Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called out the United Nations on Friday for its repeated resolutions criticizing Israel, noting that it often gives terrorist sponsors like Iran a free pass.
"It's not living up to its great universal role of being a force for promoting peace because it's bashing Israel," Netanyahu told Fox News host Greta Van Susteren.
"Sixty percent of the resolutions of the U.N. Human Rights Council are directed not against Iran, not against Syria, and not against all the other places where this horrible carnage is taking place and where millions are being displaced and murdered—where hundreds of thousands are being murdered—,but against the one true democracy in the Middle East, Israel."
Despite its role in the creation of the Jewish state following World War II, the U.N. has historically been an antagonist of Israel, passing resolutions like the infamous "Zionism is Racism" resolution in 1975 that was opposed and ultimately repealed by the United States.
Netanyahu noted that the U.N. should be applauding Israel's consistent opposition to terrorism.
"Israel is standing in the breach there, protecting civilization, fighting the forces that ravage people," Netanyahu said.
"Who’s standing there? Israel first. And who gets bashed in the U.N.? Israel," Netanyahu said.
Netanyahu's comments come one day after he delivered a stern speech to the United Nations General Assembly on the threats facing Israel and how the international body was abetting those threats. He chastised the body for its "deafening silence" about the constant stream of eliminationist rhetoric directed at the Jewish state.
Netanyahu's speech was received cooly by the assembled delegates. While the Israeli delegation applauded its leader vigorously, the rest of the chamber was mostly silent. In one instance, two Afghan delegates could be seen chatting and laughing as Netanyahu talked about anti-Semitism fomented by the Iranian regime.