Posted on 09/30/2014 5:32:44 AM PDT by SJackson
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a powerful and sobering speech to the United Nations General Assembly on September 29th. He said he came from Jerusalem to speak on behalf of the Israeli people and to expose the brazen lies spoken from this very podium against my country and the brave soldiers who defend it.
Truth must always be spoken, especially here, in the United Nations, the prime minister said to an audience of government leaders and delegates not used to hearing the truth spoken in the UN on issues relating to the Jewish state.
Israels leader emphasized that his countrys fight against Hamas was part of the larger global fight against militant Islam which is on the march. He added that Hamas is ISIS and ISIS is Hamas. They share a fanatical creed, which they ultimately seek to impose on the world.
The Nazis believed in a master race, militant Islamists believe in a master faith; they just disagree on who will be the master of the master faith, Mr. Netanyahu said. The question before us is whether militant Islam will have the power to realize its violent ambitions.
Prime Minister Netanyahu backed up his melding of ISIS and Hamas with quotes from leaders of both jihadist groups, proving their common violent ambitions. Islamic State head al-Baghdadi said that a day will come when the world will see Islam as a master who will destroy the idol of democracy. Khaled Meshaal, Hamass political leader, said: Our nation will sit on the throne of the world.
The truth about Hamas does not faze Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Last week he wasted an opportunity, in his own UN General Assembly speech, to publicly distance the Palestinian Authority from the ISIS look-alike, Hamas. Instead of unequivocally condemning Hamass crimes against humanity in launching rocket attacks against Israeli civilians while using Palestinian children and other civilians as human shields, Palestinian President Abbas served as Hamass mouthpiece on the global stage. He was Hamass propaganda sword and shield, falsely accusing Israel of committing genocide and absolute war crimes in Gaza.
Prime Minister Netanyahus rebuttal to Abbass blood libel was right to the point. Holding up a picture of a rocket launcher in Gaza next to children playing, taken by a French news photographer, he delivered this message to President Abbas:
Ladies and gentleman, this is a war crime, and I say to president Abbas these are the crimes, the war crimes committed by your Hamas partners in the national unity government you created and which you are responsible for and which you should have spoken out against in your speech last week.
In remarks to the press before Prime Minister Netanyahu delivered his General Assembly speech, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said that Abbas had lost his way. Mr. Lieberman characterized Abbass speech as a message of hatred and incitements, and expressed doubts as to Abbass legitimacy to speak on behalf of the Palestinian people.
In further rebuttal to Abbass lies, Mr. Netanyahu listed in his speech the unprecedented steps that Israel took, at risk to the lives of its own troops, to minimize civilian casualties during the Gaza war. And he challenged the General Assembly audience to consider how they would react if their towns were under attack by a barrage of rockets, forcing their citizens to seek cover with only seconds to spare.
The prime minister said that the UN Human Rights Council, which he characterized as an oxymoron, was helping Hamas in its propaganda war. Its singular condemnation of Israel, while giving Hamas a pass on it use of civilians as human shields, earned it the title terrorist rights council.
Turning to Iran, Prime Minister Netanyahu warned about the smooth-talking charm offensive of Irans president and foreign minister, which masked the Iranian regimes relentless drive to become a nuclear armed state while getting the sanctions lifted. He accused the Iranian regime of playing games to bamboozle its way to an agreement that will leave it with thousands of centrifuges. The worlds most dangerous regime will obtain the worlds most dangerous weapons.
The prime minister said that it was not enough for the world to focus its attention on ISIS and destroy it, as important as that goal is to achieve. The world must not lose sight of the overriding threat of a nuclear armed Iran.
To disarm ISIS but leave Iran with the bomb would be to win the battle but lose the war, he said, drawing applause from supporters of Israel in the General Assembly hall gallery but only silence from the world leaders and delegates seated at their desks on the main floor. Would you let ISIS enrich uranium develop ICBMs? Of course you wouldnt. Then you mustnt let Iran do those things either, he added.
Mr. Netanyahu mocked Iranian President Hassan Rouhanis lament last week in his General Assembly speech about the rise of terrorism in the world, which Rouhani blamed on the West. The Israeli prime minister called this double-talk, coming from the president of a leading state sponsor and practitioner of global terrorism. You can ask him to call off Irans global terror campaign, the prime minister declared.
Israel wants peace, Prime Minister Netanyahu said. However, Israel also insists on rock solid security arrangements. Israel saw what happened after it vacated Lebanon and Gaza, as militant Islamists filled the void and unleashed their weapons of terror against Israeli civilians. He said that as prime minister of Israel I am entrusted with the awesome responsibility of ensuring the survival of the Jewish people and the Jewish state. I will not waver.
Finally, Mr. Netanyahu expressed some hope that Peace can be realized with the active involvement of Arab countries. He said that there is a new Middle East in which the Arab countries can play an indispensable role in helping bring about a genuine peace with the Palestinians.
Prime Minister Netanyahu concluded his General Assembly speech quoting from the Prophet Isaiah: for the sake of Zion I will not be silent, for the sake of Jerusalem I will not be still. And then he called upon the assembled world leaders and delegates to light a torch of truth and justice to light our future.
As the prime minister was finishing his speech and about to leave the podium, loud applause could be heard in the General Assembly hall. But, as normally happens at the UN, the slander and lies against the Jewish state will continue long after Mr. Netanyahus speech and the applause become a faint memory.
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I stand with Israel......and Netanyahu
Awesome, powerfful sppech at UN....
I’d forgotten what a REAL leader looks and sounds like.
Netanyahu keeps telling us what we don't want to hear or see.
This has been going on for years now and the Israelis (who have plenty of experience at perceiving an enemy before he appears on the radar screen) are not encumbered by Political Correctness or appeasing anybody, not even the Abomination adminsitration.
Bibi tells it like it is. He tells the UN to f— off and begin doing their job. He blasts the PLO Abbas for being a man not seeking peace but inciting his fellow killers. He tells us to watch Iran just as we (with our short attention spans) watch only ISIS. The man is a modern Churchill even though, like Churchill, he is attacked from all sides.
Like Churchill Bibi will be vindicated, the Israelis always are, they just have to absorb lies and slander on the way to the eventual truth which everybody knows anyway.
I love that man... God please protect the one leader who is willing to say the truth about Islam...
A freeper on a different thread suggested we run Netanyahu for President of the United States as a Republican.
The logic was since the MSM didn’t have any interest in where Obama was born... they might not care where Netanyahu was born. I think it’s worth exploring...
You have to listen to foreign leaders nowadays to get the real truth. Powerful speech from a man of great integrity and a 180 IQ. The contrast between him and the sorry SOS who sits in our Whitehouse is deplorable.
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