Guterres draws rebuke for finding his voice about U.N. but not Israeli hostages

"António Guterres, the U.N. secretary-general, drew criticism over the weekend for speaking up about seven U.N. staffers whom Houthi terrorists took captive in Yemen, but not finding his voice sufficiently about the Israeli hostages who remain kidnapped in Gaza.

‘I demand the immediate and unconditional release of the seven U.N. colleagues arbitrarily detained by the Houthis in Yemen this week, as well as those previously detained and held,’ the global body’s head stated. ‘U.N. personnel and partners must not be targeted, arrested or detained while carrying out their duties.’...

Victoria Coates, a former U.S. national security official and vice president of the National Security and Foreign Policy Institute at the Heritage Foundation, shared the U.N. chief’s post. ‘Do this for the Israelis and Americans in Gaza 15 months ago, you ghoul,’ she wrote.

‘U.N. personnel must be released right now, says António Guterres. Israeli babies? Meh,’ wrote the Jewish Policy Center.

‘Now do this for the 90 hostages in Gaza who have spent 477 days in the hands of terrorists,’ wrote Aviva Klompas, a former speechwriting head for the Israeli mission to the United Nations..."