Netanyahu’s Powerful UN Speech… ‘On Behalf of Israel’ (complete speech, 4-part video)
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on September 28, 2009
Moving. Powerful. So much like Sir Winston Churchill.
Here’s a portion of the transcript of Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu’s stirring United Nations speech:
“…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.
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. … 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. Dead wrong. … I speak here today in the hope that we can learn from history — that we can prevent danger in time.
In the spirit of the timeless words spoken to Joshua over 3,000 years ago, let us be strong and of good courage. Let us confront this peril, secure our future and, God willing, forge an enduring peace for generations to come…”
Let us never forget what happened under the evil hand of Adolf Hitler. Let us never permit any dictatorial, despicable leader today or tomorrow to be allowed to proclaim, without outcry or denouncement, that the Holocaust did not occur.
Full Netanyahu UN Speech, Part 1 of 4 | September 24, 2009
Full Netanyahu UN Speech, Part 2 of 4 | September 24, 2009
Full Netanyahu UN Speech, Part 3 of 4 | September 24, 2009
Full Netanyahu UN Speech, Part 4 of 4 | September 24, 2009
What you won’t ever find to read in the left-wing fringe media… be sure to go to GayPatriot to read it in its entirety…
From GayPatriot, In UN Speech, Netanyahu Condemns Iran for Subjugation of Gays:
We have often wondered why so many on the gay left salivate over Barack Obama when there is little evidence of his eagerness to address issues of concern to gay people–or even their leaders. When gay bloggers start complaining about the Democrat’s inaction on gay issues, gay activists are palliated by an invitation to the executive mansion, complete with Gray Goose Martinis as Charles Winecoff observes: “Then, earlier this summer, just as many of His supporters in the LGBT tribe were growing restless with His neglect, it only took one White House cocktail party to get them eating right out of His palm again.”
They herald him as a hero, even though he has yet to champion our interests. While our fellows suffer under the tyranny of Islamofascism, he refused to address that suffering in his celebrate speech to the Muslim world. Nor did his mention oppression of gays in his Wednesday speech to the United Nations. I guess it was more important not to ruffle any feathers of those dictators and oligarchs who might misunderstand us.
When, however, a politically incorrect world leader of a politically incorrect country mounts the rostrum of the United Nations and addresses the plight of the gays in Iran, it seems only the conservative gays take note. Yesterday, Jimmy LaSalvia, Executive Director of GOProud, praised Israeli Prime Minister for criticizing “radical Islam for its treatment of women, gays and other minorities”…
…Netanyahu’s was a great speech–and not just because he, perhaps alone among world leaders, mentioned the plight of gays under Iranian tyranny. Jennifer Rubin called it a “speech for the ages,” while her colleague Jonathan Tobin found it “on target with respect to the Holocaust denial and genocidal threats of Iran’s Ahmadinejad as well as the hypocrisy and distortions of the UN’s Human Rights Council and its Goldstone report on the fighting in Gaza last December.” Scott Johnson calls it a “rare moment of truth in a venue that has become a cesspool of lies.”
…I wonder how many gay leaders, how many gay activists will commend him from drawing attention to the plight of our fellows suffering under fascistic tyranny in Iran. And how many will fault the American President for his silence…
Updated news, March 25, 2010: from Gateway Pundit, Obama Refuses to Dine With Jewish Leader
Additional reading:
Capital J | JTA – Jewish & Israel News: Netanyahu’s UN speech: The video and transcript
Rick Richman, Commentary Magazine: A Netanyahu Postscript, and a New Year
Gateway Pundit: UN-believable. Obama Administration Joins In UN’s Apartheid-Style Ban on Israel and Ahmadinejad: Israel Is Too Weak to Attack Iran’s Nuclear Facilities and Obama Poses For Photos With Abbas… But Banned Cameras With Netanyahu and Barack Obama Announces Historic Shift in America’s Relationship With Israel
American Princess: Benjamin Netanyahu…
Haaretz.com: Netanyahu: Obama sent message to Arabs that Israel is a Jewish state
Joel Rosenberg’s Weblog: NETANYAHU LAYS DOWN THE GAUNTLET
The TIW Blog: Kudos to Netanyahu
Ztower: Bibi and Bhambi demonstrate different confrontational skills. Bibi – head on! Obama, measured rhetoric from a distance!
Infidels Are Cool: Video: Netanyahu speech to UN: “Have you no shame? What a disgrace, what a mockery!”
we are judeo-christian, period!: PRES. OBAMA JOINS THE JEW BASHING AT THE U.N.
The IUSB Vision Weblog: AWESOME: Benjamin Netanyahu Speech to UN.
Dr. Sanity: “A RARE MOMENT OF TRUTH IN A CESSPOOL OF LIES”
Dennis Prager: Jewish Left Wins, Jews and Israel Lose
Larry Greenfield, American Thinker: Liberal Jews and the Legacy of Neoconservatism
And So I Go: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow: Benjamin Netanyahu United Nations SpeecH: “Have You No Shame?”
Mind Your Own Business Politics: Netanyahu’s speech to the United Nations, and Palestine
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