Benjamin Netanyahu to deliver defiant UN speech amid protests and growing isolation

Benjamin Netanyahu will address the UN on Thursday with a defiant message as protests are expected in New York and the General Assembly. He faces his toughest re-election fight with wars in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran ongoing and rising settler violence in the West Bank. The UK, France and Canada plan settlement sanctions; Ed Miliband accused settlers of ethnic cleansing. Pew found 62% of Americans viewed his government negatively in July; 60% of American Jews in a poll this week want him voted out in October.