Rami Chris Robbins

Alone against most of the world, yet wrapped tightly in truth and consequence. That was how it may have felt for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as he watched nearly half of all U.N. General Assembly delegates leave the hall on Sept. 26 when he started to speak.

It was a vile act meant to shun and isolate Israel. The timing was just right, intending to inflict the maximum insult. The staged walkout by the representatives of nearly 100 U.N. member nations was the largest boycott of a speaker in the history of the world body — and by a large margin.

Yet as the Israeli delegation cheered their prime minister amid the polite smattering of applause among the remaining delegates, who really was humiliated? As usual, the disgrace and dishonor of the events fall on

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