Friday, October 2, 2026

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Speech at the United Nations General Assembly 2026

 

0Heat.
9 seconds
[applause]
13 seconds
Heat.
27 seconds
Heat. Heat.
36 seconds
[cheering]
59 seconds
[applause]
1 minute, 5 seconds
(UN President*) : Order in the hall, Please I repeat. Order in the hall, please. I request an order in the hall, please. I request an order in the hall, please.
(UN hall silent)
1 minute, 14 secondsI request an order in the hall, please.
1 minute, 21 secondsI request an order in the hall, please.
1 minute, 28 seconds
(Benjamin Netanyahu speaks) :Thank you, [clears throat] Mr. President.
1 minute, 35 seconds
Before I begin, just a quick announcement.
1 minute, 40 seconds
If there are any other moral cowards who haven't yet left this hall, please do so now. Thank you very much. [cheering]
1 minute, 46 seconow. Thank you very much. [cheering]
1 minute, 55 seconds
Ladies and gentlemen, 14 years ago, I stood on this podium and I drew a red line.
2 minutes, 7 seconds
I vowed to prevent Iran's murderous dictatorship from developing atomic bombs,
2 minutes, 15 seconds
nuclear weapons aimed at destroying Israel, nuclear weapons that could threaten the entire world.
That's exactly what we did. Now, let me say something that might surprise you. Devastating Iran's nuclear facilities was hard. It was very hard to do. But for me, it was one of the easiest decisions I've ever had to make as prime minister.
2 minutes, 34 secDevastating Iran's nuclear facilities was hard. It was very hard to do.
2 minutes, 44 secondsBut for me, it was one of the easiest decisions I've ever had to make as prime minister.
2 minutes, 52 seconds
Because if we hadn't done it, we'd all be dead.
2 minutes, 57 seconds
Now, you want to hear the ultimate irony in defending itself?
3 minutes, 4 seconds
Israel is alo also defending many of the countries whose delegates just left this hall.
3 minutes, 12 seconds
In fact, I want you to know that many of their leaders even thank us privately for taking out Iran's nukes.
3 minutes, 23 seconds
It's hard to imagine more mindblowing hypocrisy, but that's exactly what it is.
3 minutes, 30 seconds
Now, this isn't the first time we are faced with a threat of annihilation.
3 minutes, 36 seconds
On June 5th, 1967, Israel was surrounded by enemies who openly swore to destroy us.
3 minutes, 46 seconds
We weren't then in Judea Samaria, the heart of the historic homeland of the Jewish people.
3 minutes, 54 seconds
We weren't in Gaza.
3 minutes, 56 seconds
We weren't on the Golan Heights. Oh, and Mr. Oshara, you should know the Jews have been on the Golan Heights since the
4 minutes, 4 seconds
days of Moses. You can read it in the Bible.
4 minutes, 7 seconds
[cheering]
4 minutes, 12 seconds
No. At that time on the eve of the six- day war in 1967, we weren't in any of these places. We were in a tiny sliver
4 minutes, 18 seconds
of land. We still are. That is equal to about 1/3 of 1%
4 minutes, 26 seconds
of the land mass of the entire Arab world.
4 minutes, 31 seconds
Yet they accuse Israel, tiny Israel, of colonialism, some colonialism.
4 minutes, 39 seconds
And who's accusing us? Well, among them are people in Britain and in France. For God's sakes, they invaded the term.
4 minutes, 49 seconds
Their colonies, braced the entire globe, colonialism, give us a break. Another lie.
4 minutes, 59 seconds
Yet at the time on this tiny patch of earth, no West Bank,
5 minutes, 7 seconds
no Gaza, no Golad Heights, just the very survival of this one and only Jewish state because this is what
5 minutes, 15 seconds
this conflict is about. It's not about territories.
