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KILLINGS/INSECURITY: DEFEND YOURSELVES, CHURCHES
Christian Association Of Nigeria (CAN)
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) yesterday called on Christian faithful to defend themselves and the church in the face of unending killings in the country. This is coming as the Nigerian Baptist Covention (NBC) yesterday joined the ground swell of opposition against the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari telling the president to sack his service chiefs or forget about 2019.
CAN had earlier on Thursday in a statement by its President, Rev. Samson Ayokunle, urged Christians in Nigeria to hold peaceful protests in order to call the attention of Federal Government and security agencies to the unending killings in the country. Ayokunle, who is also the President of the Nigerian Baptist Convention (NBC) while speaking in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, where he presided over the 105th session of the NBC, noted that the call for Christians to carry out protests within their churches tomorrow is to prevent more causalities and more sorrow across the land, explaining that the directive is guided by the need to be circumspective as security operatives could be overzealous and mete out inhuman treatment to the faithful.
“The protest is within churches vicinities, we did that because we need to be circumspective. These are security agencies that you can’t trust. If we can trust them, the rate of insecurity we have today would not be there because they would have acted decisively. “You know that they are overzealous and instead of arresting criminals, it is people that are acting within their rights that they would be arresting when they don’t have any weapon.
“You are aware of the Shi’ite protests in Abuja of recent, when they (security agencies) are attacking you, you can never be right. They know how to rope you in and tell all sorts of things and make you look like a criminal. But it is the right of every person to a peaceful protest. “So, we can’t trust them to respect human rights in Nigeria, therefore, I won’t want them to add more sorrow.
The whole idea is to prevent Asked while CAN is not lending it voice to Catholic Bishops call for Buhari’s resignation and for the people to defend themselves instead of the protest, Ayokunle said CAN fully supports the call as it has in the past made such calls. “The Catholic Bishops have made their call and we have also made our call. In addition to our protest we have also called for similar actions in the past and even now. We are tired of press releases that they would not do anything about,’’ said Ayokunle.
“There is nothing in the Catholic release that we have not said before if you go and check all my releases in the past. There is nothing specifically new in what the Catholic Bishops said that we have not said before. “We are just arising from the close of the 105th session of the Nigerian Baptist Convention (NBC) in Port Harcourt where in our communiqué, we said that all the security chiefs should be relieved of their posts and if the president can’t provide security, he should forget about any campaign for 2019 because we can’t continue with this type of life in 2019,’’ disclosed Ayokunle.
Nigeria on the verge of war -CAN
In the same vein, the CAN national leadership led by its Secretary General, Rev. Musa Asaka, also called on the president to forthwith arrest the prevailing situation, which the body said had taken Nigeria back to the dark ages.
According to Asake, President Buhari was more interested in his re-election bid for next year than in the protection of lives and properties of Nigerians, insisting that the President is not worried by the rising figures of death across the countries, who are now being used as sacrificial lambs to enthrone the president’s ambition. While chronicling in a very emotive manner the series of deaths and destruction that have been visited on the Nigerians by Boko Haram and those killers alleged to be Fulani herders, the CAN Secretary General said Buhari had only succeeded within the three years of his regime to bring Nigeria back to the dark ages, cautioning that the country is on the verge of war.
“War seems to be looming in Nigeria while the aggressors are no other than misguided individuals who had been armed to provoke different communities into needless battles. Yet, President Buhari, who was popularly elected in 2015, has not seen the need and urgency to issue a presidential order on the need to halt the killings and with stern instruction to heads of security operatives to bring perpetrators to book.
“The Dark Age that has come with the administration of President Buhari in Nigeria is giving the Christians in this country a huge concern. All the same, Mr. President has his own interests, a key of which is to seek re-election to remain in power beyond 2019 and continue with the reign of terror in Nigeria. It does not matter how many Nigerians will end up as a sacrificial lamb on that single ambition.”
