Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu's calling the United Nations "an antisemitic swamp" is
unacceptable, centre-left Democratic Party (PD) MP and former
UNHCR spokesperson Laura Boldrini said Friday.
"No one can be allowed to talk about the UN as Benjamin
Netanyahu did, who today, before the general assembly, called it
"an anti-Semitic swamp", said the leftwing MP and migrant
advocate.
"The UN is not a perfect entity, but it is the largest peace
institution in the world, a guarantee for all states, including
Israel whose future, at this moment, is put at risk by the
policies of Netanyahu and his far-right government.
"Netanyahu attacks the UN because he does not intend to submit
to international law and international humanitarian law as all
countries are required to do. "The crimes he has committed and
continues to commit, the over 42,000 deaths in Gaza and the
illegal occupation of the West Bank first and foremost, are not
only not functional to achieving the alleged objective of
freeing the hostages held by Hamas for a year now, but they have
the only outcome of continuing to generate hatred that risks
irremediably contaminating the new generations.
"Netanyahu is willing to do this and much more in order to
maintain his power.
"If the war ends, the Netanyahu government ends, and he cannot
allow this". Boldrini is also Chair of the Permanent Committee
of the Chamber on Human Rights in the World.
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