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Palestinian Authority says Netanyahu’s UN speech ‘saturated with lies’
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Dozens of countries leave empty seats as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the General Debate of the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York City on September 26, 2025. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP)
A Palestinian foreign ministry official slams Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the United Nations on Friday, saying it was “saturated with lies and falsifications.”
“It was the speech of a defeated man, a desperate leader who once again tried to rally a West that has increasingly distanced itself from a genocidal state, using fear as his only argument,” the director of the ministry’s European affairs department, Adel Atieh, tells AFP.
“This speech showed neither vision nor perspective: it only reflected growing isolation, a headlong rush forward, and the anxiety of a power that knows it stands on the wrong side of history,” he adds.
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