"Moments into the speech Friday morning, Netanyahu unfurled a map titled THE CURSE (the all-caps were his) in which he methodically used a fat marker to check off the countries where Israel has killed its enemies during a nearly two-year regionwide war. He then addressed the audience with a pair of multiple-choice questions, depicted on a large card. Who shouts Death to America'? he asked as he read off the names of Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah and Yemen's Houthi militia."
"Then there was the QR code. He showed up wearing a huge button bearing one of the codes often used by advertisers and popularized by restaurants who used them during the COVID pandemic era to avoid asking contagion-fearing customers to touch menus. The code linked to a website about the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks by Hamas, the hostages they took and Israel's point of view about it all."
Benjamin Netanyahu used theatrical visual aids and staged elements during his United Nations speech, including a map titled THE CURSE on which he checked off countries where Israel has killed enemies in a nearly two-year regional war. He posed multiple-choice questions identifying Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah and Yemen's Houthi militia as antagonists. He wore a large QR-code button linking to material about the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attacks and the hostages taken. Netanyahu's office said loudspeakers were set up on trucks along the Gaza border and later claimed Israeli forces hacked Gaza phones to broadcast the speech, while Palestinians reported they could not hear it.
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