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By Joshua Hoffman
(September 25, 2025 / Israel National News) The United Nations Security Council scheduled an “emergency” meeting on Gaza for Tuesday — the very day of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year.
The symbolism could not be clearer: The world body that never misses a moment to pass judgment on Israel scheduled its judgment at a time when Jews could not even be present to defend themselves.
This meant that Israeli diplomats and Jewish UN staff could not attend one of the most consequential discussions about Israel because it coincided with one of Judaism’s holiest days.
Israeli Ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, wrote to the rotating Security Council president, requesting to reschedule this meeting, but his request was ignored.
The symbolism could not be clearer: The world body that never misses a moment to pass judgment on Israel scheduled its judgment at a time when Jews could not even be present to defend themselves - on the Jewish holiday called by the Talmudic Sages the Day of Judgment before G-d.
UN Secretary-General Guterres accused Israel of disproportionate “collective punishment” and making “decisions that defy basic humanity", ignoring that Hamas began this war with the atrocities of October 7, 2023 — massacring 1,200 people, taking 250 hostages, and openly declaring its intent to repeat such slaughter “again and again.”
Opening the General Assembly that same Tuesday, UN Secretary-General António Guterres declared that “the horrors are approaching a third monstrous year” in Gaza. He accused Israel of carrying out disproportionate “collective punishment” and making “decisions that defy basic humanity.”
Yet, what he did not mention was telling. He ignored the reality that Hamas began this war with the atrocities of October 7, 2023 — massacring 1,200 people, taking 250 hostages, and openly declaring its intent to repeat such slaughter “again and again.” He neglected to note that military experts worldwide, including former NATO commanders, have praised Israel for achieving an unprecedented combatant-to-civilian casualty ratio of roughly 1-to-1. Far from “defying humanity,” this restraint in the face of an enemy that embeds itself in hospitals (Hamas was firing from Shura Hospital just a few days ago, ed.), schools, mosques, and apartment towers is almost without parallel in modern urban warfare.
Guterres did not speak about Hamas hiding rockets under hospital beds or using mosques as command centers. Instead, he reserved his outrage for the Jewish state, recycling propaganda tropes while filtering out the truths that complicate his morality play.
Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani accused Israel of preferring war over the release of the remaining 48 hostages, of whom only about 20 are alive. Qatar directly funds Hamas, shelters its leaders in luxury hotels in Doha, and bankrolls its propaganda through Al Jazeera. Qatar could, any day now, if it so wished, demand Hamas release the hostages.
From the podium, Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani accused Israel of preferring war over the release of the remaining 48 hostages, of whom only about 20 are alive. He thundered about Israel plotting assassinations of Hamas leaders on Qatari soil and decried such actions as “treacherous.”
What he did not say is far more important. Qatar directly funds Hamas, shelters its leaders in luxury hotels in Doha, and bankrolls its propaganda through Al Jazeera. Qatar could, any day now, if it so wished, demand Hamas release the hostages. It could freeze the bank accounts of its terrorist protégés. It could expel their leadership. It does none of this — because Qatar is not a neutral mediator, but a sponsor of the very war for which it pretends to broker peace. This is not diplomacy; it is duplicity, dressed in Armani robes.
What’s more, the Emir accused Israel of wanting to “destroy Gaza so that it is unlivable.” He ignored the fact that Palestinian Arab schoolchildren are still being indoctrinated to hate and kill Jews, sing about their ideal of becoming a martyr, and glorify terrorism. Gaza was “unlivable” far before October 7, 2023 — not because of Israel, but because Hamas made it into a launching pad for jihad, a society built on terror tunnels, water pipes turned into rockets, and death worship, all proudly sponsored by Qatar.
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