At the U.N. Obama panders, Netanyahu inspires

September 29, 11:43 AMNY Conservative ExaminerTodd Keister

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the UN General Assembly.  Photo/AP

This week, New Yorkers were treated to the annual freak show that is the United Nations General Assembly. Leaders from the civilized world gathered together with dictators, thugs, mass-murderers, holocaust deniers, Islamofascists, and petty tyrants of every shape and size. The assembly was treated to speeches from terrorists and statesmen alike. Both President Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel delivered remarks and provided an object lesson in leadership.

President Obama opened his remarks by echoing the sentiments of his Spring world-apology tour; saying that he understood that he, “took office at a time when many around the world had come to view America with skepticism and distrust” because of a belief “that on certain critical issues, America has acted unilaterally, without regard for the interests of others.” One of his first acts upon taking office had been to embark on a world-tour of apologizing for his country’s arrogance.

As the world’s leading exporter of terrorism – Iran – is on the verge of producing an atomic bomb, our president took the opportunity to proclaim that the United States was committed to eliminating its nuclear arsenal. In a week where no fewer than 4 Islamic terrorist plots were uncovered here in America, he announced to thunderous applause that he had forbade the use of torture and was closing the terrorist detention resort in Guantanamo Bay. He condemned Israel for constructing settlements in the West Bank, and paid lip service to the notion of negotiating a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. President Obama harped on the myth of man-made climate change, and boasted that he had invested $80 billion (of other people’s money) in developing alternative sources of energy.

The president boldly stated that he is “committed to diplomacy” with Iran and North Korea, and issued the hollow warning that if they continued their disregard of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty they will be “held accountable.” One could almost hear the henchmen of Kim Jong Il and Ahmadinijad shudder in fear.

President Obama boasted that the United States would pay its onerous dues to the United Nations and pledged billions of American taxpayer dollars to fight disease in foreign countries. He topped it all off by blaming the United States and the western world (“wealthy nations”) for doing “…so much damage to the environment in the 20th century…”

The following day, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the assembled delegates. In stark contrast to President Obama, Mr. Netanyahu spoke directly and forcefully about the issues facing his nation and the United Nations. Foregoing empty platitudes and pandering to the General Assembly, the Israeli Prime Minister took the body to task for providing a forum for the Iranian madman Mahmoud Ahmadinijad who had addressed the UN the previous day. To the delegations who sat and listened to the leader of the terrorist nation who calls the Holocaust a lie, Netanyahu asked “Have you no shame? Have you no decency?”

Only six decades after the slaughter of six million Jews in the Holocaust, the Israeli Prime Minister was forced to remind the UN that it had actually happened. He brought the original blueprints for the Auschwitz Buchenwald concentration camp bearing the signature of none other than Heinrich Himmler, and the minutes of the infamous Wannsee meeting where Hitler’s deputies planned their “final solution” for the extermination of the Jewish race.

He went on to condemn the openly anti-Semitic United Nations for the their recent report accusing the Israelis of war crimes for their military strikes against Iranian-backed terrorists in the Gaza Strip last year. He correctly referred to the UN Human Rights Counsel as “A misnamed institution if there ever was one” and their one-sided report on the Gaza conflict as “a travesty.”

President Obama, the veteran “community organizer” said in his remarks that “…it is easy to walk up to this podium and point fingers – point fingers and stoke divisions... Anybody can do that.” But he had it backwards; it is easy for someone like him to mount the podium and pander to an assembly that resents America and despises the Jews. Throwing the delegates red meat of yet another thinly veiled apology for American belligerence, alleged mistreatment of Islamofascist killers, and creating the scourge of global warming takes no courage at all – that’s exactly what they wanted to hear.

Prime Minister Netanyahu, the special forces combat veteran, showed what real courage is; to stand before the assembled tyrants and dithering diplomats of the world and rebuke them for their lies and cowardice. Anyone who has ever been a leader knows that pointing fingers and standing on principle is not something ‘anybody can do,’ it takes courage, conviction, and the ability to articulate and defend moral clarity.

In the spirited defense of his people and his nation in front of a hostile audience, Benjamin Netanyahu displayed great courage and moral clarity. In contrast, Barack Obama criticized Israel, said he was sorry that his country was so arrogant and destructive, and that we would continue to fund the Anti-American and Anti-Semitic farce that is the United Nations – anybody can do that.