Win
battle, lose the war: Photo-wielding Netanyahu puts Iran over ISIS,
slams Hamas
RT,
29
September, 2014
Bigger
than the Islamic State threat – Iran and its nuclear program yet
again haunted Benjamin Netanyahu’s address at the UN General
Assembly. The Israeli PM also has photo-proof with him of Hamas using
Palestinian civilians as human shields.
“Make
no mistake – ISIS (Islamic State) must be defeated. But to defeat
ISIS and leave Iran as a threshold nuclear power is to win the battle
and lose the war,"
Netanyahu said at the UN headquarters in New York.
"Iran's
nuclear military capabilities must be fully dismantled,"
he added.
As for Tehran's recent “charm
offensive”
for the West, its true purpose is to see the international sanctions
lifted "and
remove the obstacles to Iran's path to the [nuclear] bomb,"
the prime minister stressed.
Netanyahu
called Iran's concern about the spread of terrorism – earlier
voiced by President Hassan Rouhani, from the same lectern – “one
of history's greatest displays of doubletalk.”
He
also slammed the countries, which now fully back US-led airstrikes
against ISIS, but used to criticize Israel for their war against
Hamas in Palestine.
The
PM stressed that Islamic radicals from ISIS and Hamas share the same
task “of
imposing militant Islam on the world.”
“Hamas’s
immediate goal is to destroy Israel, but it has a broader objective.
When it comes to its ultimate goals, Hamas is ISIS, and ISIS is
Hamas,”
he said.
According
to Netanyahu, the 50-day operation in Gaza this summer, which saw
2,100 Palestinians – mainly civilians – killed and some 18,000
homes destroyed, was Israel’s war against “global
militant Islam.”
The
head of the Israeli government put the blame for civilian casualties
on Hamas, which, he said, committed “the
real war crimes”
by using ordinary civilians as human shields.
He
refuted claims by Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, who accused
Israel of conducting a “war
of genocide”
in Gaza in his UN address at the weekend.
Netanyahu believes
that Israel can’t be accused of genocide as it gave advance
warnings to Palestinians before shelling neighborhoods in the densely
populated Gaza area.
Israel
“was
doing everything to minimize civilian casualties. Hamas was doing
everything to maximize civilian casualties”
by placing its rocket launchers in homes, schools and children’s
playgrounds, he said.
The
PM also blasted the UN Human Right Council, which sends “a
clear message to terrorists to use civilians as human shields”
by condemning Israel’s actions in Gaza.
The
Human Right Council “turns
the war upside down”
and is deserved to be called the “Terrorist
Rights Council,”
he stressed.
The
Prime Minister also said that such common challenges like nuclear
Iran and militant Islam provide a historic opportunity for Israel’s
relations with the leading nations in the Arab world.
According
to Netanyahu, Palestine can be reached though good relations with
Arab world, but not the other way around as many thought before.
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