United Nations
Abbas’s words: “I pay tribute to our pure Martyrs and heroic prisoners ... whom it is forbidden to pay.” U.N. mistranslation: “I pay tribute to all freedom loving countries and peoples and our martyrs.”
Some analysts called the decisions a continuation of a longtime anti-Israel policy at UNESCO, which included resolutions rejecting Israel’s connection to Jerusalem and the Temple Mount.
Israel slammed the PX Commission of the Executive Board of UNESCO as it adopted resolutions titled “Occupied Palestine,” which declared the tombs of Jewish ancestors integral parts of “Occupied Palestinian territory.”
A former Republican governor of South Carolina, she has received widespread support from both Israeli officials and from the pro-Israel community for her strong support of Israel at the world body, which has been a hotbed of criticism of the Jewish state for decades.
This development comes less than a month after Iran asked the U.N. court to rule in their favor, labeling the slapping back of sanctions as “naked economic aggression.”
In an article last week about dramatic moments at the United Nations, the Associated Press covers up the most dramatic element of Yasser Arafat’s 1974 United Nations address: that he brought a gun to the international body and even delivered the address while openly sporting the holster.
Western diplomats say that while Israeli intelligence has been brought to the attention of the International Atomic Energy Agency, that still does not constitute a “smoking gun” against Iran.
“In Lebanon, Iran is directing Hezbollah to build secret sites to convert inaccurate projectiles into precision-guided missiles—missiles that can target deep inside Israel within an accuracy of 10 meters [30 feet],” said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas went on the offensive against U.S. President Donald Trump in his speech to the U.N. General Assembly.
The Israeli prime minister said a warehouse includes technology for Iran’s nuclear initiative, remarking that the Islamic Republic “took this radioactive material and spread it around Tehran like Nutella.”
Israel Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Israel was ready to reopen the Quneitra crossing, closed in 2014 after Syrian rebels overran it. Syrian forces have regained control of the area.
“With a couple of important exceptions [‘fair trade,’ making nicer with dictators than democratic allies], Trump’s speech was down-the-line conservative, and especially so his treatment of Tehran and international organizations,” Middle East Forum president Daniel Pipes told JNS. “This conservative came away happy with that.”
