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    "parsed_content": "U.N. General AssemblyTrump\u2019s SpeechNetanyahu Denounces Israel\u2019s CriticsAbbas Calls for Palestinian StateIran\u2019s PresidentZelensky\u2019s WarningAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTSupported bySKIP ADVERTISEMENTNetanyahu, Addressing U.N., Denounces Israel\u2019s Critics as \u2018Moral Cowards\u2019Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also reserved some of his ire for the mayor of the city hosting him, Zohran Mamdani.Listen \u00b7 8:39 min Share full article\u201cShame on you!\u201d Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said to Israel\u2019s critics as he addressed the General Assembly on Thursday.Credit...Dave Sanders for The New York TimesBy Isabel KershnerFarnaz FassihiMax Bearak and Michael LevensonSept. 24, 2026See more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra m\u00e1s de nuestra cobertura en los resultados de b\u00fasqueda. Add The New York Times on GoogleAgrega The New York Times en Google Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel gave a combative speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday in which he defended the wars in Gaza and in Iran as a \u201cbattle against barbarians\u201d and accused his country\u2019s many critics of being hypocrites.Directly addressing the protesters who were outside the building, he demanded to know where they had been when Iranian security forces killed thousands of people demonstrating against the regime in Tehran in January.\u201cDid you organize mass rallies, hunger strikes?\u201d Mr. Netanyahu asked. \u201cDid you protest outside the Iranian mission to the U.N.? Did you speak out, for that matter, for Christians persecuted in Iran and throughout the Middle East? No, no, you didn\u2019t do that. Because you\u2019re phony human rights protesters.\u201dMr. Netanyahu also directly criticized Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York, the city\u2019s first Muslim leader, who has called Mr. Netanyahu a \u201cwar criminal\u201d and at one time called for him to be arrested.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT\u201cTo all those spreading these lies about my country and about our brave soldiers, whether they sit in this hall or in the office of the antisemitic mayor of New York, I say this: Shame on you!\u201d Mr. Netanyahu said. \u201cShame on you for distorting the facts. Shame on you for inverting victim and aggressor. Shame on you for spitting in the face of truth.\u201dMr. Netanyahu addressed the General Assembly just hours after the Palestinian leader, Mahmoud Abbas, delivered a recorded video address in which he condemned Israeli actions in Gaza and the West Bank as \u201ca malicious colonial scheme\u201d aimed at forcing Palestinians to leave their homeland. He urged world leaders to restrain Israel and \u201censure the viability of the two-state solution.\u201d\u201cWe seek a democratic Palestinian state that respects the rule of law and human rights, a non-militarized state that lives in security and peace alongside the state of Israel,\u201d Mr. Abbas said. \u201cIt is possible.\u201dWant to stay updated on what\u2019s happening in Israel and the West Bank and Gaza Strip? Sign up for Your Places: Global Update, and we\u2019ll send our latest coverage to your inbox.The dueling speeches cast into stark relief the sharp divisions in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as well as Israel\u2019s increasing isolation on the world stage.Mr. Abbas, the leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority, did not appear in person because, for the second year in a row, the Trump administration refused to grant him a visa to travel to New York.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTThe State Department accused Palestinian officials of trying to \u201cinternationalize the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,\u201d including by seeking to bring cases to international tribunals. In response, the U.N.\u2019s 193 members voted last week, as they did last year, to allow Mr. Abbas to send a videotaped speech.When Mr. Netanyahu took the podium, he was greeted with boos, and many of the diplomats in the hall walked out, as they did last year. Supporters of the Israeli leader, meanwhile, began chanting, \u201cAm Yisrael Chai,\u201d a popular refrain meaning \u201cthe people of Israel live.\u201d\u201cIf there are any other moral cowards who haven\u2019t yet left this hall, please do so now,\u201d Mr. Netanyahu said.At times pounding the lectern and raising his voice, Mr. Netanyahu took aim at those with whom Israel has clashed militarily: Iran, Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in Gaza and their allied forces in Yemen and Iraq. But he also spent considerable time assailing Mayor Mamdani, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey and Western European leaders who, he said, \u201chave chosen to succumb to the antisemitic mob.