Yuyutsu,

'So now you seem to claim that Jordan's existence is inexcusable?'
Are you asking a question or making a statement?
or are you attempting to have a two way bet?
I said what I said and if you have trouble with English comprehension I suggest you read more carefully.
I don't like it when my words are paraphrased to distort what is actually said so my advice to you is to refrain as you're not smart enough.

#Syoksya

I am not criticising Guterres for his inability to secure a ceasefire - but for using article 99 of the UN Charter to request a ceasefire in the first place that would allow those Gazan monsters who went on their October 7 rampage to escape the consequences of their horrific actions. The Security Council rebuff to Guterres put him in his place.

So far as facilitating the removal of Gaza's civilian population to safe havens outside Gaza: There are 10 UNRWA camps in Jordan, 9 in Syria and 12 in Lebanon that Guterres could have used to house Gaza's females, children, the sick and the elderly - but he made no attempt to do so. If 200 trucks could get into and out of Gaza each day with lifesaving aid then 200 buses with Gazans bound for these UNRWA camps could have done the same. Keeping them penned inside Gaza was and is inhumane.

Guterres has never addressed article 80 of the UN Charter - or articles 6 and 25 of the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine - to my knowledge - yet keeps on claiming month in and month out that Israel's settlements are illegal in international law.

I agree that Guterres role is to facilitate dialogue not impose specific solutions. However he addresses the Security Council monthly and has done so since HKOPS was published on 8 June 2022. His failure to mention the existence of HKOPS and ask the Security Council to consider HKOPS as a replacement for the failed two-state solution the Security Council had been pursuing since 2016 is inexcusable. Had he done so - October 7 might never have happened.

The antipathy felt for Guterres started when he acknowledged the Oct 7 terrorist attack he also blamed Israel for this savagery.

Secondly, he used his special powers to call a Security Council meeting on the Gaza war to enforce a ceasefire that would benefit Hamas, for which the Russian invasion of Ukraine that has killed nearly 500,000 people was not important enough.

Guterres has made a bonfire of his political capital and is all but a lame duck now.

Dear Mhaze,

Had someone else asked me to expand on my reasoning, then I would first need to explain why there are no "Palestinian" people, but with you I guess I can skip that part.

For some millennia the land of Israel was administratively connected to Syria,
whether that be under the Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian, Greek or Ottoman empires.
The inhabitants of the land essentially considered themselves Syrian, and that was no different at the start of the 20th century.

When Greater Syria was arbitrarily divided following World-War-I between the British and the French (http://mepc.org/journal/troubles-syria-spawned-french-divide-and-rule), the locals were understandably upset and the Southern-Syrians never lost hope to re-unite with their Northern-Syrian brethren. They also hated the colonial product of Trans-Jordan (now Jordan) and so in 1970 they tried, and nearly succeeded, to topple it and call in Syria to take over (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_September).

Should the so-called "Palestinians" be allowed into Jordan to roam there freely as Jordanian citizens, then they would surely repeat this attempt, this time successfully.

But Syria today is no longer an independent country - it's a puppet of Russia and Iran, so when Syria is called in to take over Jordan, Russian and Iranian troops would flock to the other side of Israel's most vulnerable eastern border, which is about 480 kilometres long and where the distance to the Mediterranean sea, in other words Israel's width, is in some places only 15 kilometres.

Do I need to spell out the outcome?
Under Russian cover, Iranian troops would enter the whole of Israel and slaughter there every man, woman and child.
If you think that Israel can survive such a constellation, then you truly have faith in miracles...

HKOPS is a ploy to destroy the kingdom of Jordan. Its authors probably never even gave a thought about Israel, they only use the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a pretext to carry out their sinister vendetta against Jordan - but while it would eliminate Jordan, it would also have the "side-effect" of eliminating Israel.

Is that what you want?

Dear Delivery,

I did suggest that the more likely reason for your earlier strange post was your lack of knowledge that Amman is in Jordan and not in Israel, thus when I wrote "Now suppose these "Palestinians" were allowed into the streets of Amman", you rushed to support them in the belief that they should be freely allowed into Israel.

Would you also support it if these "Palestinians" were freely allowed into the streets of Sydney even while knowing well that they already brutally attacked the Australian army in the past and nearly managed to win and invite some neighbouring country to take over Australia... or do you think that Sydney too is in Israel?

#shadow minister

Spot on.

Eylon Levy - Spokesperson for Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu - has made Israel's disgust of Guterres very public: “I don’t think any U.N. secretary-general in history has gone so far to secure the survival of a terrorist organization.”

One can also say that about the Australian Government's decision to vote for a ceasefire in the General Assembly. Prime Minister Albanese and Foreign Minister Wong should hold their heads in shame - as they bow to the Greens in total submission.