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At war with two neighbours, Netanyahu to address UNGA

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to address the UN General Assembly on Friday. From the dais of the UNGA just a year ago, Netanyahu triumphantly hailed a new peace he said would sweep through the Middle East. A...
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to address the UN General Assembly on Friday. From the dais of the UNGA just a year ago, Netanyahu triumphantly hailed a new peace he said would sweep through the Middle East. A year later, as he travels back to that same world stage, that vision is in tatters.

The war in Gaza is about to hit the one-year mark. Israel is on the cusp of a wider regional war with the Iran-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah. Netanyahu will head to New York burdened also by what could be an imminent warrant for his arrest by the International Criminal Court, what would put him in a fellowship of sorts with Russian President Vladimir Putin and former Sudanese leader Omar al-Bashir.

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