his speech<\/a> on Friday before the United Nations General Assembly\u2014after the P.A. observers and fellow Muslim rejectionists staged a silly walkout, then ran to watch the presentation on TV in another room\u2014\u201dNearly 90% of Palestinians supported [Hamas\u2019s] Oct. 7 attack.\u201d<\/p>\nHe went on to stress to the \u201cleaders of France, Britain, Australia, Canada and other countries [that] unconditionally recognized a Palestinian state\u201d that the Palestinians\u2014\u201dboth in Gaza and in Judea and Samaria, the \u2018West Bank,\u2019 as you call it\u201d\u2014not only supported the atrocity, but \u201ccelebrated [it]. They danced on the rooftops; they threw candies \u2026 just the way they celebrated another horror: 9\/11.\u201d<\/p>\n
Netanyahu proceeded to excoriate the leaders recognizing a Palestinian state for conveying the \u201cvery clear message [that] murdering Jews pays off.\u201d<\/p>\n
He continued, \u201cWhen the most savage terrorists on earth are effusively praising your decision, you didn\u2019t do something right; you did something wrong. Horribly wrong. Your disgraceful decision will encourage terrorism against Jews and against innocent people everywhere. It will be a mark of shame on all of you.\u201d<\/p>\n
He then addressed the claims of those professing to \u201cbelieve in a two-state solution, where the Jewish State of Israel will live side by side in peace with a Palestinian state.\u201d<\/p>\n
Yes, well, he said, \u201cThere\u2019s only one problem with that. The Palestinians don\u2019t believe in this solution. They never have. They don\u2019t want a state next to Israel. They want a Palestinian state instead of Israel. That\u2019s why every time they were offered a Palestinian state but were required to end the conflict with Israel and recognize the Jewish state, every time over the decades, they turned it down. That is why every time they were given territory, they used it to attack us. In fact, they effectively had a Palestinian state\u2014in Gaza.\u201d<\/p>\n
What\u2014he asked\u2014\u201ddid they do with that state? Peace? Coexistence?\u201d<\/p>\n
No\u2014he answered\u2014\u201dthey attacked us time and time again, totally unprovoked. They fired rockets into our cities; they murdered our children; they turned Gaza into a terror base from which they committed the Oct. 7 massacre.\u201d<\/p>\n
Here, he presented the \u201cuncomfortable truth: The persistent Palestinian rejection of a Jewish state in any boundary is what has driven this conflict for over a century. It is still driving it. It\u2019s not the absence of a Palestinian state; it\u2019s the presence of a Jewish state.\u201d<\/p>\n
Thankfully, he emphasized that that the \u201cso-called moderate\u201d P.A.\u2014with its pay-for-slay policy and other forms of terror-glorification\u2014is not better than Hamas. And that its promises over the years to undergo reform are empty.<\/p>\n
This reminder was especially important given Abbas\u2019s reiteration of those false vows in his video oratory on Sept. 22 at the UNGA. Naturally, it was dripping with typical deception about a commitment to the \u201crule of law,\u201d while filled with lies about Israel.<\/p>\n
There was one honest thread throughout, however: open disdain and loathing for the Jewish state. Nothing new there.<\/p>\n
Even the Israeli left has been having a tough time ignoring this reality, as hard as it might try. This explains its campaign to portray Netanyahu as a villain, rather than attempting the harder task of praising Abbas. The best it can muster is referring to some made-up Palestinian entity or group who will be responsible for governing Gaza when the war is over.<\/p>\n
Netanyahu, who concluded on an optimistic note about peace in the Middle East with \u201cforward- looking Arab and Muslim leaders,\u201d highlighted that \u201cgiving the Palestinians a state one mile from Jerusalem after Oct. 7 is like giving Al Qaeda a state one mile from New York City after Sept. 11.\u201d<\/p>\n
Calling this \u201csheer madness,\u201d he declared, \u201cIsrael will not allow you to shove a terror state down our throats. We will not commit national suicide because you don\u2019t have the guts to face down a hostile media and antisemitic mobs demanding Israel\u2019s blood.\u201d<\/p>\n
Amen.<\/p>\n
Netanyahu was articulating what most Israelis have come to accept: that Abba Eban was wrong. The Palestinians take every opportunity to kill and turn the world against Jews.<\/p>\n
Ruthie Blum, a former adviser at the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is an award-winning columnist and a senior contributing editor at JNS<\/em><\/p>\n
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