Netanyahu's Speech to the UN.

• Author: Jones, David T.
• Position: Benjamin Netanyahu - Brief article

Netanyahu's Speech to the UN

By Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel

Text: www.realclearworld.com/articles/2009/09/25/speech_at_the_un_general_assembly_97205.html

The annual speeches by world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly normally are an exercise in political rhetoric, personal posturing, and media manipulation rather than thoughtful substantive commentary. The speech of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not fully escape from these parameters, but nevertheless is worth special attention because Netanyahu:

--excoriated those who would deny the Holocaust by presenting inter alia Nazi plans for the concentration camp/extermination center Auschwitz-Birkenau, and asking rhetorically "Is this a lie?" --warned emphatically against a nuclear armed Iran, noting that "greatest threat facing the world today is the marriage between religious fanaticism and the weapons of mass destruction" and urged international action to prevent such a development; and --flayed the UN Human Rights Council ("a misnamed institution if there ever was one") for its report...