In a press release issued January 13, 2016, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon unequivocally condemned a terror attack at a polio eradication center in Pakistan - but his message was very different a month ago when the victims were Israelis.
According to the January 13 press release: "The Secretary-General reiterates that nothing justifies terrorism."
In contrast, in a message delivered on December 14, 2015, at a conference convened by the UN's Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Jakarta "On the Question of Jerusalem," the Secretary General attempted to justify terror attacks committed by Palestinians. In the Secretary General's words:
"I also underlined the urgent need ... for Israeli security forces to ensure a calibrated use of force in response to incidents... [T]he violence cannot and will not be addressed by security measures alone. The anger we are witnessing is bred from nearly five decades of Israeli occupation. It is the result of fear, humiliation, frustration and mistrust. It has been fed by the wounds of decades of bloody conflict, which will take a long time to heal. Palestinian youth in particular are tired of broken promises and they see no light at the end of the tunnel."