UN General Assembly president calls for boycott of Israel

Dandelion Salad
by Yitzhak Benhorin
http://www.ynetnews.com
11.25.08, 20:21

After his controversial embrace with Iran’s Ahmadinejad, UN General Assembly president sparks Jerusalem’s ire once more after calling for international boycott on Israel

WASHINGTON – Israel filed a formal complaint with the United Nations on Tuesday over statements made by UN General Assembly President, Father Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann of Nicaragua, who called for an international boycott of Israel after accusing it of being an apartheid regime. D’Escoto went on to decry the plight of the Palestinians, describing the failure to create a Palestinian state as “the single greatest failure in the history of the United Nations.”

The United Nations is currently marking its annual International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, which is set on the anniversary of the 1947 date it adopted Resolution 181, calling for the partition of the land under British control into two states – Jewish and Arab.

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In his address on Monday d’Escoto said: “Although different, what is being done against the Palestinian people seems to me to be a version of the highest policy of apartheid.” D’Escoto said the fact that Palestinians still had no statehood represents the “single greatest failure” of the UN.

The General Assembly president called on international institutions to boycott Israel and sever its financial ties to the world, and for the imposing of sanctions against Jerusalem.

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