\u201dIn response to Mr. Netanyahu\u2019s attacks, Mr. Mamdani accused the prime minister of using his U.N. speech \u201cto repeat baseless lies meant to sanitize his genocide of Palestinians.\u201dAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT\u201cYet no lie can change the fact that he remains the subject of an International Criminal Court arrest warrant alleging war crimes and crimes against humanity,\u201d the mayor said.Minutes before Mr. Netanyahu spoke, Mr. Mamdani released a wordless, minute-long video that showed him planting an olive tree at Gracie Mansion, the mayor\u2019s official residence, and dining there with Palestinian families from Gaza.\u201cMay peace be our future,\u201d Mr. Mamdani wrote in a social media post accompanying the video.Outside the United Nations, the police arrested protesters who were blocking an intersection at 39th Street and First Avenue, not far from the General Assembly hall, and chanting, \u201cIt is right to rebel; Netanyahu go to hell.\u201d The protest was organized by Jewish Voice for Peace and attracted hundreds of demonstrators who wore shirts that read, \u201cFund people not bombs.\u201dMr. Abbas assailed the Israeli military campaign in Gaza, calling it \u201ca genocidal war that has created an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe.\u201d He also condemned Israel\u2019s occupation of the West Bank, where he said settler attacks on Palestinians and the demolition of Palestinian homes, checkpoints and raids have been carried out under a policy of \u201cracial discrimination, ethnic cleansing and state terrorism.\u201d\u201cThe danger is no longer limited to undermining the two-state solution and preventing the realization of the Palestinian state,\u201d he said. \u201cIt has now come to threaten the very life and existence of the Palestinian people on their own land.\u201dAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTMr. Netanyahu cast Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, whose presence much of the world considers an illegal encroachment onto land destined for a Palestinian state, as mostly peaceful neighbors and victims of Palestinian violence.He also rejected claims that Israel was carrying out a genocide in Gaza.\u201cWhat genocidal regime gives a million polio vaccinations to the enemy\u2019s population?\u201d he asked. \u201cWhat genocidal regime enables the distribution of two million tons of food into Gaza? That\u2019s a ton for every person. Accusing Israel of genocide is the greatest lie of the century.\u201dMr. Netanyahu recounted the horror of Oct. 7, 2023, when a Hamas-led attack killed about 1,200 people in Israel and led to the abduction of about 250 hostages to Gaza, violence that he said had been carried out \u201cwith fiendish glee, with sadistic joy.\u201d\u201cWe didn\u2019t collapse,\u201d he said. \u201cWe rose and fought like lions.\u201dIn the ensuing Israeli military attacks in Gaza, more than 70,000 people were killed, according to Gaza health officials, and much of the enclave was reduced to rubble, leading to international accusations, including by a U.N. commission, that Israel was committing genocide.In 2024, the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Mr. Netanyahu and Israel\u2019s former defense minister, Yoav Gallant, accusing them of crimes against humanity and war crimes in Gaza. The court also issued a warrant for a Hamas leader, Muhammad Deif. He was killed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTMr. Netanyahu is now facing a tough re-election campaign, and his political future is uncertain. His speech at the U.N., analysts said, was at least in part directed at the audience back home.In his address, he cast the war that he and President Trump launched against Iran seven months ago, partly on the grounds that Iran must be prevented from developing nuclear weapons, in the most dire, existential terms.\u201cIt\u2019s one of the easiest decisions I\u2019ve had to make as prime minister, because if we hadn\u2019t done it, we\u2019d all be dead,\u201d he said. He added, \u201cIsrael and America acted together, not only to protect ourselves, but to save civilization.\u201dMr. Netanyahu vowed that Israel would continue to fight against Iran and its allied militias in the Middle East \u201cbecause we have no other choice.\u201dReporting was contributed by Liam Stack, Miles G. Cohen and Richard P\u00e9rez-Pe\u00f1a.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT",
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