📅 September 26, 2025
Gaza Herald_ The night over Gaza was not merely dark; it was illuminated by the fire of airstrikes, turning the skies into a dreadful false dawn. As families huddled in shattered homes, the Israeli government unveiled a new tactic: trucks mounted with loudspeakers blaring Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address at the United Nations General Assembly directly into the Gaza Strip.
For many Palestinians, this grotesque broadcast evoked chilling echoes of history. During World War II, Nazi authorities forced Jewish prisoners in concentration camps to listen to Hitler’s speeches through loudspeakers, a cruel performance of domination designed to break the spirit of the already oppressed. Today, Netanyahu’s government has revived that very mechanism , compelling an entire besieged population to hear his words of justification while bombs rain down around them.
Psychologists describe this as a mechanism of identification with the aggressor: a defensive strategy of a morally defeated state that imitates the methods of its historical oppressors to conjure the illusion of strength. In moments of political and moral hysteria, such actions reveal not power but desperation , episodes of shame that will haunt Israel for generations.
The “New Nazis”
Netanyahu’s decision to broadcast his U.N. speech into Gaza carries three clear dimensions.
A Symbolic Dimension: It is a ritual of domination. Like the Nazis who confined Jews into narrow ghettos before delivering authoritarian speeches through speakers, Netanyahu has forced more than two million Palestinians into a narrow strip of land — and now forces his voice upon them. To his supporters among certain Christian Zionists and religious nationalists, this image of the Israeli leader thundering across Gaza offers a perverse spiritual thrill, portraying him as a savior figure.
A Military Signal: The act demonstrates Israel’s claim of total control over Gaza, projecting that its army can reach every corner with both firepower and sound. Loudspeakers become another instrument of occupation, declaring not only physical dominance but psychological invasion.
3.A Political Message: By blasting his words into Gaza on the same day he spoke in New York, Netanyahu sought to send a message to world leaders: Israel is not just waging war but also “instructing” the Palestinian population. He aimed to frame the broadcast as an act consistent with international law — as if issuing “guidance” before unleashing further operations.
Netanyahu at the UN: A Speech of Denial Amid Growing Recognition of Palestine
At the United Nations, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered one of his harshest speeches yet , not against war crimes or the devastation in Gaza, but against the very idea of Palestinian statehood. He condemned countries such as France, Britain, Australia, and Canada for recognizing Palestine, calling it a “mark of shame.”
But the real shame lies in what he omitted: Israel’s ongoing military campaign that has killed over 65,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children, and reduced Gaza to rubble.
“Much of the world no longer remembers October 7,” Netanyahu said. Yet Palestinians remember every day since , nights turned into firestorms by Israeli bombs, families buried under concrete, and children growing up surrounded by hunger, rubble, and drones.
Netanyahu bragged about placing loudspeakers on the border to broadcast his speech into Gaza. For Palestinians under siege, it was not a show of power, but of arrogance: forcing displaced, starving families to listen to the man orchestrating their destruction.
He claimed world leaders “privately thank” him, while ignoring the fact that scores of diplomats walked out during his address, a visible protest against Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
In the end, Netanyahu vowed to “finish the job.” For Palestinians, these words ring not as a promise of security, but as an open admission of an intent to erase a people.
Despite his rhetoric, the tide is shifting. With more nations recognizing Palestine, Netanyahu’s speech revealed less about Israel’s strength and more about its growing isolation
