Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu today, 25 Adar 5772 condemned the attack perpetrated at France’s Otzar HaTorah School in Toulouse.
Speaking to members of his party at a Knesset Likud faction meeting, the prime minister stated that he has total confidence in French officials and the ongoing investigation, explaining it is too soon to know the details behind the fatal attack, but he did state one cannot rule a anti-Semitic attack.
Mr. Netanyahu stated, “Today we had a savage crime in France that gunned down French Jews, among them children. It’s too early to say what the precise background for this act of murder is, but I think that we can’t rule out that there was a strong murderous anti-Semitic motive here. I’m sure that Nicolas Sarkozy, the President of France, and his government will do their utmost to find the killer and we, in Israel will do everything to help them in this task.
“I haven’t heard yet a condemnation from any of the UN bodies but I have heard that one such body, the UN Human Rights Council, invited on this very day a senior representative of Hamas – on this day, when we had the savage murder, they chose to invite a member of Hamas. This particular individual condemned the United States for disposing of the arch-murderer Bin Laden, and he represents an organization that indiscriminately targets children and grown-ups, and women and men. Innocents – is their special favorite target. They kill Jews anywhere – that’s their constitution – kill Jews wherever you find them – that’s what they do. And this is what the Human Rights Council decided to do today – to bring in to its quarters a member of Hamas. So I have one thing to say to the UN Human Rights Council: What do you have to do with human right? You should be ashamed of yourselves.”
Regarding the UN, he pointed to human rights officials, explaining not only was the international body silent, the human rights commission is too busy to release a condemnatory statement because officials were meeting with Hamas’ Ismail al-Ashkar, reminding the media that this was the same Hamas that issued a condemnation when US special forces eliminated Osama Bin Laden. “What do you have to do with human rights? You should be ashamed of yourself!” he concluded.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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Probably since if it is a domestic right-winger, who has also been targetting French citizens of Arab and Africa descent, it would be a domestic matter and highly inappropriate for the UN to comment.
If it turns out to have been done by persons with connections outside of France (e.g. al Queda) it becomes a serious international incident.
I’m not understanding why Netanyahu is acting surprised? By so doing he is perpetuating the fraud that the U.N.is an impartial world body. They have more than proven themselves to be a biased organization with a sickening double standard when it comes to Jews and Israel. One need to look no further than Syria and contrast the U.N.’S silence to Assad’s slaughter of thousands of civilians and contrast that with its countless ringing condemnations of Israel at every turn.
At least they didn’t blame israel and condemn them for this too! Natanyahu should be thrilled with this!
According to the telegraph (uk) the un condemned the atttacks