Speaking at the Untied Nations General Assembly, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the Golan Highest are Israel’s and that according to the Bible the Jews have been there for thousands of years.
Israel invaded the Golan Heights in December 2024 after the Syrian Revolution.
A significant number of delegates walked out of the General Assembly hall before Netanyahu began speaking. The Israeli Prime Minister opened by referring to those who had left as “moral cowards”.
Netanyahu also strongly defended Israel’s conduct in Gaza and rejected accusations of genocide, describing them as false. He attacked Turkey and Qatar over their relations with Hamas and called Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan a tyrant.
He also praised Israel’s military campaign against Tehran and predicted that the Iranian government would eventually fall.
At one point he held up a Starlink terminal, arguing that the Iranian government feared its own population having unrestricted access to information. Netanyahu said he would leave the device with the President of the General Assembly so it could be passed to the Iranian delegation, joking that they could use it when they “inevitably defect”.
The spectacle continued after the speech when Israel’s UN Ambassador Danny Danon personally approached an Iranian diplomat and attempted to hand him the Starlink terminal.
Danon told the diplomat to take the device back to Tehran, saying it could help Iranians access information and “get their freedom”. The Iranian representative did not react.
Netanyahu’s address came one day after Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez used his own UN speech to accuse Netanyahu’s government of committing genocide in Gaza and defend Spain’s arms embargo on Israel.
You can watch the full speech here.
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