"For at least the last five decades, the United Nations General Assembly has been blindly passing Palestinian-engineered resolutions supposedly aimed at addressing the 'question of Palestine.' Lacking in imagination and not really asking or answering any relevant question at all, what has now become known as the "Palestinian package" is not only detached from reality, but uses language so loaded in favor of the Palestinian narrative that it serves only to fan the flames of conflict, instead of diffusing them.
Linguists have long understood the power of language to make or break a conflict. Now, it's time for global leaders-and particularly, their representatives on the world stage in New York-to take a closer look at their own deeds and the language they use, if they stand any chance of positively influencing the world's most closely scrutinized regional conflict.
One-sided language began to dominate in U.N. forums almost as soon as Israel was recognized by the Partition Plan vote on November 29, 1947. Arab countries rejected that vote and, in an effort to appease them and, later, the Palestinians, member states now robotically support proposals that undermine my country's legitimacy. In the process, they also erase 3,000 years of Jewish history in Jerusalem...."