaza-war-crime
November 1, 2023 First Post reporting: “Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Friday (October 27, 2023) saying “‘What we have now is the insanity of Israel’s prime minister, who wants to wipe out the Gaza Strip’.” https://www.firstpost.com/world/latin-american-nations-sever-diplomatic-ties-with-israel-over-gaza-conflict-13330442.html
Human Rights Org’s failure to Champion Human Rights
“As a human rights lawyer with more than three decades of experience in the field, I know well that the concept of genocide has often been subject to political abuse”— Craig Mokhiber.
“I came to this Organization first in the 1980s because I found in it a principled, norm-based institution that was squarely on the side of human rights (even) in cases where the powerful United States of America and United Kingdom and Europe were not on our side.
The United Nations “was standing up for oppressed peoples… when many affluent governments and subsidiary institutions and many media outlets in the United States were still supporting or justifying South African apartheid, Israeli oppression, and Central American death squads.”
“We had international law on our side. We had human rights on our side. We had principle on our side. Our authority was rooted in our integrity.”
“…No more.”
United Nations HEADQUARTERS | SIEGE | NEW YORK, NY 10017, TEL.: + 212 963 5931 | craig.mokhiber@un.org, October 28, 2023, cm_final_letter_signed_pdf
The world ‘“must boycott and prosecute” Israel for its ‘ongoing crimes against humanity,’” says Rabbi David Mivasair (Jewish activist, member of Independent Jewish Voices, a U.S. citizen based in Ontario, Canada) in an October 30, 2023, Press TV news interview. “Israeli attacks in Gaza ‘war crimes tantamount to genocide’: Jewish activist” https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2023/10/30/713689/israeli-attacks-gaza-war-crimes-tantamount-genocide-jewish-activist
Human Rights Org’s failure to Champion Human Rights
A Resignation
“But the current wholesale slaughter of the Palestinian people, rooted in an ethno-nationalist settler colonial ideology, in continuation of decades of their systematic persecution and purging, based entirely upon their status as Arabs, and coupled with explicit statements of intent by leaders in the Israeli government and military, leaves no room for doubt or debate—Craig Mokhiber writes in his resignation letter to the UN. Source Daily Maverick November 1, 2023 “ISRAEL/PALESTINE CRISIS / LETTER
‘The Gaza assault is a textbook case of genocide’ top official tells UN in resignation letter” https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2023-11-01-the-gaza-assault-is-a-textbook-case-of-genocide-top-official-tells-un-in-resignation-letter/
Excerpt from Craig Mokhiber’s letter (Emphasis added)
The United Nations “was standing up for oppressed peoples… when many affluent governments and subsidiary institutions and many media outlets in the United States were still supporting or justifying South African apartheid, Israeli oppression, and Central American death squads.”
“We had international law on our side. We had human rights on our side. We had principle on our side. Our authority was rooted in our integrity.”
“…No more.”
A substantive change of course is urgent, Mokhiber writes.
“In the immediate term, we must work for an immediate ceasefire and an end to the longstanding siege on Gaza; stand up against the ethnic cleansing of Gaza, Jerusalem, and the West Bank (and elsewhere); document the genocidal assault in Gaza; help to bring massive humanitarian aid and reconstruction to the Palestinians; take care of our traumatized colleagues and their families; and, in the political offices of the United Nations, engage seriously, deliberatively and respectfully “in principled approaches.”Craig Mokhiber, director of the United Nations Office of Human Rights in New York, has resigned from his post because the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights as a body has failed to address properly the Israel-Palestine crisis. RT News October 31, 2023, “Top UN official resigns over failure to stop ‘genocide’ of Palestinians: The organization has ‘surrendered to the power of the US’ and given in to the ‘Israeli lobby,’ Craig Mokhiber has said,” https://www.rt.com/news/586302-un-official-gaza-resignation/; https://www.ohchr.org/en/about-us“… Abandon the failed paradigm of the past” — “the UN’s failure in Palestine thus far is not a reason to depart.” “Embrace fully a more principled course.” Add the UHCHR “logo to the banner of equality and human rights for the Palestinian people” (and) “join the anti-apartheid movement that is growing around the world.”All of us “will be accountable for where we stood at this crucial moment in history …. Let us stand on the side of justice.”
United Nations HEADQUARTERS | SIEGE | NEW YORK, NY 10017, TEL.: + 212 963 5931 | craig.mokhiber@un.org, October 28, 2023, cm_final_letter_signed_pdf
November 1, 2023 Casualty Estimates (update)
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Total Deaths 8,796 Palestinians |
Dead Children 3,648 |
Dead Women 2,290 |
Total Wounded 22,219 |
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Total Missing 2,000 |
Missing Children 1,100 |
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Press TV news November 1, 2023, “First group of injured Palestinian evacuees from Gaza cross into Egypt through the Rafah border crossing, as Israel’s war machine is constantly bombing the besieged Palestinian territory” https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2023/11/01/713833/Palestine-Israel-Hamas-Gaza-Egypt-Rafah-crossing-injured
Bear in Mind “The Foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world” (is) … “The INHERENT DIGNITY and equal and inalienable rights (of all human beings)”
THERE WAS A TIME when Prominent Americans were Principled People. Manifest in words and deeds were sound humanistic and moral principles and commitment to the rule of law.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was drafted in such a moment. The First Lady of the United States of America (1933-1945), a Diplomat (beginning in 1945 a delegate to the United Nations General Assembly) and first Chairperson of the Commission on Human Rights was a key participant in the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. She was New York native (b. 1884, d. 1962) Anna Eleanor Roosevelt also known as “First Lady of the World.”
UN https://www.un.org/en/observances/human-rights-day/women-who-shaped-the-universal-declaration
Women’s History Eleanor Roosevelt bio 2017 by Debra Michals, https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/eleanor-roosevelt; Image ELEANOR ROOSEVELT of the United States holding a poster of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Lake Success, NY, November 1949. UN Photo https://www.un.org/en/observances/human-rights-day/women-who-shaped-the-universal-declaration
UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS (document created December 10, 1948) excerpted with minor edits.
CONTEXT: “Disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts that have outraged the conscience of mankind.”… “…If man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression, … human rights should be protected by the rule of law.”
DECLARED: “The INHERENT DIGNITY and equal and inalienable rights (of all human beings) is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world.” “… A WORLD in which human beings enjoy FREEDOM of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want …, the highest aspiration of the common people.” “ESSENTIAL PROMOTION of … the development of friendly relations between (and among) nations” “…
REAFFIRMATION of peoples of the United Nations” (previously set out in UN Charter) “faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person and in the equal rights of men and women; and determined to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom.” “PLEDGE of Member States … to achieve, in cooperation with the United Nations, the promotion of universal respect for and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms” “AFFIRMED that “common understanding of the rights and freedoms (declared in the UDHR) is of the greatest importance for full realization of the pledge.”
PROCLAIMED in GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE UNITED NATIONS:
“The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (is) a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations, to the end that every individual and every organ of society, keeping this Declaration constantly in mind, shall strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms and by progressive measures, national and international, to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance, both among the peoples of Member States themselves and among the peoples of territories under their jurisdiction.”
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