Until and unless a person is seeing, hearing, and knowing with and by a Biblical worldview that individual isn’t seeing through a glass darkly, that person isn’t seeing, hearing, or knowing at all. Utterly blind, utterly deaf, utterly lost, and ignorant. Not only in darkness but being part of the darkness. Not according to me. According to God, according to the Lord Jesus Christ, according to the Holy Spirit — Almighty God, and the Word of God.

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Antonio Guterres is Not the Worst Secretary-General in U.N. History, But It’s Close

October 28, 2023

By Hugh Fitzgerald

Reprinted from Jihad Watch

Antonio Guterres is not the worst Secretary-General in the history of the United Nations. No, that distinction belongs to the Nazi war criminal Kurt Waldheim, who took part in the aktion in Salonika, where all of the city’s Jewish men and boys were rounded up, made to stand all day in the scorching son in the city’s main square, before being sent to a death camp. Waldheim also served in the roundup of Jews in southern Greece, took part in the savage reprisals against partisans, in units distinguished for the atrocities they committed. Later on, Waldheim would claim never to have been present at any of these campaigns, insisting that he always happened to be away on leave whenever these atrocities took place, though there are photographs of him with his fellow Nazis, including at least two of his commanders who would later be declared to be war criminals. No, Antonio Guterres is not in Waldheim’s league. But his latest speech to the UN Security Council certainly disqualifies him to continue as Secretary-General. He has no sense of shame; he is morally obtuse. He won’t resign. But he should.

The complete text of Guterres’ speech on Israel’s war in Gaza has apparently been removed, but here it is, with my comments interpolated throughout:

Mr. President, with your permission, I will make a small introduction and then ask my colleagues to brief the Security Council on the situation on the ground.

Excellencies,

The situation in the Middle East is growing more dire by the hour.

No, it is the situation of Hamas in Gaza that is “growing more dire by the hour.” In the rest of the Middle East it’s the mixture as before, save in Israel where, after the torture, rape, and murder of so many of its citizens, the fight for the Jewish state’s survival continues. Israel’s situation is difficult, but not “dire” — the 300,000 citizen-soldiers of Israel will, as they have in Israel’s three previous wars of survival (1948, 1967, 1973) prove equal to the task.

The war in Gaza is raging and risks spiralling throughout the region.

For all the talk about the violence “spiralling throughout the region,” it hasn’t happened. A few rockets were hurled toward Israel by the Houthis in Yemen, but were promptly shot down by the Americans manning a ship in the Red Sea.

Divisions are splintering societies. Tensions threaten to boil over.

What “divisions” are these that are “splintering societies”? The Israelis have never been so united. When the hurly-burly’s done, and the battle’s lost (by Hamas) and won (by Israel), there will be time for Israelis return to arguing over the judicial reform. But for now, the Jews of Israel are like one clenched fist hammering at Hamas.

Hamas, too, enjoys the support not only of most of the Gazans, but of the Palestinians in the West Bank. There are no “divisions” among the Palestinians as there are not among the Israelis. Guterres has misread the situation.

When Guterres mentions that “tensions threaten to boil over,” I would have thought that he might have recognized that “tensions don’t ‘threaten’ to boil over” in the future; they are already in a rolling boil that began on October 7, when Hamas murderers rampaged through the kibbutzim on the Gaza border, decapitating babies, burning children alive, raping and murdering young girls, torturing, mutilating (eyes gouged out, genitals cut off), and beheading IDF soldiers.

At a crucial moment like this, it is vital to be clear on principles — starting with the fundamental principle of respecting and protecting civilians.

It is Hamas that always and everywhere tries to murder Israeli civilians. And it is Hamas that deliberately places Palestinian civilians in danger by placing its weapons, rocket launchers, command-and-control centers, and operatives in or near civilian buildings, including schools, apartment buildings, hospitals, and mosques. It is the IDF that, while fighting Hamas and other terror groups, does everything it can to “respect and protect civilians” by warning them away from targets that are soon to be struck, by messaging, telephoning, leafletting, and use of the “knock-on-the-roof” technique. Israeli pilots, too, even call off their own missions if they detect too many civilians near the target. Does Antonio Guterres know about those efforts? Does he understand that Israel always tries to minimize civilian casualties, while Hamas tries always to maximize them?

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