Israel flouting numerous UN resolutions and conventions: Analyst

Israel has violated countless UN resolutions and international laws in the occupied territories of Palestine, says Ian Williams, a senior analyst with Foreign Policy in Focus.

Israel “is directly flouting numerous UN resolutions and conventions,” Williams said in an interview with Press TV on Wednesday.

Williams criticized US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley for vowing on Wednesday to defend Israel at the global body during talks with Israeli officials in Jerusalem al-Quds.

Haley said that it’s a “new day” for Israel at the UN ahead of a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Netanyahu welcomed the US diplomat’s tough stance, saying US President Donald Trump and Haley “have changed the discourse” at the UN.

On Tuesday in Geneva, Haley warned the US may withdraw from the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) unless the body eliminates its "chronic anti-Israel bias."

Williams said: “First of all on the question of bias against Israel, it’s not bias because of what they are recording is actual default in international law from a country that has been set up by a UN resolution which the United Nations has a particular responsibility.”

Trump came to power in January promising to lead the most pro-Israel US government in history. Trump’s predecessor Barack Obama often clashed with the Israeli premier.

The Trump administration strongly criticized the UN for a Security Council resolution last year that condemned Israeli settlement construction on occupied Palestinian territories.

Over half a million Israelis live in more than 230 illegal settlements built since the 1967 Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem al-Quds.

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