United Nations, NY – 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.”
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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.
“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.”
“To those who gave this Holocaust denier a hearing, I say on behalf of my people. … Have you no shame? Have you no decency?” Netanyahu said.
Netanyahu scolded the United Nations for giving the Iranian president “legitimacy” just six decades after the Holocaust. Ahmadinejad addressed the body Wednesday, and in the run-up to the session repeated his belief that the Holocaust is a myth.
“What a disgrace,” Netanyahu said. “What a mockery of the charter of the United Nations.”
He also accused the United Nations of remaining silent on the attacks on Israelis from Hamas.
Ah Kish Oif Dein Kepele. He is the best spokesman Israel has today. Does anyone still remember such orators like Menachem Begin or Yosef Tekoa? Sharp tongued Ambassador Yosef Tekoa wiped the floors with the Soviet Union, and it prompted their request for his removal.
Okay the protests and speeches are very nice, time for action before it’s too late!
good for him,israel has to speak out,even if their ignored…
Way to go Bibi, we love you…….
“Have you no shame? Have you no decency?”
No, they don’t.
There’s still a freeze on building…..This guy has too many faces….
Saw it live. He really did it, that was a straigtforward speech bang bang bang…well done
we absolutely postively love you Bibi. You are the only politician in Israel who can secure the future there because of your faith and pride as a Jew. Dont give up!
am yisrael chai!!!!! love the blue tie and the white shirt!
Nintanyahu should have said the palestinian nation is a myth.
who authorize him to talk for ‘the jews’ ? he can speak for those who voted hom a fraction only of ‘the jews’
what a stupid person, he is creating a debate , and is debating and proving for 20 minutes that the haulocost happened, this is actaully strenthning the claims
Bibi is showing his American roots. Here is a line from lawyer Joseph Welch to Senator Joseph McCarthy at the Army-McCarthy hearings of June 9, 1954:
Mr. Welch: You’ve done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?
Certainly Ahmadinejad’s comments about the Holocaust are unacceptable. But is Netanyahu’s warmongering any better? Comparing today’s Iran to Nazi Germany, insisting (falsely) that Iran “promises to wipe out the state of Israel,” and claiming that Israel is “charged” with preventing “another” attempted “extermination” of Jews — is it any secret what these wild claims are meant to promote? Armed to the teeth as always, Israel has just shown its hand by extraordinary brutality in Gaza. Are we really prepared to support yet another bloody assault from the folks who gave us that parade of atrocities — and who still refuse to face the truth about it?
his speech made me cry
Thank you for speaking up for our people. KOL HAKOVOD! GOD bless you.
good said bibi.. although nothing will change this animal achmadinejihad..time 4 action
You spoke at the right time. The right place. Its time to fight these people that are worse than animals. Fight them now before it gets worse. The earlier the better.
Thank you for telling the world the truth. Don’t be afraid. We are all with you.
We have to fight the Yetzor Hora. With Hashems help we will win. Now is the time, we are in the 10 days of Yemey Teshuva. We can not sit and do nothing.
You wasted your breath, UN does not care about us yiden
OK there was no holocaust-=the pictures are all fake and the survivors are all liars.
By the way, there was never slavery in America. Our founding fathers would never have stood for such an atrocity. Today’s black Americans are all descended from travelers who arrived aboard luxury ships and found life here so pleasant that they decided to stay. That whole civil rights thing was a farce-there were never any second class citizens, government-enforced segregation, or discrimination. Surely,that should be cleared up in the hallowed hall of the greatly respected, truth-seeking, always fair and even-handed United Nations!
I like how they showed the German delegation when he was speaking and Israeli delegation. Lieberman was looking around like a sniper. The only people in Israeli politics who are very articulate today are Bibi, Mark Regev, Dan Gillerman, and Danny Ayalon. Bibi received his education in Harvard so he is very sharp with world history. But no one will ever replace Aaba Eban!! Aba Eban was a gift full of wisdom and oratory skills. No statesman in the 20th and 21 century will ever compare to Aba Eban.
You wasted your breath, UN does not care about us yiden