The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) strongly condemned a United Nationd Human Rights Council (UNHRC) resolution calling for the creation of a “blacklist” of companies operating in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank), eastern Jerusalem and the Golan Heights.
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has expressed disappointment at a statement by UNs Secretary General Ban Ki-moon which appeared to justify the current wave of Palestinian terror as “human nature.”
“Abu Mazen's speech was filled with falsehood, deceitful and encourages incitement and lawlessness in the Middle East,” Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday after Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s fiery speech to the United Nations General Assembly.
The Middle East was the major talking point Monday as world leaders took to the podium on the first day of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, UN ambassadors from several countries and Jewish community leaders took part last Monday in the Tashlich ritual cetemony to cast away their sins before Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonment, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar.
If the Palestinians force a vote before January 1, knowing they will not get the nine votes needed, then it is clear that they are interested in a defeat in order to avoid a US veto.
If the Palestinians force a vote before January 1, knowing they will not get the nine votes needed, then it is clear that they are interested in a defeat in order to avoid a US veto.
Senior Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said that a controversial Palestinian-led UN Security Council resolution would be submitted today with several amendments to the original version tabled earlier this month.
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) said U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon showed a “stunning lack of objectivity” in his recent remarks in Ramallah and Jerusalem, and earlier in Cairo.
