Benjamin Netanyahu Prime Minister of Israel

By Times of Israel Staff, Sept. 27, 2014, Timesofisrael.com

Ahead of his own scheduled speech at the United Nations, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Saturday to “repel the slanders and lies spewed” against the state of Israel by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in his speech to the General Assembly on Friday. Abbas in his address accused Israel of committing genocide against residents of the Gaza Strip during the IDF’s 50-day-long operation in the Palestinian enclave which came to an end last month.

Netanyahu further claimed that Iranian President Hassan Rouhani had “deceived” the international community when he suggested Saturday that an agreement over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program could end the more than three-decade deep-freeze in relations between Washington and Tehran and mark “the beginning of a path toward collaboration and cooperation.”

“After the deceitful speech of the Iranian president and Abbas’s inciting words, I will tell the truth of the citizens of Israel to the whole world,” Netanyahu said. The prime minister is set to address the General Assembly on Monday, and to meet with US President Barack Obama on Wednesday.

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