All not well with Nigeria –Northern CAN
Speaking on the issue yesterday, the Chairman of CAN in the 19 northern states and the Federal Capital Territory, Rev. Dr. Yakubu Pam, said the directive given by the headquarters of CAN was to make it known to the world that all is not well with Nigeria. Rev. Pam while Speaking with Saturday Telegraph in Jos said:
“The protest will be done within every church area as prayers will centre on security. CAN expect all Christians in every state to mobilise their churches to take the rally serious. Let us tell the world all is not well with the Christian faith in Nigeria”. He urged Christians in the North “not to go to sleep over the security challenges facing them, but to defend their places of worship and avoid being attacked and killed by the enemies of Christian faith in the North.”
The cleric also condemned the killing of two Catholic Priests and 17 other church worshippers in Gwer Local government of Benue State by suspected Fulani herdsmen. “The leadership of CAN is shocked over the attack and killings of church worshipers during the early morning mass at a Catholic Church in Benue, at a time the Christian community in the North has gone into prayers for peace to return to restive parts of the state that have suffered losses as a result of attacks and killings by herdsmen in recent times.”
The northern CAN leader called on the Federal Government to work round the clock to ensure the perpetrators of this evil acts are arrested and brought to justice. Rev. Pam who doubles as the Chairman of the Christian Pilgrims Welfare Board in Plateau State said ongoing attacks in places of worships in North if not checked by the government, was capable of plunging the entire northern states into religious crisis that would be difficult to manage. He appealed to the people to keep faith in God while assuring them that the Supreme Being would soon expose those bent on causing mayhem in the North.
Oyo CAN: We are on 3-day prayer
On its part, the Oyo State chapter of CAN said its understanding of the directive is that it is a national prayer meant to pray for the peace of the nation on April 27, 28 and 29, which had started. According to the state chairman, Pastor Benjamin Akanmu, the three-day prayer has been chosen by the national body of CAN to pray for absolute and perfect control of the country and the release of the last Dapchi girl, Leah Sharibu.
“We are praying for the safe release of Leah Sharibu, the Christian girl abducted from the Government Girls’ Technical Science College, Dapchi, Maiduguri, but not released along with her colleagues because she refused to drop her Christian faith Defend yourselves, churches, CAN tells Christians for Islam. “The issue of Leah is one of the issues facing and biting us seriously that we dedicate 27th, 28th and 29th of April for prayer on. That is the major focus of CAN prayer agenda this time around.
We want to suppress the Boko Haram problem rocking our country, as well as that of the herdsmen. “Two clergymen were recently killed in Benue, this is a great problem against Christians and CAN cannot just fold of arms and be looking. We have to pray fervently on it”, he said. On the mode the prayer sessions would take, the Oyo CAN boss said it would be difficult for all Christians to converge on a particular place, as such, the denominations had been advised to stay and pray within the premises of their respective churches. “Since CAN is composed of many denominations, we have sent out messages to our churches to pray. These include the C.A.C, Methodist, Baptist, white garment churches, pentecostal churches, Catholic and all others. Each denomination will pray in their churches.
We are not converging on a place. “Our message to President Muhammadu Buhari is in line with the advice the Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’ad Abubakar II, recently gave regarding the Meiyeti-Allah group. The government has all the machinery to suppress all these problems facing the country. “Our message is that the President should use all methods to do this so that we can have peace in our country. The Catholic Bishops have also told our president to resign if he cannot solve these problems.
We Christians are not just looking, and that is why we need to pray to have solutions. These are the messages contained in our prayer sessions which will be concluded on Sunday”, Pastor Akanmu.said.
