UN urges Israel to withdraw from east Jerusalem

PanARMENIAN.Net - Notwithstanding alleged UN support for a two-state solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict, at New York Headquarters only the flag of the non-state of Palestine was flown alongside the UN’s own flag. The flag of the member state of Israel was barred, Fox News reported.

This is how the UN General Assembly marked the anniversary of November 29, 1947 when it adopted the partition resolution that sanctioned a Jewish and another Arab state in the former Mandate for Palestine. “International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People,” as it is called, is the UN’s annual attempt to turn the clock back, the report says.

The General Assembly also commemorated the day by adopting six resolutions on Israel and the Palestinians, according to Jerusalem Post.

One resolution “reiterates [the General Assembly’s] determination that any actions taken by Israel, the occupying power, to impose its laws, jurisdiction and administration on the Holy City of Jerusalem are illegal and therefore null and void and have no validity whatsoever, and calls upon Israel to immediately cease all such illegal and unilateral measures.”

The resolution added that “a comprehensive, just and lasting solution to the question of the City of Jerusalem should take into account the legitimate concerns of both the Palestinian and Israeli sides and should include internationally guaranteed provisions to ensure the freedom of religion and of conscience of its inhabitants.”

Another resolution “declares that the Israeli decision of December 14, 1981 to impose its laws, jurisdiction and administration on the occupied Syrian Golan is null and void and has no validity whatsoever... and calls upon Israel to rescind it.”

Another resolution called on Israel to withdraw from territory occupied since 1967, including east Jerusalem, and for the cessation of all Israeli settlement activities.

Another three resolutions applauded the work of the UN’s Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, and of the Division for Palestinian Rights of the Secretariat, in pursuing the rights of Palestinians.