Transcript [00:00] Prime Minister Netanyahu gave a speech [00:01] the other day to the Conference of [00:04] Presidents of major Jewish organizations [00:06] to their gathering in Jerusalem. And I'm [00:09] not going to play the whole speech. It [00:10] was a good speech. Uh he dealt with a [00:12] lot of different issues. It was a [00:14] wide-ranging speech. But I want to play [00:15] an excerpt of it uh where he deals with [00:18] a few issues. Uh and I'm going to pause [00:20] it in between uh two of the issues. So [00:22] first the first section I'm going to [00:24] play he talks about the uh situation [00:27] with Iran and then he talks about the [00:29] situation with with Gaza. [00:32] So let's have a look at that. [00:34] >> Several components that we believe are [00:37] important not only for the security of [00:38] Israel but for the security of the [00:41] world, the United States, the region, [00:43] the world. The first is that all [00:46] enriched material has to uh leave Iran. [00:50] The second is that there shall be no [00:53] enrichment capability. [00:56] Not stopping the enrichment process but [01:00] uh dismantle the equipment and the [01:03] infrastructure that allows you to enrich [01:05] in the first place. And the third is to [01:09] deal also with the questions of [01:11] ballistic missiles. Uh there's an MTCR [01:14] limitation of 300 kilometers. uh and [01:18] Iran is supposed to adhere to it. Of [01:20] course, it doesn't uh as uh the rising [01:23] lion operation by itself manifested. [01:26] Everybody knows that. And the fourth is [01:28] uh stop the dismantle the axis of terror [01:32] that Iran has built. It's been smashed, [01:35] but it's still there. It's trying to [01:37] recover as Iran itself is trying to do. [01:40] Uh and the last thing is you remember [01:42] Ronald Reagan's dictim visa v the Soviet [01:45] Union. [01:47] trust but verify, distrust, distrust and [01:50] always verify. So there has to be real [01:54] uh inspections uh substantive [01:57] inspections uh no lead time inspections [02:00] but effective inspections for all of the [02:03] above. These are the elements that we [02:05] believe are important for the [02:07] achievement of a deal and I presented [02:10] our position very clearly. We've also [02:12] spoke about Gaza. Uh I think uh we set [02:16] out when we went to uh uh we set out on [02:20] after we were massacred on October uh [02:23] 7th we had we set up three goals visav [02:26] Gaza. The first one was to return all [02:28] the hostages. The second was to uh [02:32] disarm or dismantle kamas's military [02:34] capabilities and the third is to [02:36] dismantle kamas's governing [02:38] capabilities. The first has been [02:40] achieved with the help of uh the United [02:43] States and first of all with the help of [02:46] our brave soldiers, our incomparably [02:48] courageous soldiers, [02:56] the support that we got from uh [02:58] President Trump and his team, the [03:00] support we got from you and so many [03:03] around the world, and the decisions that [03:06] we made not to cower and not to submit [03:09] admit to the pressures that were put on [03:10] us from outside and from inside. We [03:13] stood our ground. We got every single [03:16] one of these people out including the [03:18] last hero. The last hero, Rani Gilli, [03:22] incredible hero. Uh but there are so [03:24] many others. We stood our ground there. [03:26] We also stand our ground on the other [03:27] two things that have to happen. Uh, [03:30] under President Trump's 20point plan, [03:32] when we move to phase B, what has to [03:35] happen is that Hamas must first be [03:38] disarmed and then Gaza must be [03:41] demilitarized. Disarmed means that it [03:43] must give up its main its weapons, not [03:47] main weapons. And one of them people [03:49] said heavy weapons. [03:52] There practically no heavy weapons in [03:54] Gaza. There's no artillery. There are no [03:56] tanks. [03:58] There's nothing. The heavy weapon, the [04:01] one that does the most damage, is called [04:04] an AK47. [04:06] Okay, that's it. That's how they execute [04:10] people. That's how they shoot our [04:12] people. That's what they use. Assault [04:14] rifles. That's what they use in the [04:17] massacre of October 7th. That's what [04:19] they use. That's what they they did the [04:22] worst massacre of the Jewish people [04:24] since the Holocaust with AK-47s. [04:26] 60,000 of them. They have to go outside [04:30] obviously RPGs, rockets and so on but [04:33] that's the main weapon uh and that has [04:35] to go. So first disarm kamas and second [04:38] demilitarized Gaza. What does that mean? [04:40] They