DOMINANT ANGLE
Santiago is confronting Netanyahu's speech with the ICC arrest warrant and the images of Gaza relayed by a pro-Palestinian center based in Chile, while La Tercera separately covers a warm meeting with Javier Milei.
Dominant angle identified — does not reflect unanimity of this country’s media
KEY POINTS
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The Palestinian Information Center (PIC), based in Chile, produced a video montage contrasting Netanyahu's speech at the UN with the actions of the Israeli army in Gaza since October 2023 (El Ciudadano).
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El Ciudadano recalls that dozens of delegates left the room when Netanyahu spoke, and cites a statement mentioning an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court against him for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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La Tercera reports on the meeting between Netanyahu and Argentine President Javier Milei on the sidelines of the General Assembly (September 22-28 in New York), where the two leaders congratulated each other and discussed increased cooperation in security and economy between Israel and Latin America.
ANALYSIS
Santiago, September 25, 2026. In Santiago, where the largest Palestinian community outside the Middle East lives, the local press did not highlight the same scene from Benyamin Netanyahou's speech at the United Nations General Assembly, held in New York from September 22 to 28, as the one promoted by the Israeli side.
El Ciudadano relays a video montage produced by the Palestinian Information Center (CIP), based in Chile, which compares the words spoken by the Israeli Prime Minister and the actions of the Israeli army in Gaza and other Palestinian territories since October 2023. The site recalls that "dozens of delegates left the room" when Netanyahou took the floor, before quoting the center's statement: the Israeli leader, "who has an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court for war crimes and crimes against humanity," would have used the UN platform again, according to the CIP, to defend the siege imposed on the Palestinians and present facts that "brutally contrast with the reality" on the ground. The media outlet specifies that the montage compares, phrase by phrase, the statements made since 2023 with images of the offensive.
On the same day, La Tercera covers a different aspect of the summit: the meeting between Netanyahou and Argentine President Javier Milei, on the sidelines of the General Assembly. The Santiago daily reports on the compliments exchanged - Netanyahou hails Milei as "one of the great leaders of our time" and thanks him for his "firm and unconditional" support for the State of Israel, evoking increased cooperation "in security and economy" between Israel and Latin American countries. Milei responds by qualifying his host as one of "the greatest leaders in the history of the world." Neither the empty room nor the ICC's arrest warrant appears in this second account, focused on the protocolary aspect of the visit.
Thus, two readings coexist in the Chilean press on the same day: that of a pro-Palestinian center that documents, image by image, the gap between the discourse and the Gaza terrain, and that of a diplomatic daily that reports on a regional alliance without linking the episode to the judicial dispute weighing on the Israeli Prime Minister.
