Breitbart
Breitbart News has learned
that President Obama called U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and U.S.
Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power into a video conference before
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Speech to the United Nations General
Assembly on Thursday.
“Ambassador
Power and Secretary Kerry were unable to attend Israeli Prime Minister
Netanyahu’s speech before the General Assembly because they were called into a
meeting with President Obama, which they participated in via video teleconference,”
a State Department Official told Breitbart News.
Although
they were both in New York for the United Nations General Assembly meetings,
the two high-ranking U.S. officials were notably absent for the entirety of the
Israeli Prime Minister’s speech.
“The
United States was represented at the speech by Ambassador David Pressman,
Alternate Representative of the United States to the United Nations for Special
Political Affairs, Ambassador to Israel Daniel Shapiro, and Ambassador Richard
Erdman, Alternate Representative to the UN General Assembly,” the official
added.
During his speech
before the United Nations, the Israeli Prime Minister excoriated the
international body for not condemning the Iranian regime when it calls for
Israel’s destruction.
“70
years after the murder of six-million Jews, Iran’s rulers promised to destroy my country, murder
my people, and the response from this body, the response from nearly every one
of the governments represented here, has been absolutely nothing. Utter
silence. Deafening Silence,” Netanyahu said in his condemnation of the United
Nations.
Netanyahu
rallied against the Iran deal, an agreement which President Obama helped
facilitate between the P5+1 world powers (US, UK, France, China, Russia,
Germany) and the regime in Tehran.
In
his address, Netanyahu said that Iran’s “plan to destroy Israel will fail.
Israel will not permit any force on earth to threaten its future.”
“Israel
will not allow Iran to break in, to sneak in, or to walk into the nuclear
weapons club,” he pledged.
