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Hillel Neuer on ILTV: Guterres’ Double Standard on Gaza Exposed
Hillel Neuer on ILTV: Guterres’ Double Standard on Gaza Exposed
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And joining us now for more is Hill
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Neer. He is the executive director of UN
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watch. And of course, this is a busy
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time of the year for you, Hill. Plenty
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of material there at the UN General
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Assembly. Uh let's start with your
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comments uh which you put out in a tweet
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about in Antonio Gutish who the
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secretary general predict predictably
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criticized Israel in his address. Uh
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maybe just talk about your reaction to
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to his remarks. Look, it's not the first
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time that he has chosen to make this
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kind of comparison where he says that
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Israel is doing is doing something
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that's the worst he's ever seen is in
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his entire life or in his entire tenure.
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And the fact is it's false. He says that
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what's happening in Gaza is, you know,
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the worst situation he's ever seen. Uh
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the scale unprecedented from anything
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he's witnessed. Well, in in the time
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that he's been secretary general,
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perhaps he didn't notice, but hundreds
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of thousands of people have been killed
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in Sudan, in Syria, in Ukraine, in
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Yemen, in Ethiopia, and the list goes
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on. So, just factually, by any measure,
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if you look at Hamas's maximalist
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figures, the other situations that I
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mentioned are far greater. The other
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piece which is significant is that Hamas
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invaded Israel. Hamas launched a
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massacre on October 7th, killing 1,200
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people in one day. The equivalent of 12
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9/11 attacks proportionally if you
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compare Israel's [snorts] population to
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America. Israel responded to destroy
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Hamas where innocent people killed. Of
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course, every innocent death is tragic.
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But Hamas launched a war. They launched
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a massacre with genocidal intent.
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Gutierrez erases all of that and falsely
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says it's the worst he's witnessed. The
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only way it's the worst means if he was
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willfully blind to everything else
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happening in the world. Very sad.
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>> All right. Now, Prime Minister Netanyahu
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is going to be speaking uh on Thursday.
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Uh he's put out a statement already
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saying he'll there to go there to tell
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the truth about Israel's heroic
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soldiers. Presumably, he'll also speak
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on Iran and uh uh perhaps on Gaza. Uh he
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also said he'll talk about uh New York
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Mayor Manni. Uh what do you think the
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prime minister what do you think he
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should be saying will say and should be
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saying there to the GA? [snorts]
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>> Well I I think that he is going to make
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the case for Israel as he always does. I
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think he's certainly going to uh
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identify Iran as the head of the snake
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which it is in the region. It's the
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cause of war and terrorism from Syria to
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Lebanon to Gaza to Iraq to Yemen right
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now spilling over into Saudi Arabia. So,
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I think he's going to certainly talk
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about the war in Iran. He's going to
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talk about Israel's war against Hamas.
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These are all important subjects. He has
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a very difficult challenge ahead of him.
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Israel's standing in the world is at a
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low point. Certainly, Western
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democracies, whether it's Britain,
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Canada, Australia, and other countries.
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We saw France taking an unfair hit at
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Israel. We saw Macron just the other
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day. I think Netanyahu will hit him
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back.
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Macron said in French uh basically that
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Hamas never ravaged uh the West Bank the
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way he did in Gaza. So Israel has no
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excuse to act in the West Bank and then
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he was attacked for it because of course
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Hamas has killed many people in the West
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Bank in Judea and Samaria. His office
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said that he said Hamas never governed
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but that's not the typical use of the
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French word according to uh any
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dictionary. So I think Macron will get
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hit. Let's keep in mind is whitewashing
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uh Abbas. He talks about the sovereignty
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for the Palestinians. He a year ago uh
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defends his decision to recognize the
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state of Palestine saying that he's
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being criticized for doing something on
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paper. It was a fiction. There is no
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state of Palestine. And if we talk about
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a bus, uh even the mayor of Paris in
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France uh stripped Abas of a major award
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because of his remarks denying the
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Holocaust, justifying Hitler. So you
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have the mayor of Paris recognizing that
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Abbas is a Holocaust denier. His PhD
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from the Soviet Union is on Holocaust
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denial. And you have the president of
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France, Emanuel Mcron, whitewashing uh
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this defender of Hitler. It's rather
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shameful.
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>> I want to get some of your response to
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President Trump's remarks. Uh he was a
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bit I want to say restrain when it comes
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to President Trump. I mean he certainly
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has strong statements about Iran.
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Notably, he did not criticize the UN
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itself. something he's done in the past,
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including last year. I mean, what was
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your respon? How did you feel about
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President Trump's remarks?
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>> Well, I I think President Trump,
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interestingly, uh, though in some cases,
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he has a sledgehammer on certain issues.
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On the UN, it's important to note he's
[04:44]
never said destroy the UN. Even when he
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signed executive orders pulling out of
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certain UN bodies, he said the UN has
[04:51]
great potential. We need to make it
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great again. his ambassador who's very
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busy in New York, ambassador Mike Waltz
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and Jeff Bartos, the ambassador of UN
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reform have cut a lot of money from the
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UN budget, but they've talked about
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making the UN great again. So, I think
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President Trump was consistent with his
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narrative. He did at the same time call
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out UN human rights officials uh on
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certain of the remarks either dealing
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with migration or transgender mutilation
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as he put it. Um, and let's keep in mind
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that there are UN human rights officials
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who are, in the words of Gutteras
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himself, totally out of control. Whether
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it's Franchesca Albanesei who just said
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two days ago that uh the Western world
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should stop arming Ukraine, basically
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allowing Russia to destroy innocent
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people in Ukraine. Whether it's the
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chairman of the UN human rights
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officials, Mr. George Kachugalos who
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recently gave a speech where he
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mentioned China 32 times yet not once
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criticized China or Xi Jinping didn't
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mention 1 million wiggers locked up
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didn't mention 6,000 Tibetan temples
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destroyed didn't mention Hong Kong
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democracy extinguished and 78-year-old
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pro-democracy publisher Jimmy Loy
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languishing in prison so there's a lot
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to talk about on the UN human rights
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officials I'm glad President Trump uh
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put a finger on that
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>> right uh uh we have just 30 seconds is
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Is it worth it for Prime Minister
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Netanyahu to speak from the podium at
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the UN General Assembly given all the
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Israel bashing there? [snorts]
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>> Yes, it you can't escape uh the world.
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This is the world as it is. It's a
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tremendous forum. Uh Prime Minister
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Netanyahu is a very accomplished
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speaker. So, it's a unique opportunity
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to address the world. He's obviously, of
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course, addressing the Israeli people.
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He has an election coming up. You may be
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looking at his domestic audience more
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than anything, but for Israel, it's a
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tremendous opportunity to make its case
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before the world. And I hope Prime
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Minister Netanyahu
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will use felicitus language and eloquent
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language uh to make Israel's case as the
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only democracy in the Middle East
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fighting to defend itself from
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terrorists.
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