5 minutes, 19 seconds
It's about the existence of a Jewish state at any boundaries. And yet at the time, right at that time, we were
5 minutes, 26 seconds
threatened with annihilation by three Arab armies that were about to invade us.
5 minutes, 33 seconds
You know what Israelis were doing at the time? They were digging mass graves in preparation
5 minutes, 41 seconds
for the thousands and thousands of casualties in preparation to bury our dead.
5 minutes, 49 seconds
At the time, I was an Israeli high school student in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
5 minutes, 55 seconds
5 days before the war broke out, I flew back to Israel. I found a country in total blackout.
6 minutes, 4 seconds
Israel braced for impact.
6 minutes, 7 seconds
I flew back to see my brother Jonathan Yonatan Yoni.
6 minutes, 14 seconds
He was a 21-year-old paratroop officer and like the rest of his uh the rest of the army, his unit was already mobilized.
6 minutes, 24 seconds
I went to find him. I was told the paratroops are encamped in the orchards, the orange groves
6 minutes, 33 seconds
around Raml. So I went there and I asked some soldiers, do you know where Yony Netanyahu is?
6 minutes, 41 seconds
Nope. Nope. Then one guy said, "Oh, you mean the young guy?" "Yeah, he he's in the next grove." So I went there
6 minutes, 51 seconds
and suddenly at the end of a long row of trees, I saw my brother.
6 minutes, 58 seconds
He was absolutely shocked to see me. BB, he said, "Bib, what are you doing here?" We ran. We hugged each other
7 minutes, 7 seconds
and over a cup of a cup of makeshift military coffee, I asked him the question that was on my
7 minutes, 14 seconds
mind, the question that was on everybody's mind.
7 minutes, 20 seconds
So, Yoni said, "What's going to happen?" He paused
7 minutes, 28 seconds
and then he said something I'll never forget.
7 minutes, 33 seconds
We're going to win. He said, "We have no other choice."
7 minutes, 40 seconds
I remember those words as if it was yesterday.
7 minutes, 45 seconds
We're going to win. We have no other choice.
7 minutes, 59 seconds
And when we did, nine years later, Palestinian terrorists hijacked a passenger airplane headed for Israel.
8 minutes, 11 seconds
They took it to Antbia, Uganda.
8 minutes, 15 seconds
Like the Nazis, the terrorists selected the Jewish passengers, men, women, children, babies.
8 minutes, 24 seconds
They threatened to kill them all if Israel did not release Palestinian terrorists.
8 minutes, 31 seconds
And then on July 4th, 1960, sorry, on July 4th, 1976,
8 minutes, 42 seconds
the bsentennial of the United States in one of the most dramatic rescue missions in modern times,
8 minutes, 50 seconds
he only led his brave soldiers to the heart of Africa.
8 minutes, 55 seconds
Miraculously, they rescued 103 Jewish hostages and brought them all home. Every single one of them.
9 minutes, 10 seconds
My brother, the commander of the storming party, was the only soldier killed in this mission.
9 minutes, 18 seconds
I want to thank Uganda again for recently erecting a statue of Yonyi in the place where he fell.
9 minutes, 32 seconds
My friends, Yoni's words are as true today as they were more than half a century ago. We're
9 minutes, 42 seconds
going to win. We have no other choice.
9 minutes, 52 seconds
At no time was this demonstrated more clearly than on October 7th, 2023,
10 minutes
the darkest day in Israel's history. On that horrific day, thousands of Palestinians, terrorists, stormed into Israel from Gaza.
10 minutes, 11 seconds
Now, I want you to know there wasn't a single Israeli then in Gaza, not a civilian, not a soldier, not one.
10 minutes, 23 seconds
But it didn't matter one bit. The Hamas terrorists committed the worst slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust.
10 minutes, 31 seconds
They went house to house, shooting Israeli civilians point blank.
10 minutes, 37 seconds
They did so with with fish glee, with sadistic joy. They live streamed as they murdered.
