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Israeli
cartoon angers UNESCO
Saturday November 12, 2011 11:39:45 AM,
Agencies
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Jerusalem:
UNESCO has reprimanded Israel's envoy over a newspaper cartoon
showing the Israeli prime minister telling pilots to bomb the UN
agency's office after bombing Iran, a media report said.
"UNESCO handed Ambassador Nimrod Barkan a protest note saying the
cartoon endangers the lives of unarmed diplomats", Arab News
quoted
Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor as saying on
Friday.
The cartoon was published last week in the daily Haaretz.
It depicts Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with pilots before a
hypothetical attack on Iran, telling them to target UNESCO on
their way back.
It's a jab at Netanyahu's displeasure over the UN culture agency's
recent recognition of the Palestinians as a member state.
Palmor said Friday that Barkan told UNESCO that Israel has a free
press and can't control what it publishes.
Palestine became a full member of UNESCO on Oct. 31 in a historic
vote that cost the agency a fifth of its budget. The United States
said the move harmed renewed Mideast peace efforts and the US
government cut off tens of millions of dollars in annual funding
to the organization.
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