At the UN Netanyahu claims Israel as a “bulwark of civilization”, attacks Europe and United Nations and warns: the Islamist threat concerns the West
On the podium of the United Nations General Assembly, Benjamin Netanyahu He staged a speech destined to leave his mark. The Israeli premier has chosen solemn tones, intertwining national pride, historical claims and severe accusations to those who, in the same rooms, condemns Israel. “I am here not like a refugee or a pleading – he said – but as the prime minister of a reborn Jewish state, free, strong and prosperous in his ancestral homeland”. The speech opened with a millennial call: the centuries of exile, the prayers aimed at Jerusalemthe tragedy of the Shoah which brushed almost half of the Jewish people. Still, he remembered Netanyahu, “Today we have returned, despite everything, to build a flourishing democracy.” A democracy that, according to him, contributes to the world more than he receives in return. Netanyahu insisted on the concept of uniqueness. Israel, he said, is not a “colonial outpost”, but “the oldest return home in recorded history”. He evoked biblical figures – Abraham, King David, Isaiah – To reiterate that “the Jewish roots in this land are deeper than any border or constitution”. Hence the “simple truth” claimed strongly: Israel has transformed “the sand into flowers, the desert into prosperity” thanks to agricultural, technological and scientific innovations. Recalled Israeli leadership in the desalination of water, in the cyber-siciness, in artificial intelligence and in the medicine. “We are among the happiest countries in the world,” he underlined, “despite we are surrounded by threats”.
Defense and military ethics
A central chapter was dedicated to the military question. Netanyahu He reiterated that Israel “has never started a war”, but has always fought with “moral clarity and discipline”. He described the practice, now known, to warn civilians before bombing through flyers, phone calls and text messages: «Perhaps we are the only nation that does it. We create humanitarian corridors, even we nourish our enemies ». The ethical contrast has been strongly marked: by one Hamas starts And other Palestinian groups who “target our children”, on the other Israeli doctors who cure Palestinian patients in the Hospitals of the Jewish state. “In Israel Medicine is not political, it is humanity, “he said, instead denouncing episodes of anti -Semitism in Westas in Great Britain And Australia, Where health personnel would have refused to treat Jewish patients. Even in Israeli prisons, he claimed NetanyahuThe comparison with the Palestinian territories would be overwhelming: “Many prisoners prefer to remain in our prisons, where they have more rights and dignity, rather than returning under their leaders”.
Frontal attack on the UN and Europe
There was no lack of controversy against the audience. “This room is full of contradictions: dictators who speak of freedom, sponsor of terror that condemn self -defense,” he accused Netanyahu. He defined hostility towards Israel “a mixture of anti -Semitism and jealousy”: “We have reconstructed a nation from the ashes of the genocide, and this feeds the resentment behind your infinite resolutions”. To strengthen the message, he mentioned external testimonies, such as that of Mudar Zahranexponent of the Palestinian diaspora in Jordan, who had denounced the European hypocrisy: “You are indignant for the” evil Zionists ” – he remembered Zahran – But you are silent about the oppression that we suffer from Arab regimes ». Also the United Kingdom ended up in the sights, with the reference to a video from London in which an elderly woman was arrested after criticizing a Muslim prayer widespread on the street. “It was she who felt a guest on her island,” he said Netanyahucontrasting that image to the integration of Israeli Arabs: «In israel They sit in Parliament, in the courts, in hospitals, even in the armed forces. And they don’t run away, they stay with us, because they know that here, paradoxically, it is the best place for an Arabic throughout the Middle East».
The final warning: the Islamist threat
The closure was a warning to theWest. Israel, supported the premier, has known the face of jihadism: «We know how recruit, how it hides, as it hits. And we know this: it will not stop with us ». The creation of a Palestinian state would not be the answer, because “the conflict has nothing to do with borders or lands, but with the clash between civilizations and barbarisms, between freedom and fanaticism”. In an assembly that in recent months has seen formal awards grow to a Palestinian state, Netanyahu He chose the opposite way: to deny that peace depends on the geography and say that Israel is, and will remain, a bulwark against the global Islamist threat. «We are not a regional problem – he concluded – we are a garrison of civilization against the fanaticism that also threatens your companies».
