Netanyahu: ‘America and Israel should stand collectively’
Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, begins his speech by thanking congressional leaders and lawmakers for the “profound” honor of addressing Congress.
Netanyahu says that we stand at a “crossroads of historical past” whereas the world is “in upheaval”.
He says that within the Center East, Iran’s “axis of terror” “confronts” US, Israel and its Arab pals. “This isn’t a conflict of civilization,” he says.
It’s a conflict between those that glorify loss of life and people who sanctify life. For the forces of civilization to triumph, America and Israel should stand collectively.
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Benjamin Netanyahu additionally makes use of his handle to reward Donald Trump, and says he needs to thank the previous president “for his management in brokering the historic Abraham accords”.
He thanks Trump for “recognizing Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights”, for “confronting Iran’s aggression” and for “recognizing Jerusalem as our capital and shifting the American embassy there”.
The standing of each Jerusalem and the Golan Heights are disputed underneath worldwide legislation.
Israelis have been “relieved” when Trump “emerged secure and sound from the dastardly” assassination try on him, Netanyahu says.
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Benjamin Netanyahu says that he’s “assured” that the US and Israel will “vanquish the tyrants and terrorists” that threaten each international locations.
He says that as Israel’s prime minister, he vows that Israel “won’t relent” or bend, irrespective of “how troublesome the street forward”.
He says that Israel will proceed to work with the US and its Arab companions on the “noble mission” to “rework a troubled area” filled with “repression, poverty and warfare” into an “oasis of dignity, prosperity and peace”.
Israel will all the time stay the US’s “indispensable” ally, “loyal buddy” and “steadfast accomplice” by way of thick and skinny, Netanyahu says.
Thanks America. Thanks in your help and solidarity. Thanks for standing with Israel in our hour of want. Collectively, we will defend our frequent civilization collectively, we will safe an excellent future for each our nations.
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Netanyahu lays out imaginative and prescient for a ‘demilitarized and de-radicalized’ post-war Gaza
Benjamin Netanyahu says that Israel will obtain “complete victory” and that it’s going to accept “nothing much less”.
Whole victory, he says, signifies that Israel will battle till it destroys Hamas’s navy functionality, finish its rule in Gaza and produce all of the hostages residence.
The Israeli prime minister strikes on to speak a few post-war Gaza, and says that “a brand new Gaza may emerge” the day after Hamas is defeated.
He says that his imaginative and prescient for a post-war Gaza is of a “demilitarized and de-radicalized Gaza”, including:
Israel doesn’t search to settle Gaza. However for the foreseeable future, we should retain overriding safety management there to forestall the resurgence of terror, to make sure that Gaza by no means once more poses a risk to Israel.
Netanyahu says that Gaza ought to have a civilian administration “run by Palestinians who don’t search to destroy Israel” and {that a} new era of Palestinians “should now not be taught to hate Jews”.
He notes that the phrases “demilitarization” and “deradicalization” have been utilized to Germany and Japan after the second world warfare, and that utilized to Gaza “may result in a way forward for safety, prosperity and peace”. “That’s my imaginative and prescient for Gaza,” Netanyahu says.
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Benjamin Netanyahu says that as Israel “defends ourselves on all fronts”, he is aware of that “America has our again”.
He says that the US has, for many years, offered Israel with “beneficiant” navy help. In return, a “grateful” Israel has offered America with “crucial intelligence that saved many lives”, he says.
The US and Israel have collectively developed among the “most subtle weapons on Earth” that assist defend each international locations, Netanyahu says.
We assist preserve Individuals’ boots off the bottom whereas defending our shared pursuits within the Center East.
Netanyahu says he appreciates US help however that that is an “distinctive” second, and that navy support can “dramatically expedite” an finish to the warfare in Gaza and assist forestall a broader warfare within the Center East.
He references Winston Churchill, who appealed to Individuals by asking them to “give us the instruments sooner, and we’ll end the job sooner”.
I, too, attraction to America. Give us the instruments sooner, and we’ll end the job sooner.