10 minutes, 46 seconds
And who did they murder? The very Israelis, their neighbors, who gave them jobs, who picked up
10 minutes, 54 seconds
Palestinian children at the Gaza border and drove them to Israeli hospitals for cancer treatment and then brought them back.
11 minutes, 4 seconds
Can you imagine such monstrosity?
11 minutes, 9 seconds
This these kamas monsters. They slaughtered Holocaust survivors. They burned babies alive in front of their parents.
11 minutes, 18 seconds
They beheaded our men. They brutally raped our women. And then they murdered them.
11 minutes, 26 seconds
Altogether they slaughtered 1,200 Israelis that day.
11 minutes, 32 seconds
I want to give you an idea of what this means for a country of 10 million.
11 minutes, 36 seconds
Proportionately, this is equal to 40,000 innocent Americans slaughtered in less than 24
11 minutes, 43 seconds
hours. That's 16 times 911. 16 x 91s that occurred not very far from here.
11 minutes, 54 seconds
On that darkest of days, our enemies expected us to collapse.
12 minutes, 1 second
Well, we didn't collapse. Instead, we rose and fought like lions.
12 minutes, 20 seconds
For the past three years, our heroic soldiers have fought day in and day out in a sevenfront war.
12 minutes, 29 seconds
Do you know any other country the size of New Jersey capable of fighting a
12 minutes, 35 seconds
sevenfront war? And for three years, seven fronts, Hamas,
12 minutes, 43 seconds
the Houthis, Iran, militias in Iraq, militias in Syria, Palestinian terrorists in Judea, Samaria. They all
12 minutes, 53 seconds
ganged up on us to wipe us off the face of the earth.
12 minutes, 58 seconds
They failed because instead of collapsing, we delivered crippling blows to all of
13 minutes, 6 seconds
them. With our great American friends, we crushed Iran's army, navy, air force, and nuclear facilities.
13 minutes, 20 seconds
Israel hammered kamas. We pummeled.
13 minutes, 26 seconds
You remember the beepers? Remember these things? Remember them? Yeah.
13 minutes, 35 seconds
Well, I can tell you this. Hisbala certainly remembers them.
13 minutes, 40 seconds
Guess what happened to the bulk of the vast arsenal of 150,000
13 minutes, 48 seconds
ballistic missiles and rockets, all aimed at our civilians, they're gone.
13 minutes, 56 seconds
Kuzbala's leaders dead, their spirit broken.
14 minutes, 2 seconds
The arch terrorists, the worst mass murderers on earth, not only killing Israelis, killing
14 minutes, 10 seconds
Americans, killing Brits, killing citizens of hundreds, dozens of countries, Kamayi, Dev, Sinir, Hania,
14 minutes, 17 seconds
Nasra, and thousands of other terrorists who sought to destroy us. They're all gone, too.
14 minutes, 25 seconds
The remaining terrorists are desperately trying to regroup. Every day they try to murder our people.
14 minutes, 35 seconds
And in particularly they try to murder our people in our historic homeland in Judea. By the way, that's where the word Jew comes from. Judea.
14 minutes, 44 seconds
That's our land. They try to murder us.
14 minutes, 52 seconds
Thousands of attempts per year on families, peaceful families driving along the roads.
15 minutes
They shoot at pregnant women. They shoot entire families.
15 minutes, 5 seconds
Of course, none of this is covered in the international press or in the social media. None of it.
15 minutes, 11 seconds
None of it. What they cover is a handful of young juvenile delinquents, about 150 in number, who go throw stones, who uh chop down olive trees
15 minutes, 17 secondsin number, who go throw stones, who uh chop down olive trees
15 minutes, 25 seconds
occasionally. They do they fire up they they lit some fires. I can't stand that. I won't stand for vigilanteism.
15 minutes, 32 seconds
We're a country of law.
15 minutes, 35 seconds
So we put our shin bed on them. But that's what they call settler violence.
