The United Nations week in New York concluded just as it began. Friday brought blazing sunshine and a fiery, wrathful and contemptuous speech by Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu. It was in stark contrast to the growing international opposition against the horrors being carried out by his regime in Gaza. Taoiseach Micheál Martin expressed how those very horrors have become the unconscionable atrocity of our time.
Netanyahu spoke first at the General Assembly on Friday morning. Martin was sixth up and as he was preparing for his speech, he was not in the room to participate in the staged walk-out which awaited the Israeli leader when he took to the podium. The big auditorium was full for neither man, but the Taoiseach’s speech drew a round of applause early on as he spoke about Gaza.
He said: “We will act to prevent those members of the government of Israel who have been instrumental in fomenting the unfolding disast
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