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Netanyahu in the U.N. to Supporters of Iran: "Have You No Shame?"

The Prime Minister, in his speech at the U.N. General Assembly, chastised the countries whose representatives did not protest the speech made by the Iranian Holocaust denier on Wednesday: "To those who gave this Holocaust denier a hearing, have you no shame? Have you no decency? One third of the Jewish nation was exterminated during the Holocause. Is that a lie?"

Eitan Fried 25/09/2009 10:52

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu began his speech on Thursday in New York, at the U.N. General Assembly, by commenting on the speech made Wednesday by the Holocaust denier, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and chastising those who made no motion of disapproval towards that speech.

"Yesterday, the man who calls the Holocaust a lie spoke from this podium. To those who refused to come and to those who left in protest, I commend you. You stood up for moral clarity, and you brought honor to your countries. But to those who gave this Holocaust denier a hearing, I say, have you no shame? Have you no decency?" Netanyahu said, at the beginning of his speech yesterday, which he gave in English. Netanyahu presented to the participants of the Assembly blueprints from the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, as an example of the Nazi plan for mass extermination of the Jewish people during World War Two, during which six million Jews were murdered, hy"d. Binyamin called out, "Here is a copy of the plans of Auschwitz-Birkenau, where one million Jews were murdered. Is this too a lie? This June, President Obama visited the Buchenwald concentration camp. Did President Obama pay tribute to a lie?"


During Ahmadinajad's disgraceful speech, he repeatedly denied the events that occurred during the Holocaust, and accused Israel of monopolized the global economy and political arena.

Netanyahu, who began his speech by commenting on the Iranian President's provocative speech, was expected to go on to condemn the findings of the Goldstone report, which accuses the IDF of committing war crimes against civilians during the "Cast Lead" operation in Gaza.

"Not a single UN resolution was passed condemning those criminal acts."

Netanyahu, as expected, next brought up the Goldstone report, and demanded that the UN examine its selective manner of judging the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He claimed that the UN has never once passed an official resolution against the massive missile fire that Hamas has been conducting against Israeli civilians for the last eight years. "For eight long years, Hamas fired from Gaza thousands of missiles, mortars and rockets on nearby Israeli cities. Year after year, as these missiles were deliberately hurled at our civilians, not a single UN resolution was passed condemning those criminal attacks. We heard nothing – absolutely nothing – from the UN Human Rights Council, a misnamed institution if there ever was one."

Netanyahu slammed the report, and rejected its findings that lay the blame on Israel for alleged war crimes committed during the "Cast Lead" operation . "Rather than condemning the terrorists and their Iranian patrons, some here have condemned their victims. That is exactly what a recent UN report on Gaza did, falsely equating the terrorists with those they targeted," Netanyahu said.

Netanyahu also referred to the Disengagement from Gaza, and the expulsion of the residents of Gush Katif four years ago, as a huge gesture on the part of Israel towards the Palestinian people. He challenged the UN with the following words: "In 2005, hoping to advance peace, Israel unilaterally withdrew from every inch of Gaza. It dismantled 21 settlements and uprooted over 8,000 Israelis. We didn't get peace. Instead we got an Iranian backed terror base fifty miles from Tel Aviv. Life in Israeli towns and cities next to Gaza became a nightmare. You see, the Hamas rocket attacks not only continued, they increased tenfold. Again, the UN was silent."

The Prime Minister continued, posing a question to the UN representatives. "Finally, after eight years of this unremitting assault, Israel was finally forced to respond. But how should we have responded?" Netanyahu compared the continuous missile attacks on Israel to the German bombing of British cities during World War Two. "There is only one example in history of thousands of rockets being fired on a country's civilian population. It happened when the Nazis rocketed British cities during World War II. During that war, the allies leveled German cities, causing hundreds of thousands of casualties.   Israel chose to respond differently. Faced with an enemy committing a double war crime of firing on civilians while hiding behind civilians – Israel sought to conduct surgical strikes against the rocket launchers."

Netanyahu asked that the legitimate right of Israel to defend itself be acknowledged, and that any attack on its citizens by the Palestinians, who use their own citizens as human shields, be judged as a war crime. "Never has a country gone to such extraordinary lengths to remove the enemy's civilian population from harm's way. Yet faced with such a clear case of aggressor and victim, who did the UN Human Rights Council decide to condemn? Israel. A democracy legitimately defending itself against terror is morally hanged, drawn, and quartered, and given an unfair trial to boot. By these twisted standards, the UN Human Rights Council would have dragged Roosevelt and Churchil to the dock as war criminals."

Netanyahu reiterated that Israel made supreme efforts to minimize Palestinian casualties, by urging Palestinian civilians to vacate the targeted areas. "We dropped countless flyers over their homes, sent thousands of text messages, and called thousands of cell phones asking people to leave."

"Will you stand with Israel, or will you stand with the terrorists?"

At the end of his speech, Netanyahu appealed to the world leaders to take clear stand regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, implying that anyone who sides with the Palestinians is siding with terror. "Will you stand with Israel or will you stand with the terrorists? We must know the answer to that question now. Now and not later. Because if Israel is again asked to take more risks for peace, we must know today that you will stand with us tomorrow. Only if we have the confidence that we can defend ourselves, can we take further risks for peace."

Netanyahu concluded with the following message: "We want peace. I believe such a peace can be achieved. But only we roll back the forces of terror, led by Iran, that seek to destroy peace, eliminate Israel, and overthrow the world order. The question facing the international community is whether it is prepared to confront those forces or accommodate them."