Jeane Kirkpatrick, the United States Ambassador to the United Nations, said that by treating Israel harshly in the world organization, the nations of the free world are bringing about the destruction of the UN and all it was established to represent.
The envoy told more than 1,200 lay and rabbinic leaders attending the 84th anniversary national dinner of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America at the New York Hilton Sunday night that the United States, “in defending Israel against the blatant, harsh, destructive and murderous attacks and delegitimization is defending the United Nations against the ultimate falsification of itself and its purposes.”
A substantial part of the anti-Israel rhetoric, the Ambassador explained, was a systematic effort to trivialize and falsify the Holocaust by using the word “holocaust” to refer to other destruction and by accusing Israel of the very crimes to which the Jews were subjected during World War II.
SAYS THE HOLOCAUST WAS UNIQUELY JEWISH
The Ambassador stressed that the Holocaust was uniquely Jewish, “a tragedy which grew from the deliberate policies of a government which embodied an ideology of hatred.” That ideology lives on, she continued, “in the resolutions acquiesced to, or even supported as moderate by all too many of our colleagues in the United Nations.”
Mrs. Kirkpatrick stressed that “the Holocaust did not begin with building crematoria; it began with uttering evil words, with defamation. “She suggested that the defamation in the UN resolutions and documents equating Zionism with racism and comparing Israel’s actions to Nazi tactics, was aimed at depriving Israel of its moral and political legitimacy.
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