Opinion: Anti-government protesters could cause immense damage to Israel

On Friday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will speak on the United Nations stage with a message of a peace treaty with Saudi Arabia. At the same time, he will also send a warning message to our enemies in Iran and their proxies, making it clear to them that Israel is a military superpower capable of defending itself by itself and not to provoke or test our determination.

Outside, just a few meters from that stage, protesters will be de-legitimizing Israel’s democratically-elected leader. By doing so, they will be giving moral support to Israel’s enemies, bolstering and reinforcing Mahmoud Abbas and his false claims that Israel is not a democracy but rather an apartheid state, and that there are no human rights in Israel.

These hypocrites arranged for a truck with screens to circle around New York. On the screen, an image of a Jewish man, the Prime Minister of Israel, was broadcast with an exaggerated long nose (sounds familiar from Germany 1939???) — a stereotype of "the lying Jew." This is what they wanted to convey to the American people — yes, yes, Joseph Goebbels-style anti-Semitic propaganda lives and breathes in New York in 2023. READ MORE