DANON TO UN SECRETARY-GENERAL: CONDEMN ABBAS’S ‘HATEFUL’ AND ‘RACIST’ SPEECH

JANUARY 16, 2018 01:03

"These statements sadly remind us of the racist words of the worst regimes of the previous century."

NEW YORK - Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon demanded on Monday that Secretary General António Guterres condemn an inflammatory speech delivered by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas the previous day.

In a letter sent to Guterres’s office, Danon claimed that the PA leader had disparaged the State of Israel with “hateful” and “racist” language as he questioned the country’s right to exist. 

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