Delta CAN: Nigeria now a killing field
The chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in Delta state, Rev. Oyibo Gideon, has said members of the association will comply with directive tomorrow. Although he denied that it was a quit notice by Christians on President Muhammadu Buhari ahead of the 2019 general elections, he however maintained that it was a deliberate expression of dissatisfaction about the president’s style of leadership. He said:
“We didn’t give him a quit notice. The mourning protest is our way of expressing dissatisfaction. Any failure in the area of security is a failure by an incumbent government to fulfill its constitutional mandate and electoral promises to the people. So we are bound to comply with the directive.” “The daily killings in some parts of the country is an indication of the failure of the APC-led government.
As the Commanderin- Chief, President Buhari and his security chiefs have become helpless and do not seem to know what to do again to put an end to the spate of killings in the country.” For the Executive Assistant to Governor Ifeanyi Okowa on Religious Matters, Bishop Greatman Nmalagu, Nigeria has become a killing field under the Buhari government, hence something urgent must be done to rescue the country. According to him, CAN does not need to go violent over the killings of Christians across the country by herdsmen but should sensitise all followers of Christ to get their Permanent Voters’ Cards (PVCs) and be ready to vote him out in 2019.
No peace until Buhari is voted out –Asaba Anglican
Also reacting, the Anglican Bishop of Asaba Diocese, Rt. Rev. Justus Mogwekwu, said Buhari had not shown himself as being capable of living above ethnic and religious bigotry. What is happening in Benue and Taraba are calculated attempts to Islamise Nigeria and to destroy the Christianity.
“How can you otherwise explain that the same military personnel, the same security are collecting arms from people who want to defend themselves and leaving the gunmen, the notorious Fulani to move about freely? You weaken the power to resist and then strengthen the power to oppress.
“What is happening and what has happened in Benue State is a calculated attempt to destroy the Christian faith and impose Islam on the whole of Nigeria. Fulani issue is that of a long drawn plan to Islamise the whole of Nigeria. All coastlands, all forests, are all covered by Fulanis well-armed to the teeth. The government knows this and they know what to do and they don’t want to do it.
“When the President gave instruction to the IGP, did he really mean he wanted that man to obey him? Only to turn round and say he did not know that IGP did not obey his directive. Is that sign of a serious president? They know what they are doing. They said the Tivs were the people who resisted the spread of Islam down south and they have held that against them. “Now they have come to take their pound of flesh. What is happening now is simply a continuation of the Islamisation policy and they are seriously pursuing this agenda. “How can you go to a church and kill innocent worshippers and their priests and you tell people to fold their hands. Does that show that this government is serious about the lives and property of people? An ethnic group, Fulani, values the life of one cow over the lives of Nigerians.
“So, my opinion about this is that Buhari’s stay in office is a tragedy to Nigeria. Unless Nigerians rise against them and vote them out and restructure this country, we are not going to have peace in Nigeria.I can assure you that what happened in Benue will continue in other parts of Nigeria, they are not relenting and they will not relent. The power that should restrain them is very much in their favour.” The Bishop maintained that “It is satanic plan of the Islamic agenda to ruin this country. Let us restructure Nigeria, let everybody develop according to their own ability. Let people be armed to defend themselves. Danjuma did what he should have done, but it came rather late.
He should have told people that what you should do is to arm yourselves and fight back. “When these people know that they can be resisted, that will make them to relent. In this part of Nigeria, in the night they bring in lorries and truck loads of armed Fulani herdsmen and deposit them in our bushes, colonising the entire place. The police cannot do anything because they are subject to the Hausa Fulani authority. So, Benue is a kind of barrier to them in what they want to do. But their agenda they will pursue it vigorously. It is my conviction.”
We will defend ourselves, says South West CAN
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in the South West geo-political zone has unfolded plans not to wait until the churches in the zone are overrun before they defend themselves. The Director of Planning and Research and Strategy of CAN in the zone, Nelson Fadoju, yesterday informed Saturday Telegraph that there is a plan to attack churches in the South which would be similar to those carried out in North Central.
