UNITED NATIONS, United States: EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell voiced regret Friday that no power, including the United States, can \u201cstop\u201d Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying he appears determined to crush militants in Gaza and Lebanon.
\n\u201cWhat we do is to put all diplomatic pressure to a ceasefire, but nobody seems to be able to stop Netanyahu, neither in Gaza nor in the West Bank,\u201d Borrell told a small group of journalists as he attended the UN General Assembly.
\nBorrell backed an initiative by France and the United States for a 21-day ceasefire in Lebanon, which Israel has brushed aside as it steps up strikes on Hezbollah targets, in a days-old campaign that has killed hundreds.
\nBorrell said Netanyahu has made clear that the Israelis \u201cdon\u2019t stop until Hezbollah is destroyed,\u201d much as in its nearly year-old campaign in Gaza against fellow Iranian-backed militant group Hamas.
\n\u201cIf the interpretation of being destroyed is the same as with Hamas, then we are going to go for a long war,\u201d Borrell said in English.
\nThe outgoing EU foreign affairs chief again called for diversifying diplomacy from the United States, which has tried for months unsuccessfully to seal a truce in Gaza that would include the release of hostages.
\n\u201cWe cannot rely just on the US. The US tried several times; they didn\u2019t succeed,\u201d he said.
\n\u201cI don\u2019t see them ready to start again a negotiation process that could lead to another Camp David,\u201d he said, referring to the 2000 talks at the US presidential retreat in which Bill Clinton unsuccessfully sought to broker a landmark deal to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
\nNetanyahu in a defiant speech to the United Nations on Friday vowed to achieve Israel\u2019s objectives against Hezbollah, which has sporadically attacked Israel with rockets since Hamas carried out its massive October 7 attack on Israel, which has responded with a relentless military campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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