Alan Baker
Jerusalem Post, June 6, 2023
“While nobody really expects anything positive, let alone balanced or neutral to emanate from any part of the UN, one might nevertheless expect that the one senior official whose function purports to include coordination of the Middle East peace process, would at least make some attempt to address the realities within which he is functioning in an honest and straightforward manner.”
Recent public statements by the UN’s resident representative in Jerusalem, Norwegian diplomat Tor Wennesland, prior to and during the May 9-13 Shield and Arrow operation between Israel and the Gaza-based Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group, would appear to demonstrate an increasingly hostile, negative and biased attitude to Israel.
This attitude seems to be even more extreme than the standard and evidently acceptable level of bias to which Israel is routinely subjected by the United Nations and its senior officials.
Wennesland, a former scholar of divinity, philosophy and sociology, at the Oslo School of Theology, Religion and Society, has the lengthy and complex title UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Personal Representative to the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority and Envoy of the Secretary-General to the Quartet.
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