DAIA crossed paths with government for vote against Israel at UN: “It looks like a clown”

Jorge Knoblovits, the president of the DAIA, questioned harshly the Government support for the UN to the investigation of possible human rights violations committed by Israel in the Palestinian territories. “Sounds like a clown to us”he said, referring to the Argentine position. In addition, he rejected the fact that the country spoke in agreement with nations which “on their own territory violate freedoms”.

Knoblovits made the statements hours after meeting at Casa Rosada with President Alberto Fernández, with whom he spoke about Argentina’s position before the organization’s Human Rights Council and the government’s decision to qualify the Israel’s response of “disproportionate” to the attacks of the terrorist group Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

“We were convinced that we weren’t going to make them regret the vote, but we wanted them to listen to us. Argentina was the first victim of international terrorism in the world. For it, to speak of disproportion or not to determine that Hamas is a terrorist organization is worrying “, he maintained a dialogue with the journalist María Laura Santillán, during the cycle that leads by CNN Radio.

And he added: “The truth is that to see Argentina vote with countries that dare to investigate third parties while on their own territory they violate human rights and do not allow freedoms. it seems to us to be a clown “.

The president of the DAIA, who a few hours before had limited himself to qualifying the meeting as “honest, agile and transparent”, also considered that the position of the government “Makes noise in the right relationship” that exists between Israel and Argentina. “The ties between the two countries are attempts and the ambassadors are doing a great job. It is striking not to have taken this scenario into account bilateral in the vote, ”he said.

“Your unacceptable”

Earlier and due to the same situation, the Argentine Ambassador to Israel met, Sergio Urribarri, and the Deputy Director General of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs for Latin America and the Caribbean, Modi Ephraim. Officials maintained a “Clarify the conversation” in which the Argentine consul ratified the government’s position.

According to a statement released by the administration of Benjamin Netanyahu, during the meeting, Urribarri “clarified to the ambassador that his country’s support for this one-sided resolution which ignores Hamas terrorism and the firing of 4,300 missiles against citizens of Israel, this is something that Israel considers unacceptable ”. He also expressed hope that the government of Alberto Fernández “will support Israel in difficult times in light of the friendship between the countries over the years and the alliance in the fight against terrorism.”

Meanwhile, the portfolio led by Felipe Solá expressed: “Beyond disagreeing with some of the views of the Israeli authorities, Argentina hopes that the true meaning of the United Nations action in this matter can be interpreted, as well as the the need to investigate in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and in Israel, all alleged violations of international humanitarian law and all alleged violations and abuses of international law rights, by all actors, in accordance with the standards of international law ”.

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