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Mass walkout as 'global pariah' Netanyahu addresses UN General Assembly: public rebuke of Israeli PM, said one observer, "demonstrates the international community's rejection of genocide" (www.commondreams.org)

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Diplomats and other officials walked out of the United Nations General Assembly in New York City on Friday as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prepared to defend his nation's slaughter of more than 41,000 people in the Gaza Strip during the past year and over 700 in Lebanon this week.

Journalists and critics of the "global pariah" shared photos and videos of people filing out of the hall before Netanyahu's address—which came just a day after 25 anti-genocide protesters were arrested for blocking his motorcade in Manhattan.

While there was some audience applause from the sparsely populated room on Friday, Al Jazeera Arabic's Rami Ayari explained that "the people you hear cheering the PM during the speech are in the gallery who he brought for that purpose.".

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Slovenia Prime Minister Robert Golob: "I want to say this out loud and clear to the Israeli Government: Stop the bloodshed. Stop the suffering. Bring the hostages home and end the occupation. Mr. Netanyahu, stop this war now!"

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Israel faces a South Africa-led genocide case at the International Court of Justice, and the International Criminal Court prosecutor has sought arrest warrants for Netanyahu, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, and three Hamas leaders—one of whom Israel recently assassinated in Iran. Israel also claims to have killed a second Hamas leader, which the group has denied.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If only symbolic movements like this actually mattered. :(

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago

They should have just taken the chance to detain him there, but no one seems to care because there's too much powerful support for genocide in the West.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Are those pictures he’s holding real and not photoshops?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

Armed with more of his infamous maps of the Middle East, the right-wing leader went on to claim that "Israel seeks peace," while also pledging to wage war on Hamas-governed Gaza until "total victory" and telling "the tyrants of Tehran" that "if you strike us, we will strike you."

Shockingly, they are real.