Bibi Addresses General Assembly, Takes on Iran, UN

by Maayana Miskin

(IsraelNN.com) September 24, 2009
Minister Binyamin Netanyahu addressed the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday night, and slammed Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the recent UN report on Gaza. He defended Jewish rights in the land of Israel while expressing willingness to create a demilitarized Palestinian Authority-led Arab state in Judea and Samaria.

Netanyahu began by taking Ahmadinejad to task, at length, for his denial of the Holocaust. He criticized those who remained seated during Ahmadinejad's speech the night before, asking, "Have you no shame, no decency?”

The prime minister went on to discuss Iran within the framework of worldwide terrorism. Terrorists wish to drag humanity back into the Middle Ages, he warned. “The struggle against Iran pits civilization against barbarism... History could be reversed if primitive fanaticism acquires deadly weapons,” he told delegates.

'Will You Accept this Farce?'
Netanyahu then turned to the subject of the recent UN report condemning Israel for its counter-terror offensive in Gaza in December 2008 and January 2009. The UN is undermining its own legitimacy by siding with terrorists over their victims, he accused.

"What a perversion of truth. What a perversion of justice,” Netanyahu said of the report.
There is only comparable instance in history in which a civilian populace was targeted by thousands of rockets, he said – the German bombardment of England during the Second World War. Allied forces responded to those attacks by flattening German cities, killing hundreds of thousands of people, he reminded those present. “I'm not here to judge,” he added, “I'm just stating a fact.”

Today's UN would have condemned then-British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and US President Franklin Roosevelt as war criminals, he said.

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