The New York Sun reports that “tens of thousands of Israel supporters”, for the second day in a row, “gathered across the street from United Nations headquarters to protest President Ahmadinejad of Iran and to call for the unconditional release of the Israeli soldiers kidnapped on July 12.”
(Some of) the speakers (the Sun sums up) were, Tzipi Livni (Israel’s foreign minister), Elie Wiesel, Professor Alan Dershowitz, US Ambassador to the UN Bolton and Governor Pataki.
Livni:
We stand united today against the terrorist and the hostage takers. We say to them terror will not defeat us. We will not rest until the Israeli hostages, our sons, come home to the embrace of a loving nation.”
The wife of kidnapped Israeli soldier Ehud Goldwasser, Karni Goldwasser told the UN to:
“Stop talking and start to act”
Elie Wiesel about Ahmadinejad:
“A man who brings shame to the world has no place anywhere. He must be excluded from all groups of international nations”
Powerful messages, important people and lots of protesters. Yet, as Ed points out some of the major US media organizations do not (thus far) seem to be paying a lot of attention to it.
Meanwhile, Charles Johnsen reports that Emile Lahoud pulled out – on the podium the UN General Assembly – a picture featuring the famous Green Helmet Guy, yes Hizbullah’s propagandist-in-chief, carrying a girl in his arms. The picture, of course, shot by controversial ‘photographer’ Adnan Hajj. For those who are wondering why that name sounds so familiar: yes, he is the photographer that got caught doctoring photos.
It’s all one big joke.
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