Israel's Ambassador to the UN absolutely had the approval
of Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. and the heart of
the Jewish nation when he told the United Nations they are all
a bunch of hypocrites, in his speech to them recently. How can
anyone explain the world's avoidance of the truth, its partiality
to the Muslims and revulsion toward the nation of Israel, without
the Biblical record and history of the Jews? They can't. Their
undermining of Israel is a direct repudiation of God's Word. You
must understand that the UN is and will be a tool of Satan and his
mask of human flesh... the Antichrist. That is the answer to the
Ambassador's question. Israel is the one and only friend the US
has in the Middle East and few others in the entire world today. RB
Important for all who support freedom, democracy and Christianity.
Delivered to UN General Assembly on
11/24/14) by Ambassador Ron Prosor
Mr. President,
I stand before the world as a proud representative of the State of
Israel and the Jewish people. I stand tall before you knowing that
truth and morality are on my side. And yet, I stand here knowing that
today in this Assembly, truth will be turned on its head and morality
cast aside.
The fact of the matter is that when members of the international
community speak about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a fog descends
to cloud all logic and moral clarity. The result isn’t realpolitik,
its surrealpolitik.
The world’s unrelenting focus on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is
an injustice to tens of millions of victims of tyranny and terrorism
in the Middle East. As we speak, Yazidis, Bahai, Kurds, Christians and
Muslims are being executed and expelled by radical extremists at a
rate of 1,000 people per month.
How many resolutions did you pass last week to address this crisis?
And how many special sessions did you call for? The answer is zero.
What does this say about international concern for human life?
Not much, but it speaks volumes about the hypocrisy of the
international community.
I stand before you to speak the truth. Of the 300 million Arabs in
the Middle East and North Africa, less than half a percent are truly
free - and they are all citizens of Israel.
Israeli Arabs are some of the most educated Arabs in the world. They
are our leading physicians and surgeons, they are elected to our
parliament, and they serve as judges on our Supreme Court.
Millions of men and women in the Middle East would welcome these
opportunities and freedoms.
Nonetheless, nation after nation, will stand at this podium today and
criticize Israel – the small island of democracy in a region plagued
by tyranny and oppression.
Mr. President,
Our conflict has never been about the establishment of a Palestinian
state. It has always been about the existence of the Jewish state.
Sixty seven years ago this week, on November 29, 1947, the United
Nations voted to partition the land into a Jewish state and an Arab
state. Simple. The Jews said yes. The Arabs said no. But they didn’t
just say no. Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Lebanon
launched a war of annihilation against our newborn state.
This is the historical truth that the Arabs are trying to distort. The
Arabs’ historic mistake continues to be felt – in lives lost in war,
lives lost to terrorism, and lives scarred by the Arab’s narrow
political interests.
According to the United Nations, about 700,000 Palestinians were
displaced in the war initiated by the Arabs themselves. At the same
time, some 850,000 Jews were forced to flee from Arab countries.
Why is it, that 67 years later, the displacement of the Jews has been
completely forgotten by this institution while the displacement of the
Palestinians is the subject of an annual debate?
The difference is that Israel did its utmost to integrate the Jewish
refugees into society. The Arabs did just the opposite.
The worst oppression of the Palestinian people takes place in Arab
nations. In most of the Arab world, Palestinians are denied
citizenship and are aggressively discriminated against. They are
barred from owning land and prevented from entering certain
professions.
And yet none - not one - of these crimes are mentioned in the
resolutions before you.
If you were truly concerned about the plight of the Palestinian people
there would be one, just one, resolution to address the thousands of
Palestinians killed in Syria. And if you were so truly concerned
about the Palestinians there would be at least one resolution to
denounce the treatment of Palestinians in Lebanese refugee camps.
But there isn’t.
The reason is that today’s debate is not about speaking for peace or
speaking for the Palestinian people – it is about speaking against
Israel. It is nothing but a hate and bashing festival against Israel.
Mr. President,
The European nations claim to stand for Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité -
freedom, equality, and brotherhood – but nothing could be farther from
the truth.
I often hear European leaders proclaim that Israel has the right to
exist in secure borders. That’s very nice. But I have to say – it
makes about as much sense as me standing here and proclaiming Sweden’s
right to exist in secure borders.
When it comes to matters of security, Israel learned the hard way that
we cannot rely on others – certainly not Europe.
In 1973, on Yom Kippur – the holiest day on the Jewish calendar - the
surrounding Arab nations launched an attack against Israel.
