00:00Thank you very much.
00:09The spokes teams of the three countries will release a joint written statement shortly.
00:14Now we will be taking questions.
00:17First question, please.
00:18Channel 14.
00:30We know that Iran has started a conversation in the past.
00:35We are waiting after this.
00:37And we are doing the necessary action.
00:42I want to move here in a clear way to Iran.
00:48Every action against Israel will be very serious.
01:00Ari, please.
01:03We saw it yesterday regarding Elie Felstein.
01:06Is it still a patriot Israelite?
01:10I don't want to go here to things.
01:13I think it's already known.
01:17In the case of Yonatan Orych,
01:19the police officer said that everything is fake.
01:23There is no idea here.
01:25There is simply a decision of execution.
01:27It's a shame that the people of the people are looking at it.
01:32They are calling it to all kinds of threats that are no other way.
01:37We want to take questions in English
01:39because we have guests here that don't speak Hebrew.
01:41So if somebody wants to ask a question in English.
01:44Danny Zaken?
01:45Yes.
01:46Yes, please.
01:51Kalispera, Prime Minister and President.
01:53What's the message that you're sending from here to Turkey?
01:56Excuse me.
01:57We're taking questions for the Prime Minister of Israel.
01:59No, you can ask me that.
02:00That's okay.
02:01Fine.
02:02Okay.
02:03Well, I would love to get answers from them too.
02:05And for you, Mr. President, Mr. Prime Minister,
02:09about Iran, what do you expect President Trump to join Israel,
02:15to help Israel?
02:16What cooperation do you expect from your meeting with President Trump regarding Iran?
02:21Look, we are not seeking confrontation with anyone.
02:24I can speak on behalf of Israel, and I think for my two partners here, no one seeks confrontation.
02:31On the contrary, we seek stability, prosperity, and peace, exactly as we, the three of us said.
02:36Obviously, we are committed to defending each one of our countries, but also defending maritime lanes and other things that are shared in common and that go under international norms.
02:49I think that is obvious.
02:50So I would say this is a coalition for these norms and for that stability, and we hope that it won't be tested.
03:02That's all I can tell you.
03:03As far as Iran is concerned, look, we had great achievements in Lionheart operation and the 12-day war with Iran.
03:13And our basic expectations from Iran have not changed.
03:17The level of enrichment and other activities, the ending of the proxy wars against us, that has not changed.
03:24And I don't think it's changed in the – I know it's not changed on the American position.
03:29Obviously, it will become – it will be an item in our discussions, but I have to tell you that I think the focus will be on Gaza, the next stage, and on other issues that engage us from the other Hs.
03:46We have Hamas, but we also have Hezbollah, and our desire to see a stable and sovereign Lebanon.
03:54And, of course, the Houthis as well that are blocking international shipping that affects Greece, affects Cyprus, and affects us as well.
04:01Okay.
04:02Due to lack of time, we're taking one more question, and that's it.
04:05Channel 12, please.
04:06Karen.
04:07Thank you, Prime Minister.
04:12You chaired today the meeting that determined the mandate and the scope for the Governmental Investigative Committee.
04:20How is it possible when you are going to be one of the person that will be maybe the main investigator?
04:25And what is the message to the families who have lost everything?
04:29What is your message to them that they are saying it can't be?
04:32And if I may ask the guests?
04:33No.
04:34No.
04:35They both.
04:36Yeah.
04:37I think we all have to give answers.
04:40And I suggested that the way that we address this question of investigating what happened on October 7th is the same way that the United States investigated the question of what happened on September 11th.
04:59Okay.
05:00This was the greatest tragedy that befell Israel in our modern history.
05:05And this is the greatest tragedy that befell America on its greatest tragedy.
05:11Okay.
05:12And their history, actually.
05:14Their total history.
05:15All right.
05:16So what did the United States do?
05:18They had a president.
05:20Okay.
05:21He was there.
05:22What did he do?
05:23He said, look, there is no way to turn this into a partisan issue.
05:28So I'm going to turn to both Republicans and Democrats and establish a special committee.
05:34He actually legislated a special law.
05:37And he said, this is a law for the investigative, a bipartisan investigative commission to investigate what happened on September 11th.
05:47That's exactly what we are doing.
05:52I suggested that the only way that this can be dealt with is to establish a bipartisan investigatory committee, half of whose members will be appointed by the coalition, half of whose members will be appointed by the opposition.
06:08There is no better way to do this.
06:11They can ask any question.
06:13They can raise any subject.
06:16They can question anyone they want, including me.
06:19But that is the only way that you're going to get to the airing of the truth.
06:24Everybody, how can people refuse that?
06:26How can they possibly refuse that?
06:29I didn't hear when President Bush put forward this idea of a bipartisan investigative committee, a special committee.
06:38Nobody said, well, it's service of the politicians.
06:41It's not.
06:42It wasn't.
06:43And its acceptance, or I would rather say its conclusions were accepted very broadly by the American people.
06:49I think that's what we have to do here.
06:51So if you take, strip away all the political agendas, or in fact, keep them.
06:55One side will raise their political agenda.
06:57The other side will raise their political agenda.
06:59The truth will come out.
07:01Now, do you want me to repeat that in Hebrew?
07:04I know you don't.
07:05No, no, that's it.
07:06I'm sorry.
07:07We're not taking any more questions.
07:08I want to thank our great guests.
07:10Thank you very much.
07:11And see you again in Jerusalem.
07:13Yeah.
07:14Next year in Jerusalem, unless we have a fundamental change of this absurdity of the ICC.
07:47You
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