On April 7, 2016, the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, the UN committee dedicated to the demonization of Israel, met to lay out a plan to advance the isolation of the Jewish state on the world stage. Speaking at the meeting, the Palestinian Authority's representative to the UN Riyad Mansour laid out the steps of the Palestinians' scheme:
1. Call for a Security Council debate on "protecting" Palestinians from Israelis actually exercising their right to self-defense - while ignoring Palestinian terror threat against Israelis
2. Continue attempts to prosecute Israelis at the International Criminal Court
3. Have pro-Palestinian states condemn Israel at an open meeting of the Security Council on April 18, 2016
4. Submit a draft resolution to the Security Council condemning Israeli "settlements"
5. Support the French initiative to convene an international conference on the "peace process," which will reward terrorists with a Palestinian state without ending their efforts to deny and destroy a Jewish state.
In his words (unofficial transcript):
"We have been saying for a while that the Security Council has shouldered its responsibility with regard to protection and they have to engage in informal discussions and certain kinds of formal discussions, such as the Arria Formula, [informal flexible Council meetings with invited speakers, not called for in the UN Charter] which is an unofficial open meeting of the Security Council where we bring experts to give presentations about a specific issue in this regard, providing protection to the civilian population under occupation...And through our coordination with our friends in the Security Council and our brothers, the Representative of Egypt, we agreed that hopefully maybe today or tomorrow a date will be set for an Arria Formula on protection in the Security Council in which an open, but not official, meeting to take place and to discuss this phenomena with the view of maximizing the pressure on this illegal behavior of the Israeli occupying authority in order not only to stop it, but also to bring the perpetrators to face justice. Of course this is along with our activities with the ICC in terms of seeing that the prosecutor to move soon into an official investigation about war crimes committed against the Palestinian people, whether during the war in Gaza or through the continuing crime of settlements...[T]here will be an open meeting in the Security Council on the 18th of this month, open debate under the Chinese Presidency. I urge the largest number of you to participate in this debate to concentrate on the situation of the Palestinian people under occupation...hopefully soon that we will move into very intensive consultation with all members of the Security Council on the subject of settlements. Our simple premise is this:... it is the duty of the Security Council to act. To act through a resolution demanding the secession of this illegal behavior of Israel...We do support the French initiative to convene an international conference and we believe an action by the Security Council through adoption of a resolution in settlements is an investment in the peace in the French initiative..."