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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a blistering attack on the floor of the United Nations Thursday on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, saying
the hearing granted the Iranian president the night before amounted to a
Mr. Netanyahu dramatically held up copies of minutes of the meeting of Nazi officials in 1942 where plans were made for the extermination of the Jews, as well as constructions plans of Nazi concentration camps.
"Are these protocols lies?" he asked, waving them in his hand. "Are the successive German governments that have kept these documents for posterity all liars?"
He opened his remarks by saying that the greatest threat to the U.N. effort to prevent a repetition of the carnage of the World War II is the
"assault on truth."
Mr. Netanyahu also denounced a U.N. report accusing Israel of war crimes in its winter war against Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip. He said the report turned the victims into the aggressors and encouraged terrorism.
He concluded by quoting Winston Churchill, and his warnings about mounting threats in the run-up to World War II.
"The question facing the international community is whether it is prepared to confront these forces or just accommodate them,"
Meanwhile, Palestinian 'President' Mahmoud Abbas rebuffed an appeal by President Barack Obama that both sides get back to the table promptly, saying that for now "there is no common ground" with Mr. Netanyahu...
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