03/10/2025
Prime Minister Netanyahu at the UN podium: “Ninety percent of the Palestinians who celebrated and danced on the rooftops over the massacre—both in Gaza and in Judea and Samaria (the ‘West Bank,’ as you call it). The Palestinians do not want a Palestinian state alongside Israel; they want a Palestinian state instead of Israel. The Palestinians are not interested in a two-state solution. Time and again in recent decades they rejected such a solution and recognition of a Jewish state. In fact, they had a state in Gaza and they attacked us again and again, turning it into a terror base. Do you know what message the leaders who recognized a Palestinian state sent? Murdering Jews pays off. So I have a message for those leaders: you have done a fundamentally wrong thing. Your shameful decision will encourage terror everywhere. A mark of disgrace on all of you. I have another message for Western leaders. We will not commit suicide because you lack the courage to stand up to a biased media. The Palestinian Authority is rotten to the core. For decades we’ve heard promises of reforms. They pay salaries to terrorists and educate for the murder of Jews. You want to give them a state? That’s madness and we will not do it. Israel will not allow you (Western leaders) to force a Palestinian state down our throat. Giving the Palestinians a state adjacent to Jerusalem is like giving al-Qaeda a state adjacent to New York. We will not allow that!”