Israel PM Netanyahu’s Address to UN 64th General Assembly
This is an important speech for anyone who loves freedom. Links to the videos at the end. – bradfoot
published by the Israel News Agency
By Israel News Agency Staff
United Nations, New York —– September 24, 2009 … The following speech by the Israel Prime Minister to the delegates of the UN was provided to the Israel News Agency by the Israel Prime Minister’s Office and the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen, nearly 62 years ago, the United Nations recognized the right of the Jews, an ancient people 3,500 years-old, to a state of their own in their ancestral homeland.
I stand here today as the Prime Minister of Israel, the Jewish state, and I speak to you on behalf of my country and my people.
The United Nations was founded after the carnage of World War II and the horrors of the Holocaust. It was charged with preventing the recurrence of such horrendous events.
Nothing has undermined that central mission more than the systematic assault on the truth. Yesterday the President of Iran stood at this very podium, spewing his latest anti-Semitic rants. Just a few days earlier, he again claimed that the Holocaust is a lie.
Last month, I went to a villa in a suburb of Berlin called Wannsee. There, on January 20, 1942, after a hearty meal, senior Nazi officials met and decided how to exterminate the Jewish people. The detailed minutes of that meeting have been preserved by successive German governments. Here is a copy of those minutes, in which the Nazis issued precise instructions on how to carry out the extermination of the Jews. Is this a lie? Continue reading »
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