“Certainly they’re as credible, if not more credible, than the United Nations General Assembly.”
Haifa, February 14 -The tenants and homeowners in a high-rise apartment building overlooking the Mediterranean voted unanimously today to pass a resolution demanding that groups of violent criminals in The Windy City stop shooting at one another.
The Va’ad Bayit (“house committee”) of 13 Herzl Street deliberated for a mere five minutes on a proposed Chicago ceasefire resolution by Benny Shoham of Apartment 5C, with the only hint of disagreement arising around minor phraseology. The Va’ad adopted the resolution by a count of seventeen to zero; 13 Herzl contains twenty-five residential units, with a minimum quorum under Va’ad bylaws at fifteen.
“I am pleased and proud that we are the largest, and I believe the first, residents’ association in Haifa, if not all of Israel, to adopt such a resolution,” asserted Shoham. “The situation in Chicago is untenable, and the violence must stop at once. The world looks on in horror at the constant stream of reports about shootings and other violent crime there, which the city government has apparently done nothing to address. The policies in places are crimes against humanity.”
The move follows a raft of municipal councils in various parts of the United States and Europe calling for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in and around the Gaza Strip, following a Hamas invasion of southern Israel this past October that slaughtered more than a thousand, mostly civilians, and involved mass rape and mutilation, in addition to the 136 remaining hostages captured that day and still held by Hamas in Gaza. Hamas has fired upwards of 12,000 rockets at Israel in the interim, and Israel’s offensive in the coastal territory aims to return the hostages and eliminate Hamas as a military and political entity.
Analysts differ on the impact of the resolution. “I’m not sure anything can compete in stature, importance, and influence with the city council of San Francisco, let alone Chicago,” remarked Mike Doran, an analyst on international relations at the Hudson Institute. “Certainly they’re as credible, if not more credible, than the United Nations General Assembly, whose resolutions generate no discernible impact on the ground. In my assessment, the counteroffensive by the 13 Herzl Street residents’ association risks a full-on diplomatic melee that could have been avoided.”
Cenk Uygur, founder of The Young Turks, disagreed. “No one denies the gravitas of this counter-resolution,” he acknowledged, “but that’s some distance from the inevitability of outright conflict. I think what we can expect, rather, is that Chicago’s original move will be rendered irrelevant by the migrant crisis and the violence plaguing the city, and the Council will ultimately be made impotent by divisions arising from disagreement over how Israel is to blame for Chicago’s gang violence.”
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