14 May 2024

Lede: Likud's tactical approach relies entirely on the U.S. for Israel's
security, as the sole blocking force in a world community that is increasingly
united and aghast at massive Israeli war crimes. How much longer can they carry
on this way?

We owe an ironic debt of gratitude to Israel's UN Ambassador Gilad Erdan for
advancing the cause of the State of Palestine at the United Nations. By
delivering a speech to the UN General Assembly that was so unhinged, absurd,
vulgar, insulting, undignified, and undiplomatic, Erdan helped to secure a
lopsided vote of 143 to 9 in favor of Palestine's UN membership (the rest
abstained or did not vote). But more than that, Erdan helped to clarify Israel's
tactical approach - and why it is doomed to fail.

Let us briefly consider the content of Erdan's speech. Erdan claimed, in short,
that Palestine equals Hamas and Hamas equals Hitler's Nazi Reich. Erdan told the
UN delegates that their nations support a state of Palestine because "so many of
you are Jew-hating." He then shredded the UN Charter at the podium, claiming
that the delegates were doing the same by voting for Palestine's UN
membership. All the while, on the very same day as his speech and UN vote,
Israel was amassing its forces for yet more slaughter of innocent civilians in
Rafah.
-- Cont'd at https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/gilad-erdan-israel-united-nations