PM Netanyahu, wanted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity in the Gaza war, started his speech touting his aggression against the Palestinians, Iran, Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen, and Syria as his country's contribution to world peace.
Netanyahu, who had to take a special, secure air route on his trip from Tel Aviv to New York to avoid being intercepted and arrested by states that said they would observe the ICC's arrest warrant for him, threatened to attack and destroy anyone in the region who dares to threaten the state of Israel.
He went on to peddle new and old Israeli lies to justify Israel's aggression against the Palestinians and various countries in the region, such as "Hamas killed babies on 7 October" and "Iran wants nuclear weapons."
The Israeli premier told the Israeli delegation and the lonely few supporters in the UNGA hall that Israel was fighting for the world against the forces of "evil."
Israel was not just fighting for its own survival but also fighting on behalf of the civilized world against "Islamic fundamentalists and terrorists" who "want to destroy the West," proclaimed Netanyahu, as he custom-tailored his speech to a shrinking pool of Zealot supporters in the Western world.
He accused Western governments that have opposed the Israeli war in Gaza and recognised Palestinian statehood of supporting the "killing of Jews" and appeasing the "barbarians at the gate."
"You indict us and wage legal warfare against us ...This is not an indictment of Israel. It is an indictment of you," a defiant and angry Netanyahu told those who condemned his war.
Netanyahu defended his government against the near-unanimous international consensus that Israel was targeting civilians and committing genocide in Gaza as a "false charge."
In his speech, Netanyahu once again played the card of "anti-semitism", insisting that any criticism or action against Israel’s war and its crimes amounts to inciting hatred against Jews, ignoring the fact that thousands of Jews around the world have spoken out against the Israeli genocide and in support of the legitimate rights of the Palestinians.
Confronting the mounting accusations of genocide, he asked rhetorically whether a country committing genocide would urge a population to leave.
“We ask civilians to leave war zones for their safety. Did the Nazis ask the Jews to leave?” He pretended not to know that this so-called humanitarian gesture is, in fact, the forced displacement of Palestinians, an ongoing war crime for the past two years.
The Israeli army was fighting a "moral war" and was taking every precaution to "minimize civilian casualties," but Hamas is the one doing its best to make sure more civilians were killed to further their goals, claimed Netanyahu.
Netanyahu was speaking as the Israeli occupation forces killed more than one hundred civilians in Gaza in the last 24 hours, bringing the death toll to nearly 66,000 Palestinians and wounded over 166,000, most of them women and children, since the start of the war in Gaza in October 2023.
A chest-thumping Netanyahu, who recently told the world about his dreams of a Greater Israel across several Arab lands, rejected the two-state solution with the Palestinians as “national suicide … sheer madness ... it's insane and we won't do it."
Netanyahu claimed that "the Palestinians do not want a two-state solution but rather want a State of Palestine instead of the State of Israel."
The Palestinian Authority, and not just Hamas, "celebrates the murderers of Jews" and "wants to destroy Israel," he claimed.
"My opposition to the two-state solution is not simply my policy but 'the policy of my people and the State of Israel," proclaimed Netanyahu.
The Israeli Prime Minister's tirade against the world comes after several Western nations announced their recognition of the State of Palestine before the start of the 80th session of the UNGA, bringing the number of states that recognized Palestinian statehood to 150.
On Monday, tens of countries demonstrated support for an independent Palestinian state at the two-state solution co-sponsored by France and Saudi Arabia before the General Assembly.
In January 2024, three months after the start of the Gaza war, the International Court of Justice, the highest court in the UN system, deemed that Israeli practices in the war amounted to acts of genocide.
Later in 2024, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and his former defence minister, Yoav Gallant, for crimes against humanity in the war.
In recent months, global outrage against the Israeli war and blockade on Gaza increased as millions around the world watched in horror as famine in Gaza, declared by the UN in August 2025, began taking the lives of hundreds of Palestinians, including tens of children, in the strip.
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