Prime Minister Benjamen Netanyahu came to NY City and spoke in the United Nations Building on two dates September 22,2024 and September 27, 2024
Both of these speeches are important and related. You’re invited to read through. Before we begin to review this I want you to know there was a news note that Kamala Harris called Mr. Netanyahu and told him the US would cease sharing intelligence.
It is understood in security circles that if indeed she makes this threat come true, Israel could lose this war. IF the war is lost, there are masses of US Intelligence files in Jerusalem that Iran and their Hezbollah Proxy would use to destroy the United States of America.
Please keep this in mind before you cast your vote for the next President of The United States. This is not the same Democratic Party you once respected many years ago.
[Hezbollah means “Party of god.” They have not clearly defined if they’re talking about a lesser god or The One and Only TRUE AND LIVING G-d. They’re too busy bowing toward Mecca for me to reach them for a comment.]
The photo above is related to the 3nd Speech further down this page.
Setting The Record Straight About Israel – Hamas War
Sept. 22, 2023. (Bryan R. Smith / AFP)
The following is the full text of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to the UN General Assembly on September 22, 2023, as released by the Prime Minister’s Office.
Ladies and gentlemen,
Over three millennia ago, our great leader Moses addressed the people of Israel as they were about to enter the Promised Land. He said they would find there two mountains facing one another: Mount Gerizim, the site on which a great blessing would be proclaimed, and Mount Ebal, the site of a great curse. Moses said the people’s fate would be determined by the choice they made between the blessing and the curse.
That same choice has echoed down the ages not just for the people of Israel but for all humanity.
We face such a choice today. It will determine whether we enjoy the blessings of a historic peace of boundless prosperity and hope or suffer the curse of a horrific war, of terrorism and despair.
When I last spoke at this podium five years ago, I warned about the tyrants of Tehran. They have been nothing but a curse. A curse to their own people, to our region, to the entire world. But at that time, I also spoke about a great blessing that I could see on the horizon.
Here’s what I said. Quote: “The common threat of Iran has brought Israel and many Arab states closer than ever before in a friendship that I have not seen in my lifetime.”
I said: “The day would soon arrive when Israel would be able to expand peace beyond Egypt and Jordan to other Arab neighbors.” End quote.
Now, in countless meetings with world leaders, I made the case that Israel and the Arab states shared many common interests, and that I believed that these many common interests could facilitate a breakthrough for a broader peace in our region.
You applaud now, but at the time, many dismissed my optimism as wishful thinking.
Their pessimism was based on a quarter-century of good intentions and failed peacemaking.
Why were these good intentions, why did they always meet failure?
Because they were based on one false idea, that unless we first concluded a peace agreement with the Palestinians, no other Arab state would normalize its relations with Israel.
I’ve long sought to make peace with the Palestinians.
But I also believe that we must not give the Palestinians a veto over new peace treaties with Arab states.
The Palestinians could greatly benefit from a broader peace. They should be part of the process, but they should not have a veto over the process. And I also believe that making peace with more Arab states would actually increase the prospects of making peace between Israel and the Palestinians.
See, the Palestinians are only 2% of the Arab world. As long as they believe that the other 98% will remain in a war-like state with Israel, that larger mass, that larger Arab world could eventually choke, dissolve, destroy the Jewish state.
So when the Palestinians see that most of the Arab world has reconciled itself to the Jewish state, they too will be more likely to abandon the fantasy of destroying Israel and finally embrace a path of genuine peace with it.
For years, my approach to peace was rejected by the so-called experts. well, they were wrong.
Under their approach, we didn’t forge a single peace treaty for a quarter century.
Yet in 2020, under the approach that I advocated, we tried something different, and in no time we achieved a remarkable breakthrough. We achieved four peace treaties working with the United States. Israel forged four peace agreements in four months with four Arab states: the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco.
The Abraham Accords were a pivot of history.
And today, we all see the blessings of those accords.
Trade and investment with our new peace partners are booming.
Our nations cooperate in commerce, energy, water, agriculture, medicine, climate and many, many, other fields.
Close to a million Israelis have visited the United Arab Emirates in the past three years. Every day, Israelis save time and money by doing something they couldn’t do for 70 years. They fly over the Arabian Peninsula to destinations in the Gulf, India, the Far East, Australia.
