Netanyahu Uses Ahmadinejad UN Speech to Call for Iran Attack

Colum Lynch
The Washington Post
September 25, 2009

[efoods]Brandishing Nazi orders for the extermination of Jews, Israel’s prime minister blasted Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday for continuing to deny that the Holocaust occurred, and he rebuked U.N. delegates who had listened politely to the Iranian leader’s speech on Wednesday, demanding, “Have you no shame?”

“Here’s a copy of the minutes of the meeting of senior Nazi officials instructing the Nazi government exactly how to carry out the extermination of the Jewish people,” Binyamin Netanyahu said in a General Assembly speech that questioned the morality of engaging the Iranian leader. “Is this protocol a lie?”

Ahmadinejad accused Israel on Wednesday of manipulating the U.S. and European governments in the pursuit of “racist ambitions.” The remark prompted walkouts by the United States and other European and Latin American delegations.

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