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United nations General Assembly has approved 140 resolutions criticizing the zionist entity, and the worlds last aportide regime was centured once again at the General Assembly last month. Latififa has this report about the proceedings in new york and the unexpected twist in the tail that saw israels ambassador to the United Nations, getting more than he bargain for. The 78th session. The United Nations General Assembly opened on tuesday the 5th of september 2023. The issue of palestine featured in the opening events, perhaps more than usual. However, the only leader apart from the palestinian president , Mahmoud Abbas to explicitly raised the question of palestine, was Sayid Ibrahim raisi, the president of the Islamic Republic of iran. In his speech, he discussed the occupation by the zionist of entity, has the time not come, he said, to bring an end to seven and a half decades of the occupation of palestinian lands, of the demolition of their homes, of the blood of their women and children, and for the people of palestine to be recognized officially as a country, with its rightful capital in jerusalem. Roisi also referred to how the occupying regime in jerusalem is seen as a perpetrator of much of the violence in the region. Fittingly enough, it was the israeli ambassador to the United Nations, gilad rdan. Who tried to interrupt the president s speech by walking into the hall holding up picture of massa amini who he later stated had been murdered by iranian authorities. This is, as he well knows a lie. Massa amini was not murdered by anyone. Nevertheless, the performance had him escorted away and detained by un Security Officials and experience israeli officials will have to get used to in upcoming years. Erdan stated that he protested to make. Clear that israel stands by the iranian people, and he earlier posted a video of himself standing in a protest held by iranian oppositionists in front of the un headquarters. Irdan only succeeded in making it clear to the world that israel is deeply involved in attempting to sabotage and subvert the Islamic Republic because it poses a real incredible threat to the zionist occupation. The Prime Minister of the zionist entity also addressed the General Assembly and predictably launched what. The Hindustan Times referred to as an allout attack on iran. In his speech, he even said that iran must face a credible nuclear threat. A remark which his office later tried to walk back from. Netanyahu also trailed a fourth coming normalization agreement with saudi arabia. Though whether this expresses an optimism that will not be fulfilled remains to be seen. He also advertised the continuing genocidal intent of the zionist entity by holding up map of the region. In which the entity encompassed the west bank, gazza, and east quds. As always, were joined by our residence expert david miller. David is academic and a former professor at bristol university, and is now a nonresident Senior Research fellow at the center of islam and Global Affairs at istanbul zaium university. Hes also a codirector of the lobby and watch dog spinwatch and hes a leading british scholarly critic of israel. Our guest expert today is peter ford who has extensive experience as a british diplomat. Working in beirout, cairo, riyad, singapore and paris. He was the British Ambassador to bahrain from 1999 to 2003, and then syria from 2003 to 2006. And between 2006 and 2015, he was the representative of the commissioner general of the United Nations relief and works agency for palestine refugees based in jordan, and today he joins us via skype. Welcome to the show. David, is it true that the only state leader to is the question of palestine uh at the assembly was uh president raisi of iran . Well, he was the only one to uh to significantly discuss the question of palestine. The colombian president did mention. Palestine in quite a good way, contrast the way in which the International Community dealt with question of ukraine, with the question of palestine, but he was the only one who who dealt with it in any significant way, and uh, thats an indication, isnt it, weve seen this before, that iran is the is the state which is most supportive of the Palestinian Resistance, both in terms of rhetoric at the United Nations, and in terms of practically on the ground by the supply of expertise and indeed of weaponry to the islamic resistance, indeed all the factions in palestine. Well, peter, i mean, what did you make of gilad erdens protest at the un during rayes speech . Well, the israelis make career out of victimhood, and this going back many, many uh years, having milked the whole of course for all its worth, although they continue to try to extract some more mileage from there, theyve fallen back on demonizing their neighbors, well that doesnt work anymore, they clearly in total control of the regional situation as regards the palestinians, as regards their former enemies, egypt and syria, and this regards the outer circle of potential arab enemies, clearly, faces no stret and therefore they must play up the the one remaining potential threat from iran and i think thats what the the theater was all about in in new york. Well, david, i mean erdens comments about standing by the