still have tunnels there. We [04:43] dismantle about 150 km of 500 km of [04:47] tunnels. [04:48] We have to complete the job. That means [04:51] also that you can't hide weapons labs or [04:55] other facilities that they use to rearm [04:58] themselves, regroup and reform, which [05:00] they're trying to do. We're giving the [05:04] president's plan a chance. And he put it [05:06] very succinctly. He said, "It can be [05:09] done the easy way or it can be done the [05:12] hard way. We hope that it'll be done the [05:15] easy way because we know the ravages of [05:18] war. We know what it means uh to lose [05:21] people. We know the human cost of war. [05:24] But that goal has to be achieved one way [05:27] or the other. And one way or the other, [05:30] it will be achieved. [05:36] In the meantime, when there's a [05:37] ceasefire, it doesn't mean that we're we [05:40] can't do anything. They attack us, [05:43] including yesterday and today. We killed [05:45] 13 terrorists. [05:47] We act in response. We don't wait. We [05:51] just do. They don't have a free reign. [05:54] But we are giving them the time. Giving [05:56] the ISF, the international security [05:59] force, [06:03] the international security force and the [06:05] u uh the president's board of peace and [06:09] the various groups, various bodies that [06:12] are under it, giving them the [06:13] opportunity to try to do it the easy [06:16] way. [06:17] again. We shall see and it will be done. [06:21] Gaza will not pose a threat ever again [06:24] to the state of Israel. [06:28] >> Okay. Um I appreciate the sentiment. Uh [06:32] I mean first of all what he said about [06:34] Iran just reiterating what Israel's [06:36] needs are, what Israel's demands are. It [06:38] should also be noted that when uh when [06:41] Prime Minister Netanyahu spoke to the [06:43] Israeli media after his meeting with [06:45] President Trump, he said that he was [06:46] very skeptical that a deal can be [06:48] reached. Uh and u there's been signaling [06:52] from the Israelis, and I've mentioned [06:54] this in a few previous videos. Uh [06:56] there've been signaling from the [06:57] Israelis that they will not uh feel [07:00] bound by commitments made by the [07:03] Americans. meaning if the Americans make [07:04] some sort of commitment that everything [07:06] will be fine with Iran, but Israel's not [07:07] satisfied. Israel will take action. [07:09] Well, at least so they're saying. That's [07:11] what they're signaling right now. So [07:12] that's Iran. I don't want to deal with [07:13] the Iran thing. I think what was very [07:15] interesting in the speech, what we just [07:17] saw, is what he said about Gaza. Let me [07:19] explain. At the beginning of it, he laid [07:21] out that there were three goals. Goals [07:23] of getting back all the hostages. Great. [07:25] We did that. Unbelievable, incredible, [07:27] miraculous. [07:29] the goal of destroying Kamas as a [07:31] military as a military body, as a [07:34] military entity, and also as a governing [07:36] entity. And then he went on to talk [07:37] about the the need to demilitarize Gaza [07:40] and to disarm Kamas and what that means, [07:42] what that looks like in terms ter terms [07:43] of taking away the weapons, what type of [07:45] weapons they have. But you notice there [07:47] that he did not touch on what it means [07:49] to to get rid of Hamas as a governing [07:52] body. And that's where things get a [07:54] little bit dicey. Let me explain. [07:56] You see, yes, Hamas rules over the [07:58] people with their AK-47s, [08:01] but they're also [08:03] currently receiving approximately 600 [08:07] truckloads of humanitarian aid. When [08:11] people hear humanitarian aid, they think [08:12] sandwiches and medicine. Okay, a lot of [08:14] the humanitarian aid is fuel. There's [08:18] building materials in there. There's all [08:19] kinds of stuff in that humanitarian aid. [08:22] Hamas commandeers all of it. They use it [08:25] in all kinds of ways both in terms of [08:27] selling it and as leverage over the [08:29] people in terms of who gets a piece of [08:31] the pie. They govern the people with an [08:33] iron fist because all the all the [08:37] resources because Gaza is basically, you [08:40] know, uh in this holding pattern [08:43] enclosed on all sides by the Israelis [08:46] and they're allowing these trucks in, [08:48] but they go right into Kamas's hands. [08:49] So, Kamas's governing capabilities over [08:53] the people are only getting stronger by [08:55] the day because they're the only they're [08:57] the first uh point of arrival of all of [09:00] the humanitarian aid. [09:02] So, it's