The Conference was established in 1979 and is overseen by the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA). It has 65 member states, including the United States, China and Russia.
“He who is compassionate to the cruel will become cruel to the compassionate” —Midrash
The UN Security Council had been due to vote on a brief draft resolution on Friday morning, but it was delayed at the request of the United Arab Emirates.
A UN commission of inquiry investigating war crimes on both sides of the Israel-Hamas conflict will focus on sexual violence by Hamas in the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel.
Magen David Adom attacked the UN on X (Twitter) for refusing to acknowledge Hamas's targeting of Israeli first responders during the October 7 massacre.
Gutteres was among the first to condemn Israel last month after a false report that a supposed Israeli airstrike had struck the Al-Ahli hospital in Gaza.
There is never justification for murder, rape, burning, beheading, and the killing of a baby in its mother’s stomach. Terrorism can never be rationalized, or put into “context”.
Islamic terror needs to be understood in context, though a completely different context from the one that Antonio Guterres suggests.
It is the rhetorical question that should be asked of Greta Thunberg along with United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
Guterres’s staggering argument was that "the attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum."