The UN general assembly has voted overwhelmingly to back the Palestinian bid for full UN membership, in a move that signalled Israel’s growing isolation on the world stage amid global alarm over the war in Gaza and the extent of the humanitarian crisis in the strip. The move drew an immediate rebuke from Israel. Its envoy to the UN, Gilad Erdan, delivered a fiery denunciation of the resolution and its backers before the vote, and fed pages of the UN charter into a shredder. The Palestinian envoy, Riyad Mansour, highlighted that the vote was being held at a time when Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost city that is the last haven for many people, faced attack from Israeli forces
Israel is a pariah state the region has been curses with
The UN had no right to divide Palestine and give the Zionist invaders any part of it.
Eat your heart out, The Onion.
Here’s the video of that moment. Warning: massive cringe
A fucking mini paper shredder? It isn’t even an emotional outburst but a preconceived demonstration? They actually planned out getting that little thing for him?
When he came home he played a sad song on
It was a premeditated tantrum! Oh, my sides.
And the tiny little papers! Aww 🥺
Premeditated Tantrum would be an excellent punk rock band name.
Everything is a punk rock band name if you just try hard enough.
This would never fit on a marquee.
Its actually in the article thumbnail
“You are shredding the UN charter…with your own hands.”
As he shreds the UN charter…with his own hands.
With a tiny shredder that he calls “a mirror”. Clown show.
‘You are shredding the UN charter with your own hands!’ In between him putting each page of the charter into the shredder… smh
Deeply embarrassing, why didn’t he just tear it up?
“Fiery denunciation” is a laughable overstatement, and the fact that they planned out this mini tantrum with a mini paper shredder is just outright comical.
Swing and a miss, that one!
I really want to see this as the UN finally mending its ways, but seeing how they got Saudi Arabia for women’s rights chair and got caught denying doing anything for refugees in Thailand because “it would anger China”… I can’t help but see it as them playing to someone’s interest in creating chaos.
I don’t know who that would, what I know is trusting the UN’s motives isn’t a good bet lately.
honestly, as good as this may be in the short term, they’ve really just added one more highly Conservative religious state that will vote against the interest of the common good moving forward.
I strongly support Palestine gaining statehood and for Israel to stop fucking with them (that extends far beyond the war), but that doesn’t mean i like their ideals. i think there’s a strong chance that this will cause problems moving forward and that conservatives will use that as ammunition.
that said, this is the un finally really kinda doing its job for once. ending global conflict through diplomacy. can’t say that’s a bad thing.
Just so you are aware, America is one of the most conservative members of the UN and constantly stop the UN from preventing or stopping genocides and other atrocities around the world.
Imagine thinking all Palestinians are hardened Islamists. Prejudice and ignorance much?
The UN is more a place to talk with your enemies than with your friends, and getting the chance to sit at a table with people you disagree with rather than fighting each other is great.
If there are any Palestinians left to disagree with.
Saudi Arabia has a higher legal marriage age (18) than many Western states. And that’s one thing of many that it does right for women.
It’s truly a beacon of equality and human rights upholding.
but seeing how they got Saudi Arabia for women’s rights chair
I remember seeing a hot take that the political reason for this was because it removed SA’s “you’re just making up rules without our input” excuse when they got called out. Basically, by giving them the chair, it put a spotlight on their abuses and simultaneously removed any political excuses they had.
Meh. I’m fine with making rules without their input on any subject matter, and specially this one.
Do you know how Saudi Arabia was elected to that seat?
story time!
Israel is a fascist theocracy
Rogue state
It’s really that bad
What a measured and mature response. Way to go Israel. /smh
It’s the UN assembly. I’m more surprised not a single shoe was taken off to be thrown or to beat on a desk.
Isn’t that the charter that…also acknowledges the statehood of Israel?
Lmfao oh my lord… It absolutely is.
That’s the UN charter, not the UN partition plan for mandatory Palestine. Israel was established through military aggression, which is what Russia is currently trying to do in Ukraine.
Symbolically, that’s part of the point.
I remember an Israeli pundit once complained that the UN creating Israel was “the mortgage that never ends” because the Israeli government absolutely loves to demonize the UN but still depends on it.
I think of Karen videos when I see Israel. She is so sensitive and irrational, but yet the US keeps giving her what she wants and only turning her into a bigger Karen. When she doesn’t get her way she calls you antisemitic and says you hate Jews.
Stated goals of the UN charter according Wikipedia:
to maintain international peace and security, uphold international law, achieve “higher standards of living” for their citizens, address “economic, social, health, and related problems”, and promote "universal respect for, and observance of, human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion.
Did they even read the charter before having their little temper tantrum?
They disagree with all of that so it checks out
I heard the UN awarded this Israeli envoy Erdan the UN’s Yellow Star of Cringe award. Just search for ‘UN Israel envoy yellow star’ to see the ceremony that occurred in Oct 2023.
Israel’s United Nations ambassador displayed a yellow star on his chest Monday as he addressed the Security Council, provocatively pledging to wear the badge until members of the body condemn Hamas “atrocities”.
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His wearing of the badge, which has come to symbolise the oppression of Jews since its imposition in Nazi-occupied Europe, was swiftly criticised by Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust memorial, which urged him to wear the Israeli flag instead.
Shredding the last shred of plausibility of not being a genocidal state
What a dork ass loser.
It’s probably less about telling off the UN and more about sound bites / video clips that will play well with his bosses and their political base back home.
Historically, right wing isolationist ideologues of all nationalities seem to cheer and double down when faced with international criticism. They know it’s them and their beliefs against the world and they have a fantasy that they can win, right up until an overwhelming number of them die for it.
Israel as a nation is not in a mood for self reflection and definitely doesn’t want to understand the hole their digging themselves into.
Tiny charter shredded in tiny shredder
He should have eaten it. :)
What is this? A shredder for ants?!
It’s a tiny little baby shredder!
How did he procure it so quickly too??
Guess they had suspicions that just about everyone in the world doesn’t love genocide
That explains why those “I ❤️ genocide” T shirts sell so poorly
The video is amazing. He was actually trying to show to the assembly “what they were doing” to the UN charter.
Instead he created a golden moment of cringe comedy where he is the one putting the charter into a tiny shredder, and like a petulent child declares “you make me sick” with the diminutive machine’s whirring in the background.
Especially compared to the Palestinian speech he made himself look like a total clown.