people of iran perhaps more revealing than he intended on on israels subversion, wasnt it . Yes, so we know of course that the. Recent uh riots and unrest in iran has been fermented largely from outside from the us by the uk and also of course by israel, so we know that theres an attempt to to undermine the Islamic Republic that way, but of course the israel have also historically and continue to to uh engage in the support of terrorism and terror attacks inside iran, we saw in particular in in the last year or so attack in mosks with significant numbers of casualties, and when i was in tiran earlier this year, made documentary about my my visit there, and one of the the things which which most most moved me was being at this the uh the the graves, the memorials to some of the marters whove been assassinated by the mossad in their cars and i went to see the cars of i think six different iranian scientists who had been killed, and the recage of the car showing the ways in which they had been killed, and that was moment which which was saddening for me because of course we just learned that. Six appeared to have some kind of role in the most recent of the of the the marters, the assassinations by most said, so its an indication, this this uh his words they think of effectively admitting the role of israel in in terrorism in iran, which which the whole world should be condemming, absolutely, yeah, well peter, i mean, you used to work for the un, didnt you . I mean, whats your sense of of how the General Assembly relates to the question of . Well the General Assembly is the one part of the complicated structure of the United Nations, the one part which is not totally under the thumb of the americans. Um, there is, the un is not monolistic, there are a series of bodies in the un, theres the the un bureaucracy, the secretary general, all the un technical agencies. And then there are the more political bodies like the General Assembly and there is a form of International Democracy in the General Assembly given that it contains almost 200 members all with one vote unlike the Security Council where of course the americans have veto and many other ways of exercising power, so the General Assembly is is the the one um pillar of of the un, where at least the palestinians can have a say, and countries like iran can have a say defending the palestinians. Yes, well, david, i mean netanjahu sounded incredibly threatening, threatening, didnt he when when he made his contribution saying that iran needed to face a. Credible um nuclear threat, i mean, what do you make of that . Well, it was interpreted as being a direct threat against iran, but of course, his office didnt really want it to be seen that way, and so they tried to walk it back and say. Really mean that, but actually of course the the uh israelis have been trying to to foster the atmosphere in which iran can be attacked for a great number of years now and of course what they want to do is for the the us to come in with them or at least to give them the green light for it, but theyve so far been unsuccessful in that, but nevertheless there are all these lobby groups in the in the the us which are effectively uh um agents and uh direct instruments of the sionist regime so for most of. Obviously united against nuclear iran which is very far right neocon bunch of of lobbists which is trying to push the American Government into taking much more hard line action against iran although of course the americans have been taking hard line action against iran for considerable number of years most obviously through the sanctions but whats interesting about this whole process is that iran has much like russia under the sanctions over ukraine has kind of risen above the sanctions and is now starting to produce technology which. Puts its role in the world stage way above the level it had 30 years ago no indeed and a significant player in bricks and so on as well but peter i see that netanyahu trailed a forthcoming normalization deal with saudi arabia didnt he . I mean whats your assessments of that and the iran saudi deal and and what effect is it having on the struggle for palestine do you think the situation is complex uh but encouraging i think um how can i possibly say that when it seems that israel and and saudi, saudi being the less hold out among the arabs, they appear to be on on the point of establishing relations and doing the dirty on the palestinians. Well, i dont think its going to happen, im probably in in a minority of one in making this prediction, im picking my neck out, um, i said, over six months ago, the last time the two sides, israelis and the saudis looked like they were going to get it together, this this is no more likely than the cow jumping over the moon, and i still say that um, why . Because the the saudis are playing, i think a very clever game, a game where its more important to travel than to arrive. So theyre stringiing out these negotiations, theyre piling condition on condition, ever more difficult conditions to fulfill, the saudis are apparently demanding three things, First Security guarantees from the americans, effectively and nato, article 5ive guarantee, which the americans couldnt possibly deliver, second, the saudies are demanding assistance, permission first, and then assistance in developing nuclear industry, but again this is well, impossible to concede, because the American Congress will never agree to it, and thirdly, the saudis are demanding to see some israeli meaningful conditions to make life easier, or at least more. For the palestinians and so the game goes on, theyve been going on already for month, months and months, it can go on indefinitely, yeah, well well just pause it there for for moment, peter, because weve got another report now about the history of the uns record on palestine and the response of certain nongovernmental organizations or ngos to the uns position, United Nations has not been the greatest friend of the palestinians, for the most part because of the United States and the uk veto on criticizing zinism. The question of palestine keeps returning to our screens, but why . Well, its an injustice and denial of human rights that has persisted for over 100 years, but the un does have a bursioning apparatus focused on assisting palestinian rights. The committee on the exercise. The inaliable rights of the Palestinian People was established by the General Assembly in 1975. It has around 50 states as members or observers, including algeria, china, cuba, iraq, laos, nicaragua, qatar, syria, venezuela, and vietnam. In may this year, the un marked nakba day, the 75th anniversary of what was referred to, as a scar on humanity, despite more than a thousand resolutions adopted on this issue since 1947 by the United Nations General Assembly, Security Council and human rights council, not a single one has been implemented, including the most important resolution. Demanding a right to return for palestinians forced out in 1948 and after the Un Human Rights Council works closely with the special raporteur on palestine. Francesca albanezi has been in this post since may 2022 and is already major point of focus for the zionist. She is regularly abused and smared by the regime itself and by three key front groups. First ngo monitor which is in occupied alkuds and is dedicated to harassing nongovernmental organizations which are critical of israel. It is so extreme that it even attacks zinast groups such as the new israel, which are insufficiently hardline. It was created by the us ziinus group, benai berit international, which also created the spy agency, the adl. It has been funded by the israeli government, Jewish Agency and several funders of the. Islamophobia network in the United States. Second, un watch has tried to pretend it has complete independence from the American Jewish committee, the us Zionist Group that runs it, but the Public Record shows that the ajc admits it is under its full control. Un watch has repeatedly smared and attack albanazi from its Geneva Office with fabricated allegations. Third, the combat antisemitism. Movement, which was cofounded by the former israeli spy and director general of the antibds ministry of strategic affairs, siema vackkin gill. It claims 650 members in its supporters network. As a result, the group is hardly able to present itself as independent of israels Foreign Policy objectives. Its ceo, sasha jata has let smars against francesca albanesi. He was formerly social media chief for. The Israel Occupation forces and he is chiefly known for blacking up with mud and labeling his photo obama style. Lest we forget zinism is intrinsically and fundamentally racist. Peter, i see the academic joseph masad has recently written about the role the un played in the creation of israel. I mean, whats your thoughts on on that, what what what you said about that . Yes, well the academic was quite right to point out that the United Nations was very much involved and very much responsible for the creation of the state of israel, the the secretary, the norwegian secretary general at the time, trigry lee, was a confirmed zionist, and he put in place henchmen, such as ralph bunch, the. Us mediator who helped in versing the zionist state, and this went on for number of years in the process, its formed kind of stop, a minor concession to the palestinians with the creation of the un, relief and works agency for palestine refugees, but meanwhile, the israelis away with a un assist in their burcing process and things have never basically changed, successive secretary generals have been supportive of israel down to the present day with guterres effectively condemning any moves by the palestinians any meaningful moves of resistance by the palestinians, indeed, but were just talking about the the the rapporteur, the special rapporteur, franceska albanesi, david, i mean, the attacks on her are pretty intense, i mean, i mean, have the zionist always attacked the incommbat in this post in this way . Well, yes of course they have, i mean that this is as peter says, the the the person who is in the the role of the rapporteur is is reporting to the General Assembly and therefore is not an appointment which is in the gift of the us or indeed of course of the. And so that what tends to happen is they point someones independent and who goes and finds out whats happening in uh israel and the signist entity and it discovers surprise surprise theres ethnic cleansing and theres appalling Human Rights Violations and of course they report that and the zints