Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon visited the
Ground Zero site in New York on Sunday night, touring the museum and
memorial site built to commemorate the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Ya'alon was accompanied by Israeli architect Michael Arad, who designed the World Trade Center memorial.
Ya'alon
said the 9/11 attacks were mourned by the Israeli people, who followed
developments on Ground Zero "with a tearful eye and an agonized
heart."
Addressing the current threat of terrorism, Ya'alon
said, "We will not be deterred. We will not allow our values as free
people with rights to be harmed. We will not be tolerant of
indiscriminate murder of men, women and children because of their
origin, religion or sex." Ya'alon said the free nations of the world
will know how to unite and fight back if required to, and to assist
those who struggle against extremist Islamic terrorism.
He
pledged that Israel would seek to prevent further tragedies and loss of
life "as you've experienced here on Ground Zero, as we in Israel
experience, and as other innocent civilians experience across the Arab
world, who are being slaughtered by relentless terrorism from
organizations and states in the Middle East."
Ya'alon is scheduled to meet UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and US Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power on Monday.http://www.jpost.com/International/At-Ground-Zero-Yaalon-says-free-nations-wont-be-deterred-by-Islamic-extremists-379293
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