Herb Keinon reports in JerusalemPost.com:
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu left hours after Yom Kippur Wednesday night for New York to address the UN, pledging to give a fitting response to Iran’s desire to “sentence us to death.”
In an unusual letter to the Israeli public before leaving for the US, Netanyahu wrote that history showed that those who desired to wipe the Jewish people “off the map” failed, while the Jewish people persevered and overcame all obstacles.
Netanyahu – referring to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s speech to the UN on Wednesday – said that while “we prayed to be inscribed in the Book of Life, a platform was given to a dictatorial regime in Iran that strives, at every opportunity, to sentence us to death.”
“This is a bad day for those who chose to stay in the hall and listen to these words of slander,” Netanyahu said of Ahmadinejad’s speech to the UN Wednesday.
Only the Israeli, Canadian and US delegations absented themselves from the hall during his speech. Israel’s delegation was not present in any event at the UN meeting Wednesday because of Yom Kippur.
Netanyahu wrote that on the day before Yom Kippur, Ahmadinejad – in comments to the US media – said Israel would be eliminated.
“As the prime minister of Israel, the state of the Jewish people, I am working in every way so that Iran will not have nuclear weapons,” he wrote, one of the few times he has penned an open letter to the public.
Netanyahu has been working on the speech over the past few days with his senior adviser Ron Dermer. According to one official in the Prime Minister’s Office, Netanyahu is expected to go further than he has in the past in spellingout dangers posed by Iran and what needs to be done to stop the Islamic Republic, including stepping up sanctions and drawing red lines.
He is also expected to express “outrage over the lack of outrage” when countries listen quietly and politely to Ahmadinejad’s anti- Semitic rants.
Netanyahu is expected to arrive in New York Thursday at 8 a.m., and give his speech at the UN five hours later.
Since Netanyahu will be leaving New York immediately after Shabbat on Saturday night to get back to Israel in time for Succot, which begins on Sunday evening, he will only have about 24-working hours during the trip.
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whats ur issue ? of course its great he’s wearing a kippa or are you also ashamed of who u are
what difference does it make if he is wearing a kippa?
what a superficial and irrelevant comment.
Any Jews left on the site? Zionism is ussur for Jews. Bibi can’t answer the phone, much less Iran. Go learn Sanhedrin and then ask yourself why the Israeli koifers are war mongering with Iran.
But the news is still good, because immediately after the kibbutz galuyous..now who can fill in the rest? Learn Cheilek! Moshe Emes v’Sorosoi Emes!
Let’s not forget that Bibi gave away Hevron
to #3: please look for the good – not the opposite. He mentions specifically our davening …here is the quote……
while “we prayed to be inscribed in the Book of Life, a platform was given to a dictatorial regime in Iran that strives, at every opportunity, to sentence us to death.”
It’s obvious that we daven to Hashem.. also it is lovely to see the Kipa his aid is wearing..
were can i watch it live?
Netanyahu may have Jewish pride. But where’s any mention of G-d’s role in the thwarting of our enemies’ plans, of the setting up of the State, and of giving Israel her strengths?
The Rebbe once told Netanyahu that there will come a time that he will stand before the United Nations – and all he will have standing for him will be his Jewish pride.
His advisor is wearing a Kippa 🙂