A must read. Take the time to sit and read this word for word...It says it all
to all jews and non jews...
PRIME MINISTER'S SPEECH
July 31, 2006
Ladies and gentlemen, leaders of the world. I, the Prime Minister of Israel, am
speaking to you from Jerusalem in the face of the terrible pictures from Kfar
Kana. Any human heart, wherever it is, must sicken and recoil at the sight of
such pictures. There are no words of comfort that can mitigate the enormity of
this tragedy. Still, I am looking you straight in the eye and telling you that
the State of Israel will continue its military campaign in Lebanon.
The Israel Defense Forces will continue to attack targets from which missiles
and Katyusha rockets are fired at hospitals, old age homes and kindergartens in
Israel. I have instructed the security forces and the IDF to continue to hunt
for the Katyusha stockpiles and launch sites from which these savages are
bombarding the State of Israel.
We will not hesitate, we will not apologize and we will not back off. If they
continue to launch missiles into Israel from Kfar Kana, we will continue to bomb
Kfar Kana. Today, tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. Here, there and
everywhere. The children of Kfar Kana could now be sleeping peacefully in their
homes, unmolested, had the agents of the devil not taken over their land and
turned the lives of our children into hell.
Ladies and gentlemen, it's time you understood: the Jewish state will no longer
be trampled upon. We will no longer allow anyone to exploit population centers
in order to bomb our citizens. No one will be able to hide anymore behind women
and children in order to kill our women and children. This anarchy is over. You
can condemn us, you can boycott us, you can stop visiting us and, if necessary,
we will stop visiting you.
A voice for six million citizens
Today I am serving as the voice of six million bombarded Israeli citizens who
serve as the voice of six million murdered Jews who were melted down to dust and
ashes by savages in Europe. In both cases, those responsible for these evil acts
were, and are, barbarians devoid of all humanity, who set themselves one simple
goal: to wipe the Jewish race off the face of the earth, as Adolph Hitler said,
or to wipe the State of Israel off the map, as Mahmoud Ahmedinjad proclaims.
And you - just as you did not take those words seriously then, you are ignoring
them again now. And that, ladies and gentlemen, leaders of the world, will not
happen again. Never again will we wait for bombs that never came to hit the gas
chambers. Never again will we wait for salvation that never arrives. Now we have
our own air force. The Jewish people are now capable of standing up to those who
seek their destruction - those people will no longer be able to hide behind
women and children. They will no longer be able to evade their responsibility.
Every place from which a Katyusha is fired into the State of Israel will be a
legitimate target for us to attack. This must be stated clearly and publicly,
once and for all. You are welcome to judge us, to ostracize us, to boycott us
and to vilify us. But to kill us? Absolutely not.
Four months ago I was elected by hundreds of thousands of citizens to the office
of Prime Minister of the government of Israel, on the basis of my plan for
unilaterally withdrawing from 90 percent of the areas of Judea and Samaria, the
birth place and cradle of the Jewish people; to end most of the occupation and
to enable the Palestinian people to turn over a new leaf and to calm things down
until conditions are ripe for attaining a permanent settlement between us.
The Prime Minister who preceded me, Ariel Sharon, made a full withdrawal from
the Gaza Strip back to the international border, and gave the Palestinians there
a chance to build a new reality for themselves. The Prime Minister who preceded
him, Ehud Barak, ended the lengthy Israeli presence in Lebanon and pulled the
IDF back to the international border, leaving the land of the cedars to
flourish, develop and establish its democracy and its economy.
WWhat did the State of Israel get in exchange for all of this? Did we win even
one minute of quiet? Was our hand, outstretched in peace, met with a handshake
of encouragement? Ehud Barak's peace initiative at Camp David let loose on us a
wave of suicide bombers who smashed and blew to pieces over 1,000 citizens, men,
women and children. I don't remember you being so enraged then. Maybe that
happened because we did not allow TV close-ups of the dismembered body parts of
the Israeli youngsters at the Dolphinarium? Or of the shattered lives of the
people butchered while celebrating the Passover seder at the Park Hotel in
Netanya? What can you do - that's the way we are. We don't wave body parts at
the camera. We grieve quietly.
We do not dance on the roofs at the sight of the bodies of our enemy's children
- we express genuine sorrow and regret. That is the monstrous behavior of our
enemies. Now they have risen up against us. Tomorrow they will rise up against
you. You are already familiar with the murderous taste of this terror. And you
will taste more.
In a loud and clear voice
And Ariel Sharon's withdrawal from Gaza. What did it get us? A barrage of Kassem
missiles fired at peaceful settlements and the kidnapping of soldiers. Then too,
I don't recall you reacting with such alarm. And for six years, the withdrawal
from Lebanon has drawn the vituperation and crimes of a dangerous, extremist
Iranian agent, who took over an entire country in the name of religious
fanaticism and is trying to take Israel hostage on his way to Jerusalem - and
from there to Paris and London.
An enormous terrorist infrastructure has been established by Iran on our border,
threatening our citizens, growing stronger before our very eyes, awaiting the
moment when the land of the Ayatollahs becomes a nuclear power in order to bring
us to our knees. And make no mistake - we won't go down alone. You, the leaders
of the free and enlightened world, will go down along with us.
So today, here and now, I am putting an end to this parade of hypocrisy. I don't
recall such a wave of reaction in the face of the 100 citizens killed every
single day in Iraq. Sunnis kill Shiites who kill Sunnis, and all of them kill
Americans - and the world remains silent. And I am hard pressed to recall a
similar reaction when the Russians destroyed entire villages and burned down
large cities in order to repress the revolt in Chechnya. And when NATO bombed
Kosovo for almost three months and crushed the civilian population - then you
also kept silent. What is it about us, the Jews, the minority, the persecuted,
that arouses this cosmic sense of justice in you? What do we have that all the
others don't?
In a loud clear voice, looking you straight in the eye, I stand before you
openly and I will not apologize. I will not capitulate. I will not whine. This
is a battle for our freedom. For our humanity. For the right to lead normal
lives within our recognized, legitimate borders. It is also your battle. I pray
and I believe that now you will understand that. Because if you don't, you may
regret it later, when it's too late.
