Ban Ki-moon: Netanyahu’s ‘ethnic cleansing remarks’ are outrageous

The call to halt settlement activity is not analogous to “ethnic cleansing,” United Nations Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon said on Thursday, as he attacked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for making the comparison.

 

“I am disturbed by a recent statement by Israel’s prime minister portraying those who oppose settlement expansion as supporters of ethnic cleansing,” Ban told the UN Security Council in New York during a debate on the Middle East that included the Palestinian question.

 

“This is unacceptable and outrageous,” he said.

 

It is not the first time Ban has used his platform to target Netanyahu, the only leader in the region he mentioned by name.

 

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