Netanyahu’s words of wisdom to U.N.

Published 7:34 pm Wednesday, October 1, 2014

1. Israel likely headed toward conflict, isolation

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the United Nations was simple and true. His words were plain, his logic was undeniable. Without rancor, he refuted the lies told about his country and its recent actions taken in self-defense.

“The people of Israel pray for peace,” Netanyahu said. “But our hopes and the world’s hope for peace are in danger. Because everywhere we look, militant Islam is on the march. It’s not militants. It’s not Islam. It’s militant Islam. Typically, its first victims are other Muslims, but it spares no one. Christians, Jews, Yazidis, Kurds — no creed, no faith, no ethnic group is beyond its sights. And it’s rapidly spreading in every part of the world.”

He noted the U.N.’s support for the air strikes on the Islamic State, but he points out the obvious: ISIS isn’t the only terrorist organization in the region.

“And yet weeks before, some of these same countries, the same countries that now support confronting ISIS, opposed Israel for confronting Hamas,” he said. “They evidently don’t understand that ISIS and Hamas are branches of the same poisonous tree. ISIS and Hamas share a fanatical creed, which they both seek to impose well beyond the territory under their control.”

He quoted militant Islamist leaders declaring their intent to dominate the region. But it’s not just Israel that’s in danger, Netanyahu added.

“As Hamas’s charter makes clear, Hamas’s immediate goal is to destroy Israel,” he said. “But Hamas has a broader objective. They also want a caliphate. Hamas shares the global ambitions of its fellow militant Islamists. That’s why its supporters wildly cheered in the streets of Gaza as thousands of Americans were murdered on 9/11. And that’s why its leaders condemned the United States for killing Osama Bin Laden, whom they praised as a holy warrior.”

Netanyahu warned U.N. members against being taken in by Iran.

“So don’t be fooled by Iran’s manipulative charm offensive,” he said. “It’s designed for one purpose, and for one purpose only: To lift the sanctions and remove the obstacles to Iran’s path to the bomb. The Islamic Republic is now trying to bamboozle its way to an agreement that will remove the sanctions it still faces, and leave it with the capacity of thousands of centrifuges to enrich uranium. This would effectively cement Iran’s place as a threshold military nuclear power. In the future, at a time of its choosing, Iran, the world’s most dangerous state in the world’s most dangerous region, would obtain the world’s most dangerous weapons.”

Netanyahu also defended his nation against international critics.

“For 50 days this past summer, Hamas fired thousands of rockets at Israel, many of them supplied by Iran,” he said. “I want you to think about what your countries would do if thousands of rockets were fired at your cities. Imagine millions of your citizens having seconds at most to scramble to bomb shelters, day after day. You wouldn’t let terrorists fire rockets at your cities with impunity.”

There’s a voice of sanity and reason in the Middle East. This is it.