James Kariuki is Chargé d’Affaires at the UK Mission to the United Nations and this month he is leading the UN Security Council.
at the UN yesterday.
Mr. Ambassador, I have two questions related to each other.
The first question about UK recognition of the state of Palestine on 22nd September. Would you give us more details about how the UK planning to put this resolution into motion that will help the Palestinians see their independent state.
As you see, the settlers are taking over almost and the confiscation of land is increasing rather than decreasing.
The other related question that the State of Palestine, sir, had came very late.I mean, Israel was established not because of a promise from God, but a promise from England.
The Balfour Declaration that helped to create the State of Israel and the Palestinians had to pay for that.
Would you foresee one day England will stand bravely and say, I am sorry for the Balfour Declaration? Thank you.
The first question was about the UK recognizing "Palestine" as a means to get to a two state solution. Yet Siam - and much of the Arab world altogether - certainly doesn't see it that way. And the second, "related" part of the question proves that.
Pressuring the UK to apologize for the Balfour Declaration is meant to delegitimize Israel as a state retroactively.
So when the Arab world sees the UK, France, Canada, Spain and others recognize "Palestine," it is not seen as a means to bring about a two state solution. It is seen as s stage for the ultimate destruction of Israel.
This shows the naivete of those recognitions. Recognizing "Palestine" didn't being peace closer - it hardened Arab positions by giving the message that eventually, without the Palestinians giving any concessions, the entire area will become "Palestine."
Kariuki deflected the Balfour question, simply saying "I'm not going to go into historical analysis." Yet even that gives support to the Israel haters.
Kariuki said, "It was a historic moment in our recognition of Palestine back in September, and I think, we're very pleased to have done that." But for Balfour he cannot bring himself to say that the UK is equally pleased to have helped bring about a Jewish state of Israel.
If the UK really supports Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state, it should publicly say it is proud of the Balfour Declaration. It cannot.
While the Western countries congratulate themselves on pretending to help bring about peace, in fact they are setting the stage for encouraging the Arabs to believe they will eventually destroy Israel.