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Source: https://www.gov.il/en/pages/event-un240926
Netanyahu at UN: "Israel Will Continue to Win because We Have No Other Choice"
(Prime Minister's Office) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the United Nations General Assembly on Sep. 24: "Fourteen years ago, I stood on this podium and I drew a red line. I vowed to prevent Iran's murderous dictatorship from developing atomic bombs, nuclear weapons aimed at destroying Israel, nuclear weapons that could threaten the entire world. That's exactly what we did....If we hadn't done it, we'd all be dead....This is what this conflict is about. It's not about territories, it's about a Jewish state at any boundaries." "On October 7, 2023...thousands of Palestinian terrorists stormed into Israel from Gaza....The Hamas terrorists committed the worst slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust. They went house to house shooting Israeli civilians point blank. They did so with fiendish glee. With sadistic joy they live-streamed as they murdered." "And who did they murder? The very Israelis - their neighbors - who gave them jobs, who picked up Palestinian children at the Gaza border and drove them to Israeli hospitals for cancer treatment, and then brought them back." "These Hamas monsters, they slaughtered Holocaust survivors. They burned babies alive in front of their parents. They beheaded our men. They brutally raped our women and then they murdered them. Altogether, they slaughtered 1,200 Israelis that day....Proportionately, this is equal to 40,000 innocent Americans slaughtered in less than 24 hours. That's 16 times 9/11." "Our enemies expected us to collapse....Instead, we rose and fought like lions. For the past three years, our heroic soldiers have fought day in and day out in a seven-front war:...Hamas, Hizbullah, the Houthis, Iran, militias in Iraq, militias in Syria, Palestinian terrorists in Judea and Samaria....We delivered crippling blows to all of them....Khamenei, Dief, Sinwar, Haniyeh, Nasrallah, and thousands of other terrorists who sought to destroy us - they're all gone." "The remaining terrorists desperately try to regroup. Every day they try to murder our people....We will continue to defend our state. We will continue to win. Because we have no other choice." "It will take time for the world to acknowledge what is so plain to see. That Hamas used Palestinian civilians as human shields. That it used hospitals, schools and mosques as terrorist command posts. That it stole much of the food we let into Gaza. While Hamas did everything possible to keep Palestinian civilians in harm's way, often at gun-point, Israel did everything possible to get them out of harm's way....Is this genocide? Of course not. It's the opposite of genocide."