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Video - Israel to UN: "We Are Stopping Extremism before It Becomes Unstoppable"
(YouTube) Amb. Danny Danon - Israeli UN Ambassador Danny Danon told the UN Security Council on Saturday: For 47 years, the Islamic regime in Iran has led crowds in chanting death to Israel, death to America. Israeli and American flags were painted on roads so they could be trampled. This is state-sanctioned hatred. And while those chants echoed, uranium was enriched, centrifuges spun, missiles were built, facilities were buried deep underground. It was never just empty rhetoric. It was preparation for action. But today, alongside our ally, the United States, we acted to confront and stop an existential threat before it became irreversible. We acted out of necessity because the Iranian regime left no reasonable alternative. Diplomacy was exhausted. Iran was required to stop enriching uranium, stop heavy water projects, stop developing nuclear capable missiles, and allow full inspections. Iran did none of it. Instead, it fortified its nuclear facilities so we cannot get to them, accelerated missile production, and continued to fund terror. This operation is guided by clear objectives: eliminate immediate threats, dismantle the nuclear program, destroy its ballistic missile production, neutralize naval threats, and break the proxy network that destabilizes the region. The operation was carried out in order to protect the people of Israel in line with the UN Charter and in accordance with international law. Some call this aggression. We call it necessity. We call it survival. We do not gamble with our survival. We act. This week, Jewish families all around the world celebrate Purim. Many Israelis will do so now in a bomb shelter. The story of Purim happened more than 2,500 years ago in the same place. In ancient Persia, an evil minister by the name of Haman sought to wipe out the Jewish people. But Queen Esther refused to remain silent. She stepped forward. She spoke up and acted before it was too late. That is not only an ancient lesson. It is a modern one. Winston Churchill understood what Queen Esther understood long before him. When destruction is declared and weapons are being prepared and assembled, leaders must act, now, not later. Today, President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu understand that same lesson. We are stopping extremism before it becomes unstoppable.