(IRNA) - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad here Tuesday lashed out at international bodies, the UN Security Council in particular, for failing to support or protect Palestinian people against Israeli atrocities, reports Trend.
In his speech at the inaugural session of the 61st UN General Assembly, the president expressed serious concern over the "bombardment of Palestinians in their own homes and killing of their children in streets and alleys."
"But no authority, not even the Security Council, provides support or protection to them."
He strongly criticized "the blanket and unwarranted support" provided to the Zionist regime.
Referring to the Zionist regime's attacks on Lebanon, he criticized the Security Council for being powerless to even call for a ceasefire.
"For thirty-three long days, the Lebanese lived under a barrage of fire and bombs and close to 1.5 million of them were displaced, but members of the Security Council, instead of rushing help, practically chose a path that provided ample opportunity to the aggressor to achieve its objectives militarily.
"We witnessed the Security Council of the United Nations practically incapacitated by certain powers to even call for a ceasefire.
"The Security Council sat idly by for so many days witnessing the cruel acts of aggression against the Lebanese and repetition of tragedies such as the one in Qana. Why?"
Shedding light on underlying motives, he said in all these cases the answer is self-evident.
"When the power behind these hostilities is itself a permanent member of the Security Council, how can this Council fulfill its responsibilities?"
Turning to the formation of the Haniya-led Palestinian government, he said that "a government has been formed democratically by an electorate that has freely expressed its choice in a part of Palestinian territory. But instead of receiving the support of so-called champions of democracy, ministers and members of this freely elected parliament are illegally abducted and incarcerated in full view of the international community."
The president then asked, "Which council or international organization stands up to defend this cruelly besieged government? And why can't the Security Council take any steps?"
The president said the roots of the Palestinian problem go back to the Second World War. On the pretext of protecting some survivors of the war, the land of Palestine was grabbed by military force, aggression and displacement of millions of its inhabitants and placed under the control of some of the war's survivors. Later, even larger population groups from elsewhere in the world who were not even affected by the war were brought in and a government was established in the territory taken by force and millions of its rightful inhabitants forced out of their homeland in what is known as a diaspora.
"This is a great tragedy with hardly a precedent in history.
Refugees continue to live in temporary refugee camps and many have died still hoping to one day return to their homeland. Can any logic, law or legal reasoning justify this tragedy? Can any member of the family of nations accept a similar tragedy in their homeland?" Ahmadinejad, further elaborating on the creation of the Zionist regime, said: "The pretexts for the creation of the regime occupying al-Qods al-Sharif are so weak that any voice trying to merely speak about them is silenced for fear the truth would come out and undermine the proferred raison d'etre for its creation which is already the case."
The president expressed regret that the tragedy did not end with the establishment of that regime in the territory of others.
"Regrettably, from its inception, that regime has been a constant source of threat and insecurity in the Middle East region, waging war and spilling blood and impeding the progress of regional countries, and has also been used by some powers as an instrument of division, coercion, and pressure on the people of the region."
He was aware that "reference to these historical realities may cause some disquiet among supporters of the regime."
"But these are sheer facts and not myth. A sad fact of history has unfolded before our eyes."