01/07/2025
We came here 75 years ago to live.
We didn't have a country or an army.
Seven countries started wars against us. We were only 65,000. There was no one to save us. We were constantly being attacked.
Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Egypt, Libya, Saudi Arabia, and many other countries showed us no mercy. Everyone wanted to kill us, but we survived.
The United Nations gave us a land that was 65 percent desert. We soaked that in our blood. We considered it our country because it meant everything to us.
We didn't forget anything, we escaped the Pharaoh. We escaped the Greece. We escaped the Romans. We escaped the Spain. We escaped Hi**er. We escaped the Arab countries. We escaped Saddam. We escaped Gaddafi. We will get rid of Hamas, we will get rid of Hezbollah, we will get rid of Iran.
Our Jerusalem has been attacked 52 times, besieged 23 times, bombed 39 times, destroyed three times, and captured 44 times, but we have never forgotten our Jerusalem. It is in our hearts, it is in our minds, and Jerusalem will be in our souls as long as we live.
Let the world remember that today there is no one who wanted to destroy us. Egypt, Lebanon, Babylon, Greece, Alexander, the Romans were all destroyed. We still survived.
They (the Islamists) want to eliminate us. They have taken our customs and traditions. They have taken our teachings.
They have taken our prophet. After a while, Abraham became Ibrahim, Solomon became Suleiman.
Then one day. They said, your prophet (Muhammad) has come. We did not accept it. How could they, the time for his coming had not yet come. He said, accept! confess! We did not accept. Then we were killed. Our cities were taken, our city Yathrib was made Medina. We were killed and driven out.
There were 200,000 of us in Mecca, we were killed. We were called enemies and killed, and then the same thing happened in Syria and Oman. We were killed by 300,000. There were 200,000 of us in Iraq, 400,000 of us in Turkey, and we were killed.
They are killing us, they have taken our cities, money, wealth, houses, animals, honor, everything, and yet we survived.
In 1300 years, millions of Jews were killed, and yet we survived.
75 years ago they spat on us, insulted us, and beat us. This was our fate, but we remained steadfast in ourselves, our leadership, and our faith.
Today we have our own country. We have our own army, we have a small economy. During this period, we created many organizations such as Intel, Microsoft, IBM, Facebook, and others. Today our doctors make medicines, writers write books, this is for everyone, this is for the well-being of humanity.
We have turned the desert into greenery. Our fruits, medicines, equipment, satellites are for everyone.
We are no one's enemies, we have not sworn to destroy anyone. We do not want to destroy anyone, we do not even conspire.
We want to live only with honor in our country, on our soil, in our country
For the past thousand years, we have been destroyed, expelled, and oppressed, but we have not been destroyed, defeated, and will never be defeated again. We will win, we will win, we have been in Jerusalem for 3000 years. Today we are in our first country, Israel. Jerusalem was ours, is ours, and will remain ours, Jerusalem is from us, and we are from Jerusalem.
Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu