Islamic State and Hamas bent on global domination, like Nazis, warns Netanyahu

In a blistering speech to the UN, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that Hamas and the Islamic State group were "branches of the same poisonous tree", and both bent on world domination through terror, just as the Nazis were.

Netanyahu also hit out at Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, who accused Israel last week of carrying out war crimes and waging a "war of genocide" during the recent fighting in Gaza. Netanyahu said Hamas committed "the real war crimes" in Gaza by using Palestinian civilians as human shields.

Addressing the General Assembly's annual ministerial meeting, Netanyahu argued that Israel's fight against Hamas and the United States-led military campaign against Islamic State were part of the same cause of defeating Islamic extremism.

Netanyahu railed against world leader for simultaneously condemning the Jewish state for its war with Hamas and praising President Barack Obama for attacking Islamic State and other extremists in Syria and Iraq.

"They evidently don't understand that ISIS and Hamas are branches of the same poisonous tree," he said, referring to Islamic State by one of its acronyms. He added: "When it comes to its ultimate goals, Hamas is ISIS, and ISIS is Hamas."

Netanyahu said ISIS and Hamas, as well as other Muslim extremist movements, from al-Qaeda and Nigeria's Boko Haram to Somalia's al-Shabab and Lebanon's Hezbollah, share the goal of imposing militant Islam on the world. He likened them to "another fanatic ideology that swept into power eight decades ago", Nazism.