Netanyahu’s Hate Speech In The UN

The appearance of the Israeli Prime Minister, wanted for war crimes and crimes against humanity, on the UN podium could not have occurred without the groans of Palestinian children, the screams of their grieving mothers and fathers, and thousands of the horrific forms of amputation, crushing, killing, and destruction perpetrated in the Gaza Strip, at the pace of industrial state terrorism, since October 7, 2023.

Alas, the speech we heard from the podium of the United Nations yesterday was that of a ferocious person, possessed by a desire for revenge and seeking the ecstasy of torture and revenge! This is a man who has never believed in equality or justice. On the contrary, he believes that the idea of ​​equality, and all the policies that attempt to achieve it between the inhabitants of historic Palestine, are the root cause of the “conflict”.

Like all other arch racists from Germany to South Africa, and the rest of colonial masters, he believes that humans are hierarchically organized and that white elites should control and govern the world. Worse still, in his world, there’s no place for brown-skinned Palestinians.

That should not make us forget the fundamental injustice, the unprecedented, horrific genocide! No self-respecting nation should have anything to do with this man and the people he represents.

The plane of the accused genocidaire avoided European airspace but was able, thanks to his American sponsor, to land in New York to allow him to deliver his speech of unbridled arrogance. To make the irony even worse, the two allies, Israel and the US, prevented Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas from entering America to deliver his speech.

As if his mere presence weren't enough to humiliate the peoples and nations of the world, Netanyahu came up with an idea inspired by the Nazi army, but which surpasses the advocates of a "superior race." In addition to his army deploying loudspeakers to force the people of the Gaza Strip to listen to the executioner's speech, who orders his army to butcher them around the clock, he ordered his intelligence agency to "take over" the cellphones of Gazans and send the speech to them!

As is his custom, while euphorically declaring his victories, threatening “world leaders” who do not support Israel, and informing European leaders that they cannot impose a Palestinian state, Netanyahu returned to the victim’s cloak. He considered recognition of a Palestinian state “a message that killing Jews pays off” and “encourages terrorism against Jews and against innocent people everywhere.”

He then blamed the Palestinians for this in a way that did not conceal his plans for genocide and ethnic cleansing against them, stating that “90 percent of Palestinians in Gaza and Judea and Samaria (i.e., the West Bank) support the October 7 attack” (and therefore they deserve genocide and ethnic cleansing).

Netanyahu's presence at the UN, as his speech demonstrates, was not out of respect for this organization, nor for its countries and peoples. Rather, it was a declaration of his ability to impose his presence despite being wanted by international justice (while simultaneously preventing Palestinian representatives from being present).

The message is crystal clear: Netanyahu is threatening the entire world with the fate of Gaza, and the world has no choice but to surrender!

What times are we living in?!

Haidar Eid is a Palestinian scholar from Gaza. The views expressed here are the writer’s own.

Cover Photograph: Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a near empty hall at the UNGA after most of the diplomats walk out.