Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Tzipi Hotovely (Likud) on Thursday called on UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to withdraw the new ESCWA report on Israel’s role in Gaza, Judea and Samaria and the Golan Heights which “is based on lies and is all calumny and defamation of Israel.”
Titled “Economic and social repercussions of the Israeli occupation on the living conditions of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and of the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan,” the report, like the vast majority of UN reports of this kind, exists in a universe in which there is are Hamas terrorists digging terror tunnels while starving their own civilian population; no Fatah terrorists employed by the Palestinian Authority to shoot into Israeli cars on the highway; no plague of Arabs of all ages firebombing, shooting, stabbing and ramming innocent Jewish civilians.
In the best spirit of the old headline, “It all began when Israeli retaliated,” the report reads as a piece of fine Dada poetry, except the authors are UN employees, and the poem is a composite of Anti-Israel news headlines, bereft of context or even the merest attempt at comprehension.
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Hotovely said in a statement: “The IDF protects children while Hamas uses children as human shields. We are facing a cruel enemy that systematically violates human rights. Instead of writing reports on Hamas’ violations, ESCWA strikes at a country that operates according to moral values and protects human rights in the entire region.”
“As long as the industry of untruthful reports continues at the UN, and elements with political interests prepare this papers under the guise of professional reports, the UN cannot be an honest player and will continue to be severely criticized,” Hotovely concluded.
And even that much of a response was probably a waste of a nice woman’s time.