Monday, September 24, 2012
Israeli envoy storms out of Ahmadinejad UN speech.
Israeli envoy storms out of Ahmadinejad UN speech.(JPost).Israel's UN envoy Ron Prosor demonstratively walked out of a UN session Monday on the rule of law when Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took the podium to speak. "There is no justice and no judge," Prosor said, after leaving the hall with one of his aides."The leader of an outlaw country that is a serial violator of the fundamental principles of the rule of law has no place in this hall" he said. "It is a shame and disgrace to give someone like him the opportunity to speak on such an important topic." Prosor said that letting Ahmadinejad address the UN on the issue of the rule of law was like "appointing a pyromaniac as fire chief." Ahmadinejad is scheduled to address the General Assembly on Wednesday, but there will be no Israeli delegates in the hall to storm out when he begins to speak because it is Yom Kippur.Knesset Speaker Reuben Rivlin has called on the international community to boycott the Iranian leader's address. Ahmadinejad's UN address on Monday came after he stated earlier in the day that Israel has "no roots" in the history of the Middle East and represents a disturbance for Iran which will be "eliminated." He also told The Washington Post over the weekend that the Israeli-Arab conflict should be resolved by allowing the Palestinians to vote the "Zionist regime" out of existence.Read the full story here.
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