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Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel is dedicated to returning its residents to northern Israel, and that it will “choose to attain this diplomatically”.
However Israel “will do no matter it should do to revive safety to our northern border and return our individuals safely to their properties”, he says.
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Benjamin Netanyahu says Iran is “nearly behind all of the terrorism” within the Center East, and says the US is the “guardian of western civilization” that stands in the best way of Iran’s “maniacal plans”.
The Israeli chief runs by way of the historical past of Iran and its relationship with the US since 1979, and says that Tehran “understands that to really problem America, it should first conquer the Center East” by utilizing “its many proxies, together with the Houthis, Hezbollah and Hamas”.
Netanyahu says that standing in Iran’s means is Israel. “After we battle Iran, we’re preventing probably the most radical and murderous enemy of the USA of America,” he says.
We aren’t solely defending ourselves, we’re defending you.
He provides that Israel’s “enemies are your enemies”, including:
Our battle is your battle, and our victory shall be your victory.
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Benjamin Netanyahu says the worldwide legal courtroom’s “false accusations” aren’t solely libelous, however harmful.
He says the ICC is tying Israel’s fingers and stopping it from defending itself. “If Israel’s fingers are tied, America is subsequent,” Netanyahu says:
The fingers of the Jewish state won’t ever be shackled. Israel will all the time defend itself.
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Benjamin Netanyahu thanks congressional lawmakers for his or her help of Israel, however says {that a} “minority” could have “fallen for Hamas’s con job”.
As Netanyahu has been talking, the Democratic consultant for Michigan, Rashida Tlaib, is holding up an indication that reads “Conflict Prison”. The opposite aspect of the signal says “Responsible of Genocide”.
Tlaib is the one Palestinian American member of Congress.
From NBC Information’ Sahil Kapur:
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Netanyahu claims ICC case towards Israel is ‘nonsense’
Benjamin Netanyahu says the worldwide legal courtroom’s Karim Khan has “shamefully” accused Israel of intentionally ravenous the individuals of Gaza.
“That is utter, full nonsense. It’s an entire fabrication,” he tells Congress.
Netanyahu says the ICC prosecutor’s claims that Israel is intentionally ravenous civilians in Gaza will not be true, and blames Hamas on a “technique” by which they “truly need Palestinian civilians to die” in order that Israel “shall be smeared within the worldwide media and be pressured to finish the warfare”. He says:
I need to guarantee you that it doesn’t matter what strain is delivered to bear, I’ll by no means enable that to occur.
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Benjamin Netanyahu, nonetheless with regards to the protesters gathered close to the Capitol, condemns the college campus protesters and the presidents of Harvard, College of Pennsylvania and MIT, the place he’s a graduate, calling them “befuddled teachers”.
The Israeli prime minister says “malicious lies” are being levelled on the Jewish state, and that we’re witnessing an “appalling” rise of antisemitism within the US and all over the world.
At any time when and wherever we see the scourge of antisemitism, we should unequivocally condemn it and resolutely battle it with out exception.
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Netanyahu says protesters outdoors Capitol ‘must be ashamed of themselves’
Benjamin Netanyahu says anti-Israel protesters have chosen to “stand with evil” and with Hamas. “They need to be ashamed of themselves,” he says.
The Israeli prime minister says:
For all we all know, Iran is funding the anti-Israel protests which are occurring proper now, outdoors this constructing.
He says that among the protesters are holding up indicators that say “Gays for Gaza”, including:
They could as nicely maintain up indicators saying ‘Chickens for KFC’.
Netanyahu says that these protesters chant “From the river to the ocean” however that “many don’t have a clue what river and what sea they’re speaking about”.
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Law enforcement officials are arresting individuals from the gallery as Benjamin Netanyahu is making his speech, NBC Information’ Frank Thorp V studies.
Police arresting three individuals from the gallery above the Netanyahu handle for displaying SEAL THE DEAL NOW shirts within the room: pic.twitter.com/SdDpjlfUGd
— Frank Thorp V (@frankthorp) July 24, 2024
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