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As Netanyahu takes stage, large number of delegates leave UN hall
As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took the stage in the United Nations General Assembly hall, a large number of delegates could be seen leaving the hall.
Jeers could be heard as Netanyahu took the stage.
“I decided to come here and set the record straight,” Netanyahu said in his opening remarks, saying he wanted to defend against the “lies and slander” he’d heard.
Netanyahu claims Israel at war ‘for its life’
After the Israeli attacks kill more than 41,000 people in Gaza and 700 in Lebanon, Netanyahu tells world leaders at the UN that Israel must defend itself “against these savage murderers”.
“Our enemies seek not only to destroy us, they seek to destroy our common civilisation and return all of us to a dark age of tyranny and terror,” he claimed.
The Israeli leader claims that Iran will endanger every country in the Middle East and many beyond.
“For too long, the world has appeased Iran. That appeasement must end and that appeasement must end now,” Netanyahu said, adding that Israel can reach any part of Iran if Tehran attacks first.
“I have a message for the tyrants of Tehran. If you strike us, we will strike you,” he said. “There is no place in Iran that the long arm of Israel cannot reach, and that’s true of the entire Middle East.”
Israel to continue war on Gaza until ‘total victory’: Netanyahu
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says at the UN that “Hamas has got to go” and would have no role in the reconstruction of Gaza as he pledged to fight until “total victory”.
“If Hamas stays in power, it will regroup … and attack Israel again and again and again … So Hamas has got to go,” he said.
Netanyahu also told world leaders that his nation will “continue degrading Hezbollah” until it achieves its goals along the Lebanon border, further dimming hopes for an internationally-backed ceasefire to halt the spiral into an all-out regional war.
“Israel has every right to remove this threat and return our citizens to their home safely. And that’s exactly what we’re doing … we’ll continue degrading Hezbollah until all our objectives are met,” Netanyahu said.
“Just imagine if terrorists turned El Paso and San Diego into ghost towns … How long would the American government tolerate that?” he said, shaking his fist in emphasis. “Yet Israel has been tolerating this intolerable situation for almost a year. Well, I’ve come here today to say: Enough is enough.”
Netanyahu accuses UN of anti-Semitism
The Israeli leader says singling out his country is “a moral stain on the United Nations”, making the institution “a swamp of anti-Semitism”.
“I say to you, until Israel – until the Jewish state – is treated like other nations, until this anti-Semitic swamp is drained, the UN will be viewed by fair-minded people everywhere as nothing more than a contemptuous farce,” he said.
He also spoke about the arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court, a UN body, against him and Israel’s Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, linking the measure to anti-Semitism.
It would be great if Israel would be treated like other nations. Arms embargo, sanctions, peace keeping forces, ICC prosecution without interference. The US giving Israel impunity for many decades has led to this dangerous fanatic and his religious right wing cabinet to come to power.
