Diplomats and other officials walked out of the United Nations General Assembly in New York City on Friday as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prepared to defend his nation’s slaughter of more than 41,000 people in the Gaza Strip during the past year and over 700 in Lebanon this week.
Journalists and critics of the “global pariah” shared photos and videos of people filing out of the hall before Netanyahu’s address—which came just a day after 25 anti-genocide protesters were arrested for blocking his motorcade in Manhattan.
While there was some audience applause from the sparsely populated room on Friday, Al Jazeera Arabic’s Rami Ayari explained that “the people you hear cheering the PM during the speech are in the gallery who he brought for that purpose.”.
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Slovenia Prime Minister Robert Golob: “I want to say this out loud and clear to the Israeli Government: Stop the bloodshed. Stop the suffering. Bring the hostages home and end the occupation. Mr. Netanyahu, stop this war now!”
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Israel faces a South Africa-led genocide case at the International Court of Justice, and the International Criminal Court prosecutor has sought arrest warrants for Netanyahu, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, and three Hamas leaders—one of whom Israel recently assassinated in Iran. Israel also claims to have killed a second Hamas leader, which the group has denied.
The people who walked out work for other government. They can do a lot more than walk out. They can issue sanctions which force divestments.
That is within their ability to do… however, US would likely retaliate and most countries are not in any position to take on US in any sort of trade war or other diplomatic circle jerks.
With that being said, US punishing these countries, esp if a critical mass of countries did it, would be very costly from propaganda perspective… it already is.
I just don’t see people spending real money on Gaza tho tbh
The popular opinion of constituents, both in other countries and in the US, is support for Gaza
Correct… And if political process worked as intended, this wouldn’t happen.
There is a lesson in there…