Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Gives Moving Speech Before the UN

Benjamin NetanyahuDuring a moving speech before the General Session of the United Nations in New York, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu admonished those who did not walk out on the Anti-Semitic speech given by Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who showed his hatred and irrationality by denying the Holocaust which claimed the lives of millions of Jewish people in Nazi Germany during the World War 2 era.

He gave a heartfelt thank you to those nations who boycotted the speech or walked out in protest including Canada, the United States, Britain and France among others. He pointed out evidence of the Holocaust, by hand written notes and a plan for the Auschwitz camp signed by Himmler himself. With eloquent resolve, Netanyahu reminded the UN and the world of the terrible horror of the Holocaust, or as it is known in Hebrew, The Shoah. During this moving portion of his speech, the Prime Minister spoke on a personal note of his wife's family, so many of who were murdered by the Nazis during the Holocaust and of a Holocaust survivor whom he had met that still carried the tattooed numbers on her arm placed there in the concentration camps that Ahmadinejad tried to deny.

Netanyahu then went on to warn of the nuclear threat that Iran poses not only to Israel but the rest of the world as well , pointing out that even Ahmadinejad's own people are protesting against the tyrant that many think stole the election in Iran. After Ahmadinejad made it clear yesterday that he refused to yield to Western demands to halt their nuclear program, Netanyahu expressed concerns that the UN's Security Council would be unable to protect Israel, or anyone else, from Iran's nuclear aggressions.

After urging the UN to take firm action to curb Iran's nuclear program, Netanyahu turned toward the thoughts of peace in his homeland receiving applause when he stated that he wanted a time of peace where two nations, one the Jewish state of Israel and another for the Palestinians, could exist peacefully side by side. He was quick to point out; however, that such a peace can never exist without security and an end to the violence that has claimed numerous lives. He further urged the UN to insist on a requirement for the Palestinians to acknowledge Israel's right to exist and occupy their historical homeland and to make a pledge for real and lasting peace.

The Prime Minster's speech was fairly well received and showed his sincere commitment to his life long work of obtaining peace and security for the Middle East and for his people in Israel.