In the past three days, I have witnessed three amazing and seemingly unconnected events in Jerusalem.

First, I was waiting for a taxi at the airport to fill up and to take me back to the Holy City, when suddenly the driver was engulfed. A group of Christian pilgrims from the UK had just flown in for a prayer meeting at the Dan Hotel. Nine of them excitedly clambered on board and we drove to their home for the week. Located in what some call Eastern Jerusalem, they were looking forward to seeing the Jewish homeland.

The next day, I was in Sha’are Zedek hospital in the centre of the city, this time waiting for a lift. The hospital is known to treat everyone by everyone. For example, it actively seeks to train doctors from areas like Bethlehem. As I entered the lift, a large Muslim family turned up, about ten of them of different ages. We moved up the floors together, with no hassles either way. I smiled.

And yesterday, I moderated a “speed dating” event at the Jerusalem Business Networking Forum. Over 50 people of different religious persuasions swopping business cards and creating commercial relationships.

Amongst all of this most natural of multiculturalism wanders the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, and declares otherwise. At a session of the Security Council in New York, ostensibly about peace in the whole of the Middle East, he devoted 90% of his words to the Israel-Palestinian conflict.

If you study Ban’s speech carefully, you will note that he hurriedly condemns Palestinian violence against Israeli citizens. However, of his 1,273 words, at least half can be attributed to an attack on Israeli policies and his appraisal that the government in Jerusalem is not pursuing peace. Prime Minister Netanyahu has since responded and the two sides are engaged in a war of words.

The point? Well, Ban did not call on the Palestinians to make efforts towards peace with Israel. In fact, he stated that “as oppressed peoples have demonstrated throughout the ages, it is human nature to react to occupation…”

In the decades since the PLO launched modern terrorism in 1964 with the backing of the Soviet block, never have I heard just a justification for terror. Does that mean that tens of thousands of pilgrims, hundreds of thousands of non Jewish visitors to hospitals, and countless business leaders of different backgrounds have got it wrong? Should they be turning (physically?) on their hosts in Jerusalem? Is that how people all over the world should react if they feel ‘oppressed’?

Last night, about half a kilometer away from where I was, people were hanging out as usual in a local burger bar. An 18 year old Muslim deliberately followed a 35 year old orthodox Jew into the place and proceeded to stab him in the neck.

I refuse to describe this act as “human nature”. Thus I call on others to reject the UN’s pathetic model towards peace. I welcome those Christians and Muslims and Jews who I met in Jerusalem earlier as my heroes for the week.