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Israeli ambassadors have been getting away with this risible posturing for too long, he added. King David felled Goliath with a stone and Erdan invites legitimate comparison between the Palestinian kids and the Israeli Goliath, poor and defenseless protected only by drones, missiles, planes and tanks from the rapacious stone throwers”. “But Erdan seems to have forgotten his claimed history.

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In 2021, he said, “Israelis suffered 1,775 rock attacks by Palestinian terrorists in addition to thousands of missiles, shootings, stabbings, and car ramming attacks”.īut for obvious reasons the rising Palestinian body count went unmentioned-nor Israeli military attacks on civilians.Īsked for his comments, Ian Williams, President of the Foreign Press Association in New York, told IPS having no sense of perspective is career plus for any Israeli representative at the UN. To make it clear that rocks are life-threatening weapons, Ambassador Erdan presented the Council with a rock to illustrate what was happening on the roads of Judea and Samaria and Jerusalem, asking the participants “how they would react if a similar rock were thrown at their vehicles”. Stephane Dujarric, the UN Spokesperson, provided a diplomatically cautious response: “I’m not going to get into that… it’s not for me to speak.”ĭuring a debate on January 19, Ambassador Erdan sharply criticized the “Security Council’s bias, and in particular, the Council’s utter disregard for Palestinian rock-throwing terrorism”. UNITED NATIONS, (IPS) - When Israeli Ambassador Gilat Erdan made an unusual presentation before the Security Council last week displaying a large rock, which he claimed, was hurled at Israeli vehicles in the Occupied Territories, a reporter at a UN press conference asked whether Palestinians will be given the right of reply- by displaying in the Security Council chamber an Uzi sub- machine gun or a bulldozer deployed by Israeli armed forces against civilian demonstrations.

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