very nice to say that we're [09:04] going to disarm Hamas and we're going to [09:05] do it the hard way. We're going to go in [09:07] there. We're going to Okay, understand [09:09] something. No one's taking away Hamas's [09:10] weapons. The only entity that is willing [09:14] to do it is the Israeli army. And that [09:16] means the resumption of the war. [09:17] Understand what this means? There's no [09:20] there's no just taking the weapons away [09:21] from them. It means fullon war. It means [09:25] a resumption of the war means the [09:26] ceasefire is over and the pressure on [09:28] Israel is going to be immense, [09:30] especially because there's no more [09:31] hostages. From the Israeli perspective, [09:33] Israelis say, "Well, there's no [09:34] hostages. We have more freedom of [09:35] action." That might be true in a [09:38] military tactical sense, but in a [09:40] diplomatic sense, not having hostages [09:42] will make it much more difficult to [09:44] fight because the rest of the world's [09:45] going to say, "Hey, you got all your [09:46] hostages back, right? [09:49] Meanwhile, you have this technocratic [09:52] committee put together by the Board of [09:53] Peace that is supposed to govern Gaza [09:55] for the day after with with all these [09:57] Palestinian Authority folks that are on [09:59] it, which hasn't even entered the Gaza [10:01] Strip. They're sitting in Egypt. And I [10:03] made a video on the Israel 365 channel a [10:06] few weeks ago, uh, where I was talking [10:08] about some, uh, what I see coming in [10:12] terms of pressure on Israel in this [10:15] current stage. And I said a few things. [10:17] I said one of the things that we're [10:18] going to see is pressure on Israel [10:22] to [10:24] uh first of all I I mentioned that we're [10:26] going to have Palestinian Authority [10:28] trying to take over there and I made a [10:31] video about that last week where you can [10:34] see that the Palestinian Authority is [10:35] trying to take over. Go to the Israel [10:37] 365 channel. That's a it's a very [10:38] important video uh which which reveals [10:41] everything the Palestinian Authority is [10:42] doing to insinuate themselves into this. [10:45] But I also said another another red flag [10:48] to look out for that I pointed out was [10:50] that Israel would be called upon to [10:52] withdraw from the Gaza Strip [10:55] prematurely. [10:57] And sure enough, we are now seeing uh [11:02] that that exact claim that is that is [11:06] being put forward. It's being put [11:07] forward by the Egyptians. Look at this. [11:10] Let me pull this up on screen. [11:13] Um, let's uh pull this down and add [11:16] this. Here we go. See that? Egypt. What [11:21] does that say there? Egypt says Israel [11:24] withdrawal inseparable from Trump Gaza [11:27] plan. And in the piece it talks about [11:29] how the Egyptians are saying that in [11:30] order to move forward with phase two, [11:32] Israel has to start withdrawing its [11:34] troops, which is, by the way, not what [11:39] the what the Trump 20 plan says. The [11:43] Trump 20point plan is very clear that [11:45] first Hamas has to be completely [11:46] disarmed before Israel withdraws from [11:49] the yellow line where it currently is. [11:51] So we see we have this diplomatic [11:53] pressure building on Israel to withdraw. [11:56] It's it's coming. Israel is going to [11:58] resist. Netanyahu sounded very uh you [12:01] know very clear that we that Israel will [12:03] go in and will disarm Hamas. But [12:06] meanwhile, we're giving them hundreds [12:08] and hundreds of truckloads of of aid, [12:10] which is basically cash, millions of [12:12] dollars every single day, pouring into [12:15] the hands of kamas, strengthening their [12:17] hold on the people. The only way kamas [12:19] will lose its governing authority in [12:22] Gaza is if the population starts to get [12:24] moved. So w with this whole idea of [12:28] building some sort of residential area, [12:31] temporary housing on the Israeli side of [12:33] the yellow line down in Rafa, I'm all in [12:35] favor of that and let's start moving [12:37] population [12:39] to that area. But in order to do that, [12:42] you also have to curtail or cut back or [12:45] cut off the humanitarian aid going into [12:47] the kamas controlled area. and the it [12:50] was a big mistake to drop the model [12:53] where people had to go out of the kamas [12:55] controlled areas to get the aid which is [12:56] what Israel was doing for months and [12:58] months before this ceasefire. So it's [13:00] very nice for for Prime Minister [13:02] Netanyahu to say that we are going to [13:04] remove kamas