An unprecedented scandal broke out at the UN. Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan demanded that UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres resign after Guterres claimed that Hamas’ massacre of over 1,400 Israelis “did not happen in a vacuum and the Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation.”
Antonio Gutteris started his speech with accusations of Hamas for an “incredibly brutal attack on Israel.” According to the UN Secretary General, nothing can justify an attack on civilians, rocket attacks on cities; but his later words angered the Israeli Ambassador.
The Israeli representative did not like the truth voiced by the Secretary General. Mr Erdan appealed to the favorite notions of the globalist propaganda, like ‘the free world’, ‘basic rights’, remembered Holocaust, etc, forgetting about the lives of hundreds of Palestinian children killed by Israeli strikes. He provoked the scandal:
“The shocking speech by the UN Secretary-General at the Security Council meeting, while rockets are being fired at all of Israel, proved conclusively, beyond any doubt, that the Secretary-General is completely disconnected from the reality in our region and that he views the massacre committed by Nazi Hamas terrorists in a distorted and immoral manner. His statement that, “the attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum,” expressed an understanding for terrorism and murder. It’s really unfathomable. It’s truly sad that the head of an organization that arose after the Holocaust holds such horrible views. A tragedy!”
“The UN Secretary-General, who shows understanding for the campaign of mass murder of children, women, and the elderly, is not fit to lead the UN. I call on him to resign immediately. There is no justification or point in talking to those who show compassion for the most terrible atrocities committed against the citizens of Israel and the Jewish people. There are simply no words,” Erdan said.
After the emotional speech, the scandal gained momentum. The Israeli Foreign Ministry has already announced the curtailing of any contacts with the UN Secretary-General, since after the Hamas attack, there can be no “balanced approach” in the Middle East. The Israeli Foreign Minister said that he will not meet with the UN Secretary-General.
Exaggerating the claims of the Secretary-General, Tel Aviv staged a scandal in order to mark the point of no return in the bloodshed it provoked in the Gaza Strip. Having defiantly opposed the UN, Tel Aviv is untying its hands for further escalation, including for launching of the ground operation in the Palestinian territories. Complete disrespect to the UN and the blitting of its role in the international system is an obvious result of the absolute impunity of the Israeli leadership and its cultivation for decades by the withering hegemon of our time, Washington.