"Bibi to UN: 'Have You No Shame?' By Philip Klein on 9.24.09 @ 2:46PM. Earlier this afternoon, Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu gave a stirring speech in which he called the United Nations to task for legitimizing the Holocaust-denying Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and for sanctioning a report charging Israelis with war crimes for defending themselves against terrorism from Gaza.
Early in the speech, he held up a copy of the meeting minutes of the 1942 conference in Wannsee in which Germans made plans to exterminate the Jews, and asked, 'Is this protocol a lie?' Then he held up the original construction plans from the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, which he received on a recent trip to Germany, and asked, 'Are these plans of the camp where one million Jews were murdered a lie too?'
Netanyahu commended those who walked out on or boycotted the Ahmadinejad speech to the chamber yesterday, then continued: 'But for those who stayed - I say on behalf of the Jewish people, my people and decent people everywhere - have you no shame? No decency? What a disgrace, what a mockery of the charter of the UN.'
He said, 'Perhaps some of you think [Ahmadinejad] and his odious regime only threaten the Jews. Well, if you think that you are wrong, dead wrong.' He explained that, 'the struggle against Iran pits civilization against barbarism.'
Later in the speech, he blased the UN report drawing moral equivelence between Israel and Hamas for the conflict in Gaza earlier this year, accusing Israelis of war crimes for defending themselves against a terrorist group that hides among civilians."
Thursday, September 24, 2009
"Have You No Shame?"
The answer to his question is no, and what he said fell on deaf ears, but it was a magnificent speech and lesson on good versus evil. An excerpt follows:
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