Nafisee said that had the United Nations represented by the Security Council carried out its role, the suffering of the Palestinian people would have not continued for more than half a century of Israeli practices in the worst forms of killings, displacement, imprisonment, blockade, annexation, confiscation of property and looting of goods in order to destroy that people and push them to surrender, despair and feel frustration through exposing them to more oppression and suffering which is evidenced by the current Israeli practices designed for that goal. Ambassador Al-Nafisee said that the Arabs opted for peace not surrender and their demand has been and still is the application of international legitimacy topped by the implementation of the UN Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338 and the principle of land for just and comprehensive peace which necessarily requires a full Israeli withdrawal from occupied Arab territories to the borders of 1967, the return of Palestinian refugees to their homes, regaining their rights, enabling the Palestinian people to exercise their right to self-determination and establishing their independent state on their national soil with Alquds as its capital, as well as withdrawal from the Golan Heights in Syria and the Lebanese Shebaa Farms. He added, "Talking about Israeli violations of the resolutions of international legitimacy concerns the violation of international law and the absence of the will of the international community to shoulder its responsibilities to bring peace and establish security in the face of the persistence of the Israeli occupation forces to practice policies such as building the racist separation wall and settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories, expanding them, increasing illegal settlement measures and funding, arming, protecting and encourage aggressor settlers to build more settlement outposts which witnessed rapid growth in the past few months with simultaneous rise in the pace of demolition and the indiscriminate destruction of homes, property and farms of Palestinians in their occupied territories the recent of which was the demolition of the historic Shepherd Hotel." --More
