NEWSDAILYNIGERIA: Isreali Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has slamned dozens of world leaders that embarked on a mass walk out as he got to the rostrum to speak at the UN General Assembly.
”If there are any other moral cowards who haven’t yet left this hall, please do so now. Thank you very much”.he said.
The Palestinian mission to the United Nations had called for the walkout.
However, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in his speech thanked US President Donald Trump for taking decisive action against Iran.
He accused other world leaders of hypocrisy. ” In defending itself, Israel is also defending many of the countries whose delegates just left this hall. In fact, I want you to know that many of their leaders even thanked us privately for taking out Iran’s nukes. It’s hard to imagine more mind-blowing hypocrisy, but that’s exactly what it is”.
Prior to Netanyahu, the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, addressed the assembly.
He did so in pre-recorded remarks from his office in Ramallah.
He and other top Palestinian officials were denied visas by the United States to attend for the second year in a row.
He warned of great danger ahead for Palestinians.
”The danger is no longer limited to undermining the two-state solution and preventing the realization of a Palestinian state. It now threatens the very life and existence of the Palestinian people in their homeland”.
Outside the UN headquarters, actress Susan Sarandon was among protesters detained in a demonstration in support of Palestine and against Netanyahu’s address to the UN General Assembly.
Culled from France24