On October 1 of this month, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu delivered his usual haranguing speech before the United Nations General Assembly. It has become a tradition for Netanyahu to arrogantly lecture the world body over its rejection of Israeli expansionism in the occupied Palestinian territories. In 2012, Netanyahu displayed a cartoon bomb, reminiscent of that portrayed in the “Road Runner” television cartoons, to emphasize his belief that Iran was close to possession of a nuclear bomb. Netanyahu’s charges were proven to be fabrications.
This year, Netanyahu engaged in more histrionics when he stood silent before the assembly for 45 seconds and glared at the seated delegations. The Israeli leader thundered on about the UN’s acceptance of the nuclear deal with Iran and said Iran’s threats to “destroy” Israel have been met with “utter silence, deafening silence” by the UN.
In years past, Netanyahu’s arrogant speeches were met with amusement by UN delegations, staff, and press. However, as the virulently anti-Arab new Israeli ambassador, Danny Danon, took over Israel’s seat at the United Nations from his more polished, yet every bit as right-wing predecessor, Ron Prosor, Israel engaged in a back room deal to have one of its own citizens take over as the acting head of the UN’s Media Accreditation and Liaison Unit (MALU). Just in time for the 70th plenary session of the United Nations General Assembly, an Israeli, Tal Mekel, was placed in charge of approving media accreditation for journalists, including those from a host of nations that are adamantly opposed to Israeli foreign and domestic policies toward Muslims, Arabs, Christians, and black Africans.
One of Danon’s first acts as ambassador was to hold a news conference after violence was ignited in the West Bank and Israel over Israeli Jews trying to enter the Haram al Sharif Muslim site in Jerusalem, the third holiest shrine for Islam. Danon held up a diagram said to have originated with Palestinians of how Palestinian students should “stab a Jew.” The diagram is believed to be as much a forgery as the historical bête noire for Jews, “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.”
Using his new influence with MALU, Danon, who is politically further to the right than Netanyahu, is in a position to deny press credentials to journalists from such Israeli opponents as Palestine, Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Sudan, Cuba, Bolivia, Malaysia, Pakistan, and other countries, as well as international organizations. Danon is on record against a Palestinian state and favors depopulating the region of its Arabs as it is fully incorporated into Israel. Danon was also opposed to Ariel Sharon’s withdrawal from Gaza and he favors depopulating that Israeli-imposed Palestinian ghetto for re-colonization by Jews. Danon has said that, as far as he is concerned, the Palestinians can have a Facebook page.
Danon is reportedly a member of the same family, the Danones, who introduced their brand of yogurt to Israel in 1969. In Hebrew, some Israelis are fond of saying, “Danon, Danone, same, same.”
Danon now has an Israeli colleague in the UN media office to ensure that the UN-accredited press is as much controlled in its reporting on Israel as the New York media is controlled by such Zionists as Rupert Murdoch, Michael Bloomberg, Mort Zuckerman, Bob Iger, Leslie Moonves, and others. WMR sources claim that the present situation would not have occurred had UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon not “sold out” to the vested corporate interests that now dominate the UN’s agenda.
To ensure that Ban stays in line on Israel, the United States ensured that its neo-conservative and Zionist diplomat, Jeffrey Feltman, was appointed as Ban’s Under-Secretary General for Political Affairs. Previously, Feltman ensured the destabilization of Syria as Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs and, before that, as U.S. ambassador to Lebanon. Feltman’s career as a handmaiden for Israel was also punctuated by his role with the neocon-dominated Coalition Provisional Authority for Iraq, U.S. Consul General in Jerusalem, special assistant to U.S. Ambassador to Israel Martin Indyk (who was stripped of his security clearance after it was discovered he passed U.S. classified information to the Israeli government), and U.S. embassy Tel Aviv officer responsible for the Gaza Strip.
Not content with lambasting the UN at every turn and buying off the votes of a few small countries in the Pacific like Palau, Micronesia, and Tonga, Israel’s new policy appears to be to infiltrate the UN bureaucracy, including the Secretariat, in order to push the Zionist agenda.
Previously published in the Wayne Madsen Report.
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