The Abraham Accords ushered in another dramatic change. It brought Arabs and Jews closer together.
We see it in the frequent Jewish weddings in Dubai, in the dedication of a Torah scroll in a synagogue in Bahrain, in the visitors flocking to the museum of Moroccan Judaism in Casablanca. We see it in lessons that are given to Arab students about the Holocaust in the UAE. There’s no question, the Abraham Accords heralded the dawn of a new age of peace.
But I believe that we are at the cusp of an even more dramatic breakthrough: an historic peace with Saudi Arabia.
Such a peace will go a long way to ending the Arab-Israeli conflict. It will encourage other Arab states to normalize relations with Israel. It will enhance the prospects of peace with the Palestinians. It will encourage a broader reconciliation between Judaism and Islam, between Jerusalem and Mecca, between the descendants of Isaac and the descendants of Ishmael.
All these are tremendous blessings.
Two weeks ago, we saw another blessing already in sight. In the G20 Conference, President Biden, Prime Minister Modi, and European and Arab leaders announced plans for a visionary corridor that will stretch across the Arabian Peninsula and Israel. It will connect India to Europe with maritime links, rail links, energy pipelines, fiber-optic cables.
This corridor will bypass maritime chokepoints and dramatically lower the costs of goods, communication and energy for over two billion people.
What a historic change for my country! You see, the Land of Israel is situated on the crossroads between Africa, Asia and Europe. And for centuries, my country was repeatedly invaded by empires passing through it in their campaigns of plunder and conquest elsewhere. But today, as we tear down walls of enmity, Israel can become a bridge of peace and prosperity between these continents.
Peace between Israel and Saudi Arabia will truly create a new Middle East.
So understand the magnitude of the transformation that we seek to advance. Let me show you a map of the Middle East in 1948, the year Israel was established.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shows a map of ‘Israel in 1948’ as he addresses the 78th United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York City on September 22, 2023. (Bryan R. Smith / AFP)
Here is Israel in 1948. It’s a tiny country, isolated, surrounded by a hostile Arab world.
In our first 70 years we made peace with Egypt and Jordan. And then in 2020, we made the Abraham Accords, peace with another four Arab states.
Now look at what happens when we make peace between Israel and Saudi Arabia.
The whole Middle East changes. We tear down the walls of enmity. We bring the possibility of peace to this entire region.
But we do something else.
You know, a few years ago I stood here with a red marker to show the curse, a great curse, the curse of a nuclear Iran. But today, I bring this marker to show a great blessing. The blessing of a new Middle East, between Israel, Saudi Arabia and our other neighbors.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu uses a red marker on a map of ‘The New Middle East’ as he addresses the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Friday, Sept. 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
We will not only bring down barriers between Israel and our neighbors. We’ll build a new corridor of peace and prosperity that connects Asia through the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Israel, to Europe.
This is an extraordinary change, a monumental change, another pivot of history.
As the circle of peace expands, I believe that a real path towards a genuine peace with our Palestinian neighbors can finally be achieved.
But there’s a caveat. It has to be said here forcefully. Peace can only be achieved if it is based on truth. It cannot be based on lies. It cannot be based on endless vilification of the Jewish people.
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas must stop spreading the horrible antisemitic conspiracies against the Jewish people and the Jewish state. He recently said that Hitler wasn’t an antisemite. You can’t make this up. But he did. He said that.
The Palestinian Authority must stop glorifying terrorists. They must stop its ghoulish pay-to-slay policy of giving money to Palestinian terrorists for the murder of Jews. This is all outrageous. It must stop for peace to prevail.
Antisemitism must be rejected wherever it appears, whether on the left or on the right, whether in the halls of universities or in the halls of the United Nations.
For peace to prevail the Palestinians must stop spewing Jew-hatred and finally reconcile themselves to the Jewish state. By that I mean not only to the existence of the Jewish state but to the right of the Jewish people to have a state of their own in their historic homeland, the Land of Israel.
And let me tell you, the people of Israel yearn for a genuine peace. I yearn for such a peace.
As a young soldier over half a century ago, my comrades and I in Israel’s Special Forces faced mortal danger on many fronts, on many battlefields. From the warm waters of the Suez Canal to the frozen slopes of Mount Hermon, from the banks of the Jordan River to the tarmac of Beirut airport.
