There is never justification for murder, rape, burning, beheading, and the killing of a baby in its mother’s stomach. Terrorism can never be rationalized, or put into “context”.
Islamic terror needs to be understood in context, though a completely different context from the one that Antonio Guterres suggests.
Guterres’s staggering argument was that "the attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum."
Israel's ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan called for Guterres to resign and reissued that call against him on Wednesday after Guterres’ statement.
“I just want to get them home," said Alana Zeitchik, of her relatives. "That’s all I think about. All we want is for them to come back and we want the world to come with us to help us."
Standing with his Arab counterparts, Jordan's Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi told reporters at the United Nations that the threat of the spreading was a "real danger."
Guterres briefed the 15-member UN Security Council behind closed doors on Friday.
JPOST Digital Library
