www.msn.com NEW YORK — Benjamin Netanyahu castigated his “weak-kneed” critics and vowed to continue fighting Israel’s enemies until they are “gone” in a defiant speech at the United Nations on Friday that was simultaneously broadcast into the Gaza Strip by speakers at the direction of the Israeli prime minister.
“Many of those who wage war on Israel today will be gone tomorrow,” he said, as throngs of diplomats walked out in protest of his address in the cavernous U.N. General Assembly hall.
The annual gathering of world leaders in New York began with prominent Western powers including France, Britain and Canada recognizing a Palestinian state and calling for an end to Israel’s military campaign. These pleas coincided with intensifying Israeli attacks inside Gaza City and the collapse of the area’s already beleaguered health care system, which have sent medics and patients fleeing.
Netanyahu claimed that the “final remnants of Hamas are holed up in Gaza City” and that “Israel must finish the job,” an appeal for more time he has reiterated at several phases of the nearly two-year war. “Israel has had to confront a seven-front war against barbarism,” Netanyahu said, as he boasted of the Israeli military’s decimation of foes in Iran, Yemen, Lebanon and Gaza.
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