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By Eve Epstein
(September 15, 2025 / Israel Hayom) Forty-eight hours after Israel's targeted strike on Hamas leaders in Doha, the UN Security Council swiftly convened an "emergency session," unanimously issuing a press statement condemning the Israeli action and affirming Qatar's inviolable sovereignty and territorial integrity.
Israeli Ambassador Danny Danon brought the Security Council chamber to a boil, besting his Pakistani counterpart in a fiery exchange. At the outset of the Security Council session, Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, who flew in for the auspicious occasion, accepted an outpouring of international solidarity that was effusively expressed by member states.
Danon, unmoved, challenged the room's selective outrage: "Where was your indignation on October 7, when our sovereignty was breached and Israeli civilians were butchered by Hamas? What have we heard from this Council since then? Silence, silence." Danon reminded the Security Council that it was ironically convening on the 24th anniversary of 9/11: "Today, the world remembers the devastating terrorist attacks of September 11th. That tragic day, like October seventh for Israel, was a day of fire and blood. In the aftermath of 9/11, the countries that uphold freedom, equality, and democracy in this council stood shoulder to shoulder. Two weeks later, this council adopted Resolution 1373. It said plainly: no state may harbor terrorists, no state may give them safe haven. Any government that does so breaks this Council's binding obligations".
Danon's invocation of the U.S. felling the mastermind of 9/11 on Pakistani soil struck a raw nerve with Pakistan's delegation, launching a fiery exchange that stunned the hushed Council: "When bin Laden was eliminated in Pakistan, the world did not ask why a terrorist was targeted on foreign soil – but why he was sheltered there in the first place. There was no immunity for bin Laden, and there can be no immunity for Hamas.'
Danon shone a much-needed spotlight on the selective outrage in international forums; no condemnation was issued against the U.S. for violating Pakistani sovereignty, yet Israel is routinely censured for striking at recognized terror operatives, even when they operate with state protection. What happened next revealed just how exposed Pakistan felt by Danon's withering comparison of Israel's Doha strike to the bin Laden raid and his indictment of the Council's selective memory.
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