Netanyahu mocks Western support for Abbas in defiant UN address Vows to “finish the job” against Hamas

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed yesterday in an angry UN address to block a Palestinian state, accusing European leaders of pushing his country into “national suicide” and rewarding Hamas.

Netanyahu, in a defiant speech he said was partially broadcast on Israeli military loudspeakers in Gaza, vowed to “finish the job” against Hamas even as President Donald Trump said he thought he had sealed a deal on a ceasefire.

Days after France, Britain and other Western powers recognized a state of Palestine, Netanyahu said that they had sent “a very clear message that murdering Jews pays off.”

“Israel will not allow you to shove a t*******t state down our throats,” Netanyahu said. “We will not commit national suicide because you don’t have the guts to face down the hostile media and antisemitic mobs demanding Israel’s blood,” he said.

Netanyahu -- who has opposed a Palestinian state for decades -- mocked Western support for Abbas and called the Palestinian Authority “corrupt to the core.”

Hamas says walkouts show Israel ‘isolation’

Hamas said a mass walkout of delegations before Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the United Nations yesterday showed Israel’s “isolation” as a result of the Gaza war. “Boycotting Netanyahu’s speech is one manifestation of Israel’s isolation and the consequences of the war of extermination,” Taher al-Nunu, the media adviser to the head of Hamas’s political bureau, said in a statement.

As Netanyahu walked up to the General Assembly rostrum, a number of delegations walked out -- in a deliberate protest as the Israeli premier was the day’s first speaker.

Trump, normally a staunch ally of Netanyahu, has warned against annexation as he pitches a peace plan on Gaza that would include the disarmament of Hamas.