Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu today chose silence to convey his outrage over the United Nations’ own “deafening silence” regarding Iran’s repeated vows to murder every Jew. 

Netanyahu read from a new book Iran’s supreme leader authored after the U.S. announced its Iran deal. “It is a 400-page creed planning to destroy the state of Israel,” he said, showing the book to the General Assembly. “He pledged, ‘There will be no Israel in 25 years.’”

Then, turning his attention to the United Nations, Netanyahu intoned, “Seventy years after the murder of 6 million Jews, Iran’s rulers promised to destroy my country, murder my people, and the response from this body, the response from nearly every one of the governments represented here has been absolutely nothing – utter silence, deafening silence.”

#share#Netanyahu then stopped and simply stared at the gathered diplomats for almost a minute.

“Perhaps you can understand why Israel is not joining you in celebrating this deal,” he finally continued. 

Toward the end of his address, Netanyahu pleaded with the United Nations to stop its “anti-Israel fanaticism.” 

“The U.N. should finally rid itself of the obsessive bashing of Israel,” he said. “Yet last year this assembly adopted 20 resolutions against Israel, and just one resolution about the savage slaughter in Syria. … To borrow a line from Yogi Berra, the late great baseball player and philosopher, when it comes to the annual bashing of Israel at the U.N., it is deja vu all over again.”