Netanyahu denounces UN as a ‘swamp of antisemitic bile,’ says Israel will win ‘because we don’t have a choice’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calls singling out Israel “a moral stain on the United Nations,” and decries the institution, with unprecedented bitterness, as “a swamp of antisemitic bile” and a “flat earth society.”

The UN, he says, has rendered itself contemptible in the eyes of decent people because of its obsession with Israel. Any false charge against Israel can muster a majority, he notes, specifying that the General assembly he is now addressing has passed 174 resolutions against Isrsael in the past decade — far more than double the number against the entire rest of the world.

“What hypocrisy. What a double standard. What a joke,” he says to applause from the gallery.

All the hostility this year, “It’s not about Gaza; it’s about Israel” and its very existence.

Until it ends, the UN will be seen as nothing more than a “contemptuous farce.”

He then speaks about the ICC prosecutor’s call for arrest warrants against him and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, saying it is fueled by antisemitism.

The real war criminals, he says, are in Gaza, Syria, Iran, and Yemen. Those who stand with them he says, “should be ashamed of yourselves.”

But “Israel will win this battle,” he says, “because we don’t have a choice.”

After the Jews were butchered for generations and nobody raised a finger in our defense, he says, today Israel has a brave army of incomparable courage, “and we are defending ourselves.”

“Israel will not go gently into that good night,” he continues, paraphrasing the poet Dylan Thomas.

Turning to the people and soldiers of Israel, he says, “be strong and of good courage.”

“Am Yisrael Chai,” he finishes.