Finally a world leader with moral clarity and the guts to bring out the truth:
Yesterday, the man who calls the Holocaust a lie spoke from this podium. To those who refused to come here and to those who left this room in protest, I commend you. You stood up for moral clarity and you brought honor to your countries.
But to those who gave this Holocaust-denier a hearing, I say on behalf of my people, the Jewish people, and decent people everywhere: Have you no shame? Have you no decency?
A mere six decades after the Holocaust, you give legitimacy to a man who denies that the murder of six million Jews took place and pledges to wipe out the Jewish state.
What a disgrace! What a mockery of the charter of the United Nations! Perhaps some of you think that this man and his odious regime threaten only the Jews. You’re wrong.
History has shown us time and again that what starts with attacks on the Jews eventually ends up engulfing many others.
This Iranian regime is fueled by an extreme fundamentalism that burst onto the world scene three decades ago after lying dormant for centuries. In the past thirty years, this fanaticism has swept the globe with a murderous violence and cold-blooded impartiality in its choice of victims. It has callously slaughtered Moslems and Christians, Jews and Hindus, and many others. Though it is comprised of different offshoots, the adherents of this unforgiving creed seek to return humanity to medieval times.
Wherever they can, they impose a backward regimented society where women, minorities, gays or anyone not deemed to be a true believer is brutally subjugated. The struggle against this fanaticism does not pit faith against faith nor civilization against civilization.
It pits civilization against barbarism, the 21st century against the 9th century, those who sanctify life against those who glorify death.
The primitivism of the 9th century ought to be no match for the progress of the 21st century. The allure of freedom, the power of technology, the reach of communications should surely win the day. Ultimately, the past cannot triumph over the future. And the future offers all nations magnificent bounties of hope. The pace of progress is growing exponentially.
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UPDATE
In UN Speech, Netanyahu Condemns Iran for Subjugation of Gays
> History has shown us time and again that what starts with attacks on the Jews eventually ends up engulfing many others.
Whether you believe in God or not, there certainly seems to be a force in this universe which makes attacking Jews a fairly bad idea. Regimes which do so in a seriously harmful manner have a habit of getting buried in metaphorical frogs or something.
It’s kind of like the person who visited J. Robert Oppenheimer’s office in New Mexico, and noticed that he had a horseshoe hung on the wall (open end up, to “keep in the luck”). He said, “You don’t really believe in that, do you?”
Oppenheimer replied, “As I understand it, it works whether I believe in it or not.”
Whether that story is merely apocryphal or not, it does show a kind of hard-headed common sense about a superstition like that.
History shows that singling out the Jews is a Real Bad Idea.
Unfortunately, there is little shame or decency at the UN, it’s useless Club for Dictators.
The UN has become as feckless and ugly as its ancestor, the League of Nations.
As Emperor Haile Selassi discovered when the British and the French, via the Hoare-Laval Pact sold him out to the Italians. They didn’t want to upset Mussolini any more because of the rearmament of the Italian Navy.