00:00I come from Batyam, this is a difficult day.
00:03I told you there would be difficult days, but there will also be great days.
00:07We are now confronting the two greatest threats to our existence,
00:11the Iranian nuclear threat and the threat of Iranian ballistic missiles.
00:15We acted at the 12th hour, before Iran could move forward and produce nuclear weapons,
00:21and before it could accelerate the development of 10,000 ballistic missiles,
00:25the kind that have hit Batyam and other places.
00:28In six years they could have 20,000.
00:31These are existential threats, and we are acting to stop them.
00:36You are fulfilling a great responsibility.
00:39Follow IDF Homefront Command instructions.
00:41They save lives.
00:43This campaign did not come easily.
00:45Forty years ago I warned that the greatest threat to Israel's existence
00:48would come from the Islamic regime in Iran,
00:51a regime that had only recently come into being.
00:54I said then that it would strive to acquire nuclear weapons to destroy us.
00:59I was ridiculed, treated as spinning political stories.
01:03I was not always able to rally the defense establishment to act against Iran's nuclear facilities.
01:09I also had to push back, sometimes alone,
01:12against an American administration that enabled a deal giving Iran a path to nuclear weapons,
01:18and billions of dollars along the way.
01:20We exposed the Iranian nuclear program.
01:23We delayed it, but we did not stop it.
01:26And Iran advanced trying to suffocate us with the axis of evil.
01:30We acted against it.
01:33On October 7th, Hamas launched its barbaric attack.
01:37Our first move was to strike Hamas.
01:39We made a decision.
01:41Destroy Hamas and bring our hostages home.
01:44Even when people said we wouldn't succeed.
01:47I persisted.
01:49To this day with the means we deployed we released over 200 hostages,
01:53and I won't back down until we've brought them all home.
01:56I gave an order the day before yesterday to advance negotiations because I've identified a loophole.
02:02I'm not giving up on anyone.
02:04But after we've achieved our objectives, both destroying Hamas and returning of the hostages,
02:08we are required in addition to the offensive side, which I will not detail here,
02:13to also carry out defensive actions.
02:16This defense is based not only on the interception of missiles
02:18and the excellent missile systems we have built here in our weapons industries.
02:23It also depends on your behavior.
02:25You really are following the instructions of the Home Front Command.
02:28Otherwise, we would have been facing many more casualties.
02:32Again, if you stay in protected spaces, you will save your lives.
02:36That's simply how it works.
02:39But here I have a remark.
02:41Four of our civilians were killed yesterday in Tamra.
02:44I heard cheering.
02:45I reject that with all my soul.
02:48The missile does not distinguish.
02:50It does not distinguish.
02:51It hits both Jews and Arabs.
02:54They are coming to destroy all of us.
02:56We are brothers.
02:58And so we stand in this battle together.
03:06The next steps that we've been doing is waiting for today.
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