These experiences and other experiences taught me the cost of war.
A fellow soldier was killed next to me. Another died in my arms. I buried my older brother.
Those who have personally suffered the curse of war can best appreciate the blessing of peace. There are many hurdles on the path of peace. There are many hurdles on the extraordinary path to peace that I’ve just described.
But I am committed to doing everything I can to overcome those hurdles, to forge a better future for Israel and all the peoples in our region.
Two days ago, I discussed this vision of peace with President Biden. We share the same optimism for what can be achieved. And I deeply appreciate his commitment to seize this historic opportunity.
The United States of America is indispensable in this effort.
Just as we achieved the Abraham Accords with the leadership of President Trump, I believe we can achieve peace with Saudi Arabia with the leadership of President Biden.
Working together with the leadership of Crown Prince Muhammed Bin Salman, we can shape a future of great blessings for all our peoples.
Now you know, Ladies and Gentlemen, you know there’s a fly in this ointment, because rest assured, the fanatics ruling Iran will do everything they can to thwart this historic peace. Iran continues to spend billions to arm its terror proxies. It continues to extend its terror tentacles in the Middle East, Europe, Asia, South America, even North America. They even tried to assassinate the Secretary of State of the United States of America. They even tried to assassinate the National Security Advisor of the United States of America. This tells you all you need to know about Iran’s murderous intentions and Iran’s murderous nature.
Iran continues to threaten international shipping lanes, hold foreign nationals for ransom and engage in nuclear blackmail. Over the past year, its murderous goons have killed hundreds and arrested thousands of Iran’s brave citizens.
Iran’s drones and missile program threaten Israel and our Arab neighbors. And Iran’s drones have brought and bring death and destruction to innocent people in the Ukraine.
Yet the regime’s aggression is largely met by indifference in the international community.
Eight years ago, the Western powers promised that if Iran violated the nuclear deal, the sanctions would be snapped back.
well, Iran is violating the deal. But the sanctions have not been snapped back.
To stop its nuclear ambitions, this policy must change.
Sanctions must be snapped back and above all, Iran must face a credible military threat. (*Note: Netanyahu’s office clarified that he misspoke when delivering his address, erroneously referring to a “credible nuclear threat.”)
As long as I am prime minister of Israel, I will do everything in my power to prevent Iran from getting nuclear weapons.
Equally, we should support the brave women and men of Iran who despise this regime and yearn for freedom, who’ve gone out bravely on the sidewalks of Tehran and Iran’s other cities and face death.
It is the people of Iran, not their oppressors, who are our real partners for a better future.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Whether our future will prove to be a blessing or a curse will also depend on how we address perhaps the most consequential development of our time, the rise of artificial intelligence.
The AI revolution is progressing at lightning speed. It took centuries for humanity to adapt to the agricultural revolution.
It took decades to adapt to the industrial revolution.
We may have but a few years to adapt to the AI revolution.
The perils are great and they are before us: the disruption of democracy, the manipulation of minds, the decimation of jobs, the proliferation of crime and the hacking of all the systems that facilitate modern life. Yet even more disturbing, is the potential eruption of AI-driven wars that could achieve an unimaginable scale.
Behind this perhaps looms an even greater threat, once the stuff of science fiction: that self-taught machines could eventually control humans instead of the other way around.
The world’s leading nations, however competitive, must address these dangers. We must do so quickly and we must do so together. We must ensure that the promise of an AI utopia does not turn into an AI dystopia.
We have so much to gain. Imagine the blessings of finally cracking the genetic code, extending human life by decades and dramatically reducing the ravages of aging. Imagine healthcare tailored to each individual’s genetic composition and predictive medicine that prevents diseases long before they occur.
Imagine robots helping to care for the elderly.
Imagine the end of traffic jams with self-driving vehicles on the ground, below the ground and in the air.
Imagine personalized education that cultivates each person’s full potential throughout their lifetime.
Imagine a world with boundless clean energy and natural resources for all nations.
Imagine precision agriculture and automated factories that yield food and goods in an abundance that ends hunger and want.
