{"id":2079159,"date":"2023-10-25T15:03:01","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T19:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/furious-israeli-officials-vow-to-teach-un-chief-a-lesson-after-his-justifying-of-hamas-attack\/"},"modified":"2023-10-25T15:05:42","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T19:05:42","slug":"furious-israeli-officials-vow-to-teach-un-chief-a-lesson-after-his-justifying-of-hamas-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/furious-israeli-officials-vow-to-teach-un-chief-a-lesson-after-his-justifying-of-hamas-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli officials are furious and determined to teach the UN chief a lesson for his perceived justification of the Hamas attack."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">42<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffurious-israeli-officials-vow-to-teach-un-chief-a-lesson-after-his-justifying-of-hamas-attack%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2079159&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Furious Israeli Officials Vow to Teach UN Chief &#8216;A\u2063 Lesson&#8217; After His &#8216;Justifying&#8217; of Hamas Attack<\/h2>\n<p>Israeli officials were outraged Wednesday over U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres\u2019 comment that the deadly \u200cHamas attack on southern \u200cIsrael \u201cdid not \u2062happen in a vacuum,\u201d calling it justification for terrorism.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI\u200b will not meet with the UN \u2064<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/off-to-a-bad-start-putin-schools-biden-with-one-phone-call\/\" title=\"Off to a Bad START: Putin Schools Biden with One Phone Call\">secretary-general<\/a>. After \u200dthe October 7 massacre, there is\u2062 no place for a balanced approach. Hamas must be erased \u2062off the face of the planet!\u201d<\/p>\n<footer>&#8211; \u2063Foreign Minister Eli Cohen<\/footer>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Israel\u2019s envoy to the U.N. Gilad Erdan called for his resignation,\u200d saying Israel must rethink its relations with \u200bthe world \u2064body.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe \u2064will refuse to grant \u200bvisas to U.N. representatives. \u200bWe have already refused to give one to Under-Secretary-General\u2062 for Humanitarian \u2064Affairs Martin \u200dGriffiths,\u201d<\/p>\n<footer>&#8211; Gilad\u2063 Erdan<\/footer>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Israel\u2064 historically has had tense \u200brelations with the U.N., accusing it of being biased \u2064against it.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday,\u2062 Guterres addressed a special\u2064 Security Council \u2063meeting on the Israel-Hamas war that \u2064was \u200bsparked by\u200d the militant group\u2019s Oct. 7 attack, which left at least 1,400 Israelis dead, \u2062and more than 220 taken hostage.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli airstrikes have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/furious-israeli-officials-vow-to-teach-un-chief-a-lesson-after-his-justifying-of-hamas-attack\/\" title=\"Israeli officials are furious and determined to teach the UN chief a lesson for his perceived justification of the Hamas attack.\">destroyed large swaths<\/a> of the Gaza \u2062enclave, leaving at least 6,500 \u200dPalestinians killed, including over 2,700 children, according to the \u2064Hamas-run Health Ministry.<\/p>\n<p>The U.N. chief told the\u200d council that he \u201ccondemned unequivocally the horrifying and\u2064 unprecedented 7 October acts of \u200cterror by Hamas in Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cNothing can \u2064justify the deliberate killing, injuring and kidnapping of civilians \u2014 or the launching of rockets against civilian \u2062targets,\u201d<\/p>\n<footer>&#8211; Antonio Guterres<\/footer>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But his\u2064 contextualization of the attack created\u2063 an uproar\u2064 in Israel. It was\u200c important, Guterres said, to acknowledge that \u200d\u201cthe attacks by Hamas did not happen in a\u2064 vacuum.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Palestinian\u2063 people have been subjected\u2062 to\u200c 56 years of suffocating occupation. They have seen their land steadily devoured by settlements and plagued by violence; \u2064their economy stifled; their people displaced and their homes demolished. Their hopes for a political solution \u2063to\u2063 their\u2063 plight have been vanishing,\u201d \u2064he\u200b said.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Guterres tried to walk back the comments, tweeting: \u201cThe grievances of the Palestinian \u2064people cannot justify the horrific attacks by Hamas. Those horrendous \u2062attacks \u200dcannot justify \u200bthe collective\u2064 punishment of the Palestinian people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Israel \u200dwas not mollified.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe slaughter of Jew[s] by Hamas \u200don October \u20647th was genocidal\u2064 in\u200c its intents and\u2064 immeasurably \u200bbrutal in \u2064its form,\u201d<\/p>\n<footer>&#8211; Yad Vashem Chairman Dani \u200bDayan<\/footer>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He said that it tests\u200b the \u200csincerity of world leaders who came to Yad Vashem and pledged \u201cNever Again.