RAMALLAH,
September 30, 2014 (WAFA) – “Netanyahu’s speech at the UN was a blatant
manipulation of facts and attempted at misleading the audience through a
combination of hate language, slander and argument of obfuscation,” Monday said
PLO Executive Committee Member Hanan Ashrawi.
She
added: “On the one hand he attempted to create an image of an unreal polarized
world in which the “forces of evil” are lumped together under the title
“militant Islam” blurring any distinctions among different players, including
Hamas and Iran, while placing Israel in the opposite pole as a force for
“light, morality and justice.”
“Obviously
Netanyahu has lost touch with reality, particularly in refusing to acknowledge
the fact of the occupation itself or the actions of the Israeli army of
occupation in committing massacres and war crimes, which has been a
longstanding manifestation of Israeli “double talk,” she remarked.
“Rather
than attacking President Abbas and the UN Human Rights Council for calling
things by their name and deploring the horrific actions of the Israeli
occupation, he should have acknowledged the enormity of the crime and taken
responsibility for the actions themselves.”
“The
UN podium would have been the most appropriate place for Netanyahu to announce
his acceptance of all relevant UN resolutions and his adherence to
international law and universal human rights. Instead, he persisted in
compounding the error by justifying Israeli violations and launching a
vitriolic attack against the victims of the ongoing occupation.”
She
added that Netanyahu “attempted to circumvent the imperative of addressing
Palestinian rights and the need to withdraw to the 1967 borders to establish
the two-state solution by reversing the order and seeking partnership with the
Arab world instead, thus buying more time to create facts that will destroy the
chances of peace for the foreseeable future. The source of the conflict is Israel’s
occupation of Arab lands, particularly Palestine, and the ongoing cruelty and
injustice practiced against the Palestinian people.”
“By
creating false analogies between the Nazi concept of “master race” and his view
of militant Islam as upholding a “master faith” he is extending in effect the
analogy to Israel as a “master state.”
Blaming the victim has always been the failed policy of the politically
and morally bankrupt, and Netanyahu is no exception,” she concluded.
M.N./T.R.
