Israel’s UN Representative Slams Kofi Annan For Feeble Condemnation of Thursday’s Bombing 
Saturday, January 31, 2004 / 8 Shevat 5764


(IsraelNN.com) Israel’s representative to the United Nations, Danny Gillerman, slammed U.N. secretary-general Kofi Annan for refusing to refer specifically to Israelis when condemning the “violence in the Middle East” following Thursday’s genocidal attack on Israeli bus passengers.

No mention is made of the Israeli victims slaughtered in the bombing. In fact, no specific reference is made to the attack at all, or to a condemnation, in any terms of the terrorist perpetrators, said Gillerman, at a press conference. This is in distinct contrast to the tendency of the office of the secretary-general to issue statements of reprimand, with clear and specific detail, when Israel engages in defense measures against terrorist operatives...

Annan's statement said in part: Once again violence and terror have claimed innocent lives in the Middle East. Once again I condemn those who resort to such methods.

Gillerman, outraged, said that the vague references to those who resort to violence and terror that have claimed innocent lives in the region are not sufficient. 

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