Macron's Final UN Speech Slams Israel and Russia — SkimNews
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- Macron used his farewell United Nations address as France's president to denounce Trump's Gaza diplomacy as a 'spectacle of shame,' per Reuters.
- Macron also stated 'Hamas never operated in the West Bank' — a remark that stunned Israel per i24news — and separately criticized Russia in the same speech, an angle The New York Times foregrounds that other outlets' headlines do not.
Why it matters: Macron's parting speech signals that a departing Western leader used his final UN platform for pointed rebukes — not just of Israel, but of Russia too, an angle only The New York Times' headline surfaces while Reuters and i24news focus narrowly on Gaza. His claim that 'Hamas never operated in the West Bank' directly challenges a core Israeli assertion about the conflict's geographic scope.
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