11.27.2008

UN General Assembly calls for boycott of Israel


Al Manar TV

The UN General Assembly president sparked Jerusalem's ire after calling for international boycott on Israel.

Israel filed a formal complaint with the United Nations on Tuesday over statements made by UN General Assembly President, Father Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann of Nicaragua, who called for an international boycott of Israel after accusing it of being an apartheid regime.

D'Escoto went on to decry the 'Our Greatest Failure' UN: 'It has been 60 years since some 800,000 Palestinians were driven out of their homes becoming refugees and an uprooted and marginalized people,' Father D'Escoto said, adding that the fact that Palestinians still have no state represents UN's 'greatest failure'

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