Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the UN general assembly on Monday in New York and warned the crowd of the threat of radical militant Islam.



He said that the Arab world, for the first time, was beginning to recognize the benefit in aligning themselves with Israel and seeing they have a common enemy.



He also said that he is willing to make a "historic compromise" with the Palestinians.



The prime minister spoke in his speech of the correlation between Hamas and ISIS, saying the two are "branches from the same poisonous tree."



He warned that the escalation of the radical groups is similar to that of the Nazi's and continued to warn about Iran, saying that Iran is not actually willing to give up nuclear weapons, rather just wants to get rid of the sanctions against them.



Netanyahu then spoke about Operation Protective Edge, saying that the IDF is the most moral army in the world.



Netanyahu said that Israel "faced a propaganda war because in an attempt to gain sympathy, Hamas used human shields, homes and hospitals to fire rockets at Israel while Israel surgically struck military targets."



He said that Israel took steps to minimize civilian casualties and that "Palestinians were tragically and unintentionally killed. Israel was not targeting citizens."

Prior to leaving for the US on Sunday, Netanyahu said that his speech would "deflect all the lies about us, and tell the truth about the heroic soldiers of the IDF, the most moral army in the world."



Netanyahu's comments followed Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's speech at the UN on Friday, in which he accused Israel of "committing genocide in Gaza."



In what appears to be a new phase in the Palestinian diplomatic drive for unilateral recognition of statehood, Abbas said that he would seek the approval of the Security Council for a draft resolution that establishes a timetable for independence.



"During the past two weeks, Palestine and the Arab Group undertook intensive contacts with the various regional groups in the United Nations to prepare for the introduction of a draft resolution to be adopted by the United Nations Security Council on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and to push forward the efforts to achieve peace," he said.



Netanyahu was scheduled to discuss Palestinian unilateralism and Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapon in his meeting with US President Barack Obama on Wednesday.