Great Recent Speech by the Israeli PM....

Subject: Great Recent Speech by the Israeli PM....

"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 be sickened 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.

his 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 people

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 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.

"What 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.

"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

burnt 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.

ISRAEL AND JERUSALEM FACTS

1. ISRAEL BECAME A STATE IN 1312 B.C., TWO MILLENNIA
BEFORE ISLAM.

2. ARAB REFUGEES FROM ISRAEL BEGAN CALLING

THEMSELVES "PALESTINIANS" IN 1967, TWO DECADES

AFTER (MODERN) ISRAELI STATEHOOD.

3. AFTER CONQUERING THE LAND IN 1272 B.C., JEWS
RULED IT FOR A THOUSAND YEARS AND MAINTAINED A

CONTINUOUS PRESENCE THERE FOR MORE THAN 3,200 YEARS.

4. THE ONLY ARAB RULE FOLLOWING CONQUEST IN 633 B.C.
LASTED JUST 22 YEARS.

5. FOR OVER 3,200 YEARS, JERUSALEM WAS THE JEWISH
CAPITAL. IT WAS NEVER THE CAPITAL OF ANY ARAB OR

MUSLIM ENTITY. EVEN UNDER JORDANIAN RULE,
(EAST) JERUSALEM WAS NOT MADE THE CAPITAL, AND NO
ARAB LEADER CAME TO VISIT IT.

6. JERUSALEM IS MENTIONED OVER 700 TIMES IN THE
BIBLE, BUT NOT ONCE IS IT MENTIONED IN THE QUR'AN.

7.KING DAVID FOUNDED JERUSALEM; MOHAMMED NEVER

SET FOOT IN IT.

8. JEWS PRAY FACING JERUSALEM; MUSLIMS FACE MECCA.
IF THEY ARE BETWEEN THE TWO CITIES, MUSLIMS PRAY FACING MECCA, WITH THEIR BACKS TO JERUSALEM.

9. IN 1948, ARAB LEADERS URGED THEIR PEOPLE TO
LEAVE, PROMISING TO CLEANSE THE LAND OF JEWISH

PRESENCE. 68% OF THEM FLED WITHOUT EVER
SETTING EYES ON AN ISRAELI SOLDIER.

10. ON THE OTHER HAND, VIRTUALLY THE ENTIRE

JEWISH POPULATION OF MUSLIM COUNTRIES HAD

TO FLEE AS THE RESULT OF VIOLENCE AND POGROMS.

11. SOME 630,000 ARABS LEFT ISRAEL IN 1948, WHILE
CLOSE TO A MILLION JEWS WERE FORCED TO LEAVE

THE MUSLIM COUNTRIES.

12. IN SPITE OF THE VAST TERRITORIES AT THEIR
DISPOSAL, ARAB REFUGEES WERE DELIBERATELY

PREVENTED FROM ASSIMILATING INTO THEIR HOST

COUNTRIES. OF 100 MILLION REFUGEES FOLLOWING

WORLD WAR 2, THEY ARE THE ONLY GROUP TO HAVE

NEVER INTEGRATED WITH THEIR CO-RELIGIONISTS.
MOST OF THE JEWISH REFUGEES FROM EUROPE AND

ARAB LANDS WERE SETTLED IN ISRAEL, A COUNTRY
NO LARGER THAN NEW JERSEY STATE.

13. THERE ARE 22 MUSLIM COUNTRIES, NOT COUNTING
PALESTINE WHILST THERE IS ONLY ONE JEWISH STATE.

ARABS STARTED ALL FIVE WARS AGAINST ISRAEL, AND

LOST EVERY ONE OF THEM.

14. FATAH AND HAMAS CONSTITUTIONS STILL CALL

FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF ISRAEL. ISRAEL CEDED MOST

OF THE WEST BANK AND ALL OF GAZA TO THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY, EVEN PROVIDED IT WITH ARMS.

15. DURING THE JORDANIAN OCCUPATION, JEWISH

HOLY SITES WERE VANDALIZED AND WERE OFF LIMITS

TO JEWS. UNDER ISRAELI RULE, ALL MUSLIM AND

CHRISTIAN HOLY SITES ARE ACCESSIBLE TO ALL FAITHS.

16. OUT OF 175 UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL
RESOLUTIONS UP TO 1990, 97 WERE AGAINST ISRAEL;

OUT OF 690 GENERAL ASSEMBLY RESOLUTIONS, 429
WERE AGAINST ISRAEL.

18. THE U.N. WAS SILENT WHEN THE JORDANIANS DESTROYED

58 SYNAGOGUES IN THE OLD CITY OF JERUSALEM. IT REMAINED

SILENT WHILE JORDAN SYSTEMATICALLY DESECRATED THE ANCIENT JEWISH CEMETERY ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES, AND IT REMAINED SILENT WHEN JORDAN ENFORCED APARTHEID LAWS PREVENTING

JEWS FROM ACCESSING THE TEMPLE MOUNT AND WESTERN WALL.

THESE ARE TRYING TIMES. WE MUST ASK OURSELVES

WHAT WE SHOULD BE DOING, AND WHAT WE WILL

TELL OUR GRANDCHILDREN ABOUT OUR ACTIONS

DURING THIS CRISIS, WHEN WE HAVE THE CHANCE

TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE.

START NOW! SEND THIS MESSAGE TO 20 FRIENDS, AND ASK
EACH OF THEM TO SEND IT TO 20 MORE. JEWISH OR NOT,

IT DOES NOT MATTER.

TRUTH AND PEACE ARE VALUES COMMON TO ALL OF US.

EVERYONE MUST KNOW!