Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a speech on Thursday at the United Nations sidestepped the issue of Palestine and ranted against Iran, claiming a nuclear-armed Iran is the equivalent of “a nuclear al-Qaeda.”
Netanyahu came to the podium not long after Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Abbas’s speech focused entirely on facts and figures of Israeli crimes and occupation and urged a peaceful settlements along the territorial lines of pre-1967 Israel.
But Netanyahu only addressed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict vaguely and briefly, reaffirming that “3,000 years ago King David ruled over the Jewish state in our eternal capital, Jerusalem,” and criticizing Abbas that “we won’t solve our conflict with libelous speeches at the UN.”
Most of the speech centered on the issue of Iran and their nuclear program, which Tehran repeatedly claims is for peaceful purposes only and which US intelligence has repeatedly found is not being weaponized.
“Nothing could emperil my country more than arming Iran with nuclear weapons,” Netanyahu said, ignoring the intelligence that Iran dismantled its nuclear weapons program as far back as 2003 and disregarding a broad scholarly consensus that Iran would never launch a nuclear weapon at Israel.
“Militant Islam has many branches, from the rulers of Iran with their revolutionary guards to al-Qaida… but they’re all rooted in the same soil” of intolerance, Netanyahu said.
“To imagine what the world would be like with a nuclear Iran, imagine what the world would be like with a nuclear al-Qaida,” he claimed. “There’s no difference.”
The Prime Minister then held up a cheap picture, which he called a “diagram,” with a cartoon bomb and denoting the level of uranium enrichment Iran has reached.
The attempt was made here to indicate that Iran is extremely close to developing a nuclear weapon, even though US intelligence has concluded that it would take Iran at least four years to build a deliverable bomb. Four years, that is, from the point at which the decision to develop nuclear weapons was made, which Iran has not yet done.
Did Bibi have any additional poster boards to help explain this 'situation' better?
What a freaking moron.
A moron with nuclear weapons.
Where were the men in white suits?
Ho dear, you mean that Iran might lunch a cardboard missile at Israel
We already have a nuclear armed Al Qeada. It's called Israel.
Yup, I saw Nutty Yahoo up there with his cartoon.
What was hilarious was even Mrs. Andrea Mitchel Greenspan called it a carton.
This from a man who was directly responsible for Stealing Plutonium from the United States of America for Israeli Nuclear weapons.
On the King David thing, When Abraham the Patriarch arrived in the Jordan River Valley the Phillistines were already there that was a few thousand years before King David, The word Palestine is the Ancient Greek word for Phillistine. So the arguement of we were there first, or we were there 3000 years ago is a problem because before it was called Jerusalem it was known as Salem. and the Palestinians were there, centuries before the nation of Israelites existed, before they had migrated into the region from Ur of Chaldea, the fact is the Israelites were Iraqis!
While Nuclear Israel is End road for Humanity….Place builded by terrorism, inventor of modern day terrorism without borders with fanatical leaders and backed by most powerfull Banksters on the planet. No, its not Iran, it has never been, but Zionist colonial midevel brutal ideology….Mankind will have to soon destroy this Vizible Satanism to preserve Live – only then can mankind continue and found UNIVERSAL MORAL CODEX….Zionist blocks and destroyes everything…peter czech
Is that Elmer Fudd saying "Those wascally Iwanians!"?
Israel and its apartheid regime has been the core of all borned terrorism from Afghanistan to present Syria where barbarians are operating. Israel and its western allies are the backbone and the reasons for the growth of all kind of terrorists started by the support of al Qaeda or any other terrorists group operating in middle east, the most recent one is MeK. Such policies have brought the west to its knees having no other alternative but working with these group. This shows the fact that west never wanted for democracy to start or work for the people of middle east, the recent war in Syria conducted by Saudis and qataris feudal dictatorial regimes, the Hillary Clinton, english and swedish neo liberals fascism support for Muslim brotherhood and religious extremism proving this fact that west never was nor wants to have any democracy to start or function. Democracy have become a laughable theory, a falsified concept working for oil, gas and banking system protecting their "interests" first hoping for vulture capitalism start creating jobs…? For the mankind sake, is a vulture system, is a capitalism social economic system you can not expect democracy nor for the system to take the side of the people.
It's one mad hyperbole after another isn't it ? Why not say that a nuclear Iran is the same as 'Mormons with nukes' ? Or Christian Zionists with nukes ? Or, (why not ? What's to stop a wild imagination? ) cats and dogs with nukes ?
I didn't know it was possible to looks be so completely silly whilst discussing so supposedly scary. That this person is permitted a position of power would be really embarrassing for Israel – if they had any capacity for shame.
The problem Roger Lafontaine is that every US Intel service, all 16 of the ones we know, Every Israeli Intel Service, Mossad, shin Bett, Israeli Military intelligence, the US Joint Chiefs, Isralie Generals the IAEA, all of them are saying that Iran is not building a Bomb, EVEN NEtanyahu has said that Iran is not building a bomb, but they might. Well I might become President of the United States except I was born in Australia, it would take a change to the US Constitution, me gaining access to a billion dollars and actually wanting the job, but I MIGHT, same with Iran and the Bomb!
Netanyahu is basing Irans Nuclear program on Israels, Israel lied cheated and stole to get Nuclear technology and Nuclear materials, and Netanyahu was one of those men tasked to do that lying and stealing. He did a large majority of that lying and stealing of Nuclear material like Plutonium from the United States, the country he is desperate to drag into a war that could both go nuclear and World Wide!
Netanyahu thinks the rest of the World acts as he did!
With total deceipt to America!
Someone call Boris and Natasha . Bibi's found the bomb they were planning to drop on moose and squirrel.
What a psychopath.