Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a combative speech at the United Nations General Assembly on Sept 27, saying that his country has “no choice” but to fight back against Hezbollah in Lebanon and his country is winning the war, as hopes faded for a ceasefire in the Middle East.
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00:00The Assembly will hear an address by His Excellency Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of the State of Israel.
00:12Order, please.
00:16Ladies and gentlemen, order.
00:24I didn't intend to come here this year.
00:28My country is at war, fighting for its life.
00:34But after I heard the lies and slanders leveled at my country by many of the speakers at this podium,
00:46I decided to come here and set the record straight.
00:51Israel seeks peace. Israel yearns for peace.
00:56Israel has made peace and will make peace again.
01:04I want to assure you, we will not rest until the remaining hostages are brought home too.
01:11I have a message for the tyrants of Tehran.
01:15If you strike us, we will strike you.
01:19There is no place in Iran that the long arm of Israel cannot reach.
01:34And that's true of the entire Middle East.
01:37This is the map I presented here last year.
01:41It's a map of a blessing.
01:43It shows Israel and its Arab partners forming a land bridge connecting Asia and Europe between the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea.
01:57Across this bridge, we will lay rail lines, energy pipelines, fiber optic cables, and this will serve the betterment of two billion people.
02:10Now look at this second map.
02:14It's a map – look at this second map.
02:18It's a map of a curse.
02:20Iran's malignant arc has shut down international waterways.
02:25It cuts off trade.
02:27It destroys millions, destroys nations from within, and inflicts misery on millions.
02:34On the one hand, a bright blessing, a future of hope.
02:42And I have another message for this assembly and for the world outside this hall.
02:47We are winning.
02:50Because if Hamas stays in power, it will regroup, rearm, and attack Israel again and again and again, as it has vowed to do.
02:59So Hamas has got to go.
03:02I said to the people of Lebanon this week, get out of the deathtrap that Hezbollah has put you in.
03:08Don't let Nasrallah drag Lebanon into the abyss.
03:12We're not at war with you.
03:14We're at war with Hezbollah, which has hijacked your country and threatens to destroy ours.
03:19As long as Hezbollah chooses the path of war, Israel has no choice and Israel has every right to remove this threat and return our citizens to their homes safely.
03:31And that's exactly what we're doing.