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| US demands UN pull report accusing Israel of apartheid |
| 2017-03-16 |
| [IsraelTimes] Envoy Nikki Haley ...first woman to serve as Governor of South Carolina, and the second Indian-American governor in the country, after Bobby Jindal of Louisiana. At the age of 39, Haley is the youngest current governor in the U.S., a distinction formerly held by Jindal. She is a Republican, which really grates on the Dems... says Washington outraged by publication; Sec-Gen Guterres distances self from it; Israel slams it as ’despicable. Guterres distanced himself from the report by the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) but US Ambassador Nikki Haley said it should be scrapped altogether. "The United States is outraged by the report," said Haley in a statement. "The United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... secretariat was right to distance itself from this report, but it must go further and withdraw the report altogether." Based in Beirut, ESCWA is comprised of 18 Arab countries, according to its website, which lists the state of Paleostine as a full member, and works to strengthen cooperation and promote development. "That such anti-Israel propaganda would come from a body whose membership nearly universally does not recognize Israel is unsurprising," said Haley. Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon earlier slammed the commission for releasing the report which accuses Israel of establishing "an apartheid regime that oppresses and dominates the Paleostinian people as a whole." The report was compiled by Richard Falk, a Princeton professor emeritus with a long track record of vehemently anti-Israel rhetoric who previously was the UN’s Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Paleostine, and by Virginia Tilley, an American political scientist who authored the book "The One-State Solution" in 2005. Haley described Falk as "a man who has repeatedly made biased and deeply offensive comments about Israel and espoused ridiculous conspiracy theories." |
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