On Thursday, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was in Israel and the Gaza Strip, where he called on Palestinians to stop launching rockets into Israel – such as the eight rockets fired into southern Israel the day before his visit. He also called on Israel to ensure the “freedom, human rights and decent life and dignity of the Palestinian people.”
Does he mean the kind of dignity with which they greeted him?
“I thank the people of Gaza for the warm welcome,” he told the news conference, provoking laughter among local journalists. “I met many people who were waiting for me at the entrance.” Upon arrival in Gaza, Ban’s convoy was met by dozens of Palestinians throwing shoes, sticks and stones at it, protesting against what they saw as a slight against Palestinians jailed in Israel.
The article further explains:
Many of those protesting as the UN convoy passed by were family members of Palestinians being held in Israeli prisons. They hit the vehicles with signs bearing slogans accusing Ban of bias towards Israel and of refusing to meet the relatives of Palestinian prisoners.
Considering Ban Ki-moon heads an organization that has approved viciously anti-Israel measures, that denied Israel a seat on the U.N. Security Council, and that called six of their ten emergency sessions about Israel, we have to wonder what on earth these Palestinians think a bias against Israel would look like.
What do you think?