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Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of the State of Israel, addresses the 67th session of the United Nations General Assembly at United Nations headquarters in New York, New York, on Sept. 27.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu showed a diagram in the shape of a bomb that he said shows the progress of Iran's nuclear enrichment progress at the United Nation's General Assembly on Thursday.
NBC News' Andrea Mitchell reports-- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu demanded that a “clear red line” be set to stop Iran from gaining a nuclear weapon, telling the U.N. General Assembly that with a nuclear Iran, no one in the world would be safe.
In a speech at the U.N. Thursday, Netanyahu said that Iran will have enough enriched uranium to build a bomb by next summer. He said his "red line" to stop Iran from gaining nuclear weapons is to stop it from accumulating that uranium -- because it would impossible to know when Iran has achieved the next step: building a detonator to fire a weapon. Read the full story.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tells the UN general assembly Thursday that sanctions are not stopping Iran's nuclear program.
Words between Israel and Iran have not been kind at the General Assembly. On Wednesday, Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad complained about 'continued threats' by 'uncivilized Zionists,' according to NBC News.
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Mahmoud Abbas, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Palestinian Liberation Organization and President of the Palestinian Authority, organizes his papers during the 67th session of the United Nations General Assembly at the United Nations in New York on Sept. 27.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas also spoke at the U.N. General Assembly, where he asked that the Palestinian U.N. status be upgraded to a "nonmember state," according to NBC News:
This statement is in contrast to last year, when Palestine asked the U.N. Security Council to recognize it as a full member state. That bid failed.
"Despite all the complexities of the prevailing reality and all the frustrations that abound, we say before the international community there is still a chance - maybe the last - to save the two-state solution and to salvage peace," Abbas told the United Nations General Assembly Thursday through a translator. Read the full story.
Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas addressed the United Nations General Assembly in a speech seeking to upgrade the status of Palestine to a full member state.
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Lets make a deal. We don't let Iran make a nuke and Israel turns over their nukes to us. NO ONE in the Middle East should have any Nukes.
Netanyahu is the biggest hypocrite in the entire Middle East, and by the sounds of the clapping it seems the diplomats of way too many countries are on the lobbyist payroll and are ready to follow this maniac into an inevitable WWIII. A nuclear one.
Did China and Russia clap? ...oh yeah, no footage on their reaction. Also, why did he not talk in Hebrew and instead in English? Because he was only really talking to his minions in the USA and UK who are all ready to destroy this planet in the most hypocritical insane manner. Since the bankruptcies and bailouts started NO ONE lives in a 'modern world' NetanYahoo, we are all getting Medieval fudalism ruled by Bankers and Oligarchs anyway so WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT YOU HYPOCRITE. I can't stand all of this hypocrisy, this guy is going to start WWIII whilst sitting back expounding on how he and his people have done so much for peace. Why on Earth would Iran build 1 BOMB, use it on Jerusalem that the Muslims revere also, if the West has about 1000 that would iradicate Iran almost instantaneously. The only crazies in the MiddleEast are the Israelis and the war mongering won't stop until I guess they drag everyone else into Hells Pit with them. Nice one Israel!!! Great, cheers for ruining whatever is left of the bankrupt world.