GENEVA: Israel’s new UN ambassador accused the worldwide physique of pummelling his nation with unfair and disproportionate criticism because the Oct 7 onslaught, leaving the nation feeling betrayed.
Israel has for many years accused numerous UN our bodies of bias towards it – one thing they deny.
“We really feel that the UN has betrayed Israel,” Israel’s ambassador Daniel Meron informed AFP in an interview on Tuesday (Sep 23) because the preventing with Hamas in Gaza and Lebanon’s Hezbollah has increased fears of a wider Middle East conflict.
Meron stated his nation had lengthy been striving “to discover a solution to work with the UN, regardless of our ongoing criticism”.
“We’d have wished to proceed that,” he stated, however now “we haven’t any belief anymore within the UN”.
Every thing modified, Meron stated, after Hamas’s unprecedented Oct 7 attack on Israel that triggered the lethal marketing campaign in Gaza, alongside escalating strikes with Hezbollah that threaten to unleash all-out conflict in Lebanon.
UN-linked courts, councils, businesses and workers have accused Israel of utilizing disproportionate drive in its retaliatory operation in Gaza, together with fees of “conflict crimes” and “genocide”.
However Meron, who took over in July as Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, maintained there had been far much less condemnation of Hamas’s “barbaric” actions.
He slammed the “ethical equivalence” drawn between Israel and “a terror organisation”.
The UN, he stated, “has betrayed Israel and on the worst time, the worst occasion that has occurred to the State of Israel since its inception in 1948”.