15 minutes, 39 seconds
And the number of casualties a year, maybe two, three in the total time that this is being discussed, maybe two or three dead compared to the thousands of
15 minutes, 48 seconds
terrorist attacks against the peaceful settlers, honorable people, law-abiding people.
15 minutes, 58 seconds
What a distortion. It's an obsession. I hear this discussion here. I mean, leaders of countries seriously talk
16 minutes, 5 seconds
about that and they say it with such importance. We can't stand settler violence. You don't know what you're talking about.
16 minutes, 12 seconds
And listen, two days ago, two days ago.
16 minutes, 17 seconds
Two days ago, I say this to my colleague Emanuel Mcron.
16 minutes, 26 seconds
Two days, three days ago, a French citizen, Nataniel Shukrun,
16 minutes, 33 seconds
a father of six, was gunned down when he visited a spring with his 16-year-old son, and a Hamas
16 minutes, 42 seconds
terrorist in Judea, Samaria comes and fires point blank at him in the last words he uttered, "Flee! Flee, son. Save
16 minutes, 50 seconds
yourself." That was three days ago. Two days ago in Judea Samaria, a reserve officer, a
16 minutes, 59 seconds
reserve soldier, Naral Lighter was mowed down by a drivedown terrorist, Palestinian terrorist.
17 minutes, 8 seconds
He's fighting for his life now in a Jerusalem hospital.
17 minutes, 13 seconds
I visited the family right before I boarded the plane to come here.
17 minutes, 18 seconds
Narya, a father of four, is the son of Ya Lighter, our brilliant ambassador to the United States.
17 minutes, 27 seconds
Three years ago, Yil's oldest son, Mo Moshe, a father of six, was killed while clearing a booby trap building in Gaza.
17 minutes, 39 seconds
Yah, my brother, your pain is immeasurable.
17 minutes, 45 seconds
The entire people of Israel and many outside of Israel are praying for Nirya's life.
17 minutes, 54 seconds
But despite the pain, despite the agony, we do not give in.
18 minutes
In a recent post before he was attacked, Nara wrote this.
18 minutes, 7 seconds
Listen to this. We have no other country. It's a privilege to defend it.
18 minutes, 15 seconds
To Nya and to all the heroes of Israel, I pledge a sacred vow. Your sacrifice
18 minutes, 23 seconds
will not be in vain. We will continue to defend our state. We will continue to win because we have no other choice.
18 minutes, 49 seconds
In this battle against the barbarians, we've had no greater partner than President Trump. I thank him.
19 minutes, 2 seconds
[applause]
19 minutes, 3 seconds
I thank him for his bold leadership.
19 minutes, 6 seconds
He boldly confronted an enormous danger to America, Israel, and the world.
19 minutes, 13 seconds
Decades ago, he understood that if left unchallenged, the fanatic Ayatollas who
19 minutes, 19 seconds
chant death to America, death to Israel, would eventually carry out their mad fantasies.
19 minutes, 27 seconds
So, Israel and America acted together not only to protect ourselves, but to save civilization.
19 minutes, 37 seconds
Brave American pilots alongside brave Israeli pilots flew joint missions over
19 minutes, 43 seconds
the skies of Iran. America and Israel also work together to bring back our
19 minutes, 50 seconds
remaining hostages. We brought back every last one of them.
20 minutes, 3 seconds
You ask why are we winning? Well, Yonyi said it simply, we have no other choice.
20 minutes, 11 seconds
And throughout this long war, our goal never wavered to win. To win with
20 minutes, 19 seconds
unwavering resolve. To win with unrelenting courage. Because this is
20 minutes, 26 seconds
Israel, one nation fighting for one future, left and right, young and old, religious and secular.
20 minutes, 35 seconds
Do we have our differences? Of course we do. Who doesn't?
