In response to the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry’s report on September 16, 2025, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu acknowledged that Israel faced international isolation and declared, “We are Athens and Sparta, or perhaps Super-Sparta. We have no choice.”

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TRUE. On September 16, 2025, the UN Commission’s 72-page report concluded that Israel committed genocide in Gaza ). Later that day at the Accountant General’s Conference in Jerusalem, Netanyahu told The Jerusalem Post, “We are Athens and Sparta, or perhaps Super-Sparta. We have no choice,” explicitly acknowledging that Israel was entering a period of diplomatic and economic isolation as European nations weighed sanctions and trade suspensions after the Gaza genocide findings ).

In response to the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry’s report on September 16, 2025, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu acknowledged that Israel faced international isolation and declared, “We are Athens and Sparta, or perhaps Super-Sparta. We have no choice.”

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