In a fiery speech at the United Nations General Assembly, the Israeli prime minister said his country would is «winning» and would attack Iran and its proxies anywhere in the Middle East.
In a fiery speech at the United Nations General Assembly in New York Friday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his country is «winning» on multiple fronts and would attack Iran and its proxies anywhere in the Middle East, even as Israeli air force jets were preparing to pound a complex of buildings in central Beirut that Israel says serve as a headquarters for the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah.
Many of the delegates in the U.N. hall stood up and swiftly left in a public snub at the start of his address — in which he called the U.N. a «swamp of antisemitic bile.»
For days, Arab leaders including Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas had been assailing the behavior of the Israeli military in Gaza, the occupied West Bank and Lebanon.
Abbas told delegates that Israel did not deserve its U.N. membership, given that its government has, in his words, «exploited» the Oct. 7 Hamas-led attack in Israel to «launch a comprehensive war of genocide on the Gaza Strip, and committed and continues to commit war crimes recognized by the international community.» Israel has denied committing genocide or other war crimes, arguing that it is fighting to defeat militant groups and defend itself from further attacks.
