Netanyahu’s Final Speech as Prime Minister of Israel

Netanyahu’s Final Speech as Prime Minister of Israel
June 13, 2021
Transcript
(provided by www.rev.com)

Excerpts:

…we brought a million vaccines to Israel. There are some people who say that we were obsessive for the lives of citizens...We could do it because we had a special stature. We were the first country in the world to get out of the coronavirus while many other countries, very many other countries, are still under restrictions…

we have brought American recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capitol, the relocation of the American embassy, the recognition of Israel’s sovereignty in the Golan Heights and a change in the policy about the legality of the settlements in Judea and Samaria…

We transformed Israeli into a cyber power, we built a fence, an obstacle on the Sinai border, which blocked an influx of illegal infiltrators from Africa. I think maybe a million. What would have completely obliterated the idea of a Jewish democratic state. It would have simply been abolished, and we also built an underground obstacle that blocked Hamas’s terror tunnels towards the Gaza envelope area…

We have embarked on daring operations deep in enemy soil, from stealing the atomic archives in Iran, and other operations that surpass any imagination, and this is the place I want to thank the IDF, the [foreign language 00:11:58], the [foreign language 00:11:58], the police, who have done God’s work and preserving Israeli’s security…

It’s not a secret the United States plans very soon to return to the dangerous agreement which my colleagues and I completely oppose. I heard what Neftali Bennett said on this matter, and now I am infinitely more worried because Bennett always does the opposite of what he says, of what he promises…

I want to tell you the American administration asked me not to publicly air on our disagreements on these matters. We have disagreements. They asked us to keep them discreet. But with all due respect to our greatest friends and to my old friend going 40 years back, President Joe Biden…The new American administration asked me to keep our disagreements on the nuclear thing, and I’ll tell you why. Because the lessons of history are in front of my eyes. In 1944, at the height of the Holocaust, US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt refused to bomb the railway leading to the extermination camps, and refused to bomb the gas chambers, which could have saved millions of our people. We hoped for others to save us, and they didn’t come. In the face of the threat of extermination, we were helpless…

from the moment the United States returns to the nuclear deal with Iran, the incoming government will not authorize meaningful operations inside Iran in order to prevent its continued armament…
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A government that is incapable of standing up forcefully against the international community on matters that are fateful for us is not worthy of leading Israel even for a single day. That is the incoming government. Iran understands this, too. No wonder they’re celebrating there today. They know that were it not for the efforts that we led, Iran would have had an arsenal of nuclear weapons long ago with the objective of eliminating us. Iran is celebrating because it understands that from today there will be a weak and limp government that will align itself with the dictates of the international community…

Besides Iran, the second challenge facing us is to prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state that will jeopardize our existence. The new administration in the United States is already resuming contacts in this regard. It is already demanding a settlement freeze on Judea and Samaria, a construction freeze in the new Jewish communities in Jerusalem…

Bennett and his party are fake right, but there is one righteous man in this Sodom, Amichai Chikli. He is the only one, the only one in the fake right who remains loyal to his voters’ wishes. He isn’t the defector. You, members of Yamina, you are the defectors.