United Nations – Israel’s U.N. ambassador on Monday said the Palestinian leadership has started using recent statements by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon “to justify deplorable acts of terror,” and he called on the U.N. chief to withdraw them.
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In a letter to Ban, Danny Danon cited recent Palestinian killings of Israelis. He said Ban’s statements have been interpreted as creating “two categories of terror: terror directed at Israelis and terror directed at the rest of the world.”
Addressing the U.N. Security Council last month, the secretary-general urged Israel to freeze settlement-building, calling it “an affront to the Palestinian people.” He also expressed understanding of Palestinian frustrations, saying that “as oppressed peoples have demonstrated throughout the ages, it is human nature to react to occupation.”
U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said Monday that Ban “stands by every word he has used.”
Dujarric said the secretary-general has repeatedly condemned “terror and has said that absolutely nothing, nothing, justifies terrorism.”
Danon quoted Raafat Alian, the Jerusalem spokesman for the Palestinian Fatah party, as telling the Donia Al-Watan news site that Israel’s actions against the Palestinian people “cannot go unanswered without natural responses.”
“Rather than criticizing Israel, a country that has lost so many of its citizens to terror, the U.N. should hold the perpetrators responsible,” Danon wrote.
The secretary-general responded to earlier Israeli criticism of his remarks in a New York Times opinion piece last week entitled “Don’t Shoot the Messenger, Israel.”
Ban wrote that he would always stand up for Israel’s right to exist, but added that “the time has come for Israelis, Palestinians and the international community to read the writing on the wall: The status quo is untenable. Keeping another people under indefinite occupation undermines the security and the future of both Israelis and Palestinians.”
a new axis of EVIL = Moon, Obama’s policies, friendly IRAN
They don’t need the UN Secretary- General’s statement to do what they do best !!!!
This shoitah is not only deaf and dumb but a menuval to boot !
UN Iran Syria makes no difference who it is each one has a different way to flareup the situation and get the Palestinians to go against Israel they are all the same.then you have Israel condemning what they said like it makes a difference to anybody.if Israel would wake up and realize that they’re all alone they have to do what they have to do things may change stop giving an account to the world
Well, oddly, Abbas is right. If the UN blames Israel for the terror instead of condemning Arabs, why shouldn’t they continue violence and terrorism?
They should ban moon or moon ban from being the head of the UN. Making stupid statements is not the best sign of leadership.