Netanyahu's speech "embarrassing and pathetic," says former adviser to Shimon Peres

 Gideon Levy, a former adviser to former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres, described the current prime minister’s speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Friday as “embarrassing and pathetic.”

While acknowledging that Benjamin Netanyahu is an “impressive” public speaker, Levy told CNN’s Becky Anderson that he reached “one of the lowest points of Israeli propaganda.”

Levy pointed to Netanyahu’s hypocrisy, saying that Israel had killed over 40,000 people in Gaza and turned it into nothing but a humanitarian catastrophe, but the prime minister was still talking about “blessing” the region.

He also pointed to a “radicalization” of Israel, saying that Netanyahu was a “hostage of the most radical, fascist partners in his coalition.