I know this sounds like a John Lennon song, but it could all happen. Imagine that we can achieve the end of scarcity, something that eluded humanity for all history. It’s all within our reach. And here’s something else within our reach. With AI we can explore the heavens as never before and extend humanity beyond our blue planet.
For good or bad, the developments of AI will be spearheaded by a handful of nations. And my country Israel is already among them.
Just as Israel’s technological revolution provided the world with breathtaking innovations, I am confident that AI developed by Israel will once again help all humanity.
I call upon world leaders to come together to shape the great changes before us, but to do so in a responsible and ethical way.
Our goal must be to ensure that AI brings more freedom and not less, prevents wars instead of starting them, and ensures that people live longer, healthier, more productive and peaceful lives. It’s in our reach.
As we harness the powers of AI, let us always remember the irreplaceable value of human intuition and wisdom. Let us cherish and preserve the human capacity for empathy which no machine can replace.
Thousands of years ago, Moses presented the children of Israel with a timeless and universal choice, “Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse.” May we choose wisely between the curse and the blessings that stand before us this day. Let us harness our resolve and our courage to stop the curse of a nuclear Iran and roll back its fanaticism and aggression.
Let us bring forth the blessings of a new Middle East that will transform lands once ridden with conflict and chaos into fields of prosperity and peace.
And may we avoid the perils of AI by combining the forces of human and machine intelligence to usher in a brilliant future for our world, in our time and for all time.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
Netanyahu at UN: “I have a message to the world – we are winning”: September 27, 2024
Transcript from YouTube see the video here
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Mr President ladies and
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gentlemen I didn’t intend to come here this year my country is at
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War fighting for its life but after I heard
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the lies and Slanders leveled at my country by many of the speakers at this
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Podium I decided to come here and set the record
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[Applause] straight I decided to come here to speak
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for my people to speak for my country to speak for the truth
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[Applause] and here’s the truth Israel seeks
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peace Israel yearns for peace Israel has made peace and will make peace
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[Music] again yet we Face Savage enemies who
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seek our Annihilation and we must defend ourselves against these Savage
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murderers our enemies seek not only to destroy us they seek to destroy our common
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civilization and return all of us to a Dark Age of tyranny and
Terror when I spoke here last year I said we faced the same Timeless
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choice that Moses put before the people of Israel thousands of years ago as we
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were about to enter the promised land Moses told us that our actions will
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determine whether we bequeath to Future Generations a blessing or a curse and
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that is the choice we face today the curse of Iran’s unremitting aggression
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or the blessing of a historic reconciliation between Arab and
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Jew.
Editor: These pictures show us that the people attending the speech are lstening and applauding. The Muslim countries are conspicuously under-represented. They are at emnity with G-d. They will receive “their reward” later.
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in the days that followed that speech the blessing I spoke of came into
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sharper focus a normalization deal between Saudi Arabia and Israel seemed
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closer than ever but then came the curse of October
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7th thousands of Iranian backed Hamas terrorists from Gaza burst into Israel
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in pickup trucks on motorcycles and they committed unimaginable atrocities they
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savagely murdered 1200 people they raped and mutilated women they beheaded men
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they burnt babies alive they burnt entire families Alive babies children
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parents grandparents in scenes reminiscent of the Nazi Holocaust Kamas kidna 251 people from
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dozens of different countries dragging them into the dungeons of Gaza Israel has brought home 154 of
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these hostages including 117 who returned alive I want to assure you we will not
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rest until the remaining hostages are brought home too and some of their family members are here with us today I
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ask you to stand
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up with us with us is Ellie Stevie husani Don was abducted from the
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Nova Music Festival that was his crime a music
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festival and these murderers monsters took him Kobe smno whose son Jonathan was
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murdered and his corpse his corpse was taken into the dungeons into the territ tunnels of Gaza a corpse held
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hostage Salim alatrash whose brother Muhammad a brave Arab Israeli soldier
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was murdered his body too was taken into Gaza and so was the body of eat Hyman’s
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daughter in bar who was brutally murdered at that same music
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festival with us is shaon sharabi whose brother Yosi was murdered and who prays
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for his older brother Ellie who is still held hostage in Gaza and Withers to is
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his our lifted from kibutz near O A kibutz that was wiped out by the
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terrorists thankfully we achieved the release of his mother y but his father odad is
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still languishing in an underground terrorist Hill of Hamas I again promise
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you we will return your loved ones home we will not spare that effort until this
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holy mission is [Applause]
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accomplished ladies and gentlemen the curse of October 7th began when
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Kamas invaded Israel from Gaza but it didn’t end there Israel was
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soon forced to defend itself on six more war fronts organized by Iran on October
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8th kisala attacked us from Lebanon since then they fired over 8,000 rockets
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at our towns and cities at our civilians at our children
