“He who is compassionate to the cruel will become cruel to the compassionate” —Midrash
The UN Security Council had been due to vote on a brief draft resolution on Friday morning, but it was delayed at the request of the United Arab Emirates.
A UN commission of inquiry investigating war crimes on both sides of the Israel-Hamas conflict will focus on sexual violence by Hamas in the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel.
Magen David Adom attacked the UN on X (Twitter) for refusing to acknowledge Hamas's targeting of Israeli first responders during the October 7 massacre.
Gutteres was among the first to condemn Israel last month after a false report that a supposed Israeli airstrike had struck the Al-Ahli hospital in Gaza.
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.
It is the rhetorical question that should be asked of Greta Thunberg along with United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
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.