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Moscow’s defeated draft resolution was intended to embarrass Washington by forcing it to veto a ceasefire, a diplomatic source tells JNS.
“‘Never Again,’ my friends, is now,” said Linda Thomas-Greenfield, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
“This most recent violence does not come in a vacuum,” claimed António Guterres, the United Nations secretary-general. “The reality is that it grows out of a long-standing conflict, with a 56-year long occupation and no political end in sight.”
The motion, led by Pakistani envoy Zaman Mehdi on behalf of the OIC, did not mention Hamas or terrorism, and blamed Israel for “breeding violence.”
“What’s important now is the international community show its solidarity with Israel. We have Israel’s back fully,” said U.S. deputy ambassador to the United Nations Robert Wood.
We have been invaded by what most members of the United Nations recognize as the “State of Palestine.”
The sites are the second Jewish ones in Germany to be designated on the Wold Heritage List, which recognizes places of “outstanding universal value.”
“The whole thing is reminiscent of medieval disputations,” said Jonathan Turner of UK Lawyers for Israel.
Linda Thomas-Greenfield took aim at Palestinian Authority leader, calling his recent comments “blatantly antisemitic,” which “wrongly maligned the Jewish people and distorted the Holocaust.”
The prime minister lauded his government’s achievements at last week’s U.N. General Assembly.
“The use or threat of use of nuclear weapons constitutes a clear violation of international law and the U.N. Charter, especially from Israel,” said Iran’s U.N. ambassador.
The leftist anti-Zionist group Jewish Voice for Peace was among those who organized the event.
