Netanyahu thanks Kagame for his country’s support of Israel in international forums, blasting the UN for “denying history.”
“We see how you stand up for Israel in international forums, and you already expressed a simple principle… which is that bilateral relationships should be reflected in multilateral forums,” he says at the welcoming ceremony held at the President’s Residence.
“There is a dissonance between us and a few other nations still,” Netanyahu says, calling recent measures taken at UNESCO “absurd,” and a “denial of history, of the Bible.”
“These absurdities still take place in international forums, and they cause damage to those forums. They cannot change the truth,” he adds. “My hope is that over time, over a decade, this will change in international forums.”
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