The report by Haaretz covers the main trust of Netanyahu's speech at the UN today. I admire him for standing up for the rights of Israel in the face of all the opposition she faces. What troubles me is that he even has to defend the historicity of the Holocaust! It is outrageuous that we have come thus far.
Netanyahu is dead right in making clear how dangerous the fundamentalist Islam promoted by Iran is and that not only Israel but other nations are endangered by it, especially if Iran could attain nuclear weapons. Israel's promise for peace stands: 'Every time an Arab leader truly wanted peace, they got it,' Netanyahu said in his UN speech. 'If the Palestinians truly want peace, we will make peace.' It is no good for Arab leaders to make peace on paper and than launch an intifada (uprising) against Israel; it is no good for Arab leaders to speak of peace in English and of war in Arabic! I salute all Arabs and Muslims who genuinely seek peace, tolerate others of different religions and politics, and mean what they say - the world needs more people like you!
Israel has all the rights to have security - and security is the key issue. Israel has certainly learnt from her tradgic history that when a nation says it wants to destroy the Jews she will take it serious! 27 May 1967: 'Our basic objective will be the destruction of Israel,' Gamal Abdel Nasser, President of Egypt; 'Our goal is clear - to wipe Israel off the map,' Abdel Rahman Aref, President of Iraq. The same is being said by Hamas and Iran today - but will we take it serious? The Jews do - and rightly so! Ahmadinejad is, as German FM rightly said, 'a disgrace to his country.' The UN better act now before it's too late. I say yes to diplomacy, but only as long as it works - during the rise of Hitler it didn't.
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