The UN's Theater of the Absurd: The War of Consciousness Israel Must Adopt

Lt. Col. (res.) Amit Yagur argues that the UN General Assembly is a theater of the absurd where leaders attack Israel using harsh terminology such as "genocide" and "ethnic cleansing." According to him, Israel continues to wage an outdated war of consciousness of defense instead of an active campaign that would put its critics on the spot. He proposes four steps: forcing Erdogan onto the defensive, exposing French hypocrisy, leveraging the American framing, and exposing corruption at the UN.

Lt. Col. (res.) Amit Yagur analyzes in an opinion piece the current UN General Assembly as a theater of the absurd where leaders exploit the stage to attack Israel. He notes that the terminology is dramatically harsh, and accusations of "genocide" and "ethnic cleansing" flowed freely from the podium, in a mechanism that predates October 7. Yagur argues that the bloc of "old order" countries skips over the events of the massacre and the hostages and returns to bashing Israel using the Palestinian issue. He identifies a deep Israeli failure in perceiving the arena: Israel's war of consciousness is not meant to "convince," but to strip the theater of legitimacy and expose the ongoing sabotage of the old order bloc to the American vision. Yagur proposes four steps for a professional and active war of consciousness: forcing Erdogan onto the defensive in Washington by flooding Turkish public opinion polls; exposing French hypocrisy regarding its colonial responsibility for the destruction of Lebanon; leveraging the American framing of the comparison to September 11; and exposing the bluster and corruption at the UN through investigations into Qatari money trails and the involvement of UNRWA employees in terror. The article concludes with a call to replace defensive diplomacy with an aggressive consciousness initiative as required after October 7 and in the 21st century.