as a governing entity um [13:07] but short of just a fullon resumption of [13:09] the war and going in and conquering Gaza [13:11] because that's what it's going to take. [13:12] Kamas is not going to lay down a weapon. [13:14] They will fight to the death and that [13:16] means actual urban warfare resumption of [13:21] the war going in there and the IDF will [13:24] have to will have to conquer the entire [13:26] Gaza Strip and the rest of the world [13:27] will correctly see that as a full-on [13:30] resumption of the war. This is a very uh [13:33] tense situation. And while Prime [13:36] Minister Neta says, "Well, if they're [13:38] not going to do it the easy way, we'll [13:39] just go ahead and do it the hard way." [13:40] And he's making it sound like just, [13:41] "Yeah, we'll make the decision and we'll [13:43] go in." there's a lot there's going to [13:45] be a lot of pressure on Israel uh that's [13:48] going to make that a very very difficult [13:50] proposition. So I you know I pray that [13:53] he's right. Uh but uh whatever we'll [13:57] wait and see. Now then at this point in [13:59] the speech he pivoted to talk about a [14:02] topic that's very near and dear to me [14:03] and I've talked about this in my videos [14:05] about Israel's changed status that with [14:08] everything else that's gone on in the [14:10] war how Israel has become a regional [14:12] superpower. He did not use those uh that [14:15] terminology but look at what Prime [14:17] Minister Netanyahu had to say at this [14:19] point in the speech. [14:25] Now obviously we have we have other [14:27] fronts. The most important one is the [14:31] front of uh vilification to the Jewish [14:34] state and the Jewish people and the [14:36] rampant anti-semitism which I'll talk [14:37] about in a minute. But u I want to bring [14:40] to your attention what is happening [14:42] because you will not know it. If you [14:44] turn on the uh television stations and [14:47] so on depends which of course you [14:49] wouldn't know what is happening here. [14:52] The most important thing that is [14:53] happening is that people are coming to [14:54] us nations are coming to us [14:58] companies are coming to us. [15:01] Enormous [15:03] economic powers are coming to us. Israel [15:06] has been ranked by the economist, not a [15:09] particular fan of me or the state of [15:12] Israel in recent years, but it ranked [15:14] the Israeli economy among the three most [15:16] vibrant economies in the world just now. [15:19] Now, this comes after 2 years of war. [15:24] Two years. It's our longest war. It's [15:26] even longer than the war of [15:28] independence. two years of being savaged [15:32] in the international media and so on in [15:34] the UN and all these associate bodies. [15:37] Our economy is growing rapidly. [15:40] Our stock market is at an all-time high. [15:43] The shekele versus the dollar is at [15:46] almost at a 30-year high. Inflation is [15:49] going down. There's very little of it. [15:52] Uh interest rates have gone down. Not [15:55] enough more, but it's at 4% now. it'll [15:58] go down further and the investments in [16:01] Israel are huge. Now, why is that [16:04] happening? One, because we run the [16:06] economy responsibly. We know how to do [16:08] that. Two, because we have the war [16:11] showed, the war showed the prowess of [16:14] Israel, the enormous capacities here, [16:17] the high-tech, deep tech uh capabilities [16:21] that astonished the world. That is not [16:23] only in the military field. It has [16:26] immediate consequences in the civilian [16:28] field and people understand it. So they [16:31] come here. Now said countries come here. [16:36] Chancellor of Germany was here and his [16:38] initiative. We'd like to talk to you [16:41] about our defense industry in which they [16:43] want to invest a very very large amount [16:47] of money. Who's coming here next week? [16:52] Narendra Modi. tremendous alliance [16:55] between Israel and U India and we are [16:58] going to discuss all sorts of [17:00] cooperation. [17:01] Now you know India is a not a small [17:04] country. [17:06] It has 1.5 [17:08] billion people. [17:10] India in India Israel is enormously [17:14] popular. [17:16] Enormously popular. [17:18] Did you know that? Yeah, you do. Good. [17:21] I'm glad you know it. But I want all of [17:23] you to know it. [17:24] >> So, so there's Prime Minister Netanyao [17:26] talking about the strength of Israel's [17:27] economy and the the new alliances and [17:29] there's a lot of significant uh [17:32] developments there. First of all, this [17:33] alliance with India is very important [17:35] and he didn't even