The media and the UN says that these sessions are extraordinarily rare, and that this is only the eleventh UNGA Emergency Special Session since the UN was founded 76 years ago.
But that is misleading.
Of the first ten Emergency Special Sessions, five of them were dedicated to bashing Israel: the 2nd, 5th, 7th, 9th and 10th.
But two of these are quite anomalous.
The 7th Emergency Special Session was convened on 22-29 July 1980. But it didn't end there. Unlike all previous Special Sessions, it had four additional meetings starting two years later, in 1982. When it first adjourned in 1980, the backers of the anti-Israel bashfest said it was adjourning "temporarily" with the intent of being able to reconvene whenever they want to attack Israel again without the bureaucratic hassle of voting to convene a new Emergency Special Session.
When the 7th Emergency Special Session "reconvened" in 1982, US Ambassador to the UN Jeane Kirkpatrick noted that this completely circumvented the normal rules of the UN, and bluntly gave the reason why as part of a great speech that exposed the UN's hypocrisy:
[W]ho among us sincerely believes that the exercise in which we are now engaged – this "resumed" emergency special session – will take us closer to that goal [of peace]?Who among us believes that the cause of peace is served by still another round of bitter denunciations of Israel?Who among us – I wonder – believes that peace is even the goal of this Assembly?...[N]either this special session nor the draft resolution now circulating in the corridors is consistent with the purposes of the United Nations Charter. ...This special session is one more event in an ongoing process whose goals are to delegitimize a Member State – Israel – to deny it the right to self-defense, to secure borders, to survival.This special session and its accompanying draft resolutions are one more clear example of a strategy whose goals and tactics are clear: use a United Nations body to make "official" demands incompatible with Israel's security and survival, so as then to be able to claim that non-compliance with these impossible demands "proves" Israel an international lawbreaker unworthy of membership in the international community of peace-loving States.
That is exactly the blueprint of the antisemites of the UN. And the proof can be seen in the 10th "Emergency Special Session," again against Israel, which has convened no less than sixteen times since 1997, the most recent being in 2018!
This means that the UN has convened not eleven but thirty meetings under the Emergency Special Session framework, and of those thirty, 24 have been dedicated to attacking Israel.
That's 80%.
As the UN meets now in its eleventh Emergency Special Session, two of the previous ones never ended. Both the seventh and tenth, against Israel, are only "temporarily adjourned."
UN condemnations of Russia become nearly meaningless when these simple facts show that the UN has been subverted a long time ago and proven to have no real interest in peace.
(h/t Irene)
