{"id":276415,"date":"2024-10-07T12:00:13","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T11:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=276415"},"modified":"2024-10-05T05:01:43","modified_gmt":"2024-10-05T04:01:43","slug":"israel-declares-un-secretary-general-antonio-guterres-persona-non-grata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/10\/israel-declares-un-secretary-general-antonio-guterres-persona-non-grata\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Declares UN Secretary General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres Persona Non Grata"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_276416\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/United-Nations-Secretary-General-Antonio-Guterres.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-276416\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-276416\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/United-Nations-Secretary-General-Antonio-Guterres-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/United-Nations-Secretary-General-Antonio-Guterres-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/United-Nations-Secretary-General-Antonio-Guterres.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-276416\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><em>Iran&#8217;s \u201cTrue Promise 2\u201d May Have Unlocked the UN Secretary General\u2019s Conscience<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>3 Oct 2024 <\/em>&#8211; Never heard of in the entire history of the United Nations that a diplomat of the UN is declared a persona non grata by one of its member-states.<\/p>\n<p>In this case it is not just a UN diplomat but Israel\u2019s Foreign Minister, <strong>Israel Katz<\/strong>, declared the <strong>UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres\u00a0<\/strong>as <em>Persona non Grata<\/em> in Israel.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The reason is simply because Mr. Guterres did not condemn the\u00a0years-long Israeli-provoked attack by Iran on Israeli cities and her most important military airbase, <em>Nevatim.<\/em> Instead, he called for a ceasefire.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Katz called the Iranian retribution an <em>\u201cabhorrent attack.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0He added,<\/p>\n<p><strong> \u201cAnyone who cannot unequivocally condemn Iran\u2019s heinous attack on Israel, as almost every country in the world has done, does not deserve to step foot on Israeli soil.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Minister went on accusing Guterres for not having denounced \u201c<em>the massacre and sexual atrocities committed by Hamas murderers on October 7\u201d,<\/em>\u00a0and <strong>Katz claims that Guterres has not made any effort to declare the Palestinian militant group, Hamas, a terrorist organization.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Israeli minister went on to claim that Guterres\u00a0<em>\u201cwill be remembered as <strong>a stain on the history of the UN\u201d<\/strong><\/em><strong>\u00a0for giving\u00a0<em>\u201cbacking to terrorists, rapists and murderers from Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis and now Iran.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Could this be the end of Mr. Guterres\u2019s career as the UN\u2019s Chief Officer?<\/p>\n<p>Of course, <strong>no mention of Israel\u2019s atrocious massacres, forced famine, killing, decapitating at times, children and woman in Gaza, then in the West Bank, and now in Lebanon. That is all \u201cnormal\u201d, Israel\u2019s self-defense, even though nobody has attacked Israel out of the blue.<\/strong> All attacks were provoked by Israel for the last 80 years and beyond \u2013 and all for eventually expelling\u00a0Palestinians and others who are in the way \u2013 for Zionist-Israel\u2019s creation of a Greater Israel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/tabeen-school-gaza-bombing.jpeg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-5865194 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/tabeen-school-gaza-bombing.jpeg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 694px) 100vw, 694px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/tabeen-school-gaza-bombing.jpeg 1199w, https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/tabeen-school-gaza-bombing-300x192.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/tabeen-school-gaza-bombing-768x493.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/tabeen-school-gaza-bombing-1024x657.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/tabeen-school-gaza-bombing-400x257.jpeg 400w\" alt=\"\" width=\"694\" height=\"445\" \/><\/a><strong>Bombing of schools\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <em>Persona non Grata<\/em> declaration means that Mr. Guterres is barred from entering Israel. Frankly, why would he want to go to Israel?\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/russia\/605123-israel-guterres-persona-non-grata\/?utm_source=Newsletter&amp;utm_medium=Email&amp;utm_campaign=Email\" >See this for further details<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The implication is simply that Israel distances herself from the UN, meaning that the UN would be excluded as far as Israel is concerned from any potential peace-mediating effort.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Nevatim<\/em> is also the airbase for Israel\u2019s F-35 stealth fighter jets. Iran claims that Israel lost 20\u00a0F-35s in one day. <strong>Apparently, the US is planning in creating a coalition to attack Iran.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Iranians claim that ISRAEL lost Twenty F35s In One Day\u2503The US is Creating a Coalition To Attack IRAN\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r6vjqLfaCSw\" width=\"690\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Of course, none of this is reported by the mainstream.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If the US plans to attack Iran \u2013 in a coalition of western \u201callies\u201d, a <em>hot<\/em> WWIII has moved yet another inch closer to midnight<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>But let us hope and trust that this can be and will be averted in one way or another by sensible politicians on the other side of the western artificially created division of West and East, i.e., Russia and China must vouch for peace.<\/p>\n<p><strong>On a deeper level, what seems to be most important is that a high-level diplomat, like the UN Secretary General \u2014 someone totally sold to the \u201csystem\u201d that put him in place, had a bout of conscience that shook him out of the horror the west has been supporting as truth and standard value<\/strong>, <strong>not only by words but by billons worth of weapons and missiles and tanks; the conscience told Mr. Guterres \u201cenough is enough.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mr. Guterres must be congratulated for taking this step; instead of condemning Iran and \u201callowing\u201d Israel to retaliate in \u201cself-defense\u201d \u2013 the usual \u2013 Mr. Guterres called for a ceasefire.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This conscious step to call for peace rather than more war, more deaths, more destruction, must be honored. <strong>May more people of his caliber, heads of state and western institutions come to this internal awakening and switch sides.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The world needs peace not war.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>___________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Peter-Koenig-e1559733673126.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-134998\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Peter-Koenig-e1559733673126.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"70\" \/><\/a> Peter Koenig is an economist and geopolitical analyst. He is also a water resources and environmental specialist who worked for over 30 years with the World Bank and the World Health Organization around the world in the fields of environment and water. He lectures at universities in the US, Europe and South America and writes regularly for online journals. Koenig is the author of <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Implosion-Economic-Environmental-Destruction-Corporate\/dp\/059545349X\" >Implosion \u2013 An Economic Thriller about War, Environmental Destruction and Corporate Greed,<\/a><em> fiction based on facts and on 30 years of World Bank experience around the globe; co-author of Cynthia McKinney\u2019s book, <\/em>When China Sneezes: From the Coronavirus Lockdown to the Global Politico-Economic Crisis <em>(Clarity Press \u2013 1 Nov 2020)<\/em>; <em>and a co-author of <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/World-Order-Revolution-Essays-Resistance\/dp\/6027005874\" >The World Order and Revolution! \u2013 Essays from the Resistance<\/a><em>. He is\u00a0a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization and a non-resident Senior Fellow of the Chongyang Institute of Renmin University, Beijing<\/em><em>. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/israel-declares-un-secretary-general-persona-non-grata\/5869309\" >Go to Original \u2013 globalresearch.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reason is simply because Mr. Guterres did not condemn the\u00a0years-long Israeli-provoked attack by Iran on Israeli cities and her most important military airbase, Nevatim. Instead, he called for a ceasefire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":276416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[1036,87,865,1029,3339,88,2097,767,427,2159,124,481],"class_list":["post-276415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-united-nations","tag-antonio-guterres","tag-gaza","tag-genocide","tag-hamas","tag-hezbollah","tag-israel","tag-lebanon","tag-middle-east","tag-palestine","tag-rogue-states","tag-united-nations","tag-warfare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276417,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276415\/revisions\/276417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}