In the Finnish Statist Media YLE: “UN blames Israel for the first time for racial discrimination of Palestinians”
YLE could have opted for its own subhead title of : UN Headquarters aghast by ESCWA’s report, but that wouldn’t have given the same shock as the one they chose to run with.
I’ll bet dollars to doughnuts that if Hillary Clinton was president, the UN Secretariat would have signed off on that ridiculous report.
ISRAEL SLAMS UN REPORT, DISMISSES ‘APARTHEID REGIME’ CLAIM
BY REUTERS MARCH 16, 2017 06:50
The United States, an ally of Israel, said it was outraged by the report.
An agency published a report on Wednesday accusing Israel of imposing an “apartheid regime” of racial discrimination on the Palestinian people, and said it was the first time a UN body had clearly made the charge.
Israel’s Foreign Ministry spokesman likened the report, which was published by the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), to Der Sturmer – a Nazi propaganda publication that was strongly anti-Semitic.
UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters in New York that the report was published without any prior consultation with the UN secretariat.
“The report as it stands does not reflect the views of the secretary-general (Antonio Guterres),” said Dujarric, adding that the report itself notes that it reflects the views of the authors.
The United States, an ally of Israel, said it was outraged by the report.
“The United Nations secretariat was right to distance itself from this report, but it must go further and withdraw the report altogether,” the US ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, said in a statement.
The Israeli ministry spokesman, Emmanuel Nahshon, commenting on Twitter, also noted the report had not been endorsed by the UN secretary-general.
“The attempt to smear and falsely label the only true democracy in the Middle East by creating a false analogy is despicable and constitutes a blatant lie,” Israel’s UN Ambassador Danny Danon said in a statement.
US Abassador to UN, Nikki Haley:
