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Israeli President Herzog Addresses UN General Assembly on International Holocaust Memorial Day

(Ynet News) On January 27, 2025, Israeli President Isaac Herzog addressed the UN General Assembly on International Holocaust Memorial Day. In the massacre of October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorists attacked our people. They murdered, raped and mutilated women, tortured, beheaded and burned innocent people and entire families, and kidnapped hundreds of men, women and children. Although the Israeli people have been overcome with emotion seeing seven of our daughters at last emerge heroically from hell - still, 90 Israelis and foreign nationals remain in Hamas captivity. I call on all representatives in this General Assembly, all who consider themselves part of the civilized world, to throw your weight to ensure our hostages return to their homes - every single one of them. Bring them home now! The hostages are enduring subhuman conditions, without essential primary health care, without Red Cross visitations, and without any compliance with international law, treaties, or agreements. The Holocaust was the single most catastrophic disaster in the history of our people, and the history of all humanity. Yet from this unthinkable wreckage emerged a voice that led to the establishment of the State of Israel, an act supported by the family of nations, an act of historical justice. Today, rather than fulfilling its purpose, and fighting courageously against a global epidemic of jihadist, murderous, and abhorrent terror, time and again this assembly has exhibited moral bankruptcy. International forums and institutions such as the International Criminal Court opt for protection of the perpetrators of the atrocities. They blur the distinction between good and evil, creating a distorted symmetry between the victim and the murderous monster. How is it possible that the moral compass of so many in the family of nations has become so disoriented that they no longer recognize the clear truth: that terrorists weaponize the international institutions, undermining the most basic, fundamental reason for their establishment? How is it possible that the same institutions established in the wake of the greatest genocide in history - the Holocaust - are manipulating the definition of genocide for the sole purpose of attacking Israel and the Jewish people?
2025-01-28 00:00:00
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