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201dThose who seek to \u2018understand,\u2019 look \u200bfor a justifying context, do not condemn \u200bthe perpetrators, and do not \u2063call\u200b for the unconditional and immediate release of the abducted \u2014 fail the test. UN Secretary General Antonio \u2062Guterres failed the test.\u201d<\/p>\n<footer>&#8211; Dani Dayan<\/footer>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-style: italic\">The\u2063 Western Journal has\u200b reviewed this Associated Press story and may\u200c have altered it prior to \u2062publication to ensure \u2062that it meets\u2063 our editorial standards.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-furious-israeli-officials-vow-teach-un-chief-lesson-justifying-hamas-attack\/\">Furious Israeli Officials Vow\u200c to Teach \u2063UN Chief &#8216;A Lesson&#8217; \u2063After\u200d His &#8216;Justifying&#8217; of\u200d Hamas\u200d Attack<\/a> appeared first on \u200b <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> How do Israeli officials interpret Guterres&#8217; remarks as \u200dimplying their responsibility for the aggression faced from Hamas?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  \u200c F the\u2064 attack infuriated Israeli officials. They \u2064feel\u200b that Guterres&#8217; remarks imply that\u2063 Israel is \u2064somehow responsible for the aggression it faces from \u2063Hamas.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli Foreign Minister, \u2062Eli Cohen, expressed his strong reaction \u200cto Guterres&#8217; comments by refusing to meet with the UN Secretary-General.\u200b Cohen made it clear that he believes\u2064 there is no room for a\u2063 balanced approach\u2062 after the October 7 massacre perpetrated by Hamas. He went so far as\u200b to call\u200b for the eradication of\u200c Hamas\u2062 from \u200cthe face of the planet, emphasizing the severity of\u2063 the situation.<\/p>\n<p>Gilad \u2062Erdan, Israel&#8217;s envoy to\u200d the U.N., also\u2062 expressed his discontent with Guterres&#8217; remarks, calling for his resignation. Erdan argues that Israel needs to reassess its\u2062 relationship \u200bwith the \u2064international organization. As a first step, Israel has already\u2064 denied visas to U.N. representatives,\u200b including Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Martin Griffiths.<\/p>\n<p>It is not surprising that Israel has had \u2063a tense relationship with\u200b the U.N.\u200b throughout its history.\u200c Israel has long accused the organization of bias against it, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pope-francis-hints-openness-to-blessing-same-sex-couples\/\" title=\"Pope Francis suggests considering blessings for same-sex couples.\">recent remarks \u2062made<\/a> by Guterres have further fueled these accusations.<\/p>\n<p>During a special Security Council meeting, Guterres addressed the Israel-Hamas war, which was triggered by\u200b the October 7 attack \u2063by Hamas. The attack resulted in\u200b the deaths of at least 1,400 Israelis and the hostage-taking of \u200bover 220 individuals. In response, Israel has conducted airstrikes that have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hawaiis-kilauea-volcano-erupts\/\" title=\"Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii erupts.\">caused significant destruction<\/a> in the Gaza enclave. The Hamas-run Health Ministry reported the deaths of at \u200cleast 6,500 Palestinians, \u2064including over 2,700 children.<\/p>\n<p>While Guterres condemned the acts of terror by Hamas, he also \u2063<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/president-trump-pledges-orderly-transition-of-power\/\" title=\"President Trump pledges orderly transition of power\">made remarks<\/a> that contextualize the \u2063attack. Israeli officials took offense to his suggestion that the attack did not occur in isolation, believing that it implies Israeli responsibility for the aggression it faces.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli\u2063 officials are furious and demand a retraction of Guterres&#8217; comments. They\u200d argue that nothing justifies the deliberate killing, injuring,\u200d and kidnapping of civilians,\u2064 as well as the targeting of civilian\u200b areas with rockets.<\/p>\n<p>The conflict between Israel and Hamas is\u2063 complex and deeply rooted\u200c in historical tensions. \u200bIn such situations, it is crucial\u2064 for international leaders to choose\u2063 their words carefully \u200dand avoid \u200dimplying \u2063blame or justifications. It is understandable that Israeli officials are incensed by Guterres&#8217; comments and demand a\u200c more balanced approach from\u2063 the U.N. in addressing the conflict. It remains to be seen\u2063 how this latest controversy will impact the already strained relationship between Israel and the\u200c U.N.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli officials expressed anger at U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres&#8217; remark that the recent Hamas attack in southern Israel was not isolated. They deemed it as endorsing terrorism. Foreign Minister Eli Cohen canceled a planned meeting with Guterres, and Yad Vashem, Israel&#8217;s Holocaust memorial, criticized the U.N. chief for failing to meet expectations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":2079160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2079159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2079159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2079160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2079159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2079159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2079159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}