In the hours before the war began, Golda Meir, our Prime Minister
then, made the difficult decision not to launch a preemptive strike.
The Israeli Government understood that if we launched a preemptive
strike, we would lose the support of the international community.
As the Arab armies advanced on every front, the situation in Israel
grew dire. Our casualty count was growing and we were running
dangerously low on weapons and ammunition.
In this, our hour of need, President Nixon and Secretary of State
Henry Kissinger, agreed to send Galaxy planes loaded with tanks and
ammunition to resupply our troops. The only problem was that the
Galaxy planes needed to refuel on route to Israel.
The Arab States were closing in and our very existence was threatened
– and yet, Europe was not even willing to let the planes refuel. The
U.S. stepped in once again and negotiated that the planes be allowed
to refuel in the Azores.
The government and people of Israel will never forget that when our
very existence was at stake, only one country came to our aid – the
United States of America.
Israel is tired of hollow promises from European leaders. The Jewish
people have a long memory. We will never ever forget that you failed
us in the 1940s. You failed us in 1973. And you are failing us again
today.
Every European parliament that voted to prematurely and unilaterally
recognize a Palestinian state is giving the Palestinians exactly what
they want - statehood without peace. By handing them a state on a
silver platter, you are rewarding unilateral actions and taking away
any incentive for the Palestinians to negotiate or compromise or
renounce violence.
You are sending the message that the Palestinian Authority can sit in
a government with terrorists and incite violence against Israel
without paying any price.
The first E.U. member to officially recognize a Palestinian state was
Sweden. One has to wonder why the Swedish Government was so anxious to
take this step.
When it comes to other conflicts in our region, the Swedish
Government calls for direct negotiations between the parties – but for
the Palestinians, surprise, surprise, they roll out the red carpet.
State Secretary Söder may think she is here to celebrate her
government’s so-called historic recognition, when in reality it’s
nothing more than an historic mistake.
The Swedish Government may host the Nobel Prize ceremony, but there is
nothing noble about their cynical political campaign to appease the
Arabs in order to get a seat on the Security Council. Nations on the
Security Council should have sense, sensitivity, and sensibility.
Well, the Swedish Government has shown no sense, no sensitivity and no
sensibility. Just nonsense.
Israel learned the hard way that listening to the international
community can bring about devastating consequences. In 2005, we
unilaterally dismantled every settlement and removed every citizen
from the Gaza Strip.
Did this bring us any closer to peace? Not at all. It paved the way
for Iran to send its terrorist proxies to establish a terror
stronghold on our doorstep.
I can assure you that we won’t make the same mistake again. When it
comes to our security, we cannot and will not rely on others – Israel
must be able to defend itself by itself.
Mr. President,
The State of Israel is the land of our forefathers – Abraham, Isaac,
and Jacob. It is the land where Moses led the Jewish people, where
David built his palace, where Solomon built the Jewish Temple, and
where Isaiah saw a vision of eternal peace.
For thousands of years, Jews have lived continuously in the land of
Israel. We endured through the rise and fall of the Assyrian,
Babylonian, Greek and Roman Empires. And we endured through thousands
of years of persecution, expulsions and crusades. The bond between
the Jewish people and the Jewish land is unbreakable.
Nothing can change one simple truth - Israel is our home and Jerusalem
is our eternal capital.
At the same time, we recognize that Jerusalem has special meaning for
other faiths. Under Israeli sovereignty, all people – and I will
repeat that, all people - regardless of religion and nationality can
visit the city’s holy sites. And we intend to keep it this way. The
only ones trying to change the status quo on the Temple Mount are
Palestinian leaders.
President Abbas is telling his people that Jews are contaminating the
Temple Mount. He has called for days of rage and urged Palestinians
to prevent Jews from visiting the Temple Mount using (quote) “all
means” necessary. These words are as irresponsible as they are
unacceptable.
You don’t have to be Catholic to visit the Vatican, you don’t have to
be Jewish to visit the Western Wall, but some Palestinians would like
to see the day when only Muslims can visit the Temple Mount.
You, the international community, are lending a hand to extremists and fanatics.
You, who preach tolerance and religious freedom, should be ashamed.
Israel will never let this happen.
We will make sure that the holy places remain open to all people of
all faiths for all time.
Mr. President,
No one wants peace more than Israel. No one needs to explain the
importance of peace to parents who have sent their child to defend our
homeland.
No one knows the stakes of success or failure better than we Israelis
do. The people of Israel have shed too many tears and buried too many
sons and daughters.
