Israeli Leader Faces Icy Reception

Welcome to Foreign policyThe situation report, the final version of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) before resuming our usual weekly programs next Thursday.

Well, here is what is on the tap for today: the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu He gets a cold UNGA reception, China He takes advantage of his chance to undermine Washington’s global role, and Citrip speaks with the vice president Yemen.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu began the fifth day of Anga’s high -level week with a burning speech in which he condemned the critics of Israel and raised the countries that recognized the Palestinian state in recent days. “Your disgraceful decision will encourage terrorism against the Jews and against innocent people everywhere,” he said. “It will be a shame for all of you.”

Netanyahu added: “Giving the Palestinians one mile from Jerusalem after October 7 is similar to giving the base a tendency one mile from New York City after September 11.”

The discourse of the Israeli leader – the presence of Unga in general – was met with protests inside the association hall and outside the United Nations headquarters. When Netanyahu went to the platform to speak, dozens of delegates stood up and went out. By the time when he started talking, he was doing it to a largely empty hall (although the viewing exhibition on the balcony was full of many supporters who chanted enthusiastically and built several times during his speech).

During his speech, Netanyahu said that “Israel must end the job” in Gaza, and it is defending the controversial Israeli operation in Gaza City, which forced an estimated half a million people to flee.

Netanyahu also used his title as an opportunity to photograph himself as devoted to bringing hostages in Gaza. The Israeli leader announced that he was surrounded by Gaza with “huge loudspeakers” broadcasting his speech “in the hope that our dear hostages will hear my message.”

Netanyahu said in the words addressed to the hostages: “We have not forgotten you, not even for one second. The people of Israel are with you. He also called Hamas to put its arms and “Let my popularity go.”

But his message was not well received by some of the hostages family, who accused Netanyahu of threatening their loved ones and standing on the path of ceasefire agreements that could return them home.

Ruby Chen – The father of the hostage Etay Chen, an Israeli -American soldier with the Israeli Defense Forces, who is believed to have been killed on October 7, 2023 – will be in the hall for Netanyahu’s address but “he left a protest after him after that. [Netanyahu] He did not find a way to mention my son. “

There are 48 hostages that remain in the families in Gaza, but during his speech, Netanyahu mentioned the names of the twentieth hostages who are alive. The deceased hostages family confirmed that they want to see the remains of their loved ones, who returned to help provide closure.

“It was a speech about yesterday, not a speech about tomorrow,” Chen said, adding that he found it “annoying” to see many delegates leaving a protest at the beginning – which he said was a sign of the damage caused by Netanyahu to the reputation of Israel and standing within the international community.

The hostages also led the protests aimed at Netanyahu in New York City on Friday. In a statement, the hostage and families forum raised Netanyahu to make a decision “repeated and repeatedly to the Torbid, thwarting and bombing the chances of returning them home.”

Brad Lander, New York City Observer, was among a group of demonstrators who gathered in the United Nations security vicinity and carrying signs of “bringing them home.” Lander Citrip told that he was there because “Netanyahu is responsible for continuous killing and starvation for children in Gaza and responsible for the continuous families of Israeli hostages, and we want the war to end, and we want both Israeli and Palestinian hostages to return to the homeland – it adjusts every day.”

The deep part of the United Nations on Gaza was highlighted by the leader who took the stage immediately after Netanyahu: Pakistani Prime Minister Shabaz Sharif.

Sherif said in his remarks: “The Israeli attack launched the genocide on terrorism, which is indescribable to women and children in a way that we have not seen in the records of history,” Sharif said in his statements. “Palestine can no longer stay under Israeli restrictions. It must be liberated.”

China spent a lot of this week-and often, last year-is to present itself as a defender of the international regime based on bases and multiple parties to the face of the United States, and Chinese Prime Minister Lee Qiang used the largest platform for the United Nations University to provide this issue on Friday.

“The road may be difficult and live, but when all countries unite as one and cooperate in good faith, our strengths will move to a strong force that we can withstand any opposite wind and cross any obstacle.”

The United States or others did not call by name, but implicitly rejected the talisman of US President Donald Trump from “peace through power” and “America first” on several occasions.

“History continues to remind us that when it dictates properly, the world risks division and slope. If the era of the law of return of the forest and weakness leaves as a poor human society, it will face more enrichment and brutality.” “As individuals in the global family, we must support justice while following our own interests. This is especially true for major countries.”

UNGA 80 has seen a great focus on shortcomings in the United Nations and its failure to address global crises sufficiently ranging from climate change to war in Gaza. However, the organization has not hidden from that the week because it is competing to prove that it is still important – especially in facing the challenges of Trump, who reduced external aid and rejected pluralism.

The President of the General Assembly, Annalena Baerbock, admitted on Tuesday that the United Nations should “do what is better”, but made it clear that the world will be much worse without it.

On Friday, Sitrel asked COMFRT ERO, head of the Crisis Group and CEO, who was in New York throughout the week for Unga, whether the United Nations had obtained the message that remains a vital player in global affairs.

“They survived the week,” said Ero. Despite its faults and fields of improvement, the United Nations remains a “very important role in this turbulent time,” said ERO.

Although Trump was fully critical of the global body in his speech on Tuesday, Iro stressed that the US President is still talking about the “massive capabilities of the United Nations”, noting that “this was the message that came from [Trump’s] A special meeting with the Secretary -General as well. “

During his meeting with UN President Antonio Guterres, Trump said the United States “is behind the United Nations 100 percent,” adding that “it may differ with it sometimes, but I am behind this because the possibility of peace in this institution is great.” Iro said that this was far from the “worst scenario” that may have been honesty and some member states had been afraid to come to the week.

Sitrep sat with Adarous Al -Zubaidi, the unlawful deputy head of Yemen, on the sidelines of UNGA on Friday morning for a discussion on the future of the country after years of civil war.

Zubaidi said he believed that the Iranian -backed Houthi rebels, who have taken control of the Yemeni capital, SANA, since 2014, could be defeated in “six to 12 months” with the support of foreign powers such as the United States and the United Kingdom. The US military targeted the Houthis in response to their attacks on shipping ships in the Red Sea, but the Trump administration reached a ceasefire with the armed group in May. However, Israel continues to hit the group of rebels.

While the two -state solution to Israel was a great axis in Unga, Zubaidi also said that “peace in Yemen” requires “a return to two states because it was before 1990.” Yemen was divided into two parts of a large piece of the twentieth century – from 1967 to 1990 – with the Yemen Arab Republic in the north and the People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen in the south. But Zubaidi, the head of the Southern Transitional Council, a group of separation from the United Arab Emirates, said that this arrangement will not necessarily involve “peace with the Houthis.”

Zubaidi said that an independent south joins Ibrahim’s agreements and normalized relations with Israel. But he told Sitrep that the survival of Ibrahim’s agreements depends on Israel “making peace and getting to know the situation of Palestine”, a possibility not on the table.

Monday, September 29: Netanyahu Trump is scheduled to meet at the White House.

151,796: The number of steps made by your Sitrep authors collectively during the UNGA week at a high -level level as of this writing (although John’s Count was reinforced through the Chapell Roan party that he attended on Wednesday night). We were also trying to calculate the number of coffee cups that we drank, but we lost the count about two days ago.

“You are supposed to laugh by the way.”

–Netanyahu, in response to silence in Unga after he described the United Nations as “exactly a supporter of Israel.”