On a visit to Israel Ban Ki-Moon lacked the basic human decency to avoid offending his hosts. He called all Israeli construction on the ‘occupied land’ illegal.
Even in a minimalist reading, abandoning that construction would mean evicting 650,000 Jews from the areas settled after we repelled the Arab invasion in 1967.
All Israeli lands beyond the 1947 UN border are technically ‘occupied.’ Ban’s reading of history would leave Israel without the Western Wall and a third of the Jewish population living in the territories, which were occupied during the Independence War.
We fail to grasp why Ban remains unconcerned about the US occupation of Texas, New Mexico, and California. Nor did he tell the Russians anything about their occupation of Konigsberg or the Kuril Islands during his visit to Moscow.
You know why all too well: those countries annexed the lands and expelled the hostile natives, Israel have done neither.