20 minutes, 40 seconds
But in critical moments, those moments that shape our destiny, we stand together
20 minutes, 47 seconds
because what unites us is so much stronger. our history, our values, our
20 minutes, 55 seconds
courage, the courage, the courage of our brave people who withtood 1,000 massive
21 minutes, 4 seconds
ballistic missiles that Iran rained down on our cities, on our civilians.
21 minutes, 10 seconds
Ladies and gentlemen, you're sitting here in the general assembly hall of the UN.
21 minutes, 17 seconds
Do you know what one one ton one just one one ton ballistic missile would do if it hit this place?
21 minutes, 26 seconds
It would obliterate the entire compound.
21 minutes, 29 seconds
In fact, two such missiles would obliterate the UN.
21 minutes, 34 seconds
So you can imagine, think about 1,000 gigantic missiles falling from the skies on your cities, on your homes.
21 minutes, 46 seconds
I salute the courage of the people of Israel. I salute the courage of our brave soldiers, Jews, Christians, Jews,
21 minutes, 55 seconds
Muslim, the most moral army in the world, the IDF.
22 minutes, 6 seconds
For three years, our brave soldiers have been valiantly fighting a sevenfront war.

22 minutes, 13 seconds
But there's an eighth front to this war.
22 minutes, 16 seconds
It's the war for truth. It is waged in the world's media and most perniciously in social media.
22 minutes, 26 seconds
Several foreign countries have spent untold billions to spread lies about my country.
The first to do so was Qatar.
22 minutes, 34 secondsThe first to do so was Qatar.
22 minutes, 38 seconds
Decades ago, it started massively funding American universities and toxic media outlets like Al Jazer. They did
22 minutes, 48 seconds
the same in Europe, by the way. And their goal was clear. Brainwash young minds to hate Israel, hate America, hate the West.
22 minutes, 58 seconds
This is the same Qatar that hosts the kamas butchers of October 7th.
23 minutes, 4 seconds
Now, the latest country to become a super spreader of anti-semitic lies is Turkey.
23 minutes, 11 seconds
Erdogan. Erdogan is a tyrant. He also hosts the Hamas terror chiefs. He has murdered
23 minutes, 19 seconds
thousands of Kurdish civilians. He denies the Armenian genocide. He jails journalists and opposition leaders. In
23 minutes, 28 seconds
fact, I think he holds the world's record on this. And that's a tough call, but I think he's number one. He
23 minutes, 35 seconds
illegally occupies northern Cyprus, an EU member, and he regularly transgresses against Greece, a NATO member. Now, he
23 minutes, 44 seconds
wants to take over Syria. Well, that's not surprising because he calls for Israel's destruction
23 minutes, 52 seconds
almost every single day. He says he's going to be the ruler of Jerusalem. No sir, you won't.
24 minutes
This is our country, our city, our eternal capital.
24 minutes, 8 seconds
Tyrants the world over seek to threaten us. They seek to undermine our resolve with their campaign of lies.
24 minutes, 17 seconds
But ultimately, as on the military battlefield, the Jewish people will prevail.
24 minutes, 29 seconds
It will take time. It will take time to vanquish the lies. It will take time for
24 minutes, 35 seconds
the world to acknowledge what is so plain to see. That kamas used Palestinian civilians as human shields.
24 minutes, 46 seconds
That it used hospitals, schools, mosques as terrorist command post. That is it sole much of the food we let into Gaza.
24 minutes, 55 seconds
And while Hamas did everything possible to keep Palestinian civilians in harm's way, often at gunpoint, Israel did
25 minutes, 4 seconds
everything possible to get them out of harm's way. We sent millions of text messages warning civilians to leave
25 minutes, 12 seconds
combat areas. We made millions of phone calls. We dropped millions of leaflets.
25 minutes, 19 seconds
I want to ask you some questions.
25 minutes, 22 seconds
What genocidal regime gives a million polio vaccinations to the enemy's population?
