VIDEO: Arab Foreign Ministers Confronted Over Failure to Stop Israel

During a media stakeout at the United Nations last week, journalist Sam Husseini confronted the foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Egypt for their failure to take stronger action at the United Nations to stop Israel’s genocide and enforce the ICJ orders.

“It’s been a YEAR and the Security Council has failed. Isn’t it past time to have General Assembly ‘Uniting For Peace’ resolutions WITH TEETH, with sanctions, with other punitive measures against Israel? [Otherwise] this is all posturing… [you’re] not addressing the needs of the people of the world; it’s for domestic posturing!…”

Watch:

“These foreign ministers of Arab states give a lot of lip service to wanting to stop Israel, but couldn’t (or wouldn’t) explain why they haven’t used Uniting for Peace forcefully when I questioned them,” Sam wrote in an X post on Sunday night.

He went on to summarize:

Egyptian FM acknowledges that they have the “option” of “going to the General Assembly,” and says they could “explore” that before repeating platitudes about how Israeli impunity is “not acceptable.”

Me: “But the World Court addressed this in January.”

Jordanian minister repeats his talking points about how the Arab countries want peace but Israel does not.

Me: “So don’t you need sanctions?”

Saudi: “I’m sorry but the Security Council has started… we need to go in…” [walks off]

These are the three foreign ministers:

In order of appearance:

🇸🇦 Faisal Bin Farhan (@faisalbinfarhan)
🇯🇴 Ayman Safadi (@AymanHsafadi)
🇪🇬 Badr Abdelatty (@MfaEgypt) pic.twitter.com/vINlZix1DD

— Decensored News (@decensorednews) October 7, 2024

For those who aren’t familiar with the “Uniting for Peace” resolution, here’s a description straight from the UN website (bold added):

General Assembly resolution 377(V) is known as the Uniting for peace resolution. Adopted in 1950, the resolution resolves that if the Security Council fails to exercise its responsibility to maintain international peace and security, the General Assembly may call an emergency special session. To date, 11 emergency special sessions have been convened.

Jordanian’s Ayman Safadi calls for the UN Security Council to do its job, but it’s been predictable since the beginning that it likely wouldn’t—hence the longstanding calls for Uniting for Peace.

As reported by Decensored News in January, for instance, citing international lawyer Francis Boyle:

[Boyle] suspects the Biden administration will veto any resolution of enforcement in the UN Security Council.

It would then be turned over to the UN General Assembly (UNGA) under the Uniting for Peace resolution, where there could be “very severe consequences for Israel.”

The UNGA could: (1) Suspend Israel from UN participation, (2) Set up an international criminal tribunal and start prosecuting top Israeli officials, (3) Recommend that all member states sever diplomatic relations with Israel, (4) Recommend comprehensive economic sanctions against Israel, and/or (5) Admit Palestine as a full-fledged UN member state.

“Boyle is well-qualified to weigh in on the matter,” we noted at the time. “After becoming the first lawyer to successfully argue a genocide case at the ICJ (also known as the World Court) on behalf of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Boyle then went on to win a second order in that case—‘massive and overwhelming in their favor against Yugoslavia, to cease and desist from committing all acts of genocide,’ he explains.”

‘Crocodile Tears’

Earlier this year, Boyle was asked by journalist Rachel Blevins whether he expects to see more pressure from Arab-majority nations against Israel.

In response, he said that there’s a “tension” between the people of these countries, to whom the Palestinians are “very important,” and their leaders, whose response has been “completely deficient and unprincipled.”

Boyle added that he had appeared on Arabic-language stations “pleading” for these countries to take action against Israel—even offering to personally represent them—but “there’s been no response” from their leaders.

“They shed crocodile tears and wring their hands, but they’re working in cahoots with the Bidenites…”