António Guterres denies he justified Hamas's attacks by saying they "did not happen in a vacuum".

By David Gritten BBC News

Israel has demanded that the UN’s secretary general retract comments he made about the Gaza war and apologise.

António Guterres said in a speech to the Security Council on Tuesday that he condemned unequivocally Hamas’s deadly attacks in Israel two weeks ago but that they “did not happen in a vacuum”.

Israeli ambassador Gilad Erdan accused him of “justifying terrorism” and called for his immediate resignation.

  • scarabic@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    11 months ago

    A day or two after 9/11 I attended a memorial service at Bill Graham Auditorium in San Francisco. A black minister who spoke to the assemblage made a similar remark about US policy in the Middle East. Dianne Fienstein stood up and walked off the stage in protest.

    R.I.P. bitch.

    The best security policy is not manufacturing enemies.

    • mwguy@infosec.pubOPEnglish
      27·
      11 months ago

      The best security policy is not manufacturing enemies.

      I wish that were true.

        • mwguy@infosec.pubOPEnglish
          11·
          11 months ago

          Indeed that hasn’t been effective for us. But we’re going to try again by funding Al-Qaeda in Syria. Maybe it will work differently this time.