In response to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's claims about the Holocaust, Netanyahu began his speech by lambasting those who did not walk out on the controversial leader during his speech on Wednesday.
"Is this protocol a lie?" Netanyahu said as he brandished the minutes of the Wansee Conference, in which Nazi officials planned the Final Solution.The prime minister also held up the architectural blueprints of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camps that bear the signature of Hitler's deputy, Heinrich Himmler.
Netanyahu praised world diplomats who walked out of Ahmadinejad's fiery speech to the UN on Wednesday, though he used the speech to assail those who remained seated.
Netanyahu warned against the dangers posed by Iran, imploring the West to confront the Islamic Republic's "religious fanaticism."
"The struggle against Iran pits civilization against barbarism,This Iranian regime is fueled by extreme fundamentalism."
The premier challenged the world body to prevent Iran from acquiring weapons of mass destruction. Israel and the Western powers believe Iran's nuclear program is of a military nature, a charge the Iranians deny.
Netanyahu said the progress made in the postwar 20th century could be undone if Iran is permitted to build atomic weapons.
"History could be reversed if primitive fanaticism acquires deadly weapons,The jury is still out on the United Nations, and the signs aren`t encouraging."
The prime minister then went on to criticize the recently published UN-commissioned report claiming both Israel and Hamas committed war crimes during Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza Strip in January:
"Not one UN resolution was passed condemning Hamas rocket attacks on Israel,We heard nothing, absolutely nothing from the UN Human Rights Council."
"Israel unilaterally withdrew from every inch of Gaza, uprooting over 8,000 Israelis from their homes… because many in Israel believed that this would get peace."
"Instead we got an Iranian-backed terror base 50 miles from Tel Aviv, and life in the Israeli towns and cities near Gaza became nothing less than a nightmare. Hamas attacks increased ten-fold after we withdrew, and again, the UN was silent, absolutely silent."
"After 8 years of unremitting assault Israel was forced to respond," and said the only other example in history was the German bombing of British cities in WWII, to which the allies responded by leveling Germancities, causing hundreds of thousands of casualties.
"I'm not passing judgment,I'm stating a fact that is the product of decisions of just and great leaders fighting an evil enemy,".
"Faced with an enemy committing double war crimes - firing at civilians while hiding behind civilians - Israel sought to carry out surgical attacks on terrorists, not an easy task when fighting squads in a densely populated area,".
"Israel tried to minimize civilian casualties…We dropped countless flyers over Gazans' homes, sent text messages to Palestinian residents, made cellular phone calls urging them to vacate, to leave,never has a country gone to such length to remove the enemy's civilian population away from harm's way."
"The UN Human Rights Council decided to condemn Israel, we were morally hanged, given an unfair trial to boot… What a perversion of truth and justice."
"The UN would revert to its darkest age - when Zionism was equated with racism,"referring to a UN resolution adopted by the general assembly in 1975.
"If the report is not rejected, the UN will go into a process of vitiating itself from relevance,the world will be sending a message to terrorists that terrorism pays - you will win immunity of you launch your attacks from densely populated areas."
The prime minister said his country wants "genuine, defensive peace" and he praised the late Arab leaders Anwar Sadat and King Hussein of Jordan for their "courage" in forging diplomatic ties with Israel.
"Every time an Arab leader truly wanted peace, they got it,If the Palestinians truly want peace, we will make peace."
Netanyahu also reiterated an Israeli demand that the Palestinians explicitly recognize Israel as "the state of the Jewish people."
"Say yes to a Jewish state,The Jewish people are not foreign conquerors in the land of Israel."
As a condition for peace, the prime minister said any future Palestinian state must be "effectively demilitarized" so that it would not have the means to threaten Israel.
"I said effective because we do not want another Gaza, another south Lebanon, another Iranian-backed terror base threatening Jerusalem,We want peace, and I believe that with goodwill and hard work, such apeace can be achieved."
Netanyahu also invoked Winston Churchill in imploring the international community to oppose Iran and the rejectionist groups it supports, including Hamas and Hezbollah:
"The question facing the international community is whether it is prepared to confront these forces or just accommodate them,".
