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November 11, 2011       Share:    

Source: http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/unesco-files-complaint-against-israeli-delegation-over-haaretz-cartoon-1.394889

UNESCO Files Complaint Against Israel over Newspaper Cartoon

(Ha'aretz) Barak Ravid - Israel's ambassador to UNESCO was handed an official letter of protest from the organization's director general, Irina Bokova, on Wednesday regarding a cartoon published in Ha'aretz on Nov. 4 after UNESCO decided to accept Palestine as a full member. The cartoon showed Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Barak sending an air force squadron to attack Iran, with Netanyahu ordering, "And on your way back, you're gonna hit the UNESCO office in Ramallah!" Ambassador Nimrod Barkan pointed out that the government has no control over editorial cartoons printed in the papers. "Ask yourselves what you did to make a moderate paper with a deeply internationalist bent publish such a cartoon," he suggested. "Perhaps the problem is with you."

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