Rabbi Uses National Menorah Lighting to Rebuke UN, Obama
by JOEL B. POLLAK
BreitBart.com
26 Dec 2016
Rabbi Levi Shemtov rebuked the United Nations — and, by implication, the Obama administration — at the National Menorah Lighting in front of the White House in Washington, D.C. on Sunday evening, criticizing them for an anti-Israel resolution that passed on Friday.
The resolution, UN Security Council Resolution 2334, declares the Israeli presence across the 1967 boundary — i.e. the 1949 armistice lines in Israel’s War of Independence — to be illegal. That means that the Old City of Jerusalem, and the holiest sites of Jerusalem, are illegally occupied, in the eyes of the UN — even though Jews have been living in those places for millennia.
Shemtov, who leads the congregation at American Friends of Lubavitch (Chabad) on Washington, D.C.’s northwest side, spoke after Acting Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Adam Szubin delivered his opening remarks, representing the president. Szubin hinted at a criticism of the incoming Trump administration for eroding “time honored values and principles that are at the foundation of any decent human society,” though it was not clear exactly what he meant.
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