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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded to growing pressure from around the world on Saturday night by telling them that Israel would not be pressured into easing the war on Hamas, adding: “Our war is your war.”
Netanyahu warned that what Hamas represented — radical Islamic terror in the mould of the so-called “Islamic State” (or ISIS, or Daesh) — was a threat to the entire civilized world, especially to the Arab world, and that it had to be destroyed, or the threat would spread.
He spoke after a day in which Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi had addressed a gathering of Muslim and Arab nations in Saudi Arabia — which had been, until recently, on track to a peace agreement with Israel — and told them that the only solution was to destroy Israel completely. He echoed the words of the pro-Palestinian protesters on university campuses, saying “Palestine” must be created “from the river to the sea,” implying the removal of Israel and the genocide of its non-Arab population.
Netanyahu said that the “axis of terror” represented by Iran was a threat to the stability of the Arab world as well as Israel.
Addressing media reports on pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protests in the U.S., Netanyahu reminded Israelis that the vast majority of the American public supported Israel in its struggle against terror. He appealed to Americans, too, to understand that it also had a stake in Israel’s goal of destroying Hamas, because otherwise terror would also be a renewed threat to the United States.
Netanyahu told Israelis that the goal of the war remained to eliminate Hamas, while at the same time doing everything possible to free the 239 hostages still held by Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Gaza. Both groups are backed by Iran.
“We will continue until victory,” he said, noting that Israeli soldiers had killed thousands of Hamas terrorists, and would remove it forever from Gaza. “It has nowhere secure left to hide. … All members of Hamas are dead men walking.”