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January 29, 2016

The UN Secretary-General’s Outrageous Defense of Palestinian Terror

And his misdiagnosis of its cause.

At a UN Security Council meeting on Tuesday to discuss the “situation in the Middle East,” Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon opened with a long speech focused almost exclusively on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, making only a passing reference to the war in Syria and none at all to that in Yemen. Ban took pains in his speech to justify Palestinian terror by asserting that “it is human nature to react to occupation, which often serves as an incubator of hate and extremism.” Jonathan Tobin writes:

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