Netanyahu Blasts UN for Ahmadinejad Speech

'Have you no shame?' cries Israeli PM
By Kevin Spak,  Newser Staff
Posted Sep 24, 2009 1:11 PM CDT
Netanyahu Blasts UN for Ahmadinejad Speech
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the 64th session of the United Nations General Assembly at United Nations headquarters Thursday, Sept. 24, 2009.   (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)

Benjamin Netanyahu didn’t hold back today when he took the stage at the United Nations. The Israeli PM went on a tirade, berating the UN for allowing Holocaust denier Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to speak. “Have you no shame? Have you no decency?” he demanded, after recounting the horrors of the genocide. “What a disgrace. What a mockery of the charter of the United Nations.” He also complained that the UN had been silent about Hamas' attacks on Israel, Fox News reports. (More Benjamin Netanyahu stories.)

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