Israel's 'friends' who stabbed it in the back on the UN stage

A series of world leaders used the UN General Assembly podium to launch a sharp attack against Israel. The King of Jordan accused it of an "appetite for expansion" and called it a "regional threat," the British Prime Minister attacked its policies in Gaza and the West Bank, Erdogan called the Strip "the world's largest children's cemetery," and the Emir of Qatar claimed "genocide in every sense of the word."

The UN General Assembly gathering in New York served as a platform for unrestrained attacks on Israel. One after another, leaders took the stage and devoted extensive parts of their speeches to denouncing the Jewish state and its policies. Jordan's King Abdullah II, who is party to a peace treaty with Israel, accused it of an "appetite for expansion" and called it a "regional threat." British Prime Minister Andy Burnham attacked Israel's policies in Gaza and the West Bank, and spoke out against construction in the E1 area. Turkish President Erdogan called Gaza "the world's largest children's cemetery" and "the most inhumane concentration camp of our time." Qatar's Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani claimed that "what happened in Gaza is genocide in every sense of the word." UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres briefly mentioned the October 7 massacre but emphasized that what followed was "an attack on the Palestinians in Gaza" on a scale of "killing and destruction unlike anything he had seen in his years." The article uses loaded terms such as "unrestrained attacks," "denunciations," and "celebration" to describe the leaders' speeches, framing international criticism as betrayal by "friends."