UN's Ban Ki-Moon Excuses Palestinian Terrorism As "Natural" Reaction

It was less than 2 years ago that we read that Ban Ki-moon Admits United Nations Anti-Israel Bias, going so far as to say, "Unfortunately, because of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Israel has been weighed down by criticism and suffered from bias and sometimes even discrimination."

It should not be surprising that Ban shows the same bias when he claims It Is 'Human Nature' to React to Occupation:

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon commented Tuesday on the recent wave of violence between Israelis and Palestinians, saying it was part of "human nature" to react to an occupation.

Addressing the UN Security Council's periodic Middle East debate, Ban condemned rocket fire from militant groups in Gaza into Israel and called for an end to incitement, but said that "As oppressed peoples have demonstrated throughout the ages, it is human nature to react to occupation."

Ban Ki-moon. Credit: World Economic Forum [CC BY-SA 2.0 ],
via Wikimedia Commons

This is no so different than the claim that "one man's terrorist is another man's freedeom fight" -- a silly statement that tends to overlook the fact that the only place where you find the killers of unarmed civilians extolled as freedom fighters is among the Palestinian Arabs.

As Netanyahu points out, Ban's excuses stoke Palestinian terrorism:

“There is no justification for terrorism. The Palestinian terrorists don’t want to build a state; they want to destroy a state, and they state that proudly. They want to murder Jews everywhere and they state that proudly. They don’t murder for peace and they don’t murder for human rights.”

Yesh Atid party leader Yair Lapid notes the double standard between treatment of Palestinian Arabs and others with hard lives:

There are millions of people in the world whose lives are harder than those of the Palestinians. In Africa, in Asia, in the Middle East. There are hundreds of millions of people in the world for whom the UN didn’t create a special body and to whom the UN didn’t send billions of dollars (and then stood to one side while a corrupt government stole it).

“For some reason those people don’t think there is anything, anything at all, which gives them license to take a knife and stab a mother of six. To take a knife and stab a woman who is five months pregnant. To take a knife and stab a wonderful 23-year-old woman who had never harmed anyone.Terrorism against innocent civilians can not be justified. No-one should provide excuses for it, especially not the UN Secretary General. Terrorism against innocent civilians is the result of nothing except the murderous insanity of the perpetrators.”

If the best that Ban can do is caution both sides equally and refuse to acknowledge the incitement of hatred and violence by Abbas and the Palestinian Authority, then both Ban Ki-moon and the United Nations have once again proven  that their incompetence is exceeded only by their anti-Israel bias.

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