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Bibi prepares UN rebuttal to Abbas ‘genocide’ speech

September 29, 2014 16:22
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

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Orlando Radice

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Benjamin Netanyahu will provide a forceful response to Mahmoud Abbas’s accusations against Israel in his speech to the UN General Assembly tonight.

The Israeli Prime Minister told reporters before boarding his plane for New York that he would “refute all of the lies being directed at us”.

Last Friday, the Palestinian Authority president told the UN that Israel had committed genocide during its military campaign in Gaza.

Many commentators expect that Mr Netanyahu will also make much of Hamas-Isis analogy, and the threat posed by Iran.