We are ready for peace, but we are not naïve. Israel’s security is
paramount. Only a strong and secure Israel can achieve a comprehensive
peace.
The past month should make it clear to anyone that Israel has
immediate and pressing security needs. In recent weeks, Palestinian
terrorists have shot and stabbed our citizens and twice driven their
cars into crowds of pedestrians.
Just a few days ago, terrorists armed with axes and a gun savagely
attacked Jewish worshipers during morning prayers. We have reached
the point when Israelis can’t even find sanctuary from terrorism in
the sanctuary of a synagogue.
These attacks didn’t emerge out of a vacuum. They are the results of
years of indoctrination and incitement. A Jewish proverb teaches:
“The instruments of both death and life are in the power of the
tongue.”
As a Jew and as an Israeli, I know with utter certainly that when our
enemies say they want to attack us, they mean it.
Hamas’s genocidal charter calls for the destruction of Israel and the
murder of Jews worldwide. For years, Hamas and other terrorist groups
have sent suicide bombers into our cities, launched rockets into our
towns, and sent terrorists to kidnap and murder our citizens.
And what about the Palestinian Authority?
It is leading a systemic campaign of incitement. In schools, children
are being taught that ‘Palestine’ will stretch from the Jordan River
to the Mediterranean Sea. In mosques, religious leaders are spreading
vicious libels accusing Jews of destroying Muslim holy sites. In
sports stadiums, teams are named after terrorists. And in newspapers,
cartoons urge Palestinians to commit terror attacks against Israelis.
Children in most of the world grow up watching cartoons of Mickey
Mouse singing and dancing.
Palestinian children also grow up watching Mickey Mouse, but on
Palestinians national television, a twisted figure dressed as Mickey
Mouse dances in an explosive belt and chants “Death to America and
death to the Jews.”
I challenge you to stand up here today and do something constructive
for a change. Publically denounce the violence, denounce the
incitement, and denounce the culture of hate.
Most people believe that at its core, the conflict is a battle between
Jews and Arabs or Israelis and Palestinians. They are wrong.
The battle that we are witnessing is a battle between those who
sanctify life and those who celebrate death.
Following the savage attack in a Jerusalem synagogue, celebrations
erupted in Palestinian towns and villages. People were dancing in the
street and distributing candy. Young men posed with axes,
loudspeakers at mosques called out congratulations, and the terrorists
were hailed as “martyrs” and “heroes.”
This isn’t the first time that we saw the Palestinians celebrate the
murder of innocent civilians. We saw them rejoice after every
terrorist attack on Israeli civilians and they even took to the
streets to celebrate the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center
right here in New York City.
Imagine the type of state this society would produce.
Does the Middle East really need another terror-ocracy? Some members
of the international community are aiding and abetting its creation.
Mr. President,
As we came into the United Nations, we passed the flags of all 193
member States. If you take the time to count, you will discover that
there are 15 flags with a crescent and 25 flags with a cross. And
then there is one flag with a Jewish Star of David.
Amidst all the nations of the world there is one state – just one
small nation state for the Jewish people.
And for some people, that is one too many.
As I stand before you today I am reminded of all the years when Jewish
people paid for the world’s ignorance and indifference in blood.
Those days are no more.
We will never apologize for being a free and independent people in our
sovereign state.
And we will never apologize for defending ourselves.
To the nations that continue to allow prejudice to prevail over truth,
I say “J’accuse.”
I accuse you of hypocrisy. I accuse you of duplicity.
I accuse you of lending legitimacy to those who seek to destroy our State.
I accuse you of speaking about Israel’s right of self-defense in
theory, but denying it in practice.
And I accuse you of demanding concessions from Israel, but asking
nothing of the Palestinians.
In the face of these offenses, the verdict is clear. You are not for
peace and you are not for the Palestinian people. You are simply
against Israel.
Members of the international community have a choice to make.
You can recognize Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people, or
permit the Palestinian leadership to deny our history without
consequence.
You can publicly proclaim that the so-called “claim of return” is a
non-starter, or you can allow this claim to remain the major obstacle
to any peace agreement.
You can work to end Palestinian incitement, or stand by as hatred and
extremism take root for generations to come.
You can prematurely recognize a Palestinian state, or you can
encourage the Palestinian Authority to break its pact with Hamas and
return to direct negotiations.
The choice is yours. You can continue to steer the Palestinians off
course or pave the way to real and lasting peace.
Thank you, Mr. President.
