‘Like a serial killer asking the police for assistance’

Danny Danon, Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations, responded to a newly proposed Palestinian UN resolution this past week. He said, “Israel and the United States will continue to mobilize the countries of the world into a united front against the terrorism that Hamas engages in on behalf of Iran.”

And he added, “A terrorist organization going to the UN for assistance is like a serial killer asking the police” for help.

The UN Debate Supporting Hamas’ Call to Destroy Israel

That proposed resolution came in the form of a letter Hamas sent to United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) President Maria Fernada Spinosa on the UN’s “International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People,” which was last Thursday. The letter asked for UN support of Hamas’ right to bear arms against Israel.

CNN commentator Marc Lamont Hill spoke to the UNGA on the occasion, invoking a rally cry Hamas uses to call for the destruction of Israel: “Free Palestine from the river to the sea.” The Daily Wire reported that Hill “has a long history of anti-Semitism” and cited a May 2018 Huffington Post article in which Hill “defended Palestinians’ right to use violence against Israel but claimed Palestinians truly want peace.”

Hill also wrote, “By naturalizing the idea that nation-states have a ‘right to exist,’ we undermine our ability to offer a moral critique of Israel’s (or any settler-colony’s) origin story.”

It’s encouraging that CNN fired Hill for his UNGA comments, and Hill subsequently apologized for them in an op-ed published in his hometown paper, The Philadelphia Inquirer.

However, although UNGA rejected the Hamas proposal, it did pass six resolutions biased against Israel.

If you ever needed proof of the illegitimacy of the United Nations? Today you got it. The #UNGA just failed to pass a resolution condemning terrorist org #Hamas for indiscriminately firing hundreds of rockets at civilians, each one constituting a war crime in and of itself. pic.twitter.com/Ult0ZiEvwi

— StandWithUs (@StandWithUs) December 6, 2018