[News] World leaders rebel against US & Israel: to save Gaza, they demand international intervention
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Mon Oct 6 10:18:46 EDT 2025
Leaders from many countries condemned the USA and Israel at the UN
General Assembly, demanding intervention to save Gaza. Diplomats walked
out to protest Netanyahu. Latin America led the resistance.
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Leaders from many countries condemned the USA and Israel at the UN
General Assembly, demanding intervention to save Gaza. Diplomats
walked out to protest Netanyahu. Latin America led the resistance.
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Oct 6, 2025
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World leaders from roughly 190 countries gathered in September for the
general debate of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).
This year, many governments condemned the United States and Israel for
carrying out crimes against humanity in Gaza.
Representatives of numerous countries expressed support for the
Palestinian people, while denouncing Western imperialism.
A UN commission and multiple UN legal experts have stated conclusively
that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza
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At the 2025 UNGA general debate, it was left-wing leaders from Latin
America who led the resistance against the US empire.
Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro compared the US government to Nazi
Germany and referred to Donald Trump as the “new Hitler”.
“Washington and NATO are killing democracy, and they are spreading
totalitarianism at the global level”, Petro warned.
The Colombian leader called for an international coalition to militarily
intervene to physically stop the US-Israeli genocide in Gaza.
Brazil’s President Lula da Silva made similar remarks, emphasizing that
the US-led West is destroying international humanitarian law (all
emphasis added):
Nothing, absolutely nothing, justifies the *ongoing genocide in Gaza*.
There, under tons of rubble, are buried tens of thousands of
innocent women and children.
International humanitarian law and the *myth of the ethical
exceptionalism of the West are also buried there*.
UN diplomats stage mass walkout to protest Israeli leader Netanyahu
In fact, when Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke at the
General Assembly, there was a mass protest inside the hall, in the UN
headquarters in New York City.
The diplomatic representatives of dozens of countries walked out in
protest, while chanting and shouting “Boo!”
This is extremely rare at the UN. It illustrates how isolated Israel is
on the international stage.
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In fact, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued an
outstanding arrest warrant for Netanyahu, formally charging him with
committing crimes against humanity in Gaza.
Nevertheless, the US government has repeatedly invited Netanyahu to come
to the US, and the Trump administration imposed sanctions on the ICC,
attacking the court for daring to take action against a US ally.
These actions demonstrate that the US and Israel are rogue states that
are waging a full frontal assault on international law, and seeking to
destroy multilateral institutions.
They are also completely isolated on the international stage. The
diplomats who walked out in protest of Netanyahu represent the voices of
the Global Majority.
Latin America condemns US-Israeli genocide, fascism, and imperialism
The representative of Nicaragua’s revolutionary Sandinista government,
Foreign Minister Denis Moncada, condemned the genocide in Gaza and noted
that Israel is following exactly the same “practices of the other
colonial, imperial, neocolonial, and fascist powers”:
We reiterate our historical and *permanent condemnation of the
genocide*, the barbaric policy of denial of the Palestinian people.
We condemn all the savage, brutal massacres that are perpetrated and
spreading in clear view, with the complacency of the entire world.
We condemn the state of Israel, just as we have condemned and do
condemn the policies and practices of the other *colonial, imperial,
neocolonial, and fascist powers*.
Venezuela also expressed its solidarity with Palestine, and denounced
the US war of aggression against Iran.
Venezuela’s Foreign Minister Yván Gil declared, “We stand in solidarity
with the heroic people of Palestine, and we call for the end of the
genocide waged by Israel’s Zionist regime”.
“We condemn attacks against the territorial integrity and sovereignty of
the Islamic Republic of Iran”, he added.
Cuba’s Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla opened his speech by
expressing solidarity with Palestine, while blasting the US for aiding
Israel’s genocide in Gaza. This is what he said:
As we meet here, *2.2 million human beings in Gaza are condemned to
hunger by the genocidal extermination and ethnic cleansing actions
of the Zionist regime*, which enjoys the military and financial
supplies and the *impunity guaranteed by the government of the
United States*.
On behalf of the government and people of Cuba, I reiterate our
firmest solidarity with the Palestinian people and with their just
cause for freedom, independence, and an end to the Zionist occupation.
If the Security Council proves itself impotent because of the veto
that the United States wields or threatens to wield, and is
incapable of adopting effective measures to halt the barbarity, then
this General Assembly has the duty and the capacity to put forward
concrete measures without delay.
World leaders insist UN must be reformed, as US abuses veto to
continue genocide in Gaza
In their speeches at the 2025 general debate, representatives of many
countries warned that the continuation of the genocide in Gaza
demonstrates the ineffectiveness of the United Nations, on the 80th
anniversary of the body’s founding.
Although the UN is important, given that it is one of very few
international institutions that provides all countries with a voice, in
practice, those voices are often silenced, because the institution is
dominated by the United States and its Western allies.
Power in the UN is concentrated in the Security Council, where the US
has abused its veto, to prevent the world from taking any actions it
doesn’t like.
Between October 2023 and September 2025, the US government used its veto
six times to unilaterally block resolutions that called for peace and a
ceasefire in Gaza.
The Joe Biden administration used the veto four times, and the Trump
administration has used it twice in eight months.
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In 2024, the US also vetoed a resolution in the Security Council that
called for Palestine to be admitted as a full UN member.
That was when Biden, a Democrat, was president. Opposition to equal
rights for Palestinians is bipartisan in Washington.
A few weeks after the US vetoed the resolution in the Security Council,
another vote was held in the General Assembly to call to admit Palestine
as a full member.
