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Netanyahu Faces an UNGA Walkout (Again)
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the U.N. General Assembly on Thursday as more than 100 delegates walked out, the second consecutive year his speech has triggered a mass exit. He defended Israel's war in Gaza and its strikes on Iran, framed the campaigns as existential and preventive, and invoked his brother's death in the 1976 Entebbe rescue operation repeatedly through the remarks.
Netanyahu also turned on New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani by name, blaming him for Jews feeling unsafe in the city and rejecting Mamdani's genocide characterization of the Gaza campaign. The speech came about five weeks before Israelis vote in a referendum on his government, a timing the piece notes shaped who the remarks were really aimed at.
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A man tells a room that's half empty how brave everyone left behind is for staying. That's not really a speech to the United Nations, it's a campaign ad with a very expensive backdrop. When you spend more time on a city mayor than on the war you're actually fighting, you've told the room exactly who you're worried about.
