Netanyahu’s UN address Kan’s speech and analysis

Sep 24

Kan airs Netanyahu defending attacks on Iran's nuclear facilities, recalling joint U.S.–Israeli missions and claiming military successes. He recounts visiting his brother before the 1967 war, the 1976 Entebbe rescue, the October 7 attacks, Shukron's killing, Neria Leiter's critical injury and Moshe Leiter's earlier death. He dismisses the scale of settler violence, accuses Qatar and Turkey of spreading hostile narratives, rejects Gaza genocide accusations and attacks Mamdani's conduct. Later he displays Starlink, accuses Iranian authorities of killing and maiming unarmed civilians and predicts the regime's eventual fall. His figures, accusations, historical recollections and predictions remain attributed. Kan's subsequent studio discussion questions the speech's domestic campaign focus, treatment of settler violence and absence of a new policy initiative; its correspondent separately describes the walkout. The address, historical occurrences and analysts' interpretations remain distinct accounts.

Delegations leave the hall around Netanyahu's September 24 UN address; he calls departing representatives cowards or hypocrites. The reports give different, attributed estimates: Fox says dozens, Vremya says nearly all in one account and hundreds in another, IRINN's headline says 77 while its introduction cites the Guardian for over 70, and a later IRINN feature cites Yedioth Ahronoth for 78. AUF1's 77-country figure includes representatives boycotting or staying away and is not an identical measure of people physically walking out. IRINN discusses the Iranian delegation leaving a Soleimani photograph and Baghaei's approving response. Kan's correspondent says delegates entered shortly before leaving and characterizes it as a provocation; that is the correspondent's interpretation. Vremya and IRINN emphasize Gaza accountability and frame the episode as isolation. No independent common count is supplied. Street demonstrations, arrests, Iceland's later response and the ICC warrant remain separate occurrences.