Pray for Israel. RB
of Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. and the heart of
the Jewish nation when he told the United Nations they are all
a bunch of hypocrites, in his speech to them recently. How can
anyone explain the world's avoidance of the truth, its partiality
to the Muslims and revulsion toward the nation of Israel, without
the Biblical record and history of the Jews? They can't. Their
undermining of Israel is a direct repudiation of God's Word. You
must understand that the UN is and will be a tool of Satan and his
mask of human flesh... the Antichrist. That is the answer to the
Ambassador's question. Israel is the one and only friend the US
has in the Middle East and few others in the entire world today. RB
Important for all who support freedom, democracy and Christianity.
Delivered to UN General Assembly on
11/24/14) by Ambassador Ron Prosor
Mr. President,
I stand before the world as a proud representative of the State of
Israel and the Jewish people. I stand tall before you knowing that
truth and morality are on my side. And yet, I stand here knowing that
today in this Assembly, truth will be turned on its head and morality
cast aside.
The fact of the matter is that when members of the international
community speak about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a fog descends
to cloud all logic and moral clarity. The result isn’t realpolitik,
its surrealpolitik.
The world’s unrelenting focus on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is
an injustice to tens of millions of victims of tyranny and terrorism
in the Middle East. As we speak, Yazidis, Bahai, Kurds, Christians and
Muslims are being executed and expelled by radical extremists at a
rate of 1,000 people per month.
How many resolutions did you pass last week to address this crisis?
And how many special sessions did you call for? The answer is zero.
What does this say about international concern for human life?
Not much, but it speaks volumes about the hypocrisy of the
international community.
I stand before you to speak the truth. Of the 300 million Arabs in
the Middle East and North Africa, less than half a percent are truly
free - and they are all citizens of Israel.
Israeli Arabs are some of the most educated Arabs in the world. They
are our leading physicians and surgeons, they are elected to our
parliament, and they serve as judges on our Supreme Court.
Millions of men and women in the Middle East would welcome these
opportunities and freedoms.
Nonetheless, nation after nation, will stand at this podium today and
criticize Israel – the small island of democracy in a region plagued
by tyranny and oppression.
Mr. President,
Our conflict has never been about the establishment of a Palestinian
state. It has always been about the existence of the Jewish state.
Sixty seven years ago this week, on November 29, 1947, the United
Nations voted to partition the land into a Jewish state and an Arab
state. Simple. The Jews said yes. The Arabs said no. But they didn’t
just say no. Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Lebanon
launched a war of annihilation against our newborn state.
This is the historical truth that the Arabs are trying to distort. The
Arabs’ historic mistake continues to be felt – in lives lost in war,
lives lost to terrorism, and lives scarred by the Arab’s narrow
political interests.
According to the United Nations, about 700,000 Palestinians were
displaced in the war initiated by the Arabs themselves. At the same
time, some 850,000 Jews were forced to flee from Arab countries.
Why is it, that 67 years later, the displacement of the Jews has been
completely forgotten by this institution while the displacement of the
Palestinians is the subject of an annual debate?
The difference is that Israel did its utmost to integrate the Jewish
refugees into society. The Arabs did just the opposite.
The worst oppression of the Palestinian people takes place in Arab
nations. In most of the Arab world, Palestinians are denied
citizenship and are aggressively discriminated against. They are
barred from owning land and prevented from entering certain
professions.
And yet none - not one - of these crimes are mentioned in the
resolutions before you.
If you were truly concerned about the plight of the Palestinian people
there would be one, just one, resolution to address the thousands of
Palestinians killed in Syria. And if you were so truly concerned
about the Palestinians there would be at least one resolution to
denounce the treatment of Palestinians in Lebanese refugee camps.
But there isn’t.
The reason is that today’s debate is not about speaking for peace or
speaking for the Palestinian people – it is about speaking against
Israel. It is nothing but a hate and bashing festival against Israel.
Mr. President,
The European nations claim to stand for Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité -
freedom, equality, and brotherhood – but nothing could be farther from
the truth.
I often hear European leaders proclaim that Israel has the right to
exist in secure borders. That’s very nice. But I have to say – it
makes about as much sense as me standing here and proclaiming Sweden’s
right to exist in secure borders.
When it comes to matters of security, Israel learned the hard way that
we cannot rely on others – certainly not Europe.
In 1973, on Yom Kippur – the holiest day on the Jewish calendar - the
surrounding Arab nations launched an attack against Israel.
