10 June 2024

Israel's Outgoing UN Ambassador Worries Palestinians Are Winning Narrative

Tom O'Connor

As support for Palestinian statehood continues to gain international ground, Israel's outgoing ambassador to the United Nations warned that Israel was losing the fight for the narrative over a decades-long conflict that has erupted into a bloody, high-stakes war.

"It always concerns us when our approach is not being accepted, like every normal country," Israeli Permanent Ambassador to the U.N. Gilad Erdan said in response to Newsweek's question during a small gathering of journalists last week at the Israeli Mission to the U.N. "So, we have to do more to convince the world."

Erdan, who announced just hours prior to the meeting on Friday that he had declined an ambassadorship to the United States and would leave his post this summer to continue his career in foreign service in another capacity, has established himself as a fiery presence at the U.N., especially since the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, attacks that sparked the longest and deadliest-ever war in the Gaza Strip.




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