Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had promised a “razor sharp”
speech at the UN General Assembly, and he didn’t disappoint.
Sweeping Hamas, the so-called Islamic State (IS) group, also known as
ISIS or ISIL, and other Islamist militants into the same category, Netanyahu then went on to factor in Nazis, the Iranian government and even the United
Nations, slamming the West as incompetent in the face of a growing Islamist
threat and sightless in the face of Tehran’s nuclear designs.
“To defeat ISIS and leave Iran as a
potential nuclear power is to win the battle and lose the war,” he said, using
one of the Islamic State group's acronyms.
He also compared Israel’s deadly military campaign in Gaza this summer with
US-led airstrikes against the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria.
Israel was "doing everything to minimise civilian casualties. Hamas
was doing everything to maximise civilian casualties,” he said, holding up an
image of children playing near a rocket launcher in Gaza.
Some 2,100 Palestinians, most of them civilians, were killed in the
bombardments and some 18,000 homes were destroyed, according to UN figures.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas described the 50-day conflict as
“genocide” in his own address at the General Assembly on Friday, to which
Netanyahu responded that Israel had acted fairly by warning Gazan residents of
attacks. Hamas was guilty of “the real war crimes,” he said, grouping the Gazan
rulers with the IS organisation.
"Hamas's immediate goal is to
destroy Israel, but has a wider goal the same as Islamic State," he said.
“When it comes to its ultimate goals, Hamas is ISIS and ISIS is Hamas.”
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“To defeat ISIS and leave Iran as a potential nuclear power is to win the battle and lose the war,” he said, using one of the Islamic State group's acronyms.
"Hamas's immediate goal is to destroy Israel, but has a wider goal the same as Islamic State," he said. “When it comes to its ultimate goals, Hamas is ISIS and ISIS is Hamas.”