25 minutes, 30 seconds
What genocidal regime enables the distribution of 2 million tons of food into Gaza? That's a ton for every person.
25 minutes, 41 seconds
Accusing Israel of genocide is the greatest lie of the century.
25 minutes, 47 seconds
If you want to know how big a lie, if you want to know how absurd it is, listen to Colonel John Spencer.
25 minutes, 55 seconds
He's head of urban warfare studies at West Point. He's considered one of the world's or perhaps the world's foremost expert on urban warfare. I think he's with us today.
26 minutes, 6 seconds
Colonel Spencer.
26 minutes, 8 seconds
Colonel Spencer has studied every urban war from antiquity to modern times from
26 minutes, 15 seconds
ancient Greece to Mosul to Gaza. And here's what Colonel Spencer says.
26 minutes, 23 seconds
Israel has done more to prevent civilian casualties in war than any other military in history. In
26 minutes, 33 seconds
history, we've taken innumerable steps to protect the civilian population.
26 minutes, 44 seconds
Is this genocide?
26 minutes, 46 seconds
Of course not. It's the opposite of genocide.
26 minutes, 50 seconds
So to all those that are spreading these lies about my country and about our brave soldiers, whether they sit in this
26 minutes, 57 seconds
hall or in the office of the anti-semitic mayor of New York, I say
27 minutes, 3 seconds
this, shame on you. Shame on you for distorting the facts. Shame on you for
27 minutes, 10 seconds
inverting victim and aggressor. Shame on you for spitting in the face of truth.
27 minutes, 18 seconds
Mr. from Dani. Since you were elected mayor of this city, many Jews no longer feel safe in New York. They talk to me.
27 minutes, 28 seconds
They tell me, "This isn't the city we remember. It changed so quickly." Now, it's no wonder. You praise criminals convicted of supporting Hamas.
27 minutes, 40 seconds
You count his friends people like Hassan who said, "America deserved 911."
27 minutes, 46 seconds
America deserved 911. Some friends you have. You invite into your home a
27 minutes, 53 seconds
Palestinian journalist who filled Hamas terrorist beating and torturing Israeli hostages and later admitted that he
28 minutes, 1 second
refused to publish the videos in order to protect, you guessed it, the terrorists.
28 minutes, 8 seconds
Your wife liked a post praising the October 7th massacre. She liked another post saying Tel Aviv shouldn't exist.
28 minutes, 17 seconds
You refused to condemn any of that. You falsely repeatedly accuse Israel of genocide.
28 minutes, 24 seconds
Mr. Mamdani, you tried to stop me from coming here.
28 minutes, 29 seconds
You tried. You try to silence me. Well, you can't silence me. You can't silence the truth. And here is the simple truth.
28 minutes, 40 seconds
Here's a simple truth. Israel didn't commit genocide. Israel prevented genocide.
28 minutes, 55 seconds
[applause]
29 minutes
And that's exactly, that's exactly what Mr. Mdani's Hamas buddies would have done to us had we not stopped them.
29 minutes, 9 seconds
They would have killed every last one of us. The lies you and other anti-semites
29 minutes, 16 seconds
spread about the Jews and the Jewish state have real consequences. In New York, Jews are threatened on the way to
29 minutes, 25 seconds
synagogue. Jews have been stabbed in the streets. Jews are demonized, targeted.
29 minutes, 32 seconds
They're targeted simply for being Jews.
29 minutes, 37 seconds
Jews have been murdered in Sydney, Manchester, Montreal, Boulder, Colorado.
29 minutes, 42 seconds
They've been attacked in Los Angeles, London, Paris, Berlin, Washington DC.
29 minutes, 48 seconds
The anti-semites of the world want to terrify our people. I have news for them. The days when Jews were
29 minutes, 56 seconds
defenseless victims marched to the slaughter, those days are over.
