It’s no secret that the United Nations is a cesspool of Jew-hating miscreants, but comments made by UN Secretary General Antonio Gutteres still came as a surprise, given their extreme audacity, callousness, and indifference to Hamas atrocities. “It is important to also recognize the attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum,” Guterres said Tuesday. “The Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation. They have seen their land steadily devoured by settlements and plagued by violence; their economy stifled; their people displaced and their homes demolished. Their hopes for a political solution to their plight have been vanishing.” He added that “the grievances of the Palestinian people cannot justify the appalling attacks by Hamas. And those appalling attacks cannot justify the collective punishment of the Palestinian people.” Israeli envoy to the UN, Gilad Erdan, called the comments “shocking.” “The shocking speech by the UN Secretary-General at the Security Council meeting, while rockets are being fired at all of Israel, proved conclusively, beyond any doubt, that the Secretary-General is completely disconnected from the reality in our region and that he views the massacre committed by Nazi Hamas terrorists in a distorted and immoral manner,” Erdan said. “His statement that, ‘the attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum,’ expressed an understanding for terrorism and murder. It’s really unfathomable. It’s truly sad that the head of an organization that arose after the Holocaust holds such horrible views. A tragedy!” Minister Benny Gantz said: “The days when the UN Secretary-General supports terrorism are dark days for the world. There is no way to justify a massacre of innocent civilians. Anyone who is not on the right side of history will be judged by it. Anyone who justifies terrorism is not fit to speak for the world.” Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen said he canceled a scheduled meeting with the UN Secretary General following his repulsive comments. “I will not meet the UN secretary-general,” Cohen wrote on X. “After October 7, there is no place for a balanced approach. Hamas must be erased from the world.” (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)