Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon slammed the General Assembly’s adoption on Tuesday of a resolution demanding that Israel withdraw from the Golan Heights, declaring that the territory will forever be a part of the Jewish state.
“The UN General Assembly once again proves how disconnected it is from reality,” the envoy stated on X. “Instead of addressing the crimes of the Iranian axis and the dangerous activities of militias in Syria, it demands that Israel withdraw from the Golan Heights—a vital defense line that protects our citizens.”
He concluded: “Israel will not return to the 1967 lines and will not abandon the Golan. Not now, not ever.”
The UN General Assembly once again proves how disconnected it is from reality.
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Danon made the remarks after the General Assembly adopted two resolutions—one demanding a withdrawal from Judea and Samaria and eastern Jerusalem, which the resolution refers to as “Occupied Palestinian Territory,” and the other calling on the Israeli government to give up the Golan Heights, referred to in the resolution as “The Syrian Golan.”
The Egyptian-drafted Golan Heights resolution was adopted by a recorded vote of 123 to 7 (Federated States of Micronesia, Israel, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Tonga, United States), with 41 abstentions.
The General Assembly said that Israel’s Dec. 14, 1981 decision “to impose its laws, jurisdiction and administration on the occupied Syrian Golan is null and void and called for its rescission,” and further “called on Israel to resume talks on the Syrian and Lebanese tracks and to respect the commitments and undertakings reached previously,” also demanding that “Israel withdraw from the occupied Syrian Golan to the line of 4 June 1967.”
The other resolution, titled, “Peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine,” was adopted by a recorded vote of 151 to 11, with 11 abstentions. The draft resolution was submitted by Djibouti, Jordan, Mauritania, Qatar, Senegal and the “State of Palestine.”
The resolution calls for Israel to end its presence in “Occupied Palestinian Territory,” including halting “all new settlement activities and evacuating all settlers” and withdrawing from land it says that Israel has occupied since 1967. The resolution also calls for unifying Gaza with Judea and Samaria under Palestinian Authority control.
Israel’s Dec. 14, 1981 decision refers to the Golan Heights Law, in which the Knesset unilaterally applied Israeli law and jurisdiction to the Golan Heights. June 4, 1967 is the pre–Six-Day War ceasefire line between Israel and Syria, and U.N. resolutions use it as the reference line to which Israel is urged to withdraw.
