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6 | MAY 23 • 2024
J
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PURELY COMMENTARY
essay
Israel’s U.N. Ambassador Lays Bare
the Hypocrisy of Israel’s U.N. Critics
T
he idiom “words
speak for themselves”
never was truer
than when Gilad Erdan,
Israel’s ambassador to the
United Nations,
recently
delivered a
blistering
attack on the
organization
in the general
assembly.
His verbal
attack does not need any
amplification, clarification,
interpretation or
explanation.
Writing that he did not
mince any words is one of
the greatest understatements
ever voiced in political
journalism.
His words did not just
speak. They scorned,
blasted, demeaned,
chastised, accused, scolded,
condemned.
Even without a Google
search, I feel safe to observe
that such an attack has never
been heard in the diplomatic
or political world.
Erdan took on the world’s
double-standard, accusing
it of ignoring humanitarian
crises in Sudan, Myanmar,
Yemen, Pakistan, bewailed
the antisemitism on
campuses among students
and faculty and the hatred
directed at Israel.
And he laid it all — all of
it — at the feet of the United
Nations whose demise he
predicted in his speech.
IN HIS OWN WORDS
Here are a few of the charges
he laid out in his speech:
• “The U.N. is fueled by
nothing other than political
interests — not by the U.N.
charter, not by morality.”
• “The U.N. is again
seeking to reward the
perpetrators of the horrors.”
• “The U.N. couldn’t care
less about Israel, to hell with
our safety, to hell with our
future, and the hell with our
hostages.”
• “To this day you have not
even condemned Hamas, not
even once. To this day, not
a single U.N. initiative has
been taken for the sake of
the Israeli hostages. Instead,
this body has focused only
on recognizing a Palestinian
terror state, an entity fueled
by Jewish genocide, by terror,
by Nazi-like incitement.”
• “You have told Hamas
that terror pays off. You have
done nothing for the victims.”
• “You should be ashamed
of yourself, those who
support a unilateral forced
Palestinian terror state.”
• “This body reeks of
antisemitism. It’s everywhere.
The U.N. cares nothing for
Israeli blood, nothing, zero. It
is a collaborator of the Nazis
of our day, working to assure
Hamas’ survival and even
rewards them for murder and
rape. I have no words.”
• “You are encouraging
their racism and
antisemitism.”
• “This brainwashing
Berl Falbaum