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Danon to Arabs at UN: "Israel Is Not Your Enemy"
(Jerusalem Post) Tovah Lazaroff - Israel's Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon told the UN Security Council on Tuesday: "Both Tehran and Ramallah's extremism are increasingly at odds with the growing sentiment among Arabs that Israel is, and will continue to be, a part of this region." He warned that the PA was trying to prevent normalized ties between Israel and its Arab neighbors. "Israel is not your enemy," Danon said, in a message that he repeated in Arabic and which he hoped was heard by Palestinians and "all the Arab people in the region." Danon explained that Iran contributes over $7 billion annually to terror groups. "Just two weeks ago, the Islamic Republic announced that they were increasing their financial backing of Hamas from $6 million to $30 million a month," he said. Danon said, "An unprecedented wave of normalization is sweeping the region, as Israel continues to develop and improve relations with our Arab neighbors." He painted the Palestinian leadership as one of the few regional governments that does not want to forge ties with Israel.