He however said the body would on Sunday join other Christians to pray and fast against incessant killings, noting that all faithful would come together and pray at First Baptist Church Akure, and from there embark on a street procession to mark the protest. Informing that similar procontinued cessions would take place in all the 18 local government areas of the state in order to draw attention of the authorities to the killings of Christians in the country, Fadoju said it was time for Christians to defend themselves against the attack on churches.
“The protest is long overdue, we have been keeping quiet for long. We are no fools; they have taken us for a ride for a long time. The protest has taken this long because of biblical injunction that says we should love our neighbours and enemies. That is why they have taken us for granted. “We will fast and pray, but we will also take action. God will not be annoyed with us if we take drastic action. We have been warning them, we have met with the Vice President who is one of us, yet nothing has changed. “We do not wait on God alone, we are ready for action. We will first come together and pray, thereafter, there will be surprises.” Fadoju called on all Christians to be ready to defend themselves as the security agencies have failed to protect the citizens against invasion of churches.
No protest rally says Abia CAN
However, the Abia State chairman of CAN, Apostle Emmanuel Agomuo, has said the directive from the national secretariat CAN would be observed in churches in the state but not with the associated protest rally.
The reason according to him, is because the state CAN has not been able to secure the needed permission from the state government and the police. “We don’t want to go against the law. In addition to the prayer, CAN has directed peaceful protest in the respective states against mass killings of Christians, especially the one done on Monday in Benue State in which two Catholic priests and 17 others were killed”. Agomuo said the prayer point is peace of the country and the repose of the souls of the dead.
Cross River CAN yet to get directive
Reacting, the Cross River State chapter of CAN said it was yet to receive a formal directive from the national body, saying that it would embark on the planned prayer/protest once there is an official communication to that effect. Speaking on the matter, the treasurer of the state chapter, Apostle Frank Umoh, said: “For now, I don’t know because we have not received any formal communication from the national office. They only put it on WhatsApp but we have not received a formal communication to that effect”.
International
US ELECTION: Trump Escapes Three Assassination Attempts, What Next As Date Draws Near?
“We seen them trying to get rid of D. Trump 3 times already. They all know who’s going to win. But now since he is still alive we will see overtly on a systematic level through this election where it will be obvious to everyone what they are willing to do to retain power.”
The desperation of interested parties to retain power and occupy the Oval Office in the White House, United States of America, has led to three failed assassination attempts on the 45th US President, Donald John Trump.
Trump is the Republican Party’s Presidential nominee in the November 5th Presidential election, and adjudged as the 47th US President hopeful in the forthcoming election, if it will be free and fair by all standards and without interferences from the “Obamas” “Hillarys” “Deep State” etc.
The “fight” to retain power in the White House has become dirtiest from 2020 to 2024, a clear statement of extreme desperation leading to blackmail, chaos and possible escalations of assassination attempts.
A post made on X by “Ariel @Prolotario1” stated that “The Beast” will “become extremely desperate” because they know who will win the election if it will be a free and fair election.
The post reads in full:
“I hope everyone is ready for these remaining months up into inauguration. Because we will see “The Beast” become extremely desperate. They didn’t want to rely on attempting to steal the election.
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“We seen them trying to get rid of D. Trump 3 times already. They all know who’s going to win. But now since he is still alive we will see overtly on a systematic level through this election where it will be obvious to everyone what they are willing to do to retain power.
“Will we get a power grid outage?
“Will we get another false flag?
“Will the Project Bluebeam be launched?
“There are multiple things they can pull from. But I do not think we will leave the remainder of 2024 behind without some massive event occurring? Since 1988 we have had something major happen every 12 years.
“1988 (Elusive Mind Wipe)
“1999 (Y2k)
“2012 (Mayan Calendar)
“2024? Will it be obvious this time?
“Either way we have had many clues that everything will happen this year in terms of things coming to a point where it can no longer be ignored. Which is why I think the Deep State will pull something off to jump start this process.
