Addressing the Knesset Plenum during a special sitting in honor of us president Donald Trump on Monday, Prime Minister MK Benjamin Netanyahu (Likud) said “Welcome to Israel, on this emotional day that will be inscribed in the history of our people, and you, Mr. President, will also be inscribed in the history of our people.” Israel, he said, “recognizes your important and decisive role in bringing back the remainder of our hostages today. Just an hour ago, we received the good news that all our living hostages have returned to us. What an emotional moment. How long we have waited for this day, and we are committed to bringing everyone back. On behalf of the entire nation – thank you, president trump!”
Prime Minister MK Netanyahu continued: “This is your first visit to Israel since you recognized Jerusalem as our capital and moved your embassy here. Thank you President Trump for that!” The Prime Minster also thanked President Trump for recognizing Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, for “standing up to the lies against Israel in the United Nations, for “recognizing, in your 2020 peace plan, our rights in Judea and Samaria, the ancestral homeland of the Jewish people,” for “brokering the historic Abraham Accords,” and for “withdrawing from the disastrous Iran nuclear deal.”
Prime Minister MK Netanyahu also thanked President Trump for supporting Operation Rising Lion, and for his “bold decision to launch Operation Midnight Hammer.” Prime Minister MK Netanyahu said, “This is only a partial list, but it’s enough to affirm what I’ve said time and again: Donald Trump is the greatest friend that the State of Israel has ever had in the White House! No American president has ever done more for Israel, and as I said in Washington, it ain’t even close.”
Prime Minister MK Netanyahu said further: “Mr. President, today we welcome you here, thank you for your pivotal leadership, in putting forward a proposal that got the backing of almost the entire world; a proposal that brings all the hostages home; a proposal that ends the war by achieving all our objectives; a proposal that opens the door to a historic expansion of peace in our region, and beyond our region. Mr. President, you are committed to this peace, I am committed to this peace, and together, Mr. President, we will achieve this peace. We’ve done it before, in the [Abraham] Accords, and we’ll do it again.
“Mr. President, today the Jewish calendar marks the end of two years of war. That war began on October 7, on the Jewish festival of Simchat Torah. You always tell me, and you tell the world, ‘Remember October 7.’ Mr. President, we remember. We remember the thousands of Hamad terrorists who stormed into our towns and kibbutzim; we remember the 1,200 people Hamas savagely slaughtered in cold blood, including dozens and dozens of Americans; we remember entire families burned alive as they embraced each other; we remember the beautiful young Israelis brutally gunned down at the Nova music festival; we remember the hundreds of our citizens who were dragged into the dungeons of Gaza, including 12 Americans, men and women, young and old, babies, and elderly Holocaust survivors. My friends, Mr. President, Donald – these monsters take babies as hostages.
“In response to this barbaric attack on October 7, Israel did what it had to do. With indomitable courage, we set out to defend our people, to defeat our enemies, and to release our hostages. Our heroic soldiers fought like lions. They fought on the front lines of civilization and barbarism. Israel achieved amazing victories over Hamas and the entire Iran terror axis. Sinwar, Deif, Haniyeh, Nasrallah, Assad – they’re all gone. Iran’s nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles program, with your enormous help, Mr. President, rolled back. Half the Houthi leadership, wiped out. But the price of this victory – the price of these victories, has been heavy. Nearly 2,000 of Israel’s finest were lost – nearly half in battle.” Prime Minister MK Netanyahu said, “Because of these heroes, our nation will survive; because of these heroes, our nation will thrive, and because of these heroes, our nation will have peace.”
Prime Minister MK Netanyahu said, “With our military pressure, and with President Trump’s global leadership, we’ve achieved this historic moment. It’s a moment of indescribable joy, as our nation embraces our sons who are coming home.”
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