lay out why. You see, [17:38] besides the fact that India is a very [17:39] large country and it's an important [17:40] ally, India also is uh stands opposed to [17:46] Muslim forces on its border, most [17:48] notably Pakistan. But the most important [17:50] aspect of an Israelind India alliance is [17:53] the IMC corridor. The IMC corridor is [17:56] the India Middle East Europe corridor [18:00] which is the United States's answer or [18:03] President Trump's answer to China's belt [18:06] and road initiative where China is [18:07] trying to build a land corridor for [18:09] shipping for land shipping running [18:13] through running from the Far East all [18:15] the way through Europe. Okay. And to [18:18] counter that, [18:20] uh, this there's this trade corridor [18:22] that's being built from India through [18:24] the Emirates. It was meant to run [18:26] through Saudi Arabia. It's unclear if it [18:29] still will. Uh, but then it was it would [18:31] run to Israel, from Israel to Cyprus to [18:34] Greece, up into Europe, bypassing [18:36] Turkey. Okay. And this is a project [18:39] that's being worked on called the IMAC [18:41] corridor. And that's probably going to [18:42] be a big part of their uh of the of the [18:45] talks between Prime Minister Netanyahu [18:47] and Nandra Modi. It was a big part of [18:49] the talks between Netanyahu and the [18:52] Greeks and this and the and the criats [18:55] at their summit meeting back in [18:56] December. Okay. So this is this is a big [18:59] piece of Israel being the lynchpin in [19:02] this in this in this big uh strategic [19:05] trade alliance. uh and India plays a [19:08] major role there in terms of the [19:09] strength of the Israeli economy that he [19:11] was talking about. I just want to share [19:12] with you one graph. Take a look at this. [19:15] This is the Israeli stock exchange over [19:18] the course of the last year. Okay. Now, [19:20] again, bear in mind that we've been [19:23] fighting a war. A huge percentage of the [19:25] workforce has been has been in reserve [19:29] duty. I mean, a larger percentage than [19:32] uh you know, a big percentage compared [19:34] to the normal amount of people who are [19:35] in reserve duty. It's a and and you'd [19:38] think that the economy would be [19:39] suffering. The tourism industry, which [19:40] is one of Israel's biggest industry [19:42] industries, has collapsed. And yet, look [19:45] at Israel's stock market. The Israeli [19:47] economy is booming right now. And you [19:51] know, he talked about Germany being [19:52] interested in Israel's defense industry. [19:54] Germany has purchased somewhere between [19:56] 6 and 10 billion dollars worth of [19:58] Israeli defense uh material weaponry and [20:02] and air defenses over the course of the [20:05] last few months. Greece has purchased [20:07] another4 billion or more. There's other [20:09] countries that have been that have been [20:11] buying Israeli weapons. [20:13] And uh and then you have this $ 35 [20:16] billion natural gas deal uh with Egypt [20:20] is buying natural gas from Israel. I [20:22] mean, there's this has all happened in [20:24] the last few months, these deals that [20:26] I'm telling you about. Israel's economy [20:28] is booming. It's becoming a regional [20:30] superpower. It's become a regional [20:31] superpower. And that's a topic that I've [20:34] been talking about a lot. I think it's [20:35] really important to understand and it [20:37] affects the military decisions. So when [20:39] I talk about how Israel is going to make [20:41] some tough decisions or Israel might [20:44] defy the world and go in and wipe out [20:46] Hamas even though there's going to be [20:48] all this criticism remember that with [20:50] all of the criticism in the media and [20:51] the social media at the level of states [20:54] at the level of countries [20:56] many powerful countries are drawing [20:58] closer and closer to Israel. So Israel [21:00] is going to have a lot more uh backing [21:02] on the world stage than people are used [21:05] to. uh meaning diplomatically these [21:08] trade relationships make diplomacy a lot [21:10] easier. So these are uh Israel is [21:12] getting stronger. These are important [21:14] developments and Prime Minister [21:15] Netanyahu's speech was was really worth [21:17] uh was really worth listening to. All [21:18] right, thanks for listening. Thanks for [21:20] uh you know thanks for enjoying this [21:22] channel. Please tell everyone else about [21:23] it and like and subscribe and all that [21:25] and check out all the content we're [21:26] putting up at Israel 365 News YouTube [21:30] channel. God bless.
