‘’Israel is the only place where Christians in the Middle East are safe,” Father Gabriel Naddaf, an Israeli Arab Greek Orthodox priest from Nazareth, told a session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva earlier this week.
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has called on the United Nations to form a permanent global coalition to fight terrorism, and not solely focus on the Islamic State (IS) group.
On Monday, September 8, the Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk met with the delegation of the American Jewish Committee (AJC) headed by Executive Director David Harris. The delegation arrived on September 7. Chairman of the Association of Jewish Communities and Organizations of Ukraine (VAAD Ukraine) Josef Zissels was also present at the meeting.
‘’The UN has decided to come and check Israel – the only democracy in the Middle East, a democracy which is acting legitimately to defend its citizens against murderous terrorism,’’ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a press conference after a meeting in Jerusalem with visiting New York Governor Andrew M.Cuomo.
Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Ron Prosor, played an air raid siren from a cell phone during a UN Security Council session on Thursday in order to highlight Israel’s plight as a nation under fire from Gaza rockets.
The World Jewish Congress today welcomed the passage in Israel this week of a law naming November 30 as the national day for commemorating the flight of Jewish refugees from Arab lands.
The World Jewish Congress (WJC) has condemned a resolution adopted Friday by the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church USA which endorses divestment from three American companies that allegedly “profit from Israel’s occupation of Palestinian lands.”