throw up their hands and horror clutch their pearls and they say oh these people are antisemites now they did it theyve been doing it to francescanese since before she was appointed to the role in may 2022 and theyve done it to to the previous three uh uh raporteurs as well, including the most famous one is of course richard falk, the esteemed academic uhs worked with chalmsky and many others, whose whose work on palestine is extremely um uh independent and uh and evidencebased, so yes of course the designers hate the rapporteur, they try and sabotage their work, they dont just smear them in public, they try and sabotage their work by not letting them in to to gaza or to to to parts of the west bank or by by chaperoroning them or removing them, theres all sorts of ways in which they try and undermine and sabotage, which what is effectively the work of the United Nations, you truly disgraceful but not surprising at all, no indeed, well peter drawing on your experience of working for the General Assembly<\/a> has approved 140 resolutions criticizing the zionist entity, and the worlds last aportide regime was centured once again at the General Assembly<\/a> last month. Latififa has this report about the proceedings in new york and the unexpected twist in the tail that saw israels ambassador to the United Nations<\/a>, getting more than he bargain for. The 78th session. The United Nations<\/a> General Assembly<\/a> opened on tuesday the 5th of september 2023. The issue of palestine featured in the opening events, perhaps more than usual. However, the only leader apart from the palestinian president , Mahmoud Abbas<\/a> to explicitly raised the question of palestine, was Sayid Ibrahim<\/a> raisi, the president of the Islamic Republic<\/a> of iran. In his speech, he discussed the occupation by the zionist of entity, has the time not come, he said, to bring an end to seven and a half decades of the occupation of palestinian lands, of the demolition of their homes, of the blood of their women and children, and for the people of palestine to be recognized officially as a country, with its rightful capital in jerusalem. Roisi also referred to how the occupying regime in jerusalem is seen as a perpetrator of much of the violence in the region. Fittingly enough, it was the israeli ambassador to the United Nations<\/a>, gilad rdan. Who tried to interrupt the president s speech by walking into the hall holding up picture of massa amini who he later stated had been murdered by iranian authorities. This is, as he well knows a lie. Massa amini was not murdered by anyone. Nevertheless, the performance had him escorted away and detained by un Security Officials<\/a> and experience israeli officials will have to get used to in upcoming years. Erdan stated that he protested to make. Clear that israel stands by the iranian people, and he earlier posted a video of himself standing in a protest held by iranian oppositionists in front of the un headquarters. Irdan only succeeded in making it clear to the world that israel is deeply involved in attempting to sabotage and subvert the Islamic Republic<\/a> because it poses a real incredible threat to the zionist occupation. The Prime Minister<\/a> of the zionist entity also addressed the General Assembly<\/a> and predictably launched what. The Hindustan Times<\/a> referred to as an allout attack on iran. In his speech, he even said that iran must face a credible nuclear threat. A remark which his office later tried to walk back from. Netanyahu also trailed a fourth coming normalization agreement with saudi arabia. Though whether this expresses an optimism that will not be fulfilled remains to be seen. He also advertised the continuing genocidal intent of the zionist entity by holding up map of the region. In which the entity encompassed the west bank, gazza, and east quds. As always, were joined by our residence expert david miller. David is academic and a former professor at bristol university, and is now a nonresident Senior Research<\/a> fellow at the center of islam and Global Affairs<\/a> at istanbul zaium university. Hes also a codirector of the lobby and watch dog spinwatch and hes a leading british scholarly critic of israel. Our guest expert today is peter ford who has extensive experience as a british diplomat. Working in beirout, cairo, riyad, singapore and paris. He was the British Ambassador<\/a> to bahrain from 1999 to 2003, and then syria from 2003 to 2006. And between 2006 and 2015, he was the representative of the commissioner general of the United Nations<\/a> relief and works agency for palestine refugees based in jordan, and today he joins us via skype. Welcome to the show. David, is it true that the only state leader to is the question of palestine uh at the assembly was uh president raisi of iran . Well, he was the only one to uh to significantly discuss the question of palestine. The colombian president did mention. Palestine in quite a good way, contrast the way in which the International Community<\/a> dealt with question of ukraine, with the question of palestine, but he was the only one who who dealt with it in any significant way, and uh, thats an indication, isnt it, weve seen this before, that iran is the is the state which is most supportive of the Palestinian Resistance<\/a>, both