Germany

Berlin, Friday, September 25, 2026. For the German press, the scene that played out on Thursday before the United Nations General Assembly says above all that diplomatic isolation is worsening. Tagesschau reports that dozens of diplomats left the room before Benjamin Netanyahu even took the stage, some whistling, others applauding. The Israeli Prime Minister called the delegations that left "moralische Feiglinge" - moral cowards - and invited those who had not yet done so to leave as well.

FAZ and ZEIT Online, whose accounts almost word for word reproduce the same dispatch, note that he categorically rejected the accusation of genocide in Gaza: "Israël des Völkermords zu bezichtigen, ist die größte Lüge des Jahrhunderts," he said in New York - accusing Israel of genocide is the biggest lie of the century. He claimed, on the contrary, that Israel had prevented one, without the German articles providing further details on this argument.

ZEIT Online emphasizes the vigor with which Netanyahu turned against two Western capitals: he attacked the United Kingdom and France over their colonial past to reproach them for calling Israel colonialist. The accusations against Qatar, Turkey, or the Mayor of New York, reported elsewhere, do not appear in the German articles consulted.

Regarding Iran, Netanyahu called the attack on Iranian nuclear facilities "one of the easiest decisions" of his career, stating that inaction would have meant the destruction of Israel. Tagesschau nuances this account by recalling that the assessment of the Iranian nuclear program differs according to the sources: the annual unclassified report of the American intelligence services makes no mention of any Iranian political decision to manufacture a nuclear weapon.

The German media finally note that Netanyahu, very isolated on the international stage and abandoned by several Western partners, stayed only a few hours in New York, having few bilateral meetings on the sidelines of the session.