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two weeks later the iran-backed houis in Yemen launched drones and missiles at
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Israel the first of 250 such attacks including one yesterday aimed at Tel
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Aviv Iran’s Shiite militias in Syria and Iraq have targeted Israel dozens of
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times over the past year as well fueled by Iran Palestinian terrorists in Judean
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Samaria perpetrated scores of attacks there and throughout Israel
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and last April for the first time ever Iran directly attacked Israel from its
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own territory firing 300 drones cruise missiles and ballistic missiles at
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us I have a message for the tyrants of Terran if you strike us we will strike
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you there is no place
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there is no place in Iran that the long arm of Israel cannot reach and that’s
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true of the entire Middle East far from being Lambs led to the
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slaughter Israel’s soldiers have pought back with Incredible courage and with
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heroic sacrifice and I have another message for this assembly and for the
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world outside this Hall we are winning [Applause]
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[Music] [Applause]
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ladies and gentlemen as Israel defends itself against Iran in the seven front
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War the line separating the blessing and the curse could not be more
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clear this is the map I presented here last year it’s a map of a
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blessing it shows Israel Israel and its Arab Partners forming a land bridge
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connecting Asia and Europe between the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean
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Sea across this bridge we will lay Rail lines energy pipelines fiber optic
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cables and this will serve the betterment of two billion people now
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look at this second map it’s a a
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map look at the second map it’s a map of a curse it’s a map of an arc of Terror
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that Iran has created and imposed from the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean Iran’s malignant Arc has
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shut down International waterways it cuts off Trade It destroys Millions
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destroys nations from within and inflicts misery on Millions on the one
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hand on the one hand a bright blessing a
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future of Hope on the other hand a dark future of Despair and if you think this
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dark map is only a curse for Israel if you think that then you should think
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again because Iran’s aggression if it’s not checked will
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endanger every single country in the Middle East and many many countries in
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the rest of the world because Iran seeks to impose its radicalism well beyond the Middle East that’s why it funds Terror
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networks on five continents that’s why it builds ballistic missiles for nuclear warheads to threaten the entire world
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for too long the world has appeased Iran it turns a blind eye to its internal
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repression it turns a blind eye to its external aggression well that appeasement must end and that
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appeasement must end now [Applause]
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nations of the world should support the brave people of Iran who want to rid
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themselves of this evil regime responsible governments should not only
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support Israel in rolling back Iran’s aggression they should join Israel they should join Israel in stopping Iran’s
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nuclear weapons program [Applause]
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in this body in the security Council we’re going to have a deliberation in a few months and I call on the security
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Council to snap back un Security Council sanctions against Iran because we must
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all do everything in our power to ensure that Iran never gets
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nuclear [Music]
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weapons for decades I’ve been warning the world against Iran’s nuclear program our
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actions delayed this program by perhaps a decade but we haven’t stopped it we’ve
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delayed it but we haven’t stopped it Iran now seeks to weaponize its nuclear
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program for the sake of the peace and security of all your
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countries for the sake of the peace and security of the entire world we must not
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let that happen and I assure you Israel will do everything in its power to make
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sure it doesn’t [Applause]
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happen so ladies and gentlemen the question before us is
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simple which of these two maps that I showed you will shape our future will it
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be the blessings of peace and prosperity for Israel our Arab partners and the rest of the world or will it be
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the curse in which Iran and its proxies spread Carnage and Chaos
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everywhere Israel has already made its Choice we’ve decided to advance the
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blessing we’re building a partnership for peace with our Arab neighbors while fighting the forces of Terror that
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threatened that peace for nearly a year the brave men and women of the IDF have
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been systematically crushing hamas’s Terror Army that once ruled Gaza on
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October 7th the day of that Invasion into Israel that Terror Army numbered
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nearly 4,000 40,000 terrorists it was armed with more than 15,000 Rockets it
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had 350 Mi of territ tunnels an underground network bigger than the New
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York Subway system which they used to wreak havoc above and below ground a
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year later the F has killed or captured more than half of these terrorists
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destroyed over 90% of their rocket Arsenal and eliminated the key segments
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of their Terror tunnel Network in major military
