ISRAELI CARTOON ANGERS UNESCO

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. Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said on Nov 11 that UNESCO handed Ambassador Nimrod Barkan a protest note saying the cartoon “endangers the lives of unarmed diplomats.” 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.