UN Secretary-General Blames Israel for Palestinian Terror

In a report released on June 2, 2016, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon blamed Israel for the slew of Palestinian shootings, stabbings, and car ramming attacks terrorizing Israelis since October 2015. The report, "Economic and social repercussions of the Israeli occupation on the living conditions of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem, and the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan," does not even mention Palestinian incitement to terror and hatred fueling the violence. The "humiliated"? The perpetrators, not their Jewish victims fighting back in self-defense since 1948.

In the words of the report, "Tensions and violence erupted in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, particularly in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, in October 2015, in the context of prolonged occupation, settlement expansion and settler violence and in the aftermath of clashes at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, with Palestinians perceiving Israel as trying to change the status quo at the holy sites. On 26 January 2016, in his remarks to the Security Council on the situation in the Middle East, the Secretary-General highlighted the growing frustration felt by Palestinians, linked to Israeli actions that were chipping away the viability of a Palestinian State and the ability of the Palestinian people to live in dignity; in a briefing to the Council on 22 October 2015, his deputy referred to the stifling and humiliating occupation that had lasted almost half a century."