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“That regime [Israel] is in no position to discuss our peaceful program when it has hundreds of nuclear warheads,” says Majid Takht-Ravanchi.
In his first address as prime minister to the U.N. General Assembly, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett called polarizations one of two plagues affecting the world at the moment, with the other being the COVID-19 pandemic.
The prime minister is also expected to meet with U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield, and will speak at a Jewish Federations of North America event.
The Israeli prime minister praised the passage of the standalone House bill providing funding for the Iron Dome, and warned Iran and the Palestinians to “stop this obsession with the State of Israel.”
The speech by Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas comes amid deepening unpopularity among Palestinians; a recent poll found that 80 percent want him to resign.
Sponsored by the European Organizations Union for Peace in Yemen and the Yemeni Coalition of Independent Women, it took place on the anniversary of the Houthi takeover of the country and looked specifically at the mistreatment of Jews, Baha’is and women.
Based on U.N. Security Council Resolution 1325, the statement stressed the value of women’s influence on human-rights matters, peace, sustainable development and security.
Raisi calls for the United States to end its sanctions policy, calling it a “new way of war” and a “crime against humanity.”
“The Durban Declaration is laced with anti-Semitism, and the goal of those who celebrate it is not racial equality but the undermining and eventual destruction of the state of Israel,” stated former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
“I strongly believe that as others in the region see the fruits of our partnerships and feel this transformation, they will join our circle of peace,” says Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan.
“About half a million Haitian children have limited or no access to shelter, safe water, health care and nutrition,” said Bruno Maes, UNICEF’s representative in Haiti.
Recent attacks from over the border further demonstrate the lack of implementation of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1701, says the Israel Defense Forces.