“Donald Trump said many times on his Truthsocial account that the US Military is standing by. One time he mentioned during his Las Vegas rally that they will step in if November 5th is interfered with. We have to prepare for anything.”
Entertainment
Sean Diddy Combs In The Eyes Of The Storm
These are blackpillers who no longer see no value in anything. They have given themselves a shot in the arm and that fluid is coursing through their veins and they themselves will have to go through a major detox that we are no longer equipped to help them with.
By Ariel (@Prolotario1 on X)
𝙃𝙤𝙡𝙡𝙮𝙬𝙤𝙤𝙙: 𝙄𝙩’𝙨 𝘽𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙍𝙚𝙖𝙡
The Royals
Congress
LeBron James
Usher
Dwyane Wade
MGK
Ashton Kutcher
Naomi Campbell
Bobby Valentino
Busta Rhymes
Mark Wahlberg
Clive Davis
Denzel Washington
Kevin Hart
Jay-Z
Beyonce
Mariah Carey
Etc.
“What did Katt Williams say? It’s up for all of them.
“You all have had your fun. You have had your way. You have had your time in the sun. But now all of this is about to come to a screeching halt. You all are about to see many celebrities suddenly become ill. Retiring prematurely. Moving to another country. No longer being interested in acting. They are going to be dropped from endorsement deals.
“They will be let go by sports teams. You will no longer see them at award shows. You will no longer see them featured on songs or commercials. Clothing brands will ditch them. They will be removed from their charity foundations. You will see a lot of things. Because this is it people. This is what you waited for. We fought for this by sharing all the info we could. And our work is paying off.
“The victims will be vindicated. We will no longer be shunned by society. They will be forced to confront all the things they denied in order to stay in the good graces of people who couldn’t care less about “The Truth”. All the trolls are about to eat crow. Do not pay them any mind at this point. They have nothing to lose. So they will attempt to downplay the significance of this.
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“These are blackpillers who no longer see no value in anything. They have given themselves a shot in the arm and that fluid is coursing through their veins and they themselves will have to go through a major detox that we are no longer equipped to help them with. It’s going to take God himself to come down here and awaken them. This is no our concern.
“The curtain is falling, not with a gentle whisper but with the thunderous crash of an era ending. The lights that once shone on these figures, illuminating their every move, are now flickering out, one by one, in a spectacle of dramatic dimness. This isn’t merely the end of a chapter; it’s the apocalyptic conclusion of a saga where fame was both the sword and the shield, now rusted and discarded.
“As the tide turns, those who once danced in the spotlight will find themselves in shadows, not by choice but by the inexorable force of revelation. Their names, once synonymous with glamour and success, will become whispers of caution, tales told in the dim corners where once their glory was celebrated. The red carpets, once rolled out in their honor, will be retracted, leaving behind only the echo of their steps.
“This shift is not just a change in the public’s affection; it’s a seismic cultural realignment. The idols of yesteryear, who seemed untouchable, are now facing the reality of their own human fragility. The public, once their adoring crowd, now becomes their jury, delivering a verdict that resonates with the weight of truth over the dazzle of stardom.
“In this new dawn, the narratives will rewrite themselves. The stories of courage will not be about overcoming adversity in the spotlight but about facing the aftermath in the cold light of day. Those who once thrived on the applause will learn the silence of solitude, not by choice but by necessity. The world watches, not with voyeuristic glee, but with a sober understanding that even the stars must sometimes fall to earth.
International
UN General Assembly: Full Speech Of the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu
…the curse of October 7th began when Hamas invaded Israel from Gaza, but it didn’t end there. Israel was soon forced to defend itself on six more war fronts organized by Iran. On October 8th, Hezbollah attacked us from Lebanon. Since then, they have fired over 8,000 rockets at our towns and cities, at our civilians, at our children.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the 79th UN General Assembly in New York, USA:
“Mr. President, Ladies and gentlemen, I didn’t intend to come here this year. My country is at war, fighting for its life.
