Special agenda items, politicized debates, biased resolutions, preposterous reports, discriminatory conduct and unfounded accusations characterize the attitude of the Human Rights Council towards Israel. Although the Council is mandated to be unbiased, transparent and apolitical, its seven special s…
Israel welcomes the progress achieved in the relations between the United States of America and Cuba and hopes that it will lead to a new era in the region.
Once again, we meet as we continue to hear calls for a one-sided draft resolution against Israel. We have been hearing those calls all year. In fact, we have been hearing calls to act against Israel since we joined the United Nations, 62 years ago. There was a time when Israel could look to this ins…
First, I would like to convey my condolences for the untimely death of His Excellency Mr. Girma Asmerom Tesfay, the late Permanent Representative of Eritrea to the United Nations. He was not only a colleague here in the Hall, he was also a colleague in our building, and I remember vividly meeting hi…
What I am about to say is going to shock everyone — Israel has a bright future at the United Nations. I know that hearing that from me must surely come as a surprise, because year after year I have stood at this very rostrum and slammed the United Nations for its obsessive bias against Israel.
And …
First, I would like to thank you, Mr. President, and acknowledge the effort invested by the co-facilitators and Member States in producing the draft outcome document of the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants (resolution 70/302, annex). Israel is deeply sensitive to the unprecedented numb…
The threat that the world faces from the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) is greater than ever. Advances in science and technology, combined with the evolving nature of terrorism, present challenges never seen before. And nowhere is the threat more real than in the Middle East, wh…
We meet here to discuss the impact of war and conflict on our most valuable and precious resource: our children. We are at a time when the plight of these children is more desperate than ever. Approximately 250 million children, one out of every nine boys and girls on the planet, are forced to grow …
As we approach the end of the month, I would like to commend Japan for its able leadership of the Security Council.
The peoples and nations on the continent of Africa are among the most resilient on the planet. States, communities and families across Africa have known decades of poverty, civil war …
Once again, some of the speakers in the Chamber today have demonstrated that they will not let the facts confuse them when they decide to falsely attack Israel, rather than to establish a sincere, meaningful conversation about the situation. The remarks in the Council today can be interpreted only a…
I am appearing before the Council today at a particularly troubling time for my country. Over the past few weeks, Israelis sitting in a restaurant were massacred while having dinner, a young girl was stabbed to death in her own bed and a father was killed and buried by his 10 children after he was s…
I would like to begin my remarks by extending our deepest condolences to the Government and the people of Turkey following the attack in Istanbul this week. Every lost life is a tragedy, and every terror attack must be strongly condemned. The State of Israel stands shoulder-to-shoulder with the many…
First, I would like to thank you, Sir, your dedicated staff and the co-facilitators, and express our appreciation for the hard work invested in draft resolution A/70/L.55.
While we were consulting and discussing the draft resolution in New York, in my country, Israel, there have been three horrendo…
For years, the international community has been working relentlessly to make concrete progress in the fight against HIV/AIDS, but the challenge before us remains immense. It is our responsibility to rally global commitment towards that life-saving goal.
In the 35 years since the HIV epidemic was id…
Israel welcomes the steps that the Government of Georgia has taken to improve the livelihood and socioeconomic status of internally displaced persons, which is highlighted in the Secretary- General’s report (A/70/879). Israel is encouraged by the substantial progress made by the Georgian Government …
The Secretary-General’s 2016 report on conflict-related sexual violence (S/2016/361) is a catalog of stories and statistics that shock the conscience: a Da’esh competition on memorizing the Koran, with a Yazidi woman as the grand prize; public auctions where women are sold to the highest bidder; and…
Today is not an ordinary day in the State of Israel. Once a year in Israel, all traffic stops and all daily activity comes to a halt as the people of Israel pause for a nationwide moment of silence, a similar to the one we observed here in the Chamber a few hours ago. Schoolchildren stand at attenti…
If I may, we just heard about a terror attack in Jerusalem in which a bus exploded and dozens of people are being evacuated. We expect to hear condemnation of that during today’s discussion.
All of us, or maybe all of us, around this table know what it takes to be a leader. Leaders assume responsibility. Leaders speak out. Leaders educate. For the sake of the next generation, this is the lesson the Palestinians must learn. On the day Palestinian leaders, like Mr. Mansour, publicly conde…
