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He [BENJAMIN NETANYAHU, Prime Minister of Israel] expressed Israel’s appreciation to President Trump and Ambassador Nikki Haley for their unwavering support for Israel at the United Nations, including Israel’s right to defend itself. The United States has also backed out of a history‑denying United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and a morally bankrupt Human Rights Council. It stopped funding an unreformed United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) that instead of solving the Palestinian refugee problem, perpetuates it. President Trump stood up to what has long been a speciality at the United Nations: slandering Israel. Recalling the United Nations resolution comparing Zionism to racism had been repealed long ago, he said that opinion still lingers at the Organization. Israel is accused of racism, yet its Arab citizens have the same individual rights as all other Israeli citizens. Israel is also accused of apartheid. “This is the same old anti-Semitism with a brand-new face,” he underscored.
President Abbas said that Israel’s new nation-State law proves that Israel is a racist apartheid State, he continued. Yet, Mr. Abbas’s dissertation denied the Holocaust and Palestinian authorities impose death sentences on Palestinians who sell land to Jews. Stating that President Abbas proudly pays Palestinian terrorists who murder Jews, he stressed that such actions are not the way to a peace that is wanted and needed and to which Israel remains committed. In the Middle East, where women are often treated as property, minorities are persecuted, and gays are hanged, Israel stands out as a shining example of freedom and progress. Commending Israel’s teachers, doctors, and search and rescue teams who save lives from Haiti to Mexico, from Nepal to the Philippines, he said he is most proud of his country’s people who are determined to build a secure future for the one and only Jewish State.
Document Sources: General Assembly, State
Country: Israel, United States of America
Subject: Education and culture, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Jerusalem, Legal issues, Peace process, Refugees and displaced persons
Publication Date: 27/09/2018
URL source: https://gadebate.un.org/en/73/israel