Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netenyahu delivered a tough and dramatic speech to the UN General Assembly today:
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a blistering attack on the floor of the United Nations Thursday on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, saying the hearing granted the Iranian president the night before amounted to a “disgrace of the U.N. charter.”
Mr. Netanyahu dramatically held up copies of minutes of the meeting of Nazi officials in 1942 where plans were made for the extermination of the Jews, as well as constructions plans of Nazi concentration camps.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attacks Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s comments about the Holocaust, calling them a “disgrace” and a “mockery.”
“Are these protocols lies?” he asked, waving them in his hand. “Are the successive German governments that have kept these documents for posterity all liars?”
He opened his remarks by saying that the greatest threat to the U.N. effort to prevent a repetition of the carnage of the World War II is the “assault on truth.”
“Yesterday the president of Iran stood at this very podium and spewed his anti-Semitic rants,” he said. “Just a few days earlier he claimed that the Holocaust was a lie.” He then described how he had obtained the documents he held up before the assembly.
“Nearly one-third of all Jews at the time perished in the Holocaust,” he said. “Nearly every family was affected, including my own.”
Mr. Netanyahu continued about Mr. Ahmadinejad, “Perhaps some of you think this man and his odious regime only threaten the Jews. Well, if you think that you are wrong, dead wrong.
“What starts as attacks on Jews always ends up engulfing others … this regime embodies the extremes of Islamic fundamentalism.”
He concluded by quoting Winston Churchill, and his warnings about mounting threats in the run-up to World War II.
“The question facing the international community is whether it is prepared to confront these forces or just accommodate them,” he said.
The whole speech is well worth watching:
H/T: Power Line
September 25th, 2009 at 12:15 am
The new leader of the Free World.
September 25th, 2009 at 1:26 am
Netanyahu delivers it strong to the UN…
I was very amazed at Netanyahu’s speech tonight to the UN. Not only did he rebut Ahmedinejad’s Holocaust denial, among other bigoted filth-spewing, he also slammed the UN itself for allowing the Iranian dictator a platform on which to spew. As Weasel…
September 25th, 2009 at 5:30 am
It is interesting for Netanyau to stand before the whole world and talk about the holocaust and extermination of Jews while he is holding a whole nation of Palestine in a concentration Camp.
He talks about a nuclear Iran when Israel is a nuclear-armed country and non-signatory to the NPT while Iran is. What a hypocrite!!! Which country did Iran invade? Israel is illegally holding to Palestine and parts of Lebanon and Syria.
What is ironic and laughable, is for Obama and Sarkozy to mention the dangers of Iran and North Korea and be frightened shit to mention Israel in the same breath lest they be branded anti-semitic!!!
September 25th, 2009 at 5:35 am
It is very easy to shut Ahmedinajah up. Print the list of the 6 million Jews killed by Hitler. The Germans were so meticulous that they must have kep a complete recrod of all those killed.
I bet you will not find that list or you will find a list of a lot of people who were not jewish included in the list.