The barrage of attacks on Israel at the United Nations undercuts the quest for peace, said U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice.
Rice made her remarks May 9 at a luncheon in New York where she accepted the American Jewish Committee’s Distinguished Public Service Award.
Rice described Israel as enduring “a barrage of obsessive, unbalanced and relentless criticism” at the United Nations. “The U.N. should be a place where conflicts are cooled, not inflamed,” she said, “where confidence is built, not eroded.”
Rice lamented last month in an address to the Reform movement that an outsize portion of her time at the United Nations is spent defending Israel. — jta