Posted on 05/01/2008 8:33:17 AM PDT by forkinsocket
France led a walkout at the United Nations last week after Libya’s Deputy Ambassador compared the Israeli military’s treatment of the Palestinians in Gaza to the way the Nazis sent Jews to concentration camps.
French Ambassador Jean Maurice Ripert was followed by Americian, British, Belgian and Costa Rican diplomats after Ibrahim Dabbashi made the comments during a private meeting on the situation in the Middle East.
The meeting was postponed following the walkout. Britain's deputy ambassador, Karen Pierce, said: “A number of council members were dismayed by the approach taken by Libya and do not believe that such language helps advance the peace process.”
The Anti-Defamation League praised the diplomats who left the meeting and described the comments as "deeply insulting."
ADL National Director Abraham Foxman said: “There can be no comparison between Israel's effort to defend its citizens against terrorism and the Nazis' systematic killing of six million Jews in the Holocaust.
"Any attempt to equate the two is odious, patently false and deeply insulting to the memory of the millions of Jews who perished in the Holocaust, to the survivors and their families and to the entire Jewish community."
In a letter to U.N. Security Council President Dumisani S. Kumalo, the League called for an official statement condemning the Libyan representative for using the forum of the Security Council “as a platform for anti-semitism".
The letter said: “The apparent silence of the Presidency and other members of the Council create a perception of agreement with the views expressed by the Libyan representative.”
France!
Good for all of them! The nations who didn't join them should hang their heads in shame.
I see, go figure!
“France!”
I had to read that part twice to make sure it wasn’t a typo.
Kudos to those that walked out.
Eventually, people will get tired of these savages and action will be taken.
Action LOOOOONG overdue.
Thought this was going to be an article about Jimmuh Carter.
Ils ont quelques oeufs!!
We need to take that UN real estate on Manhattan and level the existing buildings. We need to build a freedom and enterprise headquarters there and get the brightest and best to work there and tell the joke UN to GTFO of our country.
Well, if they’re going to get accused of it anyway.
France led? WOW!
Perhaps the old post WW1 wheenie generation of Frenchie’s are being replaced those who have a pair.
Muslims already run the UN.
Wait until they use high oil prices to leverage a seat on the security council.
France? I think it time I visited them again?
I had to read twice to make sure I read it correctly! France led the walkout?!?!?!? Well knock me out with a feather! I’ll do something I’ve rarely done in years....applaud France!
Now if the US and Israel would get out of the UN, kick the UN off of US soil, level the former UN buildings and build something useful on the site, that would be even better.
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