30 minutes, 2 seconds
[applause and cheering]
30 minutes, 8 seconds
Today we have a state. Today we have an army. Today I have a people ready and willing to defend ourselves. So today,
 minutes, 19 seconds
today I have one message for Jews around the world. Raise your head high. Be
30 minutes, 26 seconds
proud. Be confident. Don't be intimidated. Stand up. And for everyone else, everyone else who wants to defend
30 minutes, 36 seconds
truth and justice, join us in standing up to the barbarians who threaten our common civilization.
30 minutes, 44 seconds
But I have to be candid with you. Not everyone is standing up.
30 minutes, 52 seconds
We saw that because unlike Israel, there are some and most recently especially in
31 minutes
Western Europe who have chosen not to stand up. The leaders of these countries
31 minutes, 7 seconds
have chosen to succumb to the anti-semitic mobs. They have chosen weakness.
31 minutes, 15 seconds
They've chosen appeasement.
31 minutes, 19 seconds
We cannot evade the sad truth before us. Many in the free world are afraid to defend freedom.
31 minutes, 30 seconds
And I asked them, "What will this future? What will this behavior? What will the world hold for you?
31 minutes, 38 seconds
The Brotherhood of Democracies or the Muslim Brotherhood?
31 minutes, 44 seconds
How long will it take for you to see that these fanatic geodists are choking your waterways, your energy supply, your economic lifeline?
31 minutes, 55 seconds
I can assure you, ladies and gentlemen, we in Israel, we do not wait for others to wake up from their moral slumber. We forge ahead.
32 minutes, 5 seconds
We seize the future.
32 minutes, 8 seconds
We pioneer incredible developments in health, agriculture, artificial intelligence, superior intelligence,
32 minutes, 17 seconds
and we bring these amazing innovations to all of humanity.
32 minutes, 25 seconds
So, Israel has never been stronger. We are not afraid.
32 minutes, 31 seconds
But I'll tell you who is afraid. The tyrants of Tehran. That's who. And you know what? They're most afraid of their
32 minutes, 40 seconds
own people, the brave Iranian people who have sacrificed so much for so long. The
32 minutes, 47 seconds
Iranian regime is especially afraid when their people have this.
32 minutes, 55 seconds
When their people have this.
32 minutes, 58 seconds
This is a communications device, Starlink, that allows people to access
33 minutes, 4 seconds
truth, to exercise choice, to exercise freedom of thought and freedom of
33 minutes, 12 seconds
speech. That's why the Iranian regime spells rather spends millions and
33 minutes, 19 seconds
billions of dollars censoring the internet.
33 minutes, 23 seconds
Mr. President, I'm going to leave this device with you so you can give it to the Iranian
33 minutes, 31 seconds
delegation so when they inevitably defect, they too will be able to freely tell their story on social media,
33 minutes, 40 seconds
[cheering]
33 minutes, 49 seconds
to the protesters outside, to the hypocrites, hypocritical delegates who left us all. I ask, "Where were you
33 minutes, 59 seconds
when the Iranian tyrants butchered and maimed tens of thousands of unarmed Iranian civilians?
34 minutes, 8 seconds
When they butchered and maimed thousands of their own people?
34 minutes, 13 seconds
Where were you? Did you organize mass rallies, hunger strikes? Did you protest outside the Iranian mission to the UN?
34 minutes, 22 seconds
Did you speak out for that matter for Christians persecuted in Iran and throughout the Middle East? No. No, you
34 minutes, 29 seconds
didn't do that because your phony human rights protesters on Christians. You know that their
34 minutes, 37 seconds
numbers are plummeting everywhere in the Middle East where they're being persecuted and hounded except one place, my country, Israel, where the Christian
34 minutes, 46 seconds
community is growing, thriving, succeeding.
34 minutes, 55 seconds
In fact, you didn't protest. When we left Bethlehem, it was controlled by us.
