I don’t know why Israel even bothers with the UN.
Via Free Beacon:
An Israeli-authored United Nations proposal that could help millions of struggling farmers received unlikely support this week from more than 100 nations, barring one key voting bloc: Arab nations.
Israel spearheaded an agricultural initiative aimed at providing technology and resources to developing nations.
The Agricultural Technology for Development resolution garnered massive support from a plethora of nations across the globe and passed the United Nations by a voteof 138 to 1 on Tuesday.
However, the coalition of Arab nations at the United Nations, which holds great sway in the international body, fought tooth-and-nail against the resolution, according sources in the Israeli U.N. mission.
Thirty-four nations in total—including Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, and almost every other Arab nation—abstained from voting on the measure after launching into an anti-Israel tirade when the initiative came up for a vote on Tuesday.
“They opposed it for ridiculous reasons,” said Simonne Levavi, a member of Israel’s mission to the U.N. told the Washington Free Beacon. “It’s crazy. Every time we try to do something we have extra hurdles to jump.”
“The Palestinian delegation, unfortunately, has a lot of influence” with important players in U.N. and lobbies them to oppose anything that Israel backs.
Levavi said that if the resolution had been brought by another nation, “not only would [the Arab coalition] most likely support it, they would love it because it’s very specific to technology and that’s something developing countries” need to prosper.
Israel’s agriculture initiative is meant to help ensure that developing nations can keep up with growing food demands.
It focuses on building agricultural cooperatives via cash investments in technology and other areas. It also seeks to help younger people learn the trade, particularly woman.
While many Arab nations and others with large Arab populations, including the Palestinians, could benefit from the initiative, all of these nations banded together to oppose it.
Israel is “an occupying power” that refuses “to refrain from its illegal practices,” Saudi Arabia’s representative said on behalf of the entire Arab group.
The Israelis are manipulating the U.N. in an attempt to make itself look better, the coalition said.