00:00They savagely murdered 1,200 people.
00:03They raped and mutilated women.
00:06They beheaded men.
00:08They burned babies alive.
00:10Mr. President, ladies and gentlemen, I didn't intend to come here this year.
00:22My country is at war, fighting for its life.
00:28But after I heard the lies and slanders leveled at my country by many of the speakers at this podium,
00:39I decided to come here and set the record straight.
00:51I decided to come here to speak for my people, to speak for my country, to speak for the truth.
01:05And here is the truth.
01:07Israel seeks peace.
01:10Israel yearns for peace.
01:12Israel has made peace and will make peace again.
01:22Yet we face savage enemies who seek our annihilation.
01:27And we must defend ourselves against these savage murderers.
01:33Our enemies seek not only to destroy us.
01:37They seek to destroy our common civilization and return all of us to a dark age of tyranny and terror.
01:47When I spoke here last year, I said we face the same timeless choice that Moses put before the people of Israel thousands of years ago.
02:00As we were about to enter the Promised Land, Moses told us that our actions will determine whether we bequeath to future generations a blessing or a curse.
02:13And that is the choice we face today.
02:17The curse of Iran's unremitting aggression or the blessing of a historic reconciliation between Arab and Jew.
02:27In the days that followed that speech, the blessing I spoke of came into sharper focus.
02:33A normalization deal between Saudi Arabia and Israel seemed closer than ever.
02:39But then came the curse of October 7th.
02:45Thousands of Iranian-backed Hamas terrorists from Gaza burst into Israel in pickup trucks, on motorcycles.
02:53And they committed unimaginable atrocities.
02:56They savagely murdered 1,200 people.
02:59They raped and mutilated women.
03:02They beheaded men.
03:04They burned babies alive.
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