Did Secretary-General Guterres Betray Gaza and the UN to Appease Israel?: Excerpt from GAZA'S GRAVEDIGGERS

Did Secretary-General Guterres Betray Gaza and the UN to Appease Israel?: Excerpt from GAZA'S GRAVEDIGGERS

Posted by Norman Finkelstein's Substack on August 22, 2025

“On 24 October 2023, Secretary-General Guterres delivered an address to the Security Council in which he “condemned unequivocally the horrifying and unprecedented 7 October acts of terror by Hamas in Israel.” However, he went on say that “It is important to also recognize the attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum. The Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation.”⁸ Israel reacted in a fit of rage. Guterres made it known privately that he was a marked man.”

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