While making a resounding denouncement of terrorism, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has cited the 26\/11 Mumbai terror attacks and the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militant outfit. Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militant outfit. Speaking at the Security Council meeting on Palestine on Tuesday, he said that terrorist acts are \u201cunlawful and unjustifiable whether they target people in Nairobi or Bali, in Luxor, Istanbul, or Mumbai, in New York or Kibbutz Be\u2019eri\u201d. \u201cThey\u2019re unlawful and unjustifiable whether they are carried out by IS, by Boko Haram, by al-Shabaab, by Lashkar-e Taiba, or by Hamas. This Council has a responsibility to denounce member states that arm, fund, and train Hamas or any other terrorist group that carries out such horrific acts.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rejecting attempts to equivocate on the Hamas terrorism that killed over 1,400 people in Israel and had more than 200 kidnapped on October 7, Blinken said: \u201cAs this Council and the UN General Assembly have repeatedly affirmed, all acts of terrorism are unlawful and unjustifiable.\u201d Outlining the worst of the Hamas attack like the execution of children before their parents, the beheading of young people and the burning of families alive, Blinken said that \u201cwe have to ask \u2013 indeed it must be asked \u2013 where is the outrage? Where is the revulsion? Where is the rejection? Where is the explicit condemnation of these horrors?\u201d. \u201cWe must affirm the right of any nation to defend itself and to prevent such horror from repeating itself. No member of this council \u2013 no nation in this entire body \u2013 could or would tolerate the slaughter of its people.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pakistan\u2019s Permanent Representative Munir Akram reacted swiftly to the mention of 26\/11, LeT and Hamas, and said without directly naming the US: \u201cSome in this Council have offered protection to their allies who are oppressing occupied people in Palestine and in Kashmir.\u201d Blinken defended the right of Israel itself in the face of the brutal attack by Hamas, but added: \u201cIt means Israel must take all possible precautions to avoid harm to civilians.\u201d As for Hamas, he said that it should not use civilians \u201cas human shields.\u201d Some have suggested that Western countries have double standards in how they view Palestinian and Israeli lives. Blinken said: \u201cThere is no hierarchy when it comes to protecting civilian lives. A civilian is a civilian, no matter his or her nationality, ethnicity, age, gender, faith. \u201cThat\u2019s why America mourns the loss of every single innocent life in this crisis, including innocent Israeli and Palestinian men, women, children, elderly people, Muslims, Jews, Christians, people of all nationalities and faiths, including at least 35 UN staff members.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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