Israel's U.N. ambassador accused the Palestinians on Wednesday of stabbing a knife into any chance for reconciliation by seeking an advisory opinion from the U.N.'s highest court on Israel's decades-old occupation -- and the Palestinian U.N. envoy accused Israel's new government of seeking to crush its people.
The always contentious monthly U.N. Security Council meeting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was even more vitriolic and threatening this week, and U.N. Mideast envoy Tor Wennesland warned that "a dangerous cycle of violence persists on the ground, amidst increased political tension and a stalled peace process."
In the latest confrontation, the Palestinians and their supporters won U.N. General Assembly approval on Dec. 30 of a resolution asking the International Court of Justice or ICJ to intervene in one of the world's longest-running and thorniest disputes and render an advisory opinion on the legality of Israeli policies in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.Israel's new hardline government responded on Jan. 6 by approving steps to penalize the Palestinians in retaliation.
At Wednesday's Security Council meeting, Israel's U.N. Ambassador Gilad Erdan accused the Palestinians of drafting "a poisonous and destructive resolution" referring Israel to the ICJ "with the sole purpose of destroying Israel as the Jewish state." He also accused the Palestinians and the U.N. of exaggerating Palestinian casualties and under-reporting and discriminating against Israeli victims. While 2022 "may have been the deadliest year for Palestinian terrorists," he said, "it was also the year with the most terror attacks committed against Israelis in a decade."
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