Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon was interviewed by Fox News Digital as the world awaits his nation’s response to Iran’s missile attacks. The United Nations says it has removed a controversial quilt panel artwork that called for the extermination of Israel. The incendiary painting on the panel featured a map of Israel , resembling a watermelon, without the West Bank or Gaza partition.
In the top right-hand corner was the Palestinian flag. The left side of the map contained the phrase "From the River to the Sea" and the right side contained the phrase, "Will be Free" in an obvious nod to the phrase, "From the River to the Sea, Palestine Will be Free." A panel on a quilt at the U.
N. was removed because of controversial drawings. (Fox News Digital) The phrase has become a rallying cry for Palestinians around the world protesting Israel amid the ongoing conflict in Gaza, sparked by Hamas’ Oct.
7, 2023, massacre in Israel. Israelis regard the phrase as a call to genocide, and for Israel to be wiped off the map entirely. ISRAELI PM NETANYAHU CALLS PRESIDENT-ELECT TRUMP – HERE'S WHAT THEY SPOKE ABOUT Fox News Digital was the first to report on the U.
N. painting on Monday. It also drew the attention of Danny Danon, Israel’s permanent representative to the U.
N., who called the display a "disgrace" and demanded the U.N.
remove it. The U.N.
told Fox News Digital on Wednesday that the "Peace Flags" exhibit was a way to "re-purpose fashion waste for positi.