Sometimes, silence speaks louder than words

During Netanyahu’s jarring 44-second pause, the stillness in the hall was tangible; it was a powerful moment in a speech that otherwise broke no new ground

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"Netanyahu’s speech will not be remembered for the words it contained nor for any actions that might follow it. What stood out in his 45-minute address was a long moment of silence, with which he loudly rebuked the nations of the world for having remained silent during the Holocaust and for continuing to remain silent in the face of a “genocidal” Iran."

"Netanyahu laid into the international community for responding to Ayatollah Khamenei’s ominous assertion that Israel won’t exist in 25 years with complete indifference — as if the Iranian leader had announced a health reform or new climate change initiative.

The tension in the plenum was tangible. There was no moaning and no sneering

“Seventy years after the murder of six million Jews, Iran’s rulers promise 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,” Netanyahu thundered. “Utter silence. Deafening silence.”

Then he demonstrated with silence, deafening silence, saying absolutely nothing during 44 seconds that felt like an eternity."

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