For UN Secretary-General Bank Ki-Moon the venue must have been a comfortable one, seated among his fellow anti-Semites as Iranian supreme religious leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei spoke, emphasizing Iran’s nuclear program is for nuclear energy and nothing more.

Also attending the conference was Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, who received a royal welcome, red carpet with all the trimmings, adding to Western concerns regarding the former Muslim Brotherhood official’s loyalties.

The Egyptian president and others were attending the 120-nation Non-Aligned Movement summit.

The UN leader remained silent as the Ayatollah spoke of the “Zionist henchmen”, speaking of Israel’s “crimes” and that Israel is aided by the West.

Ayatollah spoke of Israel “waging wars, massacres, and state-sponsored terror”, then moving to the USA which “supports and defends the Zionist regime against the oppressed Palestinian nation”.

The UN leader continued to listen attentively, in quiet, apparently comforted by the realization he was among his own element, without even a hint of protest to set the record straight.

When he had his chance to speak, the UN leader did release a condemnatory statement, but a carefully worded one not mentioning Iran by name.

“I strongly reject threats by any member state to destroy another or outrageous attempts to deny historical facts such as the Holocaust… Claiming that Israel does not have the right to exist or describing it in racist terms is not only wrong but undermines the very principle we all have pledged to uphold,” he added.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)