lol not the optics I would choose if the point I was trying to make is that my opponents are tearing up the UN Charter (which is apparently what he was trying to say)
not even the first time netanyahu's government has made this exact mistake at the UN, Netanyahu iconically clutching a Wile E Coyote bomb (nearly 10 years ago!) to make a point about how close Iran supposedly was to a nuclear weapon. Supposed to be scary but instead makes you look like a maniac
Netanyahu’s brain is cooked the same way American republicans’ brains are. Just lives inside the right wing echo chamber. No idea how to talk to normies.
This was so shocking to me, like if I was a teacher and this was one of my sixth graders doing some kind of presentation exercise I'd expect this, but from an adult? Reminds me of that bit about fascists having arrested development
"this is what YOU are doing" and "look what you made me do" have to be two of the least convincing and most annoying techniques for getting a point across. Both tactics Israel particularly leans on
People have been chasing the high of Khrushchev-banging-his-shoe at the UN for years and nobody's ever been able to do a good job of replicating the performative anger using props in a way that didn't make them look ridiculous.
How do POLITICIANS fail to realize video can be separated from audio and things can be used out of context? That's like cops forgetting guns have bullets.
