Arlene Kushner On The Netanyahu and Ahmandinejad Speeches At The UN

From Arlene Kushner:
September 27, 2012:

The Speeches

It's the season of speeches at the UN.  As some of what has been going on coincided with my preparations for and observance of Yom Kippur, I will need to back-track a bit before moving forward.  And forward is where I truly want to go (see the last of this posting!).

Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad actually spoke twice at the UN this week. He kicked off his visit with an address on Monday at a UN session on the rule of law -- itself a travesty of everything fair and reasonable.  And his comments there were every bit as vile as might have been expected.  He said that Israel had "no roots" in the Middle East. "We don’t even count them [Israelis] as any part of any equation for Iran,” he declared.  "They represent minimal disturbances that come into the picture and are then eliminated." Eliminated.

Read: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad describes Israel as an annoyance that can be ‘eliminated’

Anne Bayefsky: The White House Hands Iran's Ahmadinejad a Global Megaphone

For Immediate Release: September 11, 2012

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The White House Hands Iran's Ahmadinejad a Global Megaphone This article by Anne Bayefsky appears today on Fox News. Just a few days after the 9/11 anniversary, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will travel to New York City. Once he arrives he will be handed a platform to incite violence and hostility from the center of the UN universe, but a few miles from Ground Zero. This is a man who openly advocates genocide, brazenly endeavors to commit terrorist attacks on American soil, kills and kidnaps Americans abroad, brutalizes his own people, sponsors terrorism around the world, and is on the verge of acquiring a nuclear bomb. On 9/11 we need to ask why. Why is he being given this global megaphone?

Video: UN Walkout During Ahmadinejad Speech

CNN reports there was a Walkout at U.N. as Ahmadinejad speaks

Delegations from the United States and several European nations walked out of the U.N. General Assembly Thursday during Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's speech, in which he repeatedly condemned the United States and said some countries use the Holocaust as an "excuse to pay ransom... to Zionists."

Delegates from France, Germany, and the United Kingdom were among those who walked out. Delegations from Canada and Israel were not present from the beginning.

Here is the video: