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** Why is the United Nations Chief Calling for Israel's Destruction? ([link removed])
The United Nations Does Not Stop War, It Conserves War
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by Bassam Tawil • February 5, 2026 at 5:00 am
* United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres is still pushing for the establishment of a Palestinian terror state next to Israel. There are only three ways to read Guterres's position: he is completely clueless; he wants to see Israel eradicated; or he is happy to oblige his constituents at the UN who would apparently like to see Israel eradicated.
* At the UN, 26 member states -- including Qatar, US President Donald J. Trump's "neutral" peace negotiator and member of his "Board of Peace," as well as other "Board of Peace" affiliates such as Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Indonesia -- do not even "formally" recognize Israel.
* When Hamas's October 7, 2023 attack on Israel took place, there was no "occupation" in the Gaza Strip. The "occupation," in fact, ended in the summer of 2005....
* For most Palestinians, all Jews there are "illegal settlers," and Israel just "one big settlement" that has no place in the Middle East.
* Many Palestinians viewed the 2005 Israeli withdrawal from Gaza as a retreat in the face of terrorism. In their eyes, if Israel pulled out of the Gaza Strip as a result of terrorism, all that is needed for the rest of Israel to leave is more terrorism.
* As the great historian Bernard Lewis noted nearly 50 years ago, the UN does not resolve war, it conserves war. Trump, who managed to contain several wars in six months, has shown the world as much.
* If Palestinians could be taught -- and learn -- coexistence, their lives could be so magnificent. This change, however, can never take place while the UN and its scores of Arab and European camp-followers enable impossible fantasies.
* Finally, Guterres might listen to what the majority of the Palestinians are unmistakably saying: NO to a two-state solution. Palestinians polled two years ago by AWRAD, a Palestinian research group, unequivocally said that they did not want a "two-state solution" -- 75% rejected any solution other than a Palestinian state "from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea" – meaning over all of Israel.
* As Guterres must know full well, the establishment of a Palestinian state will not lead the Palestinians to abandon their determination to eliminate Israel. Quite the opposite. A Palestinian state will make them more determined than ever to continue their efforts to obliterate Israel. October 7 did not happen because Palestinians were denied a state. It happened because they were given one.

It is hard to believe that, more than two years after Palestinians invaded Israel, murdering, torturing, wounding, and kidnapping thousands of Israelis and foreign nationals, UN Secretary-General António Guterres is still pushing for the establishment of a Palestinian terror state next to Israel. Pictured: Guterres gives a speech calling for a Palestinian state at the 80th session of the UN General Assembly on September 22, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

It is hard to believe that, more than two years after Palestinians invaded Israel, murdering, torturing, wounding, and kidnapping thousands of Israelis and foreign nationals, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres is still pushing for the establishment of a Palestinian terror state next to Israel. There are only three ways to read Guterres's position: he is completely clueless; he wants to see Israel eradicated; or he is happy to oblige his constituents at the UN who would apparently like to see Israel eradicated.

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