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“This should be a time not to run and hide but to indeed prove that Zionism is not racism,” Rep. Joe Wilson told attendees.
“Thank you for supporting Israel at the United Nations with clear moral clarity,” the Israeli president told the U.S. envoy in Jerusalem.
The event, meant to build dialogue among media members and ideas toward advancing Israeli-Palestinian peace, again featured a pro-BDS panelist.
Waltz is scheduled to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Isaac Herzog.
The delegation aims “to listen and learn, and to evaluate the leadership, especially in Syria,” Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. Danny Danon told JNS.
“It is very clear that journalists should never come under any violence,” Stéphane Dujarric said, after the special rapporteur said that an attack on an Italian paper should be a “warning.”
“Israel will not return to the 1967 lines and will not abandon the Golan. Not now, not ever,” Danny Danon said following the General Assembly resolution demanding an Israeli withdrawal.
The resolution has been widely misinterpreted as conferring implicit recognition of Palestinian statehood. In fact, it establishes rigorous, multi-layered preconditions, all subject to Board of Peace assessment.
Ambassador to Lebanon Michel Issa says Jerusalem doesn’t need American permission to defend itself • Israel warns UNIFIL leaks aid the terror group.
“Palestinians remain embedded in the rejectionist camp. It’s time for Palestinians to change their tune,” the Foreign Ministry tweeted.
The effects of the 1975 Zionism-Racism resolution remain an indelible component of the realities in today’s Middle East.
The Authority’s “weakness” means not only that it can’t disarm Hamas but that “Israel is left to dismantle the terror networks they refuse to confront” in Judea and Samaria, the Israeli envoy said.
