Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon is calling foul over a resolution lambasting Israel over “economic and social” hardships imposed on Palestinians and Syrian Druze living under Israeli rule.
UN soldiers watch as an ICRC (International Committee of the Red Cross) truck loaded with apples crosses at the Quneitra crossing between the Israeli Golan Heights and Syria, February 2011. (Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)
Danon’s main issue with the statement by the United Nations Economic and Social Council is that Syria isn’t also mentioned for suffering caused by the civil war there.
“This is a completely biased and baseless resolution,” Danon says in a statement. “Countries that vote for such a resolution that singles out Israel and condemns the economic situation in the Golan while ignoring the hundreds of thousands of Syrians butchered on the other side of the border, only encourage future disgraceful initiatives.”
The UN panel condemned Israel for the “economic and social repercussions of the occupation on the living conditions of the Palestinian people in the occupied Palestinian territories, including East Jerusalem and the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan,” according to the Israeli statement.
Danon also raises hackles over the fact that the PA is not similarly raked over the coals for its supposed part in impeding Palestinian economic growth.
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