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Palestinian diplomat: We'll continue teaching our kids to throw stones
[Ynet] Abdallah Abushawesh, member of the Paleostinian delegation to the UN, tells visiting Canadian students 'We're experts at throwing stones, we are very proud to do that,' adding he 'never missed an opportunity to throw stones' during the first intifada.A Paleostinian diplomat speaking to students at the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... headquarters in New York told them the Paleostinians were proud to be throwing stones at Israeli forces and will continue teaching their children to do so. In a recording obtained by Ynet, Abdallah Abushawesh, who serves as a senior adviser to the UN's Development Group and as a member of the Paleostinian UN mission, is heard saying in broken English, "We are very clever and very expert at throwing the stones. We are very proud to do that. We will not stop to learn our kids (to do that)." To the sound of sniggering from his listeners, Abushawesh went on to say that every Paleostinian caught throwing stones by Israel gets sent to jail. "We are very proud that we are stone throwers. I'm one of them. Now I became a little bit older, but I stay resistant in the name of my kids," he continued. The Paleostinian diplomat later told the students about his own past as a stone-thrower during the first intifada. "I was in high school. I never missed an opportunity to throw stones. This is our life. We develop our resistance every day. We're proud of it," he said. Abushawesh was speaking to a group of international relations students from McGill University who were at the UN for a tour and a series of meetings as part of their program. The students also met with Paleostinian envoy to the UN, Riyad Mansour, who told them about Paleostinian efforts to be recognized as a state by the UN. "There's a country in the Security Council, the US, which won't allow us to realize what's ours, and it is blocking us for political and ideological reasons, and not for legal reasons," Mansour said. Israel's Ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, slammed Abushawesh's comments, saying, "The Paleostinians are no longer trying to hide the truth. The Paleostinian leadership and its representatives are inciting against Israel and openly encouraging terrorism. The international community must not allow it." "It cannot be that inside the UN, which is supposed to make peace and protect human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... , a diplomat will incite to violence and terrorism, which wound and even kill innocent Israelis," Danon added. Posted by: trailing wife 2018-02-14 |
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