COMMENTARY
Listen to the Deafening Silence
by Jonathan S. Tobin
October 1, 2015

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is used to hostile receptions at the United Nations. But today he was able to use the animus toward the Jewish state on the part of the overwhelming majority of member states to good use. At one point during his address to the UN General Assembly, he pointed out that only 70 years after the Holocaust, Iran was repeatedly threatening the Jewish state with annihilation. But “the response from nearly every one of the governments represented here, has been absolutely nothing. Utter silence. Deafening silence.” And what was the response from those delegations that were not boycotting his speech: the same silence that he had just referenced. Netanyahu stood at the podium for what may have been the most agonizing 44 seconds in the history of such addresses at the UN. READ MORE

Netanyahu glares at U.N. for 44 seconds after berating its silence on Iran threat to Israel. The U.N. has remained totally silent in the face of Iran’s calls for the destruction of Israel.