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Alan Baker

Amb. Alan Baker is director of the Institute for Contemporary Affairs at the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs.

The underhanded and deceitful methodology and tactics used in the organization’s recent report are unbefitting of an international organization that claims to be apolitical, fair and objective.
Europe cannot maintain its status of witness to the Oslo Accords while at the same time systematically undermining and encouraging the Palestinians to violate them.
In establishing the “ongoing, independent inquiry commission,” the Human Rights Council is abusing the bona fides of U.N. member states.
Rejoining the organization would imply an indirect legal recognition of Palestinian membership as a full state, which would not be in accordance with international law.
The so-called “right” does not appear in resolutions of the U.N. Security Council, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) or in Israeli-Palestinian peace-process documentation.
The Palestinian claim that U.N. General Assembly Resolution 181 rendered Jerusalem to be international territory has absolutely no basis in law and fact.
The clear linkage between the six NGOs and the PFLP renders them eligible for criminalization in accordance with provisions of the relevant U.N. Conventions and Resolutions.
With their appeals to the International Criminal Court seeming to have petered out, the Palestinian leadership looks to veering toward an attempt to criminalize Israel itself at the International Court of Justice.
The complexity of the issue is being compounded by statements made by Palestinian leaders, who are turning it into a symbolic focal point in their quest to cancel the former American administration’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
It is truly sad that the Palestinian people are devoid of a unified and authoritative leadership capable of genuinely representing them.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken shockingly implies U.S. support for downgrading the issue of Israel’s missing civilians and dead bodies in favor of establishing an equivalence with the transfer of fuel and electricity to Gaza.
As long as the international community continues to attempt to reinstate the forever-stained “Durban process,” the genuine struggle against racism will suffer.