President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan slammed the UN for its response to the war in Gaza, leading him to compare Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the dictator of Nazi Germany.
In his remarks to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday morning, Erdoğan slammed the UN for allowing international justice to be left to the five members of the security council, saying the war in Gaza is the most dramatic example. “Seventy years ago, just as Hitler was stopped by an alliance of humanity, Netanyahu and his murder network must be stopped by an alliance of humanity,” Erdogan said in his remarks to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday morning.Erdogan called for coercive measures against Israel in the absence of the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 2735, the ceasefire proposal announced in May by US President Joe Biden, as he said Israel’s behavior has once again demonstrated that it is “imperative for the international community to develop a protection mechanism for Palestinians.”He condemned the UN for allowing international justice to be left to the five members of the Security Council, saying the war in Gaza is the most dramatic example.
Erdogan said he believes the General Assembly’s authority to recommend the use of force, as in the 1950 resolution on unity for peace, should be considered in this process.
During this time, an “immediate and a permanent ceasefire must be established, hostages and prisoners must be exchanged, and humanitarian aid must be delivered to Gaza unhindered and uninterrupted,” Erdogan said, in his only acknowledgment of the hostages.
Erdogan also blasted Israel’s allies for supporting the country in an “unconditional manner.”
Erdogan demands accountability
“How long are you going to be able to carry the shame of witnessing this massacre, dear friends, while children are dying in Gaza, in Ramallah, in Lebanon, while babies are dying in incubators?” he said.Erdogan said the only reason for Israel’s aggression against the Palestinian people is the unconditional support of a group of countries.Countries that have a say over Israel are openly complicit in this massacre, he said, and those who are supposedly working for a ceasefire in front of the stage continue to send arms and ammunition to Israel so that it can continue its massacres in the background.“I would like to wave at my brothers and sisters [who are part of] the legitimate resistance in Palestine,” he said.Turkey supports South Africa’s case at the International Court of Justice to “ensure that Israel’s crimes do not go unpunished,” he said.“We will take every step necessary for justice to be served in the case for which we have applied,” Erdogan said.“Those who murdered 41,000 people cannot rest until those who gave the orders pulled the trigger and dropped the bombs are held accountable for their crimes, we will not heave a sigh of relief.”Erdogan accused Israel of dragging its feet in agreeing to a ceasefire, “constantly finding an excuse and sneakily killing its negotiating partner,” at a time when it was closest to a ceasefire.“Israel’s stalling and deception should not be given any more credit,” he said.Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva agreed, saying the world is witnessing one of the greatest humanitarian crises in recent history, which is now spreading dangerously to Lebanon.“What began as a terrorist action by fanatics against innocent Israeli civilians has become a collective punishment for the entire Palestinian people. There have been over 40,000 fatal victims, mostly women and children,” Lula said.“The right to defense has become the right to vengeance, which prevents an agreement for the release of hostages and postpones the ceasefire.”