Netanyahu Accuses Ban Of Encouraging Terror

“As oppressed peoples have demonstrated throughout the ages, it is human nature to react to occupation”, the United Nations chief said.

Addressing the recent incidents of stabbings of Israeli civilians and soldiers by Palestinians, he said vengeful acts could not be justified, the reaction is more or less natural from people who are being ejected from their homes by use of force and violence.

“If the French want to play a useful and positive role in the Middle East, they can’t stand behind an initiative that is against Israel and only antagonises us”, said Nahshon.

He said the council should no longer accept excuses that any action against Israel – even if it was to uphold global law and human rights standard – was either anti-Semitic or would jeopardise the possibility for peace talks.

At the beginning of the debate, the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned that Palestinian frustration is growing under the weight of half a century of occupation and a paralyzed peace process.

“And finally, the whole global community must be ever more committed to actively help Palestinians and Israelis to rebuild trust and achieve an enduring peace before it is too late”, he said.

“The Secretary General’s apparent justification of Palestinian terrorism, coming only moments after he condemned Palestinian attacks against Israelis, is a highly disturbing and incredibly short sighted statement”.

Israel’s defence ministry, however, has approved the construction of 153 new settler homes in the West Bank, the Israeli settlement watchdog Peace Now said on Monday.

Violence over the past four months in the region has killed 159 Palestinians and 25 Israelis, and Mr Netanyahu claimed Palestinian killers “want to murder Jews wherever they are”.

Last week, Israel declared 370 acres in the West Bank, south of Jericho, as state land.

Another woman was wounded before a guard shot dead both assailants.

Israel blames the violence on Palestinian incitement.

There are now about 550,000 Jewish settlers living in the West Bank and East Jerusalem combined, according to Israeli government and think-tank statistics.

US Ambassador Samantha Power said the United States “strongly opposes” settlement activity that she described as “fundamentally incompatible with the two-state solution”.

The Israeli army barred Palestinian laborers from entering Israeli settlements where they work in response to last week’s attacks, preventing some 11,000 Palestinians from reaching their work. Shlomit Krigman, a 23 year-old Israeli woman, just passed away after being brutally stabbed by Palestinian terrorists while she was visiting her grandparents.