To reward the forces of destruction, hatred, and death with the goal they seek is nothing short of a blasphemy. However, this is exactly what the UN resolution does. It rewards a surge in violence and bloodshed with promises of land. It is imperative that UN questions its actions from a moral standpoint, and gauge its actions. Succinctly stated, it is simply not morally correct to reward those aspects of life that cause indescribable anguish. The Palestinians taking part in the violence are the embodiment of those traits civilization abhors as excessively violent and unscrupulous, and they are the disparagement of humanity. They aimlessly slaughter all that they perceive to be even slightly divergent of the rigid social rules they impose on themselves. These men find joy in bathing in the blood of Israeli civilians and soldiers, and in watching the streets run red as life pours out of Zionist innocents.

In retaliation for an Israeli assault on insurgents based in refugee camps, Palestinians stormed an Israeli settlement and cold-bloodedly and indiscriminately shot at Israeli five year olds with intent to kill. Palestinians have also been engaging in the deplorable act of suicide bombing for over a decade, with weapons so primitive as nail bombs. Suicide is denounced in the Quoran, the holy book of these religious zealots, and the ruthless taking of human life is not sanctioned in any religion. The murder of innocents is something that cannot be made permissible no matter what the situation, and the tactics of the Palestinians are an assault not on Israeli troops, but Israeli people, Israeli children, ordinary civilians. Nothing on this planet today is more heinous than the atrocities the Palestinians impose on Israeli civilians. Is it right to reward those men who carved open two live Israeli children and smeared their blood across the walls of a cave while reciting Islamic prayers with the promise of land? Is it permissible to allow a world to reward those who would torture and mutilate Israeli soldiers, and drag their corpses across Palestinian streets in a macabre celebration glorifying pain and death with the promise of land? Only the criminally insane are capable of rewarding such appalling and cruel acts. It is simply not permissible to grant land to barbarians who deliver pain no words can describe, to animals that engage in actions so atrocious that no use of speech could reveal the true extent of their cold and brutal heartlessness. For the sake of human decency and all that it represents the UN’s only recourse is to recant the resolution. At the very least, the land cannot be promised until these militants change their tactics from icy hatred to other diplomatic means. Once again, it is blaringly clear that the UN resolution is flawed.

Drawing from all the aforementioned reasons, it is clear that UN resolution would do far more harm than good, and it is an indirect attack on those civilizations that are already victimized by separatists, fundamentalists, extremists, and violence-prone psychotics. The UN resolution acts in sympathy of such victimizers. Returning to the original quote by Edward Bond, “Violence shapes and obsesses…society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future”, it is unquestionably clear, that the Palestinian and Israeli society is stripping itself of a future through its ruthless violence, and furthermore, it is clear that the UN needs to take some action to put an end to that destructive cycle. However, the UN resolution passed this week is the worst possible way in which to restore stability to a war-savaged “God’s promised land”. The UN resolution, as has been demonstrated, is flawed, and therefore must be recanted in the interest of the security of innocents, the free world, and most importantly in the interest of basic ethics.

Gautam Nandula is a junior at High School. His family recently moved from Acton to Texas. He is active in debate, plays the violin and enjoys reading Tom Clancy novels. This was one of the topic chosen in the schol debate in which he had to talk against the UN resolution.

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