Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu turned his rhetorical guns on Iran and the international community’s refusal to speak out against its “genocidal intentions” in his speech to the UN General Assembly in New York today.
In an impressively delivered address – complete with long pauses and dramatic crescendos – Mr Netanyahu thundered: “Seventy years after the murder of six million Jews, Iran’s rulers promise to destroy my country, murder my people.”
He then hit out at the member states of the UN for their consistent failure to speak out against the Iranian threats. “Iran threatens to destroy my people and the international response is absolute silence,” he said.
Echoing international criticism of Israel over its operations in Gaza, Mr Netanyahu argued that the UN has displayed “disproportionality” and “injustice” in its treatment of the Jewish state.