But after I heard the lies and slanders leveled at my country by many of the speakers at this podium, I decided to come here and set the record straight. I decided to come here to speak for my people.
To speak for my country, to speak for the truth. And here’s the truth: Israel seeks peace. Israel yearns for peace. Israel has made peace and will make peace again. Yet we face savage enemies who seek our annihilation, and we must defend ourselves against them.
These savage murderers, our enemies, seek not only to destroy us, but they seek to destroy our common civilization and return all of us to a dark age of tyranny and terror. When I spoke here last year, I said we face the same timeless choice that Moses put before the people of Israel thousands of years ago, as we were about to enter the Promised Land. Moses told us that our actions would determine whether we bequeath to future generations a blessing or a curse.
And that is the choice we face today: the curse of Iran’s unremitting aggression or the blessing of a historic reconciliation between Arab and Jew. In the days that followed that speech, the blessing I spoke of came into sharper focus.
A normalization deal between Saudi Arabia and Israel seemed closer than ever. But then came the curse of October 7th. Thousands of Iranian-backed Hamas terrorists from Gaza burst into Israel in pickup trucks and on motorcycles, and they committed unimaginable atrocities.
They savagely murdered 1,200 people. They raped and mutilated women. They beheaded men. They burned babies alive. They burned entire families alive—babies, children, parents, grandparents. It seems reminiscent of the Nazi Holocaust.
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Hamas kidnapped 251 people from dozens of different countries, dragging them into the dungeons of Gaza. Israel has brought home 154 of these hostages, including 117 who returned alive. I want to assure you, we will not rest until the remaining hostages are brought home too, and some of their family members are here with us today. I ask you to stand up.
With us is Eli Shtivi, whose son Idan was abducted from the Nova music festival. That was his crime—a music festival. And these murderous monsters took him. Koby Samerano, whose son Jonathan was murdered, and his corpse was taken into the dungeons, into the terror tunnels of Gaza—a corpse held hostage.
Salem Alatrash, whose brother Mohammad, a brave Arab Israeli soldier, was murdered. His body, too, was taken to Gaza. And so was the body of Ifat Haiman’s daughter, Inbar, who was brutally murdered at that same music festival.
With us is Sharon Sharabi, whose brother Yossi was murdered, and who prays for his older brother Eli, who is still held hostage in Gaza. And with us too is Yizhar Lifshitz from Kibbutz Nir Oz, a kibbutz that was wiped out by the terrorists.
Thankfully, we achieved the release of his mother, Yocheved, but his father, Oded, is still languishing in the underground terrorist hell of Hamas. I again promise you, we will return your loved ones home. We will not spare that effort until this holy mission is accomplished.
Ladies and gentlemen, the curse of October 7th began when Hamas invaded Israel from Gaza, but it didn’t end there. Israel was soon forced to defend itself on six more war fronts organized by Iran. On October 8th, Hezbollah attacked us from Lebanon. Since then, they have fired over 8,000 rockets at our towns and cities, at our civilians, at our children. Two weeks later, the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen launched drones and missiles at Israel, the first of 250 such attacks, including one yesterday aimed at Tel Aviv. Iran’s Shiite militias in Syria and Iraq have targeted Israel dozens of times over the past year as well.
Fueled by Iran, Palestinian terrorists in Judea and Samaria perpetrated scores of attacks there and throughout Israel. And last April, for the first time ever, Iran directly attacked Israel from its own territory.
Firing 300 drones, cruise missiles, and ballistic missiles at us. I have a message for the tyrants of Tehran: If you strike us, we will strike you. There is no place—there is no place in Iran—that the long arm of Israel cannot reach. And that’s true of the entire Middle East.
Far from being lambs led to the slaughter, Israel’s soldiers have fought back with incredible courage and with heroic sacrifice. And I have another message for this assembly and for the world outside this hall: We are winning.