In the hours before the war began, Golda Meir, our Prime Minister
then, made the difficult decision not to launch a preemptive strike.
The Israeli Government understood that if we launched a preemptive
strike, we would lose the support of the international community.
As the Arab armies advanced on every front, the situation in Israel
grew dire. Our casualty count was growing and we were running
dangerously low on weapons and ammunition.
In this, our hour of need, President Nixon and Secretary of State
Henry Kissinger, agreed to send Galaxy planes loaded with tanks and
ammunition to resupply our troops. The only problem was that the
Galaxy planes needed to refuel on route to Israel.
The Arab States were closing in and our very existence was threatened
– and yet, Europe was not even willing to let the planes refuel. The
U.S. stepped in once again and negotiated that the planes be allowed
to refuel in the Azores.
The government and people of Israel will never forget that when our
very existence was at stake, only one country came to our aid – the
United States of America.
Israel is tired of hollow promises from European leaders. The Jewish
people have a long memory. We will never ever forget that you failed
us in the 1940s. You failed us in 1973. And you are failing us again
today.
Every European parliament that voted to prematurely and unilaterally
recognize a Palestinian state is giving the Palestinians exactly what
they want - statehood without peace. By handing them a state on a
silver platter, you are rewarding unilateral actions and taking away
any incentive for the Palestinians to negotiate or compromise or
renounce violence.
You are sending the message that the Palestinian Authority can sit in
a government with terrorists and incite violence against Israel
without paying any price.
The first E.U. member to officially recognize a Palestinian state was
Sweden. One has to wonder why the Swedish Government was so anxious to
take this step.
When it comes to other conflicts in our region, the Swedish
Government calls for direct negotiations between the parties – but for
the Palestinians, surprise, surprise, they roll out the red carpet.
State Secretary Söder may think she is here to celebrate her
government’s so-called historic recognition, when in reality it’s
nothing more than an historic mistake.
The Swedish Government may host the Nobel Prize ceremony, but there is
nothing noble about their cynical political campaign to appease the
Arabs in order to get a seat on the Security Council. Nations on the
Security Council should have sense, sensitivity, and sensibility.
Well, the Swedish Government has shown no sense, no sensitivity and no
sensibility. Just nonsense.
Israel learned the hard way that listening to the international
community can bring about devastating consequences. In 2005, we
unilaterally dismantled every settlement and removed every citizen
from the Gaza Strip.
Did this bring us any closer to peace? Not at all. It paved the way
for Iran to send its terrorist proxies to establish a terror
stronghold on our doorstep.
I can assure you that we won’t make the same mistake again. When it
comes to our security, we cannot and will not rely on others – Israel
must be able to defend itself by itself.
Mr. President,
The State of Israel is the land of our forefathers – Abraham, Isaac,
and Jacob. It is the land where Moses led the Jewish people, where
David built his palace, where Solomon built the Jewish Temple, and
where Isaiah saw a vision of eternal peace.
For thousands of years, Jews have lived continuously in the land of
Israel. We endured through the rise and fall of the Assyrian,
Babylonian, Greek and Roman Empires. And we endured through thousands
of years of persecution, expulsions and crusades. The bond between
the Jewish people and the Jewish land is unbreakable.
Nothing can change one simple truth - Israel is our home and Jerusalem
is our eternal capital.
At the same time, we recognize that Jerusalem has special meaning for
other faiths. Under Israeli sovereignty, all people – and I will
repeat that, all people - regardless of religion and nationality can
visit the city’s holy sites. And we intend to keep it this way. The
only ones trying to change the status quo on the Temple Mount are
Palestinian leaders.
President Abbas is telling his people that Jews are contaminating the
Temple Mount. He has called for days of rage and urged Palestinians
to prevent Jews from visiting the Temple Mount using (quote) “all
means” necessary. These words are as irresponsible as they are
unacceptable.
You don’t have to be Catholic to visit the Vatican, you don’t have to
be Jewish to visit the Western Wall, but some Palestinians would like
to see the day when only Muslims can visit the Temple Mount.
You, the international community, are lending a hand to extremists and fanatics.
You, who preach tolerance and religious freedom, should be ashamed.
Israel will never let this happen.
We will make sure that the holy places remain open to all people of
all faiths for all time.
Mr. President,
No one wants peace more than Israel. No one needs to explain the
importance of peace to parents who have sent their child to defend our
homeland.
No one knows the stakes of success or failure better than we Israelis
do. The people of Israel have shed too many tears and buried too many
sons and daughters.
