Two images clearly show the growing isolation and international criticism that Benjamin Netanyahu's Israel is suffering. Inside the UN headquarters, the conservative prime minister was received this Thursday with boos and with the departure of many delegations before he began to speak. The half-empty General Assembly was a very powerful metaphor. “If there is another coward who wants to leave, please let him leave now,” he said, defiantly, while members of his delegation shouted: “Am Israel Jai” (The people of Israel live, in Hebrew). Outside the building, the police detained a hundred protesters, including actress Susan Sarandon and Democratic congressional candidate Darializa Ávila Chevalier, who were protesting against the presence of a president whom they accuse of committing genocide in Gaza.
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