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“Most people who are engaged in underground organizations try not to have their involvement known publicly,” a U.N. spokesman told JNS.
U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres also condemned the attacks against Israel but did not call out Iran by name.
“The most important part of this is really speaking truth to power. It’s the opportunity in one week to engage not only with Israel’s friends but also its harshest critics,” said Daniel Mariaschin, CEO of B’nai B’rith International.
The demand follows an earlier Security Council meeting on the escalation in the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah
“On the contrary, I think that this is a very important part of building the puzzle of a better solution,” Espen Barth Eide told JNS.
When a camera panned across Washington’s section during the Israeli prime minister’s United Nations General Assembly address, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Robert Wood and other U.S. diplomats were nowhere to be seen.
The Israeli ambassador to the United Nations told JNS that the terror group “cannot hide. Not in Beirut. Not anywhere else where they are hiding. We are committed to win this war.”
“Hamas, Hezbollah and the people who support them are not political activists concerned about Palestinian people,” Gerard Filitti, senior counsel with #EndJewHatred told JNS.
“After I heard the lies and slanders leveled at my country by many of the speakers at this podium, I decided to come here and set the record straight. I decided to come here to speak for my people,” he said.
Israel’s prime minister chastises the United Nations, saying “enough is enough” of Hezbollah’s attacks on northern border cities and villages.
“We’ve always decided that we’re not going to be insular. We’re not going to be turtles in a shell,” Aviva Klompas told JNS.
The head of the Palestinian Authority also said that Israel doesn’t deserve membership in the world body, as he nods to anti-Israel protesters in America, saying “we are grateful” to them.
