Israel’s UN envoy walks out of Security Council to protest Memorial Day session

Times of Israel ^ | 4/25/2023 | Luke Tress

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Gilad Erdan reads out names of fallen Israelis to council members, lights memorial candle in chamber, says UN rejected requests to move session to another day

NEW YORK — Israel’s envoy to the United Nations walked out of the Security Council and read the names of Israelis killed in the past year to protest the body holding a session critical of Israel on Memorial Day.

The periodic Security Council session on “the Palestinian question” was held at UN headquarters in New York and was led by Russia.

“Today is one of the most sacred days of the year for the State of Israel,” Gilad Erdan said. “We made numerous requests to reschedule today’s debate, describing the deep importance of the day, yet tragically, this council refused to budge.

“Today’s debate has crossed all lines,” he continued. “While Israelis mourn, this council, as usual, will hear more blatant lies condemning the State of Israel and falsely painting it as the root of all the region’s problems.”

Directly addressing Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who was leading the session, Erdan asked, “What would you do if this council was convening to single out and condemn the Russian Federation and your soldiers on the 9th of May, on Victory Day over the Nazis?”

[Bookshelf]

Behind the Headlines: How Stalin’s Plan to Annihilate USSR Jews Was Thwarted, January 8, 1974
... March 5–when Stalin died in 1953 from a stroke–should be marked by Jews as a miraculous day to remember. His sudden death came as a great miracle for the 3,000,000 Jews in the Soviet Union. It thwarted his plans, to be started the next day, to annihilate the Jews in Russia through mass-pogroms and deportation of all surviving Jews to slave labor camps in remote Arctic regions to die there... The signal to this brutal plan was to be given March 6 at the opening of the notorious “Doctors’ Trial” at which six prominent Jewish and three non-Jewish physicians were accused by Stalin falsely of having plotted to poison him and other Soviet leaders in the Kremlin. The trial was cancelled upon Stalin’s death; physicians were released and rehabilitated. ... Details of the pogrom planned by Stalin and of his sudden death which saved the Jews in the Soviet Union from a catastrophe similar to Hitler’s annihilation of the 6,000,000 Jews in Europe, were related by me in my book, “Soviet Jewry Today and Tomorrow,” published by Macmillan in 1971. ...

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Not coincidentally, Stalin’s stroke occurred on Purim.