Benyamin Netanyahu's speech to the UN

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu addressed the UN last Thursday. The entire transcript can be read here

Here are some highlights:

"The greatest threat facing the world
today is the marriage between religious fanaticism and the weapons of
mass destruction"

"For eight long years, Hamas fired from Gaza thousands of missiles, mortars and rockets on nearby Israeli cities. Year after year, as these missiles were deliberately hurled at our civilians, not a single UN resolution was passed condemning those criminal attacks. We heard nothing - absolutely nothing - from the UN Human Rights Council, a misnamed institution if there ever was one."

"there is only one example in history of thousands of rockets being

fired on a country's civilian population. It happened when the Nazis
rocketed British cities during World War II. During that war, the
allies leveled German cities, causing hundreds of thousands of
casualties. Israel chose to respond differently. Faced with an enemy
committing a double war crime of firing on civilians while hiding
behind civilians - Israel sought to conduct surgical strikes against
the rocket launchers.


That was no easy task because the terrorists were firing missiles from homes and schools, using mosques as weapons depots and ferreting explosives in ambulances. Israel , by contrast, tried to minimize casualties by urging Palestinian civilians to vacate the targeted areas.


We dropped countless flyers over their homes, sent thousands of text messages and called thousands of cell phones asking people to leave. Never has a country gone to such extraordinary lengths to remove the enemy's civilian population from harm's way.


Yet faced with such a clear case of aggressor and victim, who did the UN Human Rights Council decide to condemn? Israel . A democracy legitimately defending itself against terror is morally hanged, drawn and quartered, and given an unfair trial to boot.


By these twisted standards, the UN Human Rights Council would have dragged Roosevelt and Churchill to the dock as war criminals."