in terms of rhetoric at the United Nations<\/a>, and in terms of practically on the ground by the supply of expertise and indeed of weaponry to the islamic resistance, indeed all the factions in palestine. Well, peter, i mean, what did you make of gilad erdens protest at the un during rayes speech . Well, the israelis make career out of victimhood, and this going back many, many uh years, having milked the whole of course for all its worth, although they continue to try to extract some more mileage from there, theyve fallen back on demonizing their neighbors, well that doesnt work anymore, they clearly in total control of the regional situation as regards the palestinians, as regards their former enemies, egypt and syria, and this regards the outer circle of potential arab enemies, clearly, faces no stret and therefore they must play up the the one remaining potential threat from iran and i think thats what the the theater was all about in in new york. Well, david, i mean erdens comments about standing by the people of iran perhaps more revealing than he intended on on israels subversion, wasnt it . Yes, so we know of course that the. Recent uh riots and unrest in iran has been fermented largely from outside from the us by the uk and also of course by israel, so we know that theres an attempt to to undermine the Islamic Republic<\/a> that way, but of course the israel have also historically and continue to to uh engage in the support of terrorism and terror attacks inside iran, we saw in particular in in the last year or so attack in mosks with significant numbers of casualties, and when i was in tiran earlier this year, made documentary about my my visit there, and one of the the things which which most most moved me was being at this the uh the the graves, the memorials to some of the marters whove been assassinated by the mossad in their cars and i went to see the cars of i think six different iranian scientists who had been killed, and the recage of the car showing the ways in which they had been killed, and that was moment which which was saddening for me because of course we just learned that. Six appeared to have some kind of role in the most recent of the of the the marters, the assassinations by most said, so its an indication, this this uh his words they think of effectively admitting the role of israel in in terrorism in iran, which which the whole world should be condemming, absolutely, yeah, well peter, i mean, you used to work for the un, didnt you . I mean, whats your sense of of how the General Assembly<\/a> relates to the question of . Well the General Assembly<\/a> is the one part of the complicated structure of the United Nations<\/a>, the one part which is not totally under the thumb of the americans. Um, there is, the un is not monolistic, there are a series of bodies in the un, theres the the un bureaucracy, the secretary general, all the un technical agencies. And then there are the more political bodies like the General Assembly<\/a> and there is a form of International Democracy<\/a> in the General Assembly<\/a> given that it contains almost 200 members all with one vote unlike the Security Council<\/a> where of course the americans have veto and many other ways of exercising power, so the General Assembly<\/a> is is the the one um pillar of of the un, where at least the palestinians can have a say, and countries like iran can have a say defending the palestinians. Yes, well, david, i mean netanjahu sounded incredibly threatening, threatening, didnt he when when he made his contribution saying that iran needed to face a. Credible um nuclear threat, i mean, what do you make of that . Well, it was interpreted as being a direct threat against iran, but of course, his office didnt really want it to be seen that way, and so they tried to walk it back and say. Really mean that, but actually of course the the uh israelis have been trying to to foster the atmosphere in which iran can be attacked for a great number of years now and of course what they want to do is for the the us to come in with them or at least to give them the green light for it, but theyve so far been unsuccessful in that, but nevertheless there are all these lobby groups in the in the the us which are effectively uh um agents and uh direct instruments of the sionist regime so for most of. Obviously united against nuclear iran which is very far right neocon bunch of of lobbists which is trying to push the American Government<\/a> into taking much more hard line action against iran although of course the americans have been taking hard line action against iran for considerable number of years most obviously through the sanctions but whats interesting about this whole process is that iran has much like russia under the sanctions over ukraine has kind of risen above the sanctions and is now starting to produce technology which. Puts its role in the world stage way above the level it had 30 years ago no indeed and a significant player in bricks and so on as well but peter i see that netanyahu trailed a forthcoming normalization deal with saudi arabia didnt he . I mean whats your assessments of that and the iran saudi deal and and what effect is it having on the struggle for palestine do you think the situation is complex uh but