Binyamin Netanyahu launched a blistering riposte to the blood-libel and hatred of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s UN speech yesterday. Note – video is a Playlist and all four parts will play in sequence automatically:

The Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu held up original copies of Nazi plans for the Holocaust at the UN general assembly today as he condemned the Iranian leader, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

The documents were intended as a dramatic and emotional counter to Ahmadinejad’s expression of doubts last week over whether the Holocaust had happened.

“Is this protocol a lie?” Netanyahu asked as he displayed a copy of the Wannsee agreement in which the Nazis set out their plans for the extermination of Jews in Europe.

He also held up a copy of a plan for the building of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, with the signature of the head of the SS, Heinrich Himmler. “Are these plans a lie too?” he asked.

Netanyahu was speaking from the same podium where the night before Ahmadinejad accused Israel of racism and barbarism in its treatment of the Palestinians.

The Israeli prime minister saluted countries such as the US, Britain, France and Canada that had either boycotted Ahmadinejad’s speech or walked out during it, and denounced those who had stayed. “Have you no shame? Have you no decency?” he shouted. “What a disgrace. What a mockery of the UN charter.”

Netanyahu is pressing the UN to adopt tougher sanctions against Iran and has hinted that Israel might yet launch an air strike against Iranian nuclear facilities.

He described the Iranian leadership as primitive. The Iranian regime “is motivated by fanaticism”. They want to see us go back to medieval times.”

He added: “The struggle against Iran pits civilisation against barbarism.”

As Binyamin Netanyahu spoke, all the Arab delegates left the auditorium, in a copy-cat move echoing the walkouts by anyone with a shred of decency at Ahmadinejad’s holocaust denial speech yesterday.

But before they could do that, he showed the audience copies of the Wannasse Agreement and other Nazi Party Holocaust planning documents.

Then, turning to the delegates who had remained in place for Ahmadinejad’s speech yesterday, said: “have you no shame.. have you no decency“?

It was an extremely powerful moment.

Indeed, if you’re of a mind to draw inferences, by the looks on their faces and their actions during Netanyahu’s speech, you may get the germ of an idea as to where exactly these Arab states stand on the Holocaust, too.

The speech also reiterated Israel’s wish for peace and willingness to co-operate with the other parties to achieve it – a hand that is always extended by Israel and something that is never reciprocated by the Hamas and Fatah warlords.

He called out the hypocrisy of the West, from Obama’s seemingly massively anti-Israel stance (John Bolton said this was “the most radical anti-Israel speech I can recall any President making”), to the hollow, biased libel meted out by the likes of the UN Goldstone Report, the UNHRC and Human Rights NGOs.

Although it was an excellent, barnstorming speech, it left us with the chilling feeling that Israel, comprising just 0.04% of the landmass of the Middle East, is, tragically, more alone than ever.

Nothing is being done to check the lunacy and depravity that is making a mockery of the reasons the UN was founded – and, like parasitic wasp larvae inside a plump and blissfully ignorant host caterpillar, steadily eating it from within.

[Main story and still image: The Guardian]

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