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Israel not defending itself but its occupation
Netanyahu has given a speech to the United Nations General Assembly, a body that earlier this month overwhelmingly adopted a resolution calling on Israel to end its illegal occupation of the Palestinian territory within a year.
While his speech centred around Israel’s right to defend itself, Al Jazeera’s political analyst Marwan Bishara said the UNGA resolution, backed by an advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), made it clear that “Palestinians have the right to resist their occupiers”.
“Israel has no right to defend its occupation and dispossession of a majority of Palestinians that continue to live in refugee camps for eight decades,” Bishara said. “Israel claims to be defending itself when in fact it is defending its racism and its system of apartheid.”
The analyst added that the US administration gave Israel the green light to use self-defence as a rationale by drawing a parallel between Hamas’s October 7 attack and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
“It then went on to shield it, to arm it, to finance it and to defend it at the United Nations and that’s why we need to remember that Netanyahu has the arrogance to come to the UN and lecture the world, because the US supports him, a war criminal.”
Israel’s Katz says Netanyahu told ‘simple truth’ in UNGA speech
Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz congratulated Prime Minister Netanyahu on his speech at the UN General Assembly saying he “presented the simple truth”.
“The Iranian regime and its terror proxies pose a danger to all nations of the free world, which must choose between a future of blessing and peace with the region or a future of curse and war against terror,” Katz said in a post on X.
“The State of Israel will continue to fight all its enemies until every hostage is returned, Hamas is destroyed, and the citizens of the north can return to their homes.”
