It is time other delegates punctured their pretensions and challenged them–or just audibly hooted in derision, declared Williams, author of UNtold: The Real Story of the United Nations in Peace and War. Israeli ambassadors have been getting away with this risible posturing for too long. King David felled Goliath with a stone and Erdan invites legitimate comparison between the Palestinian kids and the Israeli Goliath, poor and defenceless protected only by drones, missiles, planes and tanks from the rapacious stone throwers”. “But Erdan seems to have forgotten his claimed history.
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Ian Williams, President of the Foreign Press Association in New York, told IPS having no sense of perspective is career plus for any Israeli representative at the UN.
In 2021, he said, “Israelis suffered 1,775 rock attacks by Palestinian terrorists in addition to thousands of missiles, shootings, stabbings, and car ramming attacks”.īut for obvious reasons the rising Palestinian body count went unmentioned–nor Israeli military attacks on civilians. To make it clear that rocks are life-threatening weapons, Ambassador Erdan presented the Council with a rock to illustrate what was happening on the roads of Judea and Samaria and Jerusalem, asking the participants “how they would react if a similar rock was thrown at their vehicles”. Stephane Dujarric, the UN Spokesperson, provided a diplomatic response: “I’m not going to get into that… it’s not for me to speak.”ĭuring a debate on January 19, Ambassador Erdan sharply criticised the “Security Council’s bias, and in particular, the Council’s utter disregard for Palestinian rock-throwing terrorism”. The Palestinian Salhiya family's house was bulldozed by Israeli forces on Wednesday.
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