The Iran War, Israel's Emergency Services Need you!

The Middle East ReportMarch 14, 202628:00Alpha 10.0

geopoliticsleadershipcoexistenceglobal-institutionsnational-security

Golden Quote

“Behind closed doors, many of these ambassadors that used to vote against us, they come to me and say, 'Gilad, we know you're right, you should finish the job with Hamas, we know that they are terrorists' — but sadly, they cannot say it publicly.”

Gilad Erdan

3:33

Synopsis

The Arab Christian Paramedic Rewriting What Coexistence Looks Like There are no extracted quotes provided for this segment, and the transcript itself is an introductory segment with no substantive interview content — just a host introduction and a brief two-line guest acknowledgment. When Empires Fall, the Blue and White Flag Remains The 9/11 Parallel Israel's Former Ambassador Keeps Invoking The UN's Dirty Secret: Everyone Knows, Nobody Says It

Speakers

John Riley

Gilad Erdan

Yasmine Mazawi

Episode Breakdown

Ambassador Gilad Erdan discusses his experience at the United Nations, explaining how its changed political makeup, low bar for membership, powerful voting blocs of non-democracies, and equal voting power for all states lead to moral distortions and votes against Israel. He advocates for defunding the UN.

“Behind closed doors, many of these ambassadors that used to vote against us, they come to me and say, 'Gilad, we know you're right, you should finish the job with Hamas, we know that they are terrorists' — but sadly, they cannot say it publicly.”

A former UN ambassador claiming world leaders privately support Israel but publicly oppose it exposes a stunning gap between diplomatic performance and private conviction.

Gilad Erdan

3:33

“The majority of countries at the UN are non-democracies. The United States, still the biggest funder, gets one vote — and Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, or any Pacific island with 30,000 residents gets the same influence. That's how you get all these moral distortions.”

This structural critique of the UN's one-country-one-vote model raises a fundamental question about whether equal representation produces legitimate or just outcomes in global governance.

Gilad Erdan

4:39

“You get Iran leading the Disarmament Forum. You get Cuba, Venezuela, and Eritrea on the Human Rights Council. You get Saudi Arabia leading the Commission on the Status of Women's Rights. You can't make these things up.”

This list of institutional contradictions is a visceral, shareable indictment of how international bodies can be captured by the very actors they're meant to hold accountable.

Gilad Erdan

5:12

“Since I was at the UN, I have been preaching to dismantle it — to completely defund it. The UN cannot fulfill its original mission anymore. It only serves to whitewash the crimes of dictators and terror supporters.”

A sitting former ambassador calling for the total dismantling of the institution he represented is a bold, polarizing take that challenges decades of Western foreign policy consensus.

Gilad Erdan

6:27