encouraging i think um how can i possibly say that when it seems that israel and and saudi, saudi being the less hold out among the arabs, they appear to be on on the point of establishing relations and doing the dirty on the palestinians. Well, i dont think its going to happen, im probably in in a minority of one in making this prediction, im picking my neck out, um, i said, over six months ago, the last time the two sides, israelis and the saudis looked like they were going to get it together, this this is no more likely than the cow jumping over the moon, and i still say that um, why . Because the the saudis are playing, i think a very clever game, a game where its more important to travel than to arrive. So theyre stringiing out these negotiations, theyre piling condition on condition, ever more difficult conditions to fulfill, the saudis are apparently demanding three things, First Security<\/a> guarantees from the americans, effectively and nato, article 5ive guarantee, which the americans couldnt possibly deliver, second, the saudies are demanding assistance, permission first, and then assistance in developing nuclear industry, but again this is well, impossible to concede, because the American Congress<\/a> will never agree to it, and thirdly, the saudis are demanding to see some israeli meaningful conditions to make life easier, or at least more. For the palestinians and so the game goes on, theyve been going on already for month, months and months, it can go on indefinitely, yeah, well well just pause it there for for moment, peter, because weve got another report now about the history of the uns record on palestine and the response of certain nongovernmental organizations or ngos to the uns position, United Nations<\/a> has not been the greatest friend of the palestinians, for the most part because of the United States<\/a> and the uk veto on criticizing zinism. The question of palestine keeps returning to our screens, but why . Well, its an injustice and denial of human rights that has persisted for over 100 years, but the un does have a bursioning apparatus focused on assisting palestinian rights. The committee on the exercise. The inaliable rights of the Palestinian People<\/a> was established by the General Assembly<\/a> in 1975. It has around 50 states as members or observers, including algeria, china, cuba, iraq, laos, nicaragua, qatar, syria, venezuela, and vietnam. In may this year, the un marked nakba day, the 75th anniversary of what was referred to, as a scar on humanity, despite more than a thousand resolutions adopted on this issue since 1947 by the United Nations<\/a> General Assembly<\/a>, Security Council<\/a> and human rights council, not a single one has been implemented, including the most important resolution. Demanding a right to return for palestinians forced out in 1948 and after the Un Human Rights Council<\/a> works closely with the special raporteur on palestine. Francesca albanezi has been in this post since may 2022 and is already major point of focus for the zionist. She is regularly abused and smared by the regime itself and by three key front groups. First ngo monitor which is in occupied alkuds and is dedicated to harassing nongovernmental organizations which are critical of israel. It is so extreme that it even attacks zinast groups such as the new israel, which are insufficiently hardline. It was created by the us ziinus group, benai berit international, which also created the spy agency, the adl. It has been funded by the israeli government, Jewish Agency<\/a> and several funders of the. Islamophobia network in the United States<\/a>. Second, un watch has tried to pretend it has complete independence from the American Jewish<\/a> committee, the us Zionist Group<\/a> that runs it, but the Public Record<\/a> shows that the ajc admits it is under its full control. Un watch has repeatedly smared and attack albanazi from its Geneva Office<\/a> with fabricated allegations. Third, the combat antisemitism. Movement, which was cofounded by the former israeli spy and director general of the antibds ministry of strategic affairs, siema vackkin gill. It claims 650 members in its supporters network. As a result, the group is hardly able to present itself as independent of israels Foreign Policy<\/a> objectives. Its ceo, sasha jata has let smars against francesca albanesi. He was formerly social media chief for. The Israel Occupation<\/a> forces and he is chiefly known for blacking up with mud and labeling his photo obama style. Lest we forget zinism is intrinsically and fundamentally racist. Peter, i see the academic joseph masad has recently written about the role the un played in the creation of israel. I mean, whats your thoughts on on that, what what what you said about that . Yes, well the academic was quite right to point out that the United Nations<\/a> was very much involved and very much responsible for the creation of the state of israel, the the secretary, the norwegian secretary general at the time, trigry lee, was a confirmed zionist, and he put in place henchmen, such as ralph bunch, the. Us mediator who helped in versing the zionist state, and this went on for number of years in the process, its formed kind of stop, a minor concession to the palestinians with the creation of the