President Shimon Peres joined the Prime Minister and Minister of Defense on Monday by criticizing the Durban II UN racism conference opening in Geneva and attacking the UN’s decision to invite Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as guest of honor.
“I feel deeply hurt and ashamed that on such a day, there is the opening of a racist conference in Geneva, and the main speaker is who? Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. A man that calls to wipe Israel off of the map. A man who denies the Holocaust. There must be a limit, even to the neutrality of Switzerland,” he said.