Should Israel’s UN Member State Status be withdrawn for ‘Breach of Contract’?

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Should Israel’s UN Member State Status be withdrawn for ‘Breach of Contract’?
Internet Text Source for citations: “The Origin of the Palestine-Israel Conflict”
Published by Jews for Justice in the Middle East (Berkeley, CA). http://www.cactus48.com/OriginMSW.pdf

Israel was admitted to UN in 1949, but then reneged on the conditions under which it was admitted –
“The [Lausanne] conference officially opened on 27 April 1949. On 12 May the [UN’s] Palestine Conciliation Committee reaped its only success when it induced the parties to sign a joint protocol on the framework for a comprehensive peace. Israel for the first time accepted the principle of repatriation [of the Arab refugees] and the internationalization of Jerusalem...[but] they did so as a mere exercise in public relations aimed at strengthening Israel’s international image...Walter Eytan, the head of the Israeli delegation, [stated]...‘My main purpose was to begin to undermine the protocol of 12 May, which we had signed only under duress of our struggle for admission to the U.N. Refusal to sign would...have immediately been reported to the Secretary-General and the various governments.’”
– Israeli historian, Ilan Pappe, “The Making of the Arab-Israel Conflict, 1947-1951.”

“The Preamble of this resolution of admission included a safeguarding clause as follows: ‘Recalling its resolution of 29 November 1947 (on partition) and 11 December 1948 (on reparation and compensation), and taking note of the declarations and explanations made by the representative of the Government of Israel before the ad hoc Political Committee in respect of the implementation of the said resolutions, the General Assembly...decides to admit Israel into membership in the United Nations.’

“Here, it must be observed, is a condition and an undertaking to implement the resolutions mentioned. There was no question of such implementation being conditioned on the conclusion of peace on Israeli terms as the Israelis later claimed to justify their non-compliance.”
– Palestinian Christian scholar, Sami Hadawi, “Bitter Harvest,” 1979.

“The acceptance of partition does not commit us to renounce Transjordan; one does not demand from anybody to give up his vision. We shall accept a state in the boundaries fixed today. But the boundaries of Zionist aspirations are the concern of the Jewish people and no external factor will be able to limit them.”
– David Ben-Gurion in 1936, quoted in Noam Chomsky’s “The Fateful Triangle.”

“The main danger which Israel, as a ‘Jewish state,’ poses to its own people, to other Jews, and to its neighbors, is its ideologically motivated pursuit of territorial expansion and the inevitable series of wars resulting from this aim...No Zionist politician has ever repudiated Ben-Gurion’s idea that Israeli policies must be based (within the limits of practical considerations) on the restoration of Biblical borders as the borders of the Jewish state.”
– Israeli professor, Israel Shahak, “Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of 3,000 Years.”

All Jewish settlements in territories occupied in the 1967 War are a direct violation of the Geneva Conventions, which Israel has signed.
“The Geneva Convention requires an occupying power to change the existing order as little as possible during its tenure. One aspect of this obligation is that it must leave the territory to the people it finds there. It may not bring its own people to populate the territory. This prohibition is found in the convention's Article 49, which states, ‘The occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.’”
– Ohio State University professor of law John Quigley, “Palestine and Israel: A Challenge to Justice,” 1990.

“Even if nobody lost their land, the [Zionist] program was unjust in principle because it denied majority political rights...Zionism, in principle, could not allow the natives to exercise their political rights because it would mean the end of the Zionist enterprise.”
– Haifa University professor Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi, “Original Sins: Reflections on the History of Zionism and Israel,” 1993.

“The first UN General Assembly resolution -- Number 194 -- affirming the right of Palestinians to return to their homes and property, was passed on December 11, 1948. It has been re-passed no less than twenty-eight times since that first date. Whereas the moral and political right of a person to return to his place of uninterrupted residence is acknowledged everywhere, Israel has negated the possibility of return... [and] systematically and juridically made it impossible, on any grounds whatever, for the Arab Palestinian to return, be compensated for his property, or live in Israel as a citizen equal before the law with a Jewish Israeli.”
– Edward Said, “The Question of Palestine.”

“The fact that the Arabs fled in terror, because of real fear of a repetition of the 1948 Zionist massacres, is no reason for denying them their homes, fields and livelihoods. Civilians caught in an area of military activity generally panic. But they have always been able to return to their homes when the danger subsides. Military conquest does not abolish private rights to property; nor does it entitle the victor to confiscate the homes, property and personal belongings of the noncombatant civilian population. The seizure of Arab property by the Israelis was an outrage.”
– Sami Hadawi, “Bitter Harvest”

Found in Congressman Paul Findley’s 1998 “Deliberate Deceptions” ( pp. 192-4, http://www.middleeastbooks.com/html/books/findley-de.html ) is a list of sixty-five UN resolutions passed against the State of Israel over a period of 37 years between 1955 and 1992. In the other twenty-one years – 1949-1955 and 1992-2007, there have many others passed and defied with the usual big middle finger. Wasn’t Iraq invaded because Saddam had turned Iraq into a “pariah state,” having violated a baker’s dozen of UN resolutions? If you date the Nazi Holocaust from 1938-1945, you are only dealing with an eight-year period. However, if you date the Palestinian Holocaust from 1946-2007, you are dealing with a much longer time period – 61 years! At this point in history, isn’t it just about time to morally stand up for All of Humanity and say to the “special” little country of Israel – “No More Palestinian and Arab and Persian Holocausts! No More False Flag Terror Attacks Against the World’s Peoples! No More of Your Bogus, Racist, Fake “War on Terror! No More Lying!” It is time to be responsible, to come to your senses, and to join the rest of humanity, because we have had just about enough of your psychopathic, paranoid shit. How about it? Never again!