The United States, voting against another U.N. body’s resolution condemning Israeli actions in the administered territories, made a statement Tuesday deriding the organization’s view of Israel as one of a make-believe world.
It also indicated it would continue its dialogue with the Palestine Liberation Organization.
Marshall Breger, a member of the U.S. delegation to the U.N. Human Rights Commission meeting here, said after the vote Tuesday, “In dealing with the Arab-Israeli conflict, this and other United Nations bodies have created an artificial language having little, if any, relation to reality.
“A semi-official ‘Newspeak’ reminiscent of George Orwell has grown up, an Alice-in-Wonderland language, in which the world is turned inside out.”
The resolution, which once again called on Israel to withdraw from the territories and welcomed the Palestinians’ declaration of an independent state, was adopted by a roll-call vote of 31 in favor and one — the United States — against. There were two abstentions.
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