Netanyahu at U.N. again sounds alarm

The following are excerpts of the speech given on Monday to the United Nations General Assembly by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Militant Islam and the Nazis

ISIS and Hamas share a fanatical creed, which they both seek to impose well beyond the territory under their control. … to create ever-expanding enclaves of militant Islam where there is no freedom and no tolerance, where women are treated as chattel, Christians are decimated and minorities are subjugated, sometimes given the stark choice — convert or die. For them, anyone can be considered an infidel, including fellow Muslims.

Ladies and gentlemen, militant Islam’s ambition to dominate the world seems mad, but so too did the global ambitions of another fanatic ideology that swept into power eight decades ago. The Nazis believed in a master race. The militant Islamists believe in a master faith. They just disagree who among them will be the master of the master faith. …

Danger posed by Iran

There is one place where that could soon happen — the Islamic State of Iran.

For 35 years, Iran has relentlessly pursued the global mission which was set forth by its founding ruler, Ayatollah Khomeini. …

Iran’s President Rohani stood here last week and shed crocodile tears over what he called the globalization of terrorism. Maybe he should spare us those phony tears and have a word instead with the commanders of Iran’s revolutionary guards. He could ask them to call off Iran’s global terror campaign, which has included attacks in two dozen countries on five continents since 2011 alone. You know, to say that Iran doesn’t practice terrorism is like saying Derek Jeter never played shortstop for the New York Yankees. This bemoaning by the Iranian president of the spread of terrorism has got to be one of history’s greatest displays of doubletalk. …

Don’t be fooled by Iran’s manipulative charm offensive, it’s designed for one purpose and for one purpose only: to lift the sanctions and remove the obstacles to Iran’s path to the bomb.