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operations in major military operations we destroyed nearly half of hamas’s
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sorry nearly all of hamas’s Terror battalions 23 out of 24 battalions now
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to complete our victory we are focused on mopping up hamas’s remaining fighting
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capabilities we are taking out senior terrorist commanders and destroying remaining terrorist infrastructure but
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all the while all the while and I’ll say this one more time we remain focused on
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our sacred Mission bringing our hostages home and we will not stop until that
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mission is complete now ladies and Gentlemen even
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with hamas’s greatly diminished military capability the terrorists still exercise
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some governing power in Gaza by stealing the food that we enable a ad a sorry
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that we enable Aid agencies to bring into Gaza Kamas steals the food and then
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they hike the prices they feed their bellies and then they fill their coffers with money that
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they extort from their own people they sell the stolen food at ex
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exorbitant prices and that’s how they stay in power well this too has to end
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and we’re working to bring it to an [Applause]
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end and the reason is simple because if Kamas stays in power it will regroup
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rearm and attack Israel again and again and again as it is vowed to do so Hamas
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has got to [Applause]
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go just imagine for those who say well Hamas has to stay it has to be part of a
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postwar Gaza imagine in a postwar situation in World
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War II imagine allowing the defeated Nazis in 1945 to rebuild Germany it’s
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inconceivable it’s ridiculous it didn’t happen then it’s not going to happen
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now this is why Israel will reject any rule for Hamas in a post-war Gaza we
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don’t seek to resettle Gaza what we seek is a demilitarized and deradicalized
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Gaza only then only then can we ensure that this round of fighting will be the
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last round of fighting we are ready to work with regional and other partners to support a local civilian Administration
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in Gaza committed to Peaceful coexistence as for the hostages I have a message for the Kamas
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captors let them go let them go all of them those alive
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today must be returned alive and the remains of Those whom you brutally killed must be returned to their
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families those families here with us today and others in Israel deserve to have a resting place for their loved
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ones a place where they can grieve and remember
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them this war ladies and gentlemen this war can
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come to an end now all that has to happen is for Hamas to surrender lay
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down its arms and release all the hostages but if they don’t
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but if they don’t we will fight until we achieve Victory total Victory there is
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no substitute for
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it Israel must also defeat healah in Lebanon
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healah is the quintessential Terror organization in the world today it has
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uh tentacles that span in all continents
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it has murdered more Americans and more Frenchmen than any
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group except Bin Laden it’s murdered the citizens of many countries represented
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in this room and it is attacked Israel viciously over the last 20 years in the last year
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completely unprovoked a day after Kamas Massacre on
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October 7th hasbalah began attacks against Israel with which forced more
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than 60,000 Israelis on our northern border to leave their homes becoming refugees in their own
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land hasbalah turned vibrant towns in the North of Israel into ghost towns so
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I want you to think about this in equivalent American terms just imagine
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if terrorists turned El Paso and San Diego into ghost towns then ask yourself how long would
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the American government Toler at that a day a week a month I doubt they
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tolerate even for a single day yet Israel has been tolerating this
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intolerable situation for nearly a year well I’ve come here today to say enough
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is [Applause]
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enough we won’t rest until our citizens can return safely to their homes we will
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not accept a terror Army perched on our northern border able to perpetrate
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another October 7th style Massacre for 18 years hasbalah brazenly
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refused to implement un Security Council resolution 1701 which requires it to
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move its forces away from our borders instead kisala moved right up to our
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border they secretly dug Terror tunnels to infiltrate our communities and
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indiscriminately fired thousands of of rockets into our towns and Villages they fire these rockets and
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missiles not for military sites not from that they do that too but
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they fire those rockets and missiles after they place
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them in schools in hospitals in apartment buildings and in the private
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homes of the citizens of Lebanon they endanger their own people
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they put with a missile in every kitchen a rocket in every garage I said to the people of Lebanon
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this week get out of the death trap that kbal has put you in don’t let Nala drag
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Lebanon into the abyss we’re not at war with you we’re at war with kazala which
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has hijacked your country and threatens to destroy ours as long as kbal chooses the path of
