The Comic Genius of Binyamin Netanyahu

Stuart Littlewood views the irony in Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's speech to the UN General Assembly on 24 September, in which "nearly every offensive remark he makes about Iran and Palestine can be flung back in his face because Israel is no better and in most respects far worse".

"What has the UN come to when a regime that is armed to the teeth with nuclear weapons and not even a signatory to the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty can call on the world’s nations to gang up against another country for starting its own nuclear programme? Israel itself refuses to submit to inspection and poses an alarming nuclear threat. It hasn’t signed the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention either, nor the Chemical Weapons Convention."

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