TEHRAN - The Israeli ambassador’s shredding of the United Nations Charter while standing in anger at the UN podium reflects how Tel Aviv views the world’s most important international organization.

Gilad Erdan conducted the PR stunt on the global stage in protest against the vast majority of the international community voting in favor of a Palestinian state. 

While many have mocked the move by the Israeli representative, a lot of other critics have pointed out how it depicts the reality of the Israeli military’s actions in the Gaza Strip over the past seven months. 

The regime has so far killed over 35,000 Palestinians, injured at least 80,000 others, forcibly displaced hundreds of thousands, starved people, and pushed northern Gaza to a state of famine by obstructing the entry of humanitarian aid. 

This is while residential areas of the enclave have been razed to the ground by an indiscriminate bombing campaign that has resulted in women and children being the majority of casualties. 

The Israeli political and military leadership stands accused of violating many aspects of international law enshrined in the UN Charter amid the countless war crimes that have been committed in the Gaza Strip.
 
This is the same UN Charter that the Israeli ambassador destroyed in front of an international audience at the General Assembly headquarters in New York, using a small shredder machine that tore up the UN rulebook to small pieces. 

Tel Aviv has hit out at other UN agencies, leveling accusations against the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court both of which are top UN tribunals as well as making what has been described as “absurd” allegations against the main UN humanitarian agency in Gaza UNRWA.
 
The UN Human Rights Office has been on the receiving end of repeated defamatory remarks by the cabinet ministers of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for its regular condemnation of Israeli human rights violations against Palestinian civilians in the blockaded Gaza Strip, the occupied West Bank and al-Quds (Jerusalem). 

The outburst of anger by the regime’s ambassador also stems from the occupation regime’s isolation in the world. 

This was highlighted in the outcome of the UN General Assembly vote in favor of a Palestinian state. 

Israeli leaders had already used the podium at the General Assembly before to make a mockery of international law and regulations. 

Prime Minister Netanyahu has previously held up cartoon-like placards in a bid to scaremonger the world about Iran’s nuclear program, which the International Atomic Energy Agency (the UN Nuclear Agency) and the U.S. intelligence community have repeatedly declared is peaceful. 

The clown shows by Israeli leaders at the General Assembly have failed to change global opinion in the past. It is unlikely to do so now amid the death and destruction campaign that the regime is committing on a daily basis in Gaza in violation of the basic principles of the UN Charter.