🇵🇸 State of PalestineSecond replyin response to Israel
Thank you, Madam Chair. I am exercising our right of reply in response to the statement made by the Israeli delegate, celebrating their criminality and terrorism against the Palestinian people and peoples of our region as achievements. Humanity has evolved considerably in its understanding of how wars are fought. It has also evolved in its codification of treaties to protect civilians, children, women, men, prisoners of wars, medical workers, and aid workers. Humanity elaborated an entire system of law and principles after the horrors of World War II, with the Charter of the United Nations at its cornerstone, affirming that might does not make right and that the threat or use of force is prohibited against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state. And that genocide is prohibited and that torture is prohibited. And that the protection follows the civilian, not the civilian follows the protection. And that aggression and acts of aggression are outlawed. This is a civilization that we collectively chose for the sake of all and not for one against the other. But Israel not just chooses barbarity and violence, it celebrates it and glorifies it in this room. And Israel believes that trying to win a war and claim total victory grants them the right to commit aggression, genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, the worst crimes imaginable, and call it the so called eradicating terrorism, when in fact it is eradicating a people under its illegal occupation and apartheid regime and eradicating the rule of law. Israel clearly believes that the barbarity and crimes of the Dark Ages are not just relevant to it, but are models to be emulated into this age, a complete abdication of legality, humanity and morality that underpinned the Yuan Charter. Unlike what Israel claims, the threat to our regional security and peace and to international peace and security is Israel's illegal occupation, apartheid regime, and genocide that must end. Its crimes for seventy-seven years threaten not just our collective security but humanity itself. Israeli delegate thinks that if they weaponize the word terrorism, they would divert and distract from the fact that there is a Palestinian people with a just cause struggling for over seven decades for the attainment of their unilateral rights, for the same freedoms and dignity cherished by your countries, and to which all peoples of the world are entitled to, and to which we will never relent in seeking until they are realized, in accordance with international law and UN resolution. Thank you.
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