34 minutes, 59 seconds
It was 80 to 90% Christian and we gave it to the Palestinian Authority. And today it's 80 to 90% Muslim. Everyone,
35 minutes, 7 seconds
the Christians were shoved out. Did you protest that? Did you speak about that? Nothing. Nada.
35 minutes, 14 seconds
And you said nothing about Iran just now. You said nothing about Iran. But I want to give you the good news.
35 minutes, 23 seconds
Despite your silence, despite your hypocrisy, it's only a matter of time that in Iran, something incredible will
35 minutes, 32 seconds
happen. The power of the people will overcome the people in power.
35 minutes, 42 seconds
I want you to listen to my words carefully. One day, and it may not be
35 minutes, 49 seconds
far away, the Iranian people will be free. Their murderous regime will be
35 minutes, 56 seconds
toppled by its lies, by its corruption, by its cruelty. This evil regime will fall and we will all celebrate that day.
36 minutes, 7 seconds
[applause]
36 minutes, 12 seconds
Ladies and gentlemen, the story of my people, the Jewish
36 minutes, 17 seconds
people, goes back over 3,000 years. We speak the same language. We speak the
36 minutes, 26 seconds
same language today that we spoke then. We live in the same land in which our ancestors lived then.
36 minutes, 36 seconds
David, Solomon, Isaiah, Jeremiah. That's our land, the land of Israel.
36 minutes, 46 seconds
[applause]
36 minutes, 49 seconds
Our prophets, our purpose, and our people are unique in history. Our values have inspired humanity for millennia:
37 minutes
the belief in one God, the sanctity of life, the rule of law, our eternal quest
37 minutes, 7 seconds
for peace, our eternal quest for justice. It is these sacred values that propelled us throughout the ages.
37 minutes, 18 seconds
It is these values that helped us beat the odds of history.
37 minutes, 24 seconds
The great American writer Mark Wayne said it best 125 years ago. He said it well before the rebirth of the modern Jewish state.
37 minutes, 36 seconds
Well before the great victories of Israel's soldiers. Here's what he said.
37 minutes, 43 seconds
The Jew has made a marvel the Jew has made a marvelous fight in this world in all the ages. and he has done it with
37 minutes, 51 seconds
his hands tied behind his back. The Egyptian, the Babylonian, and the Persian rose, filled the planet with
37 minutes, 58 seconds
sound and splendor, then faded to dream stuff and passed away. Other peoples have sprung up and held their torch high
38 minutes, 7 seconds
for a time, but it burned out, and they sit in twilight.
38 minutes, 14 seconds
The Jew saw them all, beat them all, and is now what he always was, exhibiting no
38 minutes, 20 seconds
decadence, no infirmities of age, no weakening of his spirits, no slowing of his energies.
38 minutes, 29 seconds
Ladies and gentlemen, over the centuries, the tyrannies that tried to destroy us failed time and again, and God willing, they'll continue to fail.
38 minutes, 42 seconds
If we muster our courage, if we steal our resolve, we will continue to win. As
38 minutes, 50 seconds
the Bible says Shakir, the eternity of Israel will not falter. And the reason is simple. We have no other choice.
38 minutes, 57 secondsfalter. And the reason is simple. We have no other choice.
39 minutes, 8 seconds
[applause]
39 minutes, 10 seconds
Thank you all. Thank you. (End of speech)
[ * Khalilur Rahman of Bangladesh is the President of the United Nations General Assembly for the 2026–2027 session.  He assumed office on 8 September 2026, succeeding Germany’s Annalena Baerbock, after defeating Cyprus’s Andreas Kakouris in a contested election on 2 June 2026.
Rahman’s presidency focuses on the theme “Restoring Trust, Managing Transformation: A United Nations that Delivers for All,” with priorities including peace and security, accelerating the Sustainable Development Goals, climate action, human rights, and AI governance.  His term coincides with the selection process for António Guterres’s successor as UN Secretary-General, whose current term ends on 31 December 2026. ]
Posted by at

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)