Netanyahu’s Speech at the UN

I’m probably breaking some blogging rule by linking to something that didn’t happen this week (or even this year), but I just saw this and thought that it might have escaped the notice of others as well. 

Last year Benjamin Netanyahu, prime minister of Israel, addressed the United Nations, one day after a punk from Iran had the same honor.  I think his speech says many things well about the current situation.  You have the option of reading it or watching it (4 parts).

Here’s one portion:

The jury is still out on the United Nations, and recent signs are not encouraging. Rather than condemning the terrorists and their Iranian patrons, some here have condemned their victims. That is exactly what a recent UN report on Gaza did, falsely equating the terrorists with those they targeted.

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.

And another:

Inscribed on the walls outside this building is the great Biblical vision of peace: "Nation shall not lift up sword against nation.  They shall learn war no more." These words were spoken by the Jewish prophet Isaiah 2,800 years ago as he walked in my country, in my city, in the hills of Judea and in the streets of Jerusalem.  We are not strangers to this land.  It is our homeland.