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In case you missed them, here are Abu Mazen and Netanyahu's speeches

In case you missed them, here are Abu Mazen's and Prime Minister Netanyahu's speeches to the United Nations General Assembly.

Abu Mazen accused Israel of 'ethnic cleansing' and promoting another 'naqba.' 

"Israel is promising the Palestinian people a new catastrophe, a new Nakba," the PA president declared.

Abbas began his speech by referring to the "catastrophic danger of the racist Israeli settlement of our country, Palestine."

He claimed that during the past months, "attacks by terrorist militias of Israeli settlers have become a daily reality."

The Palestinians, he said, "are facing relentless waves of attacks against our people, our mosques, churches and monasteries, and our homes and schools; they are unleashing their venom against our trees, fields, crops and properties, and our people have become fixed targets for acts of killing and abuse with the complete collusion of the occupying forces and the Israeli government."

Abbas accused Israel of carrying out a policy of "ethnic cleansing" against Arab residents of Jerusalem by demolishing their homes and denying them basic services. He also accused Israel of preventing "millions of Palestinians from freely accessing Jerusalem mosques, churches, schools, hospitals and markets.

Abbas called on the international community to investigate the conditions of some 5,000 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails. "They are soldiers in their people's struggle for freedom, independence and peace," he said of the prisoners.

A bunch of lies.

Let's go to the videotape.


Prime Minister Netanyahu spent most of his time discussing Iran. And he was the consummate orator as usual.

"At this late hour, there is only one way to peacefully prevent Iran from getting atomic bombs and that's by placing a clear red line on Iran's nuclear weapons program," Netanyahu said in an address to the United Nations General Assembly. "Red lines don't lead to war; red lines prevent war."

"Iran uses diplomatic negotiations to buy time to advance its program," he said. "The international community has tried sanctions, has passed some of strongest sanctions. Oil exports have been curbed, and the Iranian economy has been hit hard. But we must fact the truth that sanctions have not stopped Iran's nuclear drive."

Citing data from the IAEA, Netanyahu said that Iran "doubled its centrifuges last year."
Physically drawing a red line across a diagram of the Iranian bomb, that he held up before the assembly, Netanyahu said that a red line must be placed on Iran's uranium enrichment program: "Then Iran will back down," he asserted.

 Let's go to the videotape.

Labels: Abu Mazen, Binyamin Netanyahu

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 10:18 PM