Of the 193 UN member states, 143, or 74.1%, voted to admit Palestine.
Only nine countries, representing just 4.7%, voted against admitting
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Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro calls for international
intervention to stop genocide in Gaza
Given that the United States has paralyzed the UN and halted all efforts
at ending the genocide in Gaza, Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro urged
countries to create an international armed force to physically intervene
to save the Palestinian people.
“The United States no longer teaches democracy, but rather kills
democracy”, Petro said.
While comparing the US government to Nazi Germany and calling Trump the
“new Hitler”, Petro warned, “Washington and NATO are killing democracy,
and they are spreading totalitarianism at the global level”.
Petro’s remarks were especially symbolic, because Colombia has
historically been the closest US ally in Latin America.
Colombia was dominated for decades by right-wing oligarchic leaders who
were extremely pro-US (and deeply involved in drug trafficking
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Colombia “the Israel of Latin America”.
Gustavo Petro is Colombia’s first ever left-wing president, and has
pursued an independent foreign policy for the first time in the modern
history of the South American country.
This is what Petro said at the 2025 general debate of the UN General
Assembly:
First and foremost, *we need to stop the genocide in Gaza*. Humanity
cannot allow a single day more of this genocide, and for the
genocidal Netanyahu and his allies in Europe and the United States
to continue.
The United Nations must uphold the decisions of the International
Court of Justice. International law is the basis of civilization,
and of its wisdom, as distilled in history. And it must make sure
that the decisions of international justice are implemented, are
applied.
Diplomacy has been tried in Gaza; it could not resolve the situation.
Every single day, every single minute, a missile is fired and
destroys the the bodies of babies, and children, in the Arab state
of Palestine.
Every day, there are resolutions that are vetoed in the Security
Council.
Every day, more and more children die. More and more bombs, more and
more dead.
Can we stop the genocide with a vote in the General Assembly? Yes,
that is what we should do, rather than a vote in the Security
Council, because that is vetoed.
United for peace for Palestine, *we should establish a peacekeeping
force*.
…
*What we need is a powerful army of countries that do not accept
genocide*.
*That is why invite nations of the world and their peoples, most
importantly, as an integral part of humanity, to bring together
weapons and armies, and to defend Palestine.*
I invite the armies of Asia, and the brave Slavic people who
defeated Hitler, and the Latin American people of Bolivia,
Garibaldi, and others.
I think there’s enough. We’ve had enough words. Today, the time has
come to use the slogan of Bolívar: freedom or death.
*Because Washington and NATO are killing democracy, and they are
spreading totalitarianism at the global level.*
…
*The United States no longer teaches democracy, but rather kills
democracy*— especially among its immigrants, filled with greed
The UN should begin its change by stopping the genocide in Gaza,
with an army of liberation and salvation.
And there should be a decision here taken in the General Assembly,
without any veto.
Honduras and Cuba call for a new international order
The need for a new international order was highlighted by the
representatives of several Latin American countries.
The foreign minister of the left-wing government of Honduras, Javier Bú
Soto, emphasized that the UN has been unable to stop the wars fueled by
the US, so the organization needs to undergo a fundamental transformation:
The world is not peaceful. The genocide in Gaza; the devastation in
Ukraine; persistent violent crises, particularly in the Middle East,
Africa, and Haiti; the dangerous weapons business of global
capitalism; all show the failure of the multilateral system to
fulfill its essential mandate to achieve peace; to prevent
barbarism; to stop the progression of the nuclear race, which major
powers are engaged in, and which could be the apocalypse of humanity.
We categorically reject the fact that the most important decisions
on peace and security throughout the world are hoarded in the hands
of five permanent members of the Security Council. Their veto power,
which has become an anachronistic privilege, has paralyzed
collective action, and the calls for peace in different parts of the
world; and has allowed those committing war crimes to enjoy impunity.
*The UN cannot remain a hostage to special interests*, nor can it be
idly *complicit in the face of the destruction of entire peoples*.
It is morally unacceptable that, while billions of dollars are spent
on weapons, budgets for peacekeeping operations, humanitarian aid,
and sustainable development are being slashed.
How can it be justified that the voice of 193 states who are present
in this General Assembly, and who are in favor of peace and to put
an end to the different power blocs, can be *canceled out by one vote*?
We cannot continue to sustain a *global order founded on privilege
and inequality*that leads to suffering for millions of poor people
throughout the world.
Cuba’s foreign minister pointed out that, when the UN was founded in
1945, there were only 51 member states.
At that time, there were still many countries in the global South that
were formally colonized by the European powers.
Throughout the 1950s, ‘60s, and ‘70s, in a series of national-liberation
struggles, countries of the Global South finally won their independence
from Western colonialism.
Today, there are 193 UN member states. But the structure of the UN
remains essentially colonial and undemocratic, and it needs to be
changed, stressed Cuba’s foreign minister:
11 million people, 3 million of them children, die every year from
hunger and associated diseases.
The climate crisis is destroying nations and lives, devastating
communities and economies.
*A handful of countries and individuals have amassed more wealth
than the vast majority of all other countries combined.*
*Colossal inequalities*stifle and prevent sustainable development.
There has been no effective global response to today’s serious
challenges. There could not be, because *the current world order
reflects a bygone era when most developing countries did not even
exist as independent states*.
80 years ago, the United Nations was founded with only 51 member
states. Today, we are 193.
*The most urgent priority is to create a new international
order*that guarantees peace, the right to development, sovereign
equality, participation and representation of developing countries
in global policy decisions; that provides for the common good and
prosperity in harmony with nature; and ensures the exercise of all
human rights for all people.
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