It’s no secret that the United Nations is a cesspool of Jew-hating miscreants, but comments made by UN Secretary General Antonio Gutteres still came as a surprise, given their extreme audacity, callousness, and indifference to Hamas atrocities.
“It is important to also recognize the attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum,” Guterres said Tuesday. “The Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation. They have seen their land steadily devoured by settlements and plagued by violence; their economy stifled; their people displaced and their homes demolished. Their hopes for a political solution to their plight have been vanishing.”
He added that “the grievances of the Palestinian people cannot justify the appalling attacks by Hamas. And those appalling attacks cannot justify the collective punishment of the Palestinian people.”
Israeli envoy to the UN, Gilad Erdan, called the comments “shocking.”
“The shocking speech by the UN Secretary-General at the Security Council meeting, while rockets are being fired at all of Israel, proved conclusively, beyond any doubt, that the Secretary-General is completely disconnected from the reality in our region and that he views the massacre committed by Nazi Hamas terrorists in a distorted and immoral manner,” Erdan said. “His statement that, ‘the attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum,’ expressed an understanding for terrorism and murder. It’s really unfathomable. It’s truly sad that the head of an organization that arose after the Holocaust holds such horrible views. A tragedy!”
Minister Benny Gantz said: “The days when the UN Secretary-General supports terrorism are dark days for the world. There is no way to justify a massacre of innocent civilians. Anyone who is not on the right side of history will be judged by it. Anyone who justifies terrorism is not fit to speak for the world.”
Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen said he canceled a scheduled meeting with the UN Secretary General following his repulsive comments.
“I will not meet the UN secretary-general,” Cohen wrote on X. “After October 7, there is no place for a balanced approach. Hamas must be erased from the world.”
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I don’t thinks it’s proper to call Gutteres a “jew-hating Hamas terror supporter” if he clearly began his speech by saying, “I have condemned unequivocally the horrifying and unprecedented 7th of October attacks of terror by Hamas in Israel. Nothing can justify the deliberate killing injuring and kidnapping of civilians or the launching of rockets against civilian targets. All hostages must be treated humanely and released immediately and without conditions.”
Indeed, he’s a baal shitah with regard to Palestinian oppression, but it doesn’t seem right to call him a “jew-hating Hamas terror supporter” if he clearly denounced Hamas’s attack.
I wonder if Gutteres thinks it would be okay if the indigenous people of Portugal were to massacre Portuguese civilians. After all, Portugal was one of the biggest OCCUPIER and COLONIALIZER of any country. Brainless bastard.
The crux of the problem is his sentence: The Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation.
The land of Israel belongs to the Jewish people. This is why the first Rashi on the first posuk in the Torah clarifies this. Why would the Torah begin with asserting that Hashem created the heavens and the earth, and not with the first mitzvah that the Jewish people were commanded to keep? The Torah is a book of commandments after all. The reason is just for the situation we are seeing now. Rashi is the one that asks this question on the Torah, and answers by saying that G-d first gave the nations the land of Israel. Then he took it from them and gave it to the Jewish people. In case the nations of the world will make a claim that the Jews have stolen their land, this is what we are to answer them.
When Netanyahu and the rest of the government will declare their belief in Hashem, they will have the strength to finish the job, without feeling any pressure from any authority other than Hashem.
During the Yom Kippur war, Moshe Dayan was advised by a gadol that the IDF should go all the way to Damascus, that even the United States government wants this, but will not say it publicly.
Someone should sit down with this piece of garbage piece of excrement and feed him facts, not Palestinian and Arab regurgitated garbage which are simply lies. Let him hear the facts on the ground. May he be blessed with a מיתה משונה בקרוב ממש
He should die a hamas style death
Isn’t “Jew-Hating Hamas Terror Supporter” a requirement for the UN job?
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I am unable to listen to the drivel that comes from the UN Secretary General.
So out of touch with reality and spewing the same talking points as the Hamas Beasts/Murderers!
Gaza is without Gas, Electric, Water, Medicine, Food and all basic humanitarian needs ONLY because Hamas Controls Gaza.
He presides over UNRWA which aided and abetted Hamas siting their rocket launchers and other weapons within civilian targets. That is a war crime in itself. They also run their schools which teach hate and prepare the children to become Hamas operatives. So he is as guilty as Hamas in this mass execution. They also siphon a large percentage of the aid that comes into Gaza to Hamas, so that they can continue holding the hostages and commit more acts of terrorism.
This is the reality of the UN and is unlikely to change in the near-term. I’m actually surprised the response hasn’t been more hostile to EY in the long-standing tradition of blaming the victim. Candidly, on balance, its probably more important for EY to remain in the UN for now with a fairly strong US and UK backstop. I don’t trust the EU to remain on our side as the “humanitarian” issues deteriorate.
