Prime Minister Netanyahu speaks to AIPAC
Here's Prime Minister Netanyahu speaking to AIPAC. The speech was at 5:00 am Israel time and was broadcast live on the radio, but for those of you who were asleep then, let's go to the videotape.Does he seem pumped, or what? (And so do they - it feels like the 7th game of the World Series).
UPDATE 8:20 AM
I want to emphasize this:
Then, dramatically, he displayed copies of an exchange of letters between the World Jewish Congress and the US War Department at the height of the Holocaust in 1944 that implored the US government to bomb Auschwitz.Indeed.
Netanyahu read from the letters: “Such an operation could be executed only by diverting considerable air support essential to the success of our forces elsewhere," he read, “and in any case would be of such doubtful efficacy that it would not warrant the use of our resources. And here’s the most remarkable sentence of all,” Netanyahu said. “And I quote, ‘Such an effort might provoke even more vindictive action by the Germans.'”
“Think about that, ‘even more vindictive action, than the Holocaust,” Netanyahu declared. “My Friends, this is not 1944. The American government today is different. You heard it in President Obama's speech yesterday. But here's my point. The Jewish people are also different. Today we have a state of our own. The purpose of the Jewish state is to secure the Jewish future. That is why Israel must always have the ability to defend itself, by itself, against any threat...”
Netanyahu reiterated what he said earlier in public statements before meeting Obama: “We must always remain the masters of our fate.”
Labels: AIPAC, Binyamin Netanyahu
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 8:10 AM
2 Comments:
Hi Carl.
Your PM was right to bring up this part of the Holocaust.
And luckely things are different now.
Let me end with this movie quote:"Quod facimus in vita resonat in aeternum. (What we do in life, echoes in eternity). ~ Gladiator.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu….I sincerely admire you for your firm speeches and your pride in our Nation. Please stick to your words. I am proud to know we have a great PM like you. May G-d Bless you and your family and nation of Israel. One small favor not now and never to give up one cm of land. Let the world turn upside down.
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