Member of the Zionist Parliament (Knesset) and former opposition leader Shelly Yachimovich on Tuesday criticized the Zionist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech in New York.

Member of the Zionist Parliament (Knesset) and former opposition leader Shelly Yachimovich on Tuesday criticized the Zionist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Monday speech at the U.N. General Assembly in New York, saying "it had disappointed the Israeli people."

"The speech did not deliver good news for Israelis, who are desperate for hope," Yachimovich, a former leader of Zionist Labor party, was quoted as saying by The Jerusalem Post.

"The prime minister should have delivered a new diplomatic horizon," she said, "but he does not miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity."

World Bulletin news website reported that Yachimovich also renewed calls for opening talks with Abbas, saying he represented the only viable Palestinian peace partner for the Zionist entity.

"Reaching a peace agreement with the Palestinians is a clear Zionist-Israeli interest," she argued.

In his Monday speech at the U.N. General Assembly, Netanyahu slammed Abbas' address, delivered earlier before the same assembly, in which the Palestinian leader accused Israel of committing "genocide" during its recent 51-day military onslaught on the Gaza Strip.

During 51 days of fierce Zionist bombardment on the Strip, more than 2,150 Palestinians were killed and nearly 11,000 injured – mostly civilians – while thousands of homes were damaged or destroyed.

The Zionist onslaught ended late last month with a cease-fire that was a strategic victory for the Palestinian resistance over the Zionist killing machine.