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2019年10月29日2 分鐘
Following is an excerpt from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's remarks Yesterday (Monday, 28 October 2019), at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem, to the
Attached photo credit: Koby Gideon (GPO)
I have just been appointed Minister of Diaspora Affairs yesterday. The government approved it without debate. I intend to pass money from that office to the purpose of protecting Jewish communities from the rising scourge of violent antisemitism, and therefore that money will pass and it’s overdue. But we have obviously other challenges: to battle the spirit – if that’s what it could be called – the evil spirit of antisemitism; to encourage and to demand from governments worldwide to fight it; to cooperate with them in fighting it; to foster the Hebrew language, the identity, Jewish identity, the connection to Israel, which I believe is vital, as I said, for securing the Jewish future. But if you remove the State of Israel, there is no Jewish future.
We will have to change our priorities now, because the first thing we must do is ensure the security and safety of the Jewish state. It is well within our powers. We have the ingenuity. We’ve already developed what we need, offensive and defensive weapons.
But we need a lot. We enjoy the friendship of the United States and the solid alliance, but always we remember the principle that I annunciate time and time again, during every year as my tenure as prime minister, Israel must be able to defend itself, by itself, against any threat. And this now requires a national commitment, a broad based national commitment to arm the State of Israel so that we can defend ourselves by ourselves against any threat."