The Prime Minister’s Office today condemned the current session of the United Nations Security Council which was convened Tuesday in the aftermath of the shooting spree at the Temple Mount last Sunday.
The Office issued a blistering statement which noted that “a human tragedy was used to summon the meeting and voice terrible charges against the people in Israel. This is a blood libel against the Jewish people in its homeland, and the democratic world again stands aside and keeps quiet.” The statement added: “The days in which the Jewish people was defenseless and paid with the blood of his sons have passed and will not return.”
The statement recalled that the countries that were behind the convening of the Council were the grossest aggressors against innocent people. Syria, it noted, unleashed a blood bath against the people in Hamma and has been responsible for killing civilians in Lebanon; Iraq launched an aggressive war against its neighbor Iran; and Iran itself has returned to the dark days of the Middle Ages.
The Security Council session was requested by Iraq and Morocco on behalf of the Organization of the Islamic Conference. It is expected to be a long and acrimonious session.
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