イスラエル大統領、国連は「道徳的に破綻」と非難

【国連（米国）ＡＦＰ＝時事】イスラエルのイツハク・ヘルツォグ大統領は、「ホロコースト犠牲者を想起する国際デー」の２７日、米ニューヨークの国連本部で開かれた特別会合で、国連総会は「道徳的破綻」を来しており、反ユダヤ主義に立ち向かっていないと非難した。（写真は米ニューヨークの国連本部で開かれた「ホロコースト犠牲者を想起する国際デー」の記念式典に参加するイスラエルのイツハク・ヘルツォグ大統領〈右２〉）
　ヘルツォグ氏は「今日、われわれはこの機関（国連）の歴史において再び危険な岐路に立たされている」と語った。
　イスラエルは、パレスチナ自治区ガザのイスラム組織ハマスによる２０２３年１０月７日の越境攻撃以降、国連批判を繰り返している。
　ヘルツォグ氏は、「国連総会はその目的を果たし、世界的なジハーディスト（イスラム聖戦主義者）や殺人者、忌まわしいテロに勇敢に立ち向かう代わりに、何度も繰り返し、道徳的破綻を示してきた」と主張。
　さらに国際刑事裁判所（ＩＣＣ）がイスラエルのベンヤミン・ネタニヤフ首相の逮捕状を発行したことに触れ、国連機関は「言語道断の偽善を選び、残虐行為の加害者を擁護している」と指摘した。
　ハマスの越境攻撃についても、「反ナチス同盟として始まった国際機関が、第２次世界大戦以降で最大のユダヤ人虐殺の後に、反ユダヤ主義的なジェノサイド（大量殺害）思想が何の妨げもなく広まっていくのをなぜ容認できるのか」と、疑念を呈した。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2025/01/28-18:24）

Israel's president attacked the UN General Assembly in a speech on Monday marking the 80th anniversary of the Holocaust, accusing the body of exhibiting moral bankruptcy and failing to confront anti-Semitism.
Isaac Herzog addressed the forum during worldwide commemorations of the Holocaust in which six million Jews were murdered.
Today, we find ourselves yet again at a dangerous crossroads in the history of this institution, Herzog said at the New York headquarters of the United Nations which Israel has repeatedly condemned since the Hamas attacks of October 7, 2023.
Rather than fulfilling its purpose and fighting courageously against a global epidemic of jihadists, murderers, and abhorrent terror, time and again this assembly has exhibited moral bankruptcy.
UN bodies like the International Criminal Court, which issued a warrant for the arrest of Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu, opt for outrageous hypocrisy and protection of the perpetrators of the atrocities.
How is it possible that international institutions, which began as an anti-Nazi alliance, are allowing anti-Semitic genocidal doctrines to flourish uninterrupted in the wake of the largest massacre of Jews since World War II? he added referring to the October 7 attacks.
Hamas's October 2023 attack resulted in the deaths of 1,210 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official Israeli figures.
Israel's retaliatory offensive has killed at least 47,317 people in Gaza, the majority civilians, according to figures from the Hamas-run territory's health ministry that the UN considers reliable.
- 'We must stand up' -
Ahead of Herzog's denunciation of the UN, its Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned the appalling October 7 terror attacks by Hamas -- as well as the rising tide of anti-Semitism globally.
Today, our world is fractured and dangerous. Eighty years since the Holocaust's end, anti-Semitism is still with us -- fueled by the same lies and loathing that made the Nazi genocide possible. And it is rising, he said on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp and International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Indisputable historical facts are being distorted, diminished, and dismissed. Efforts are being made to recast and rehabilitate Nazis and their collaborators. We must stand up to these outrages.
The history of the Holocaust shows us what can happen when people choose not to see and not to act.