It was nauseating listening to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s brazen lies in his speech at the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Sept 27.
Most of the UN delegates walked out, except for Israel and several African delegations, and a specially emplaced group of supporters in the gallery who applauded almost every sentence of his speech, as if on cue.
Netanyahu had the arrogance and the audacity to tell the United Nations that he had come to set the record straight and to debunk all the lies perpetrated by Israel’s enemies, claiming that the world had unfairly and unjustly denounced Israel.
He continued by stating that Israel was the victim of Hamas’ attack on Oct 7, which killed 1,200 Israelis, with 251 taken hostage. Israel, out of necessity and with much reluctance, had to defend itself (against a ragtag militia of freedom fighters) and had to retaliate (killing almost 45,000 Palestinians, most of whom were women and children).
Netanyahu went on to talk about Iran funding Hamas, Hezbollah, and other militia groups.
With absurd incredulity, he called on the nations of the world to join Israel in stopping Iran’s terrorist activities and preventing it from acquiring nuclear bombs (Israel has a large arsenal of undeclared nuclear bombs with the blessings of America, Britain, France, and Germany).
He said the path towards peace depends on the world’s nations joining Israel in this quest and annihilating Iran and its proxies that are an obstacle to world peace.
In a cheesy propaganda move, Netanyahu showed two maps.
One was a ‘Map of Blessing’, showing how Israel could bring peace and prosperity to the Middle East through a land bridge connecting Asia and Europe between the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. He said Israel would lay rail lines across the bridge and energy pipelines, among others, all for the betterment of 2 million people.
The other map, which he labelled ‘The Curse’, was the arch of terror that Iran had imposed and created from the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean. Iran’s malignant arch, he went on, had shut down international waterways, cutting down trade, destroying lives and nations from within, and inflicting misery on millions.
He challenged the world’s nations to choose between the two and added that the choice was obvious. His assertion is a ruse and the height of absurdity that betrays a major streak of insanity.
He then took the United Nations to task for passing over 100 ‘unjustified’ resolutions against Israel, compared to other nations, and for trying to rescind Israel’s membership in the United Nations.
He said Israel had been the victim of selective persecution by the United Nations when, in fact, Iran and its ‘evil axis’ should have been ejected from the world body. He also condemned the International Court of Justice for being anti-Semitic by issuing a warrant of arrest for him and his defence minister, Yoav Gallant, for committing war crimes.
He went on to say that peace and prosperity could be achieved through the Abraham Accords that involved several Arab countries, and he hoped for normalisation of ties with Saudi Arabia. He continued ranting that Israel, with the support of the United States, would never be intimidated nor removed from their rightful state and would reclaim their biblical land as ordained by God.
He preposterously declared that Israel abided by the international rule of law, that Israel had been living peacefully without infringing on other people’s lands or territories, nor did they confiscate or destroy property. They are the kind of people who would not even step on ants, much less take a human life. Or so it seems.
He positioned himself as the good Samaritan, trying his best to help the Palestinians who are suffering at the hands of Hamas. He added that Hamas was solely responsible for the deaths of over 45,000 Palestinians, most of whom were women and children.
His concluding submission was that Israel was a model state that abides by all United Nations resolutions and directives, and that it abhors violence, only using it as a last resort.
Netanyahu is emboldened to continue this carnage with the overt and expressed support of America and Britain, who are complicit in the genocide of the Palestinian people. Nobody believes his lies, as visuals on social media have debunked his claims and exposed the horrendous atrocities he inflicted on the Palestinian people.
Netanyahu’s speech at the United Nations was nothing more than slander that only a deranged person would utter.
It has been a year since Oct 7, 2023. As Netanyahu shamelessly spoke of peace, Israel’s military continues bombing Lebanon and Gaza unabated, killing Palestinians at will without compunction or remorse.
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