Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton A. Klein and ZOA Director of Research and Special Projects Elizabeth Berney, Esq. released the following statement:
During her remarks at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on October 19, 2021, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield called for the UNSC to reduce its criticism of Israel and adopt “a more balanced approach.” But then Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield engaged in the same type of unbalanced criticism of Israel that she complained about.
The U.S. Ambassador exaggerated and condemned (rare to non-existent) “violence perpetrated by Israeli settlers in the West Bank against Palestinians and their property” – but said nothing about Palestinian Arab terrorists’ daily, too often deadly, shooting, firebombing, boulder-throwing, car-ramming and pipe-bombing attacks on Jews. Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield also said nothing about the Palestinian-Authority’s continuing payments of $400 million per year of “pay to slay” lifetime pensions incentivizing and rewarding Arabs to murder Jews.
Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield also said nothing about the Palestinian Authority’s non-stop incitement to spill Jewish blood, in official Palestinian Arab newspapers, television, social media, schools, textbooks (even math problems add and subtract “martyrs for Palestine”), sports teams, television specials, government ceremonies, and posters honoring terrorists who murdered Jews, displayed throughout the Palestinian Authority.
In just three “normal” months this past summer (June-August 2021), Arab terrorists perpetrated 469 terror attacks – including 19 pipe bomb attacks, 18 shootings, 100 firebomb attacks, 27 arson attacks and assault, among numerous other incidents. That’s five significant Arab terror attacks every single day. And those 469 attacks do not even include the daily rock throwing, harassment, property destruction, and other violence Palestinian Arabs perpetrate against Jews.
