Instead of answering for his crimes against humanity at the International Court, Netanyahu was able to address the United Nations Assembly. Outside, the UN building was surrounded by pro-Palestinian protesters, while inside, many delegations walked out as soon as he appeared.
Surrounded by an air of deep global disdain, a visibly worn Netanyahu, with no light left in his eyes, read from his usual stack of papers filled with Zionist delusions and propagandistic lies. Starting with the events of October 7, which supposedly justify the genocide in Gaza, a bitter Netanyahu defended the morality of his army and repeated the same tired talking points from his repertoire.
The now grotesque accusations of antisemitism against anyone disgusted by Israel‘s delusional policies, the usual mantra of Israel’s right to exist and defend itself—rights denied to Palestinians for over seventy years—along with out-of-context quotes of David, Moses, and the chosen people, pulled from the Bible whenever convenient.
He didn’t even skip his famous hypocritical victimhood and the grand classic of maps, this time portraying himself as Yahweh, deciding which nations are cursed and which are blessed. It was a scene reminiscent of the last century, when cornered dictators would ramble on about their omnipotence before their inevitable collapse.
In Gaza, Netanyahu has achieved none of his objectives other than the collective punishment of Palestinians, pushing Israel into a position of undeniable wrongdoing. And without winning that war, he’s now starting an even more audacious one in Lebanon, while his country teeters on the brink of collapse.
Netanyahu screams that he’s winning, but in reality, he’s running away while his country has never been so fragile, isolated, and hated by the entire world. Yet, there is never an admission of guilt, never a step back, never a change of course. For decades now, Netanyahu and his accomplices have bathed the Middle East in blood without achieving anything other than making the situation worse, and yet they persist.
It’s as if they know no other way but to violently impose their will on others and are completely incapable of empathy. As if they envision peace only through their own dominance and see Arabs as so inferior that compromise would be a defeat. They want Greater Israel, even if it means walking over mountains of corpses.
This is ideological extremism from the last century, views instilled from a young age, mistaken for absolute truth and therefore untouchable. It seems that the heavy bombing of Beirut began while Netanyahu was still delivering his pitiful speech at the UN. A delusion of omnipotence, tons of U.S.-made bombs to target Nasrallah. The number of enemy leaders killed by Israelis can no longer be counted, yet each time, they only seem to multiply and grow more determined.
Nasrallah’s predecessor, Abbas al-Musawi, was killed by the Israelis in 1992, and since then, Hezbollah has only grown stronger, just as Hamas is now exploding across the Middle East as a result of the genocide. You can’t kill ideas by killing those who hold them—in fact, you amplify them. Violence doesn’t defeat dissent; it intensifies it. Life teaches us this, history teaches us this.
What is truly astonishing is the inability to learn from one’s mistakes and from what is happening. It’s the insanity of repeating the same actions and expecting a different outcome. Like in Lebanon, where these dynamics have been repeating identically for decades.
And this is the point. Beyond Netanyahu’s farewell speech and Nasrallah’s fate, the Middle East will never turn a new page as long as fanaticism and intolerance continue to dominate, leaving no room for reason and compassion, and as long as war doesn’t make way for politics, and Israelis and Palestinians don’t begin to cooperate for their common good.
If instead, ideological extremism from the last century prevails, then so will the results: ever more violent and devastating escalations.
