Israel’s United Nations Amb.
Prosor: Watch Out Because You’re Next
"The battle we fight
today is the same battle that you all will fight tomorrow." -
Ambassador
Prosor. By: Jewish Press Staff Published: August 7th, 2014
Israel’s Ambassador to the
United Nations Ron Prosor warned the United Nations Wednesday that its
willingness to be held ”hostage” by human rights abusers will boomerang on the
entire world.
“Today I am here to issue a
warning: Stand with Israel and stand against terror before it is too late,
before the danger lands on your doorstep and self-preservation strikes its
jarring gong,” Prosor said at a special session of the General Assembly that
dumped on Israel. His remark was a quote in a
statement by Winston Churchill in 1935, four years before World War II, when he
referred to the world’s allowing Germany to re-arm and stated, “The family of
nations suffered from a want of foresight, an unwillingness to act when action
would be simple and effective, and a lack of clear thinking and confusion of
counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring
gong.”
Prosor told the ambassadors of
the world that “Hamas must be disarmed, Gaza must be demilitarized., and the
international community must divorce itself from the romantic notion of Hamas
as ‘freedom fighters.’” He cited the numbers of people
killed in Arab countries and silence from the Arab world.
“In Iraq, over 1,600 people
were killed in July. In Libya, clashes between rival militias killed 200 people
last month. In Nigeria, Boko Haram has slaughtered nearly 3,000 people this
year,” Prosor explained. “It may just be me, but I didn’t hear the Arab group
rally to condemn these atrocities. Instead, this group gangs up against the
only democratic nation in the Middle East that is defending its citizens from
the totalitarian forces threatening every enlightened country in this
Assembly.”
“Israel is on the frontline of
the war against radical extremism,” Prosor added. “The battle we fight today is
the same battle that you all will fight tomorrow….
And yet, some of you have
abandoned the only democracy in the Middle East standing against the tide of
terrorism. What does this say about your values? What does it mean for the next
generation? This institution is being held hostage by some in this Assembly who
are the worst human rights abusers.”
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