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Israel: Palestinians use UN chief’s words for ‘terror’ Israel: Palestinians use UN chief’s words for ‘terror’
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UNITED NATIONS — Israel’s U.N. ambassador says the Palestinian leadership has started using recent statements by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon “to justify deplorable acts of terror,” and he calls on the U.N. chief to withdraw his words. UNITED NATIONS — Israel’s U.N. ambassador on Monday said the Palestinian leadership has started using recent statements by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon “to justify deplorable acts of terror,” and he called on the U.N. chief to withdraw them.
Danny Danon said in a letter to Ban dated Saturday that his statements have been widely interpreted as creating “two categories of terror: terror directed at Israelis and terror directed at the rest of the world.” In a letter to Ban, Danny Danon cited recent Palestinian killings of Israelis. He said Ban’s statements have been interpreted as creating “two categories of terror: terror directed at Israelis and terror directed at the rest of the world.”
The secretary-general said last month that “it is human nature to react to occupation” and that Israeli settlement building is “an affront to the Palestinian people.” Addressing the U.N. Security Council last month, the secretary-general urged Israel to freeze settlement-building, calling it “an affront to the Palestinian people.” He also expressed understanding of Palestinian frustrations, saying that “as oppressed peoples have demonstrated throughout the ages, it is human nature to react to occupation.”
U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said Monday that the secretary-general will not withdraw his statements and “stands by every word he has used.” He said Ban has repeatedly condemned terror and terrorism. U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said Monday that Ban “stands by every word he has used.”
Dujarric said the secretary-general has repeatedly condemned “terror and has said that absolutely nothing, nothing, justifies terrorism.”
Danon quoted Raafat Alian, the Jerusalem spokesman for the Palestinian Fatah party, as telling the Donia Al-Watan news site that Israel’s actions against the Palestinian people “cannot go unanswered without natural responses.”
“Rather than criticizing Israel, a country that has lost so many of its citizens to terror, the U.N. should hold the perpetrators responsible,” Danon wrote.
The secretary-general responded to earlier Israeli criticism of his remarks in a New York Times opinion piece last week entitled “Don’t Shoot the Messenger, Israel.”
Ban wrote that he would always stand up for Israel’s right to exist, but added that “the time has come for Israelis, Palestinians and the international community to read the writing on the wall: The status quo is untenable. Keeping another people under indefinite occupation undermines the security and the future of both Israelis and Palestinians.”
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