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“We fear significant civilian costs in Lebanon if Israel must act to defend its citizens because Hezbollah has positioned its massive arsenal in civilian areas—turning much of Lebanon’s population into human shields,” it read. “Hezbollah will bear the responsibility for that.”
“It is deplorable that the United Nations should be so often used by member states to treat one state in particular, Israel, unequally,” said Cherith Norman Chalet, Acting U.S. Deputy Representative to the United Nations.
“It’s the foxes guarding the chickens,” says U.N. Watch director after delegates to a U.N. review session on Tehran’s human-rights record overwhelmingly applaud the Islamic Republic.
The measure passed 187-3, with Ukraine and Colombia abstaining.
“UNRWA is a burden to the international community. It systematically avoids fulfilling the mission for which it was established,” says Israeli Ambassador to United Nations Danny Danon.
U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Palestinian territories Michael Lynk called on the U.N. to use the “tangible and plentiful legal and political tools at its disposal to end the injustice” of Israel’s “illegal occupation.”
The caricatures, which feature Orthodox Jews with red, hooked noses and golden teeth, were printed on ribbons for participants.
The Special Committee on Decolonization is notoriously anti-Israel, singling out the Jewish state by adopting various resolutions against Israel—and only against Israel.
The agency’s failure to resolve the Palestinian refugee problem “is really the failure of its donors,” says former general counsel James Lindsay, and stems from its definition of who is a refugee.
As part of the agreement, Iran would have committed to upholding the 2015 nuclear deal, resuming long-term talks about its nuclear program and ceasing “any aggression” in the Middle East.
“You that brutally oppress the Turkish people, slaughter the Kurdish minority and support the terror organization Hamas, you are the last one that can lecture Israel. You are not the sultan, and Turkey is not the Ottoman Empire. Shame on you,” said Foreign Minister Israel Katz.
“We shall not tolerate the provocative intervention of foreigners,” said the Iranian president. “We shall respond decisively to any transgression to and violation of our security and territorial integrity.”
