António Guterres said it was time to stop what he called the 'deadly cycle of tit-for-tat violence' in the Middle East.

Turtle Bay denizens are outraged after the Israeli foreign minister, Israel Katz, declared the United Nations secretary-general, Antonio Guterres, a persona non grata. Jerusalem’s announcement follows Mr. Guterres’s milquetoast statement in reaction to an unprecedented Iranian attack on the Jewish state.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has condemned Iranian missile strikes on Israel, says it’s a “deadly cycle of tit-for-tat violence.”