Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid criticizes a UN report expected to come out this week on Operation Protective Edge, Israel’s war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip last summer.
“In the coming days the UN Report on Protective Edge will be published. This is a report that was born in sin, and it should be treated as such. The founding of the committee is a further example that the United Nations is an organization which has lost its mind. A quarter of a million people dead in Syria, Iraq is falling apart, beheadings in Saudi Arabia, a million dead in Sudan, Libya has ceased to exist as a functioning state and only Israel is obsessively investigated again and again and again, always with the assumption that the Jews are to blame for everything,” he says.
Yesh Atid party leader Yair Lapid seen during a swearing in ceremony for the 20th Knesset on March 31, 2015 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
Lapid makes a point of noting that the mandate of the report begins on June 13th. “For those who don’t remember that’s one day after the kidnapping of Gilad Shaer, Naftali Fraenkel and Eyal Yifrah, may their memories be blessed. They decided not to investigate that sickening act by Palestinian terrorists. If that isn’t hypocrisy then I don’t know what is,” Lapid says.
Shaer, Fraenkel and Yifrah are three West Bank teens whose kidnapping and subsequent murder by Hamas terrorists is widely seen as the cassus belli that made Israel launch its 50-day campaign in Gaza.
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