We are ready for peace, but we are not naïve. Israel’s security is
paramount. Only a strong and secure Israel can achieve a comprehensive
peace.
The past month should make it clear to anyone that Israel has
immediate and pressing security needs. In recent weeks, Palestinian
terrorists have shot and stabbed our citizens and twice driven their
cars into crowds of pedestrians.
Just a few days ago, terrorists armed with axes and a gun savagely
attacked Jewish worshipers during morning prayers. We have reached
the point when Israelis can’t even find sanctuary from terrorism in
the sanctuary of a synagogue.
These attacks didn’t emerge out of a vacuum. They are the results of
years of indoctrination and incitement. A Jewish proverb teaches:
“The instruments of both death and life are in the power of the
tongue.”
As a Jew and as an Israeli, I know with utter certainly that when our
enemies say they want to attack us, they mean it.
Hamas’s genocidal charter calls for the destruction of Israel and the
murder of Jews worldwide. For years, Hamas and other terrorist groups
have sent suicide bombers into our cities, launched rockets into our
towns, and sent terrorists to kidnap and murder our citizens.
And what about the Palestinian Authority?
It is leading a systemic campaign of incitement. In schools, children
are being taught that ‘Palestine’ will stretch from the Jordan River
to the Mediterranean Sea. In mosques, religious leaders are spreading
vicious libels accusing Jews of destroying Muslim holy sites. In
sports stadiums, teams are named after terrorists. And in newspapers,
cartoons urge Palestinians to commit terror attacks against Israelis.
Children in most of the world grow up watching cartoons of Mickey
Mouse singing and dancing.
Palestinian children also grow up watching Mickey Mouse, but on
Palestinians national television, a twisted figure dressed as Mickey
Mouse dances in an explosive belt and chants “Death to America and
death to the Jews.”
I challenge you to stand up here today and do something constructive
for a change. Publically denounce the violence, denounce the
incitement, and denounce the culture of hate.
Most people believe that at its core, the conflict is a battle between
Jews and Arabs or Israelis and Palestinians. They are wrong.
The battle that we are witnessing is a battle between those who
sanctify life and those who celebrate death.
Following the savage attack in a Jerusalem synagogue, celebrations
erupted in Palestinian towns and villages. People were dancing in the
street and distributing candy. Young men posed with axes,
loudspeakers at mosques called out congratulations, and the terrorists
were hailed as “martyrs” and “heroes.”
This isn’t the first time that we saw the Palestinians celebrate the
murder of innocent civilians. We saw them rejoice after every
terrorist attack on Israeli civilians and they even took to the
streets to celebrate the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center
right here in New York City.
Imagine the type of state this society would produce.
Does the Middle East really need another terror-ocracy? Some members
of the international community are aiding and abetting its creation.
Mr. President,
As we came into the United Nations, we passed the flags of all 193
member States. If you take the time to count, you will discover that
there are 15 flags with a crescent and 25 flags with a cross. And
then there is one flag with a Jewish Star of David.
Amidst all the nations of the world there is one state – just one
small nation state for the Jewish people.
And for some people, that is one too many.
As I stand before you today I am reminded of all the years when Jewish
people paid for the world’s ignorance and indifference in blood.
Those days are no more.
We will never apologize for being a free and independent people in our
sovereign state.
And we will never apologize for defending ourselves.
To the nations that continue to allow prejudice to prevail over truth,
I say “J’accuse.”
I accuse you of hypocrisy. I accuse you of duplicity.
I accuse you of lending legitimacy to those who seek to destroy our State.
I accuse you of speaking about Israel’s right of self-defense in
theory, but denying it in practice.
And I accuse you of demanding concessions from Israel, but asking
nothing of the Palestinians.
In the face of these offenses, the verdict is clear. You are not for
peace and you are not for the Palestinian people. You are simply
against Israel.
Members of the international community have a choice to make.
You can recognize Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people, or
permit the Palestinian leadership to deny our history without
consequence.
You can publicly proclaim that the so-called “claim of return” is a
non-starter, or you can allow this claim to remain the major obstacle
to any peace agreement.
You can work to end Palestinian incitement, or stand by as hatred and
extremism take root for generations to come.
You can prematurely recognize a Palestinian state, or you can
encourage the Palestinian Authority to break its pact with Hamas and
return to direct negotiations.
The choice is yours. You can continue to steer the Palestinians off
course or pave the way to real and lasting peace.
Thank you, Mr. President.
Pray for Israel. RB
