00:00We will not leave, we will not leave, we will not leave.
00:21Palestine is our homeland, it is the land of our fathers and grandfathers, and it will
00:28remain for us.
00:29And if anyone should leave, it is the occupiers who will be the ones to leave.
00:36In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
00:42Mr. Philemon Young, President of the United Nations General Assembly.
00:48Mr. António Guterres, Secretary General of the United Nations.
00:55Ladies and gentlemen, heads and members of the delegation, distinguished guests.
01:01May the peace, mercy, and blessings of God be upon you.
01:06I come to you today, and my people have been subjected for almost a year now to a crime
01:15that is one of the most heinous crimes of our time.
01:20A crime of total war and mass extermination committed by Israel, the state of occupation.
01:29A crime that has killed more than 40,000 people in Gaza so far.
01:39And thousands are still under the rubble, as more than 100,000 others have been wounded
01:48to this day.
01:50And things are happening.
01:52And hundreds of families have been forced to immediately impose punishments on them.
01:59The mass murders, crimes, and mass extermination committed by Israel against our people since
02:061948 until this day.
02:11This will not pass without reckoning.
02:15And it will not fall with progress.
02:19What has been lost is a right that is being pursued.
02:24And despite our persistent and repeated demands, the world has not succeeded in forcing Israel,
02:31the powerful state, to stop mass extermination and war crimes against innocent civilians.
02:40The US administration, the most democratic state in the world, has interrupted three times
02:52the security council's decisions calling for Israel to stop fighting and start a fire.
03:00But the US is not alone.
03:02It has stopped and said that it will continue to fight by using the Veto.
03:09And on top of that, it has provided Israel with the deadly weapons that have killed thousands
03:16of civilians and innocent children and women.
03:20And this is what has encouraged Israel to continue its aggression.
03:25If the US administration encourages it, why doesn't it continue its aggression?
03:31These are the United States, the same one that was the only member in the Security Council
03:38that also voted against the State of Palestine, the entire membership.
03:44We do not deserve the entire membership in the eyes of the US.
03:48So they stopped and used the Veto.
03:50I do not understand how the United States insists on standing up against our people
03:57and insists on depriving them of their legitimate rights to freedom and independence
04:02like the rest of the world's people, 194 countries.
04:05We are like them.
04:09Ladies and gentlemen, order.
04:12Mr. President, ladies and gentlemen, I didn't intend to come here this year.
04:23My country is at war, fighting for its life.
04:30But after I heard the lies and slanders leveled at my country by many of the speakers at this podium,
04:41I decided to come here and set the record straight.
04:46I decided to come here to speak for my people, to speak for my country, to speak for the truth.
05:03And here is the truth.
05:09Israel seeks peace.
05:12Israel yearns for peace.
05:15Israel has made peace and will make peace again.
05:23Yet we face savage enemies who seek our annihilation.
05:28And we must defend ourselves against these savage murderers.
05:34Our enemies seek not only to destroy us.
05:39They seek to destroy our common civilization and return all of us to a dark age of tyranny and terror.
05:48When I spoke here last year, I said we face the same timeless choice
05:55that Moses put before the people of Israel thousands of years ago.
06:00As we were about to enter the Promised Land,
06:03Moses told us that our actions will determine whether we bequeath to future generations a blessing or a curse.
06:13And that is the choice we face today.
06:17The curse of Iran's unremitting aggression or the blessing of a historic reconciliation between Arab and Jew.
06:26The curse of October 7th began when Hamas invaded Israel from Gaza.
06:31But it didn't end there.
06:34Israel was soon forced to defend itself on six more war fronts organized by Iran.
06:40I have a message for the tyrants of Tehran.
06:43If you strike us, we will strike you.
06:48There is no place in Iran that the long arm of Israel cannot reach.
07:03And that's true of the entire Middle East.
07:06Far from being lambs led to the slaughter, Israel's soldiers have fought back with incredible courage and with heroic sacrifice.
07:17And I have another message for this assembly and for the world outside this hall.
07:22We are winning!
07:26Hamas kidnapped 251 people from dozens of different countries, dragging them into the dungeons of Gaza.
07:34Israel has brought home 154 of these hostages, including 117 who returned alive.
07:43I want to assure you, we will not rest until the remaining hostages are brought home too.
07:49This swamp of anti-Semitic bile.
07:53There's an automatic majority willing to demonize the Jewish state on anything.
07:59In this anti-Israel, flat-earth society, any false charge, any outlandish allegation can muster a majority.
08:08In the last decade, there have been more resolutions passed against Israel in this hall at the UN General Assembly than against the entire world combined.
08:20Actually, more than twice as many.
08:24Since 2014, this body condemned Israel 174 times.
08:30It condemned all the other countries in the world 73 times.
08:35That's more than 100 extra condemnations for the Jewish state.
08:41What hypocrisy. What a double standard. What a joke.
08:46So all the speeches you heard today, all the hostility directed at Israel this year, it's not about Gaza.
08:53It's about Israel. It's always been about Israel.
08:57About Israel's very existence.
09:02And I say to you, until Israel, until the Jewish state is treated like other nations, until this anti-Semitic swamp is drained,
09:11the UN will be viewed by fair-minded people everywhere as nothing more than a contemptuous farce.
09:20Now given the anti-Semitism at the UN, it should surprise no one that the prosecutor at the ICC, one of the UN's affiliated organs,
09:30is considering issuing arrest warrants against me and Israel's defense minister, the democratically elected leaders of the democratic state of Israel.
09:42The ICC prosecutors rush to judgment.
09:45His refusal to treat Israel with its independent courts the way other democracies are treated is hard to explain by anything other than pure anti-Semitism.
09:57But I have a message for you.
09:59Israel will win this battle.
10:02We'll win this battle because we don't have a choice.
10:07After generations in which our people were slaughtered, remorselessly butchered, and no one raised a finger in our defense,
10:20we now have a state, we now have a brave army, an army of incomparable courage, and we are defending ourselves.
10:28To the people of Israel and to the soldiers of Israel, I say, be strong and of good courage.
10:36Chizku v'imtsu v'alti ra'u mipnehem, ki Adonai Elohecha hu aholech imecha, lo yarapecha v'lo ya'azvecha.
10:45Am Yisrael chai, the people of Israel live, now, tomorrow, forever.
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