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War Israel has no choice and Israel has every right to remove this threat and
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return our citizens to their home safely and that’s exactly what we’re
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doing just this week the IDF destroyed large percentages ofis bala’s Rockets
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which had built with Iran’s funding for three decades we took out senior military commanders who not only shed
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Israeli blood but American and French blood as well and then we took out their
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Replacements and then The Replacements of their Replacements and we’ll continue
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degrading hisbah until all our objectives are
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[Applause] made ladies and
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gentlemen we’re committed to removing the curse of terrorism that threatens all civilized
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societies but to truly realize the blessing of a new Middle East we must
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continue the path we paved with the Abraham Accords four years ago above all
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this means achieving a historic peace agreement between Israel and Saudi
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[Applause] Arabia and having seen the blessings
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that we’ve already brought with the Abraham Accords the millions of Israelis who’ve
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already flown back and forth across the Arabian Peninsula over the Skies of
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Saudi Arabia through the gulf countries the trade the tourism the
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joint ventures the peace the peace I’d say to you what blessings such
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a peace with Saudi Arabia would bring it would be a boon to the security and economy of our two countries it would
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boost trade and tourism across the region it would help transform the Middle East into a global Jugger do our
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two countries could cooperate on Energy Water agriculture artificial intelligence and many many other fields
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such a piece I’m sure would be a true pivot of History it would usher in a
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historic reconciliation between the Arab world and Israel between Islam and Judaism between Mecca and
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Jerusalem while Israel is committed to achieving such a peace Iran and its Terror proxies are committed to
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scuttling it that’s why one of the best ways to foil Iran’s nefarious designs is
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to achieve the peace such a peace would be the foundation for an even broader
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abrahamic Alliance and that Alliance would include the United States Israel kurent Arab peace Partners Saudi Arabia
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and others who choose the blessing of Peace it would Advance Security and
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prosperity across the Middle East and bring enormous benefits to the rest of the world with Americans support and
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Leadership I believe this Vision can materialize and much sooner than people
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think and as the prime minister of Israel I will do everything in my power to make it happen this is an opportunity
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that we and the world should not let go by [Applause]
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ladies and gentlemen Israel has made its choice we
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seek to move forward to a bright age of prosperity and peace Iran and its
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proxies have also made their choice they want to move back to a Dark Age of
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Terror and War and now I have a question and I pose that question to
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you what choice will you make will your nation stand with Israel will
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you stand with democracy and peace or will you stand with Iran a brutal
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dictatorship that subjugates its own people exports terrorism across the
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globe in this battle between good and evil there must be no
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equivocation when you stand with Israel you stand for your own values and your
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own interests yes we’re defending ourselves but we’re also defending you
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against a common enemy that through violence and Terror seeks to destroy our way of life so there should be no
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confusion about this but unfortunately there is a lot of it in many countries
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and in this very Hall as I’ve just heard good is portrayed as evil and evil is
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portrayed as good we see this moral confusion when Israel is falsely accused
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of genocide when we defend ourselves those against enemies who try to commit genocide against us we see this too when
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Israel is absurdly Accused by the ICC prosecutor of deliberately starving
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Palestinians in Gaza what an absurdity we held bring in
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700,000 tons of food into Gaza that’s more than 3,000 calories a day for every
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man woman and child in Gaza we see this moral confusion when Israel is falsely
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accused of Del ly targeting civilians we don’t want to see a single person a single innocent person die
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that’s always a tragedy and that’s why we do so much to minimize civilian casualties even as our enemies use
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civilians as human Shields and no Army has done what Israel is doing to
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minimize civilian casualties we drop Flyers we send text messages we make phone calls by the millions to ensure
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that Palestinian civilians get out of Harm’s Way We spare no effort in this
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Noble Pursuit we see yet another profound moral confusion when self
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self-described progressives March against the Democracy of Israel don’t
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they realize they support the Iranian back goons in in tan and in Gaza the
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goons who Gunn down protesters murder women for not covering their hair and hang gays in public squares some
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progressives according to the the US Director of National Intelligence Iran
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funds and fusels many of the protesters against Israel who knows maybe maybe
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some of the protesters or even many of the protesters outside this building
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Now ladies and gentlemen King Solomon who reigned in
