António Guterres said that there is an “age of impunity everywhere” and said that the global community must “prevent Lebanon from becoming another Gaza.”
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The Palestinian-fronted resolution passed by wide margin, demanding that the Israeli army and Jewish residents evacuate to pre-1949 line within a year.
While evidence was presented to High Commissioner Phillipe Lazzarini, he, the review panel and the press simply ignored it.
“The theme of UNRWA education is ‘peace starts here.’ How could it possibly be that a UN social work agency would be using their education system to prepare kids for war?”
“I simply cannot comprehend that the U.N. Security Council would hold an emergency session based on jihadist propaganda,” the Israeli envoy said.
Ambassador Gilad Erdan said it was easy to defend the Jewish state in a hostile forum like the UN because he knew the truth was on his side.
“It is too little, too late—ignoring thousands of agency employees involved to various degrees in Hamas’s terror activities,” wrote Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan.
No “absurd opinion” in The Hague can deny that Judea and Samaria is the historical Jewish homeland, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.
I speak my mind straight, openly and bluntly. From the Israeli perspective, UNRWA has always been an obstacle for Israel – but not only that, it has primarily been an obstacle for the Palestinians themselves.
Protests inside the Security Council chamber are rare, and the Russian foreign minister, who chaired the meeting, appeared not to understand the protesters.