“its important to realize….it doesnt come from a vaccum” the worst thing you can do to someone whos bullied is to justify the bullying and say that the bully is only reacting to the victims issue…. but the real truth is gutteres is right, “it is israels fault” they showed too much weakness by giving in all the time and giving up land and ceasefires they made themselves a easy target to be vulnerable and victimized by hamas!!!
cmon how much longer are we maybe going 2 have 2 listen 2 this nonsense first tlaib said this already and now he’s just repeating what said where’s moshiach already when we need 2 come here already and beis hamikdash rebuilt
another point is that something that is masterminded by irans general and premeditated by hamas for years is not coming from an emotional human response rather an cold animalistic nature aka “pera adam”!!!
The pogrom of October 7 did not happen in a vacuum. It was created by decades of UN support of terrorism both material and in the international arena where terrorism was rewarded. It happened against the backdrop of centuries of anti-Semitism perpetrated by Guterres and his ancestors from the Inquisition to the Holocaust. After Israel finishes Hamas, there will be others who still need to pay a debt.
He’s the head of the UN and he sounds like a kid on the internet and not someone who has ever been to Gaza. Even people in Arab states know this is a lie.
This bum is only parroting the democrat talking points Hakeem Jeffries’ squad girls are spewing forth.
what does calling someone an anti-semite accomplish? maybe try to be productive and provide a counter narrative for people to employ on other (social) media platforms. Calling people out just makes them dig in deeper. PROVIDE NARRATIVE. what “taka” are the ethical obligations of a country at war? What is the response to the palestinian claim – that Israel (Judah) is actually older? how can we package the first rashi of chumash so that it doesn’t get dismissed out of hand?
I think Jay42095 is correct. he is not a “Jew-Hating Hamas Terror Supporter”. He is certainly Jew-Hating though. He considers what Hamas did, equal to what the people in Gaza suffer as a result of Hamas behaviour in the region.
On second thought, he is a “Jew-Hating Hamas Terror Supporter”. he condemns Hamas behaviour, but then declares that he understands it, it makes sense, it is justified. If it is justified, then he would underwrite it. So why is he condemning it? Is he condemning himself?
He is a most idiotic, empty-headed fence-sitter. He cannot take a side. But in this situation, you are either on the side of Israel and civilization, or you are not on the side of civilization. You are on the side of civilization, or you are on the side of tyranny and bloodthirsty savagery. He is not on the side of civilization, for he justifies bloodthirsty savagery. He therefore supports Hamas terror.
Thank you, YWN, for finally writing something logical.
Before trying to be even-handed, this piece of garbage should first know the truth. The UN, the media, and the left-wing politicians are responsible for what is going on in Gaza. For years they downplayed Palestinian violence. Oh, big deal they’re only throwing some stones they said during the intifadas. Building an apartheid wall to keep out suicide bombers how dare you. checkpoints that’s apartheid too. Go into Jenin or Nablus to catch terrorists that’s wrong but no leftists ever ask why there are M16s and machine guns there in the first place. Israel disengages from Gaza, and leaves over intact greenhouses but Israel is somehow blockading Gaza, somehow, they’re still an occupation force. Where in the world does one country have to give free access to its neighbors and a hostile one too? For over 17 years Hamas and others have been raining down missiles on innocent Israeli civilians but all the leftists are worried about is disproportional force. The media talks about Hamas missiles but they make sure to highlight that they can be shot down by the Iron Dome as if then the missiles are less lethal. Did the UN and the media ever ask where Hamas got the money to build tunnels and buy and manufacture missiles? Again, the answer is NO. That will ruin their narrative that there is dire poverty in Gaza. I’ve seen pictures of Gazans they don’t look malnourished to me. Their towns don’t look like squalor of course not, Israel gave not dozens or hundreds but thousands of work permits to Gaza which many used as an opportunity to spy on Israel. Is Gaza besieged? Is it an open-air prison? How absurd. With the right documents, you were free to leave Gaza like any other country. I could go on I’ll just tell the Gazans and the Palestinians If you act like animals you’ll be treated like animals.
If UN Secretary General Antonio Gutteres had publicly stated that Israel is correct and Hamas is wrong, then he would have been FIRED FROM HIS JOB in less than ten minutes.
Additionally, he would probably be assassinated in less than ten days.
If he wants to hold onto his high-paying and prestigious job, then he MUST criticize Israel.
If he wants to hold onto his LIFE, then he MUST criticize Israel.
23 total number of Arab countries
57 total number of Muslim countries
1 total number of Jewish countries.