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our Eternal Capital Jerusalem 3,000 years ago proclaimed he proclaimed something that
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is familiar to all of you he said there is nothing new Under the
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Sun well in an age of uh space travel quantum physics and artificial
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intelligence some would argue that’s a debatable statement but one thing is
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undeniable there is definitely nothing new at the United
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[Applause] Nations take it for I SP first spoke from this Podium as
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Israel’s ambassador to the UN in 1984 that’s exactly 40 years ago and in
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my maiden speech here I think it’s the same Podium by the way in my maiden
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speech here I spoke against a proposal to expel Israel from this
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body four decades later I find myself defending Israel
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against that same Preposterous proposal and who’s leading the charge
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this time not Hamas but abas Palestinian Authority president
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Mahmud abas this is the man who claims he wants peace with Israel yet he still
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refuses to condemn the horrific Massacre of October 7th he’s still paying hundreds of millions to terrorists who
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murder Israelis and Americans it’s called pay for slaying the more you murder the more you get
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paid and he still wages unremitting diplomatic Warfare against Israel’s
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right to exist and against Israel’s right to defend itself and by the way they amount to the same thing because if
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you can’t defend yourself you can’t exist not in our neighborhood certainly and maybe not in
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yours standing in this Podium 40 years ago I told the sponsors of that
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outrageous resolution to expel Israel gentlemen check your fanaticism at the
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door today I tell president abas and all of you who would shamefully support that
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resolution check your fanaticism at the door the singling out of the one and
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only Jewish State continues to be a moral stain on the United Nations it has
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made this once respected institution contemptible in the eyes of decent people everywhere but for the
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Palestinians this un House of darkness is home court they know that in this
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swamp of anti-Semitic bile there’s an automatic majority
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willing to do demonize the Jewish State on anything in this anti-israel Flat
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Earth Society any false charge any outlandish allegation can muster a
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majority in the last decade there have been more resolutions passed against
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Israel and this at the UN General Assembly than against the entire world
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combined actually more than twice as many since
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2014 this body condemned Israel 174 times it condemned all the other
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countries in the world 73 times that’s more than 100 extra condemnations for
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the Jewish State what hypocrisy what a double standard what a joke so the un’s
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are still [Applause]
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in so all the speeches you heard today all the hostility directed at Israel this year it’s not about Gaza it’s about
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Israel it’s always been about Israel about Israel’s very
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existence and I say to you until Israel until the Jewish state is treated like
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other nations until this anti-semitic swamp is drained the UN will be viewed
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by fair-minded people everywhere as nothing more than a contemptuous
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farce now given the anti-Semitism in the UN it should surprise no one that the
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prosecutor at the ICC one of the un’s Affiliated organs is considering issuing arrest warrants
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against me and Israel’s defense minister the democratically elected leader
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leaders of the democratic state of Israel the ICC prosecutors rushed to
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judgment his refusal to treat Israel with its independent courts the way
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other democracies are treated is hard to explain by anything other than pure
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anti-Semitism ladies and gentlemen the real war criminals are not in Israel
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they’re in Iran they’re in Gaza in Syria in Lebanon in
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Yemen those of you who stand with these war criminals those of you who stand
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with evil against good with a curse against the blessing those of you who do
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so should be ashamed of
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yourselves but I have a message for you Israel will win this battle we’ll
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win this battle because we don’t have a choice after
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Generations after Generations in which our people were slaughtered
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remorselessly butchered and no one raised a finger in our defense we now
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have a state we now have a brave Army an army of incomparable courage and we are
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defending ourselves as the book of Samuel says in
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the Bible loak the eternity of Israel will
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not [Applause]
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falter in the Jewish people’s Epic Journey from Antiquity in our Odyssey
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through the Tempest and upheavals of modern times that ancient promise has
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always been kept and it will hold true for all time to borrow a great poet’s
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phrase Israel will not go gently into that good night we will
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never we will never need to rage against the dying of the light because the
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torchure of Israel will forever shine [Applause]
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bright to the people of Israel and to the soldiers of Israel I say be
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strong and of good
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Courage the people of Israel live now tomorrow forever thank you
