Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu landed on Thursday in New York, where he will address the United Nations General Assembly before meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House.
“At the Assembly, I will speak the truth—the truth of Israel’s citizens, the truth of IDF soldiers, the truth of our state,” said Netanyahu before his departure early Thursday morning. “I will denounce those leaders who, instead of condemning the murderers, rapists and child-burners, seek to grant them a state in the heart of the Land of Israel. That will not happen.”
On Wednesday night, Netanyahu condemned the recognition of a Palestinian state by several Western countries—including France, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Portugal, Belgium, Luxembourg, Malta and Monaco—as a “shameful surrender,” asserting that capitulating to Palestinian terrorism would not obligate Israel in any way.
“A Palestinian state will not be established,” he declared.
Netanyahu said that in Washington he would meet for the fourth time with Trump to discuss the opportunities created by Israel’s recent victories, as well as the need to complete the objectives of the war: securing the return of all 48 hostages, defeating Hamas and expanding the circle of peace.
“This is also an opportunity to wish you, citizens of Israel and the Jewish people as a whole, a happy new year—a year of security, prosperity, and peace,” added the premier.
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Danny Danon, the Jewish state’s representative to the United Nations, hailed Netanyahu’s trip to the United States as “an important visit for the State of Israel, especially at this moment in time, when we hear too many false voices from the U.N. podium.”
“The prime minister’s speech at the General Assembly will strengthen our position and make clear to the world: Israel is fighting on all fronts, and its security is not up for debate,” according to Danon.
Religious Zionism lawmaker Michal Woldiger told JNS on Friday that Netanyahu must make clear to Trump that Arab countries cannot be trusted to replace Hamas in governing the Gaza Strip.
“We have no trust in Qatar or in any of our neighbors to the east,” she said. “Our soldiers did not fall to transfer Gaza to an Arab government that encourages terrorism or at least is indifferent to it.”
Woldiger also emphasized the importance of applying Israeli sovereignty to Judea and Samaria.
“This is a move of historic magnitude, not as a response to Oct. 7 or to statements by world leaders. Rather, it is a fundamental, just and necessary truth for Israel’s security and to deter our enemies,” said Woldiger.
“In addition, and no less important: to continue eradicating evil and returning our hostages. The unbearable costs of a deal oblige us to exert more and more pressure on Hamas until it finally decides to surrender and return all the hostages home,” she added.
Likud lawmaker Tally Gotliv told JNS on Friday that Netanyahu would convey in his U.N. address “Israel’s duty and right to take care of its security on every front, especially in the face of the brutal Hamas.”
She added that the prime minister would also call on the United States “to create every means of pressure to lead to the release of all our hostages and to destroy Hamas, while stressing that we have every right to sovereignty in Judea and Samaria.”
