(Prime Minister's Office) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the UN General Assembly on Friday: Iran's terror axis threatened the peace of the entire world and the very existence of my country, Israel. So what's happened over the past year? Half the Houthi leadership in Yemen - gone. Yahya Sinwar in Gaza - gone. Hasan Nasrallah in Lebanon - gone. The Assad regime in Syria - gone. And Iran's top military commanders and its top atomic bomb scientists are gone too. President Trump and I promised to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons and we delivered on that promise. Much of the world no longer remembers October 7th. But Israel remembers. These monsters took more than 250 people hostage. So far, we've brought home 207 of these hostages. But 48 still remain in the dungeons of Gaza. To the remaining Hamas leaders, and to the jailors of our hostages, I now say: Let my people go! Free all the hostages now! If you do, you will live. If you don't, Israel will hunt you down. Israel did what any self-respecting nation would do in the wake of such a savage attack. We fought back. Imagine a terror regime dispatching thousands of terrorists to invade the U.S. In an attack proportionate to the attack against Israel on October 7th, they massacre 40,000 Americans. They take 10,000 Americans hostage. Do you think America would leave that regime standing? Not a chance! The U.S. would wipe out that terror regime and ensure that such savagery would never threaten America again. This is precisely what Israel is doing in Gaza. Our enemies hate all of us with equal venom. They want to drag the modern world back to the past, to a dark age of violence, fanaticism, and terror. You know deep down that Israel is fighting your fight. Behind closed doors, many of the leaders who publicly condemn us, privately thank us. They tell me how much they value Israel's superb intelligence services that have prevented time and again terrorist attacks in their capitals, saving countless lives. Giving the Palestinians a state one mile from Jerusalem after October 7th is like giving al-Qaeda a state one mile from New York City after September 11th. This is sheer madness. It's insane, and we won't do it. Israel will not allow you to shove a terror state down our throats. We will not commit national suicide because you don't have the guts to face down a hostile media and antisemitic mobs demanding Israel's blood.
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