un, relief and works agency for palestine refugees, but meanwhile, the israelis away with a un assist in their burcing process and things have never basically changed, successive secretary generals have been supportive of israel down to the present day with guterres effectively condemning any moves by the palestinians any meaningful moves of resistance by the palestinians, indeed, but were just talking about the the the rapporteur, the special rapporteur, franceska albanesi, david, i mean, the attacks on her are pretty intense, i mean, i mean, have the zionist always attacked the incommbat in this post in this way . Well, yes of course they have, i mean that this is as peter says, the the the person who is in the the role of the rapporteur is is reporting to the General Assembly<\/a> and therefore is not an appointment which is in the gift of the us or indeed of course of the. And so that what tends to happen is they point someones independent and who goes and finds out whats happening in uh israel and the signist entity and it discovers surprise surprise theres ethnic cleansing and theres appalling Human Rights Violations<\/a> and of course they report that and the zints throw up their hands and horror clutch their pearls and they say oh these people are antisemites now they did it theyve been doing it to francescanese since before she was appointed to the role in may 2022 and theyve done it to to the previous three uh uh raporteurs as well, including the most famous one is of course richard falk, the esteemed academic uhs worked with chalmsky and many others, whose whose work on palestine is extremely um uh independent and uh and evidencebased, so yes of course the designers hate the rapporteur, they try and sabotage their work, they dont just smear them in public, they try and sabotage their work by not letting them in to to gaza or to to to parts of the west bank or by by chaperoroning them or removing them, theres all sorts of ways in which they try and undermine and sabotage, which what is effectively the work of the United Nations<\/a>, you truly disgraceful but not surprising at all, no indeed, well peter drawing on your experience of working for the United Nations<\/a>, whats your sense on the extent to which the machinery of the United Nations<\/a> actually supports the palestinian cause . Yes, um, pro israeli socalled ngos, like un watch have been harassing any of the agencies of the United Nations<\/a>, which uh were actually helping the palestinians, when i was with. Unra, the agency for palestine refugees, we were constantly being harassed by ngos like a un watch, but more importantly, we were being harassed by the United States<\/a> and its accolytes in the european union, you see these these ngos were were playing for audience of one, washington essentially, and washington would then relalay. The talking points of the un watch, so we were under constant pressure from these kind of people, yeah, well david, i mean, youve looked at these lobby groups in depth, havent you, i mean, how have they related each other, well the two who are related each other, you can see it on the diagram up here, ngo monitor in the center, there are much more central than the other one, un watch over to the side, theyre theyre extremely closely related together, the. Something like 10 or 15 funding agencies, foundations, science foundations who fund both of them, and of course you look at common personnel, are also related to uk, neoconservative think tanks like the Henry Jackson<\/a> society, but also to the key islamophobic groups in the us like uh like for example middle east forum one of the key islamophobic groups or indeed uh the foundation for defensive democracies which is uh as was revealed by the al jazera film effectively instrument of the design regime itself so theyre very. Closely related each other and as as peters been saying they theyre there to harass uh ngos and in case of you and watch anyones engaging in the un system so theyre there to harass and undermine the un system and really very revealing comment there from peter about how those talking points are then taken up and used by the us officials as well yeah well well peter briefly because were almost out of time i wonder whether you could tell us uh your experience of these lobby groups at the un level i think at the moment it its it helps to look at the the wider picture um and beyond the the the un. For me the key actor at the moment is saudi arabia and its dialogue with iran and parallel dialogue with with israel because the net result is that um israel is afraid to do anything absolutely beastly like total annexation of the occupied territories because that would mean breaking off. The talks about normalization with saudi, similarly, israel would have to hesitate before attacking iran, because again that would upset the the apple cart, bringing down not only iranian retribution against israel, but probably also against saudi arabia, um, what were seeing, in fact is kind of reverse middleas peace process. Only this time, its operating against israeli interest, yeah, well thats it, im afraid for another show, so let me thank our guest peter ford, and of course our resident expert, professor david miller. 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