U.N. Chief Angers Jewish Group Over Six-Day War
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UNITED NATIONS— Jewish organization yesterday reacted angrily to the way Secretary-General Ban marked the 40th anniversary of the 1967 Six-Day War.
In a statement issued by his spokeswoman, Michele Montas, Mr. Ban said the anniversary was an occasion to remember those “who have been killed or had their lives shattered” since the 1967 war – “particularly the Palestinians who continue to live under an occupation that has lasted forty years.”
“In singling out Palestinian suffering, your statement gives the impression that you place the onus for the Arab-Israeli conflict solely on Israel,” the national director of the Anti-Defamation League, Abraham Foxman wrote to Mr. Ban. The statement also devaluates the “suffering inflicted on the people of Israel as a result of years of unrelenting terror attacks,” Mr. Foxman added.
