Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: "I want to talk to you about appeasement then and appeasement now. Before World War 2, the western countries tried to appease Hitler. He said, " Just give me a piece of Czechoslovakia and I'll make peace with you," and they cowed, and they bowed, and they yielded. And they gave Hitler a piece of Czechoslovakia and you know what happened next. Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia and then started the worst war in the History of the world- World War 2. Well, today the west is telling Israel, " Just give the Palestinians a piece of Israel and they'll make peace with you." No, they won't. For the last century they've been offered a state of their own and they refused because their goal is not to create a state for themselves. It's to destroy the state of ours, the Jewish state. That's their national goal. So, we're not going, we're not going to commit national suicide. We will not bow to foreign critics who lack the courage to face their own enemies, yet lecture us on how to face ours. We will not reward terror. We will defeat it. And the Jewish people will live free, strong, eternal, in our land." Video: GPO
PM Netanyahu: "I want to talk to you about appeasement then and appeasement now."
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: "I want to talk to you about appeasement then and appeasement now. Before World War 2, the western countries tried to appease Hitler. He said, " Just give me a piece of Czechoslovakia and I'll make peace with you," and they cowed, and they bowed, and they yielded. And they gave Hitler a piece of Czechoslovakia and you know what happened next. Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia and then started the worst war in the History of the world- World War 2. Well, today the west is telling Israel, " Just give the Palestinians a piece of Israel and they'll make peace with you." No, they won't. For the last century they've been offered a state of their own and they refused because their goal is not to create a state for themselves. It's to destroy the state of ours, the Jewish state. That's their national goal. So, we're not going, we're not going to commit national suicide. We will not bow to foreign critics who lack the courage to face their own enemies, yet lecture us on how to face ours. We will not reward terror. We will defeat it. And the Jewish people will live free, strong, eternal, in our land." Video: GPO