The Israeli ambassador to the UN, Gilad Erdan, denounced this Friday before the United Nations General Assembly that the body be prepared to expand the rights of Palestine and advocate for its full incorporation as a Member State, since it implies a “gift” to Hamas, “the Hitlers of our time”.

Erdan has gone back to Nazi Germany to remember the birth of the United Nations and lament that, if then the “forces of good” united, now the organization is preparing to “promote the establishment of a Palestinian terrorist state led by the Hitler of the XXI century”.

“With this twisted script twist, the attempt to put an end to evil is becoming a welcome to a terrorist State here, in these corridors,” he lamented, in a harsh speech in which he questioned the countries that, in their opinion, they are “blind.”

“The Palestinian Authority does not even control its own territory“, he said, stating that it is Hamas that controls Gaza and is preparing to “destroy” it in the event that new elections are held, which would imply for the United Nations to assume “a new moral norm” that would open the doors even to representatives of jihadist groups such as the Islamic State or Boko Haram.

“Don’t worry, it will be returned to you. Not only with disgrace and shame, but with war in the future. Congratulations,” said a defiant Erdan, who wore the yellow ribbon on his lapel that symbolizes support for the victims of the October 7 attacks.

The representative of Israel believes that the United Nations Charter is at stake and that “This day will be recorded in the annals of infamy” and he shredded a paper that symbolized this document before leaving the lectern.

The Palestinians, between “life and death”

For his part, the Palestinian ambassador, Riad Mansur, has reviewed from that same lectern some of the figures left by the conflict, including the deaths of more than 35,000 people, and has denounced that the Gazan population lives on the edge, “between life and death”. In this sense, he has stated that the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu is willing for “thousands” of people to die for the sake of his “political survival.”

He believes that “76 years after the Nakba, (Netanyahu) is trying to finish the job.” Mansur, who has warned that the Palestinians are currently living in an unprecedented “tragic situation”, has assured that more than a million Palestinians in Rafah are wondering “if they are going to survive today.”

For this reason, he has classified this Friday’s vote as “crucial”, emphasizing that a ‘yes’ to the resolution does not go “against any other State”, in a veiled allusion to Israel. “You can support the right of a nation to live in freedom and dignity in its ancestral land (…) or stay on the sidelines of history,” urged the ambassador, who represents the Palestinian Authority.

“Our right to self-determination, to an independent State, to be full members of these United Nations cannot be subject to an Israeli veto,” added Mansur, who during his speech also wanted to highlight that the flag of Palestine has become a “symbol” for “all those who believe in freedom”, with an express allusion to the pro-Palestinian protests that have spread in recent weeks across the United States.