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Speaking Truth to the U.N General Assembly: Netanyahu
Today, Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu made a powerful speech at the United Nations. He told those who gathered to hear him that he hadn’t planned to come to the U.N. this year, but there were so many lies being told about Israel and the war in Gaza that he believed he had to set the record straight. This is a partial list of points he chose to make:
- That Israel was fighting a seven-front war, if you included all the Iran proxies;
- That since October 7, Hezbollah had set off 8,000 rockets toward Israel;
- That 23 of 24 Hamas battalions had been decimated, and their power had been devastated;
- That Israel was not committing genocide but Hamas was.
- That Hamas was stealing from the delivery of 700,000 pounds of food that were being delivered to the Palestinians, keeping some of the deliveries and selling the rest back to the Palestinians at exorbitant prices.
- That he would not stop fighting until all the hostages were returned.
He made this last point a few times throughout his speech. Many people have speculated that he would abandon the rescue of the hostages, or even recommended that he should, but he insisted that the war in Gaza wouldn’t be over until all the hostages were recovered, dead or alive.
But the statement he made that got my attention was that he called the body he was speaking to, the U.N. General Assembly, an anti-Semitic organization; he reminded those who attended that in the last ten years, Israel had been slapped with twice as many resolutions against it as all of the other countries in the U.N. combined.
I think that all of us can no longer mince words when we talk about Jews and Israel, against protestors and terrorists. It’s all about anti-Semitism, about hatred of the Jews that we have tolerated for centuries.
We can only hope that the time will come when the other Arab countries in the Middle East recognize that there is strength in numbers, and if they unite with Israel against Iran, they have a chance to maintain their sovereignty and maybe achieve peace.
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Only the fools on The Hill could imagine that grassroots anger can be stoked past its current level.
Do you have any evidence or serious reason to believe that it would work?
It worked the last time, when about 100 live hostages were released from Gaza.
What’s your evidence that it wouldn’t work this time as well?
How about October 7?
Some edifying viewing:
https://x.com/SkyNews/status/1840004736704999450
The archaelogical record of the Jewish people inhabiting that land is extensive. They are the “indigenous people” of that land, a fact that anti-Semites on college campuses and elsewhere are ignorant of, either deliberately so, or, given the state of our education system, are maybe honestly so (but in which case they can be faulted for not examining and correcting their lack of historical knowledge).
If international law were real and legit, I wonder how many of the assembled “dignitaries” in the UN audience would be in jail for graft, theft and human rights violations.
Your point about the grassroots anger is well made.
But is The Hill talking about the regional situation or a different one?
I haven’t read the article yet so I’m not sure.
However already many people are thinking along these lines: If Israel can take out its political enemies via digital devices, then what if No Korea decides to do the same to political leaders in the USA?
(Or Venzuela or China or any of a number of other nations.)
Our goods into the USA are transported on huge container ships, many that have only skeletal crews. How hard would it be for some agents of a foreign nation to lay in wait at a port city, bribe the people on board, and take over the boxes containing pagers, cell phones, solar panels, or simple triple or double A, B, C, D or 9 volt batteries? It might be difficult but would it be impossible?
As well as child trafficking. (Even if it is just about how the matter seems to have the UN dignitaries look the other way.)
Pilate was the Roman…let me say that again, Roman governor of that particular province. He made the determination to have Christ crucified. That is not splitting hairs. That is what the record states.
You also fail to acknowledge that the basis of the entire Christian faith is that Jesus died for all of us to atone for our sins. I don’t see why you would condemn an entire people for what you believe saved you.
So if it is such an extensive record, one which I am not really contesting, then why continually lie about:
A) How Palestine has never existed.
B) The Nakba events that the Palestinian people have recorded, both there in the land of Israel by people who remained after 1947-1948, as well as those refugees who were driven out to become residents of Jordan, Syria, Europe and the USA. These events must not be discussed and there have been attempts to pass laws in Israel making it illegal to even utter the word “Nakba”
Also, the language is quite clear that in the Bible “The Jews are God’s chosen people.”
But where does it say in The Good Book that the American taxpayer of the 21st Century must allow for political control mechanisms to rein over our political situation, as well as the taxpayers having to fork over 9 to 15 million bucks a day to the nation that is the number one recipient of foreign aid from our country?
We now have boots on their way to that region as well. Not voted into going there by Congress which after all, the US Constitution spells out is necessary for our country to be involved in any war. (Of course should a Congressional vote be required, we all know how that would turn out. A few Dems in Congress loyal to Shiria, and Thomas Massie, R of Ky, would be the only ones opposed.)
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2024/09/28/idf-blasts-us-no-one-talked-about-a-ceasefire-until-we-fought-back-n2645451
They will if they can.
And the beat goes on . . .
https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-822231#google_vignette
EDIT:
I sent some of the links to a friend in CA. Got this back:
Sky News made me laugh out loud with this phrase: . . . after Israel’s “from the liver to the knee” pager attack .
Humor may help us retain our sanity!
Prophets are going through the roof!