Netanyahu to U.N.: ‘Hamas Is ISIS and ISIS Is Hamas’

Benjamin Netanyahu criticized many of the world leaders sitting at the United Nations General Assembly this morning for supporting strikes against ISIS, while, weeks before, condemning him for air strikes agains Hamas in Gaza. “They evidently don’t understand that ISIS and Hamas are branches of the same poisonous tree,” he argued at the podium. “When it comes to their ultimate goals, Hamas is ISIS and ISIS is Hamas.”

He further placed Hamas in the same category as other fanatical Islamist groups, such as Boko Haram, Hezbollah, Al-Nusra, Al-Qaida, and al Shabab. Despite their fundamental theological differences, “they all share a fanatic ideology,” Netanyahu said. “They all seek to create ever-expanding enclaves of militant Islam where there is no freedom and no tolerance, where women are treated as chattel, Christians are decimated and minorities are subjugated, sometimes given the stark choice, convert or die.”

And then he compared them to the Nazis, because you can’t not compare bad people to Nazis:

The Nazis believed in a master race. The militant Islamists believe in a master faith. They just disagree who among them will be the master of the master faith. That’s what they truly disagree about. And therefore, the question before us is whether militant Islam will have the power to realize its unbridled ambitions.

Days ago, his Palestinian counterpart, President Mahmoud Abbas, stood at the same podium and accused Netanyahu of committing “a year of a new war of genocide” against Palestinians.

Watch below via C-SPAN:

[via Haaretz]
[Image via screenshot]

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