ISRAEL HAYOM
Bizarro reality
by Richard Baehr
December 1, 2015
…U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, in his welcoming remarks to the climate summit in Paris, chose a moment of silence for recent victims of terror in Paris, Bamako, Beirut and Tunis. Missing, naturally, was any mention of Tel Aviv or Jerusalem. One might think the secretary-general believes terror attacks on Jews or Israelis are something different than attacks in the rest of the world. The United Nations has much to answer for itself in terms of being an active participant in the current incitement campaign to murder Jews, with teachers in UNRWA schools making their own appeals for more killing of the Jewish “apes and pigs.” Double standards come naturally to the Obama administration as well, which waited a few days to acknowledge the murder of a Jewish American, Ezra Schwartz, in one attack in Israel, after immediately noting attacks that killed Americans in Paris and other places. The public acknowledgment of Schwartz’s death on a Monday night football broadcast probably forced the president’s hand. READ MORE