Ladies and gentlemen, as Israel defends itself against Iran in this seven-front war, the lines separating the blessing and the curse could not be more clear. This is the map I presented here last year. It’s a map of a blessing.
It shows Israel and its Arab partners forming a land bridge connecting Asia and Europe. Between the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, across this bridge, we will lay rail lines, energy pipelines, and fiber optic cables, and this will serve the betterment of 2 billion people.
Now look at this second map. It’s a map of a curse. It’s a map of an arc of terror that Iran has created and imposed from the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean. Iran’s malignant arc has shut down international waterways.
It cuts off trade, it destroys nations from within, and inflicts misery on millions. On the one hand, a bright blessing—a future of hope. On the other hand, a dark future of despair. And if you think this dark map is only a curse for Israel, then you should think again.
Because Iran’s aggression, if it’s not checked, will endanger every single country in the Middle East, and many, many countries in the rest of the world, because Iran seeks to impose its radicalism well beyond the Middle East.
That’s why it funds terror networks on five continents. That’s why it builds ballistic missiles for nuclear warheads to threaten the entire world. For too long, the world has appeased Iran. It turned a blind eye to its internal repression. It turned a blind eye to its external aggression. Well, that appeasement must end. And that appeasement must end now.
Nations of the world should support the brave people of Iran who want to rid themselves of this evil regime. Responsible governments should not only support Israel in rolling back Iran’s aggression, but they should join Israel. They should join Israel in stopping Iran’s nuclear weapons program.
In this body and the Security Council, we’re going to have a deliberation in a few months. And I call on the Security Council to snap back UN Security Council sanctions against Iran because we must all do everything in our power to ensure that Iran never gets nuclear weapons. For decades, I’ve been warning the world against Iran’s nuclear program. Our actions delayed this program by perhaps a decade, but we haven’t stopped it. We’ve delayed it, but we haven’t stopped it. Iran now seeks to weaponize its nuclear program. For the sake of the peace and security of all your countries.
For the sake of the peace and security of the entire world, we must not let that happen. And I assure you, Israel will do everything in its power to make sure it doesn’t happen.
So, ladies and gentlemen, the question before us is simple: Which of these two maps that I showed you will shape our future? Will it be the blessings of peace and prosperity for Israel, our Arab partners, and the rest of the world?
Or will it be the curse in which Iran and its proxies spread carnage and chaos everywhere? Israel has already made its choice. We’ve decided to advance the blessing. We’re building a partnership for peace with our Arab neighbors while fighting the forces of terror that threaten that peace.
For nearly a year, the brave men and women of the IDF have been systematically crushing Hamas’s terror army that once ruled Gaza. On October 7th, the day of that invasion into Israel, that terror army numbered nearly 40,000 terrorists. It was armed with more than 15,000 rockets. It had 350 miles of terror tunnels—an underground network bigger than the New York subway system—which they used to wreak havoc above and below ground.
A year later, the IDF has killed or captured more than half of these terrorists, destroyed over 90% of their rocket arsenal, and eliminated the key segments of their terror tunnel network.
In measured military operations, we destroyed nearly all of Hamas’s terror battalions—23 out of 24 battalions. Now, to complete our victory, we are focused on mopping up Hamas’s remaining fighting capabilities.
We are taking out senior terrorist commanders and destroying remaining terrorist infrastructure. But all the while, we remain focused on our sacred mission: bringing our hostages home, and we will not stop until that mission is complete.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, even with Hamas’s greatly diminished military capability, the terrorists still exercise some governing power in Gaza by stealing the food that we enable aid agencies to bring into Gaza.
Hamas steals the food, and then they hike the prices. They feed their bellies, and then they fill their coffers with money they extort from their own people. They sell the stolen food at exorbitant prices, and that’s how they stay in power. Well, this too has to end, and we’re working to bring it to an end.
And the reason is simple: because if Hamas stays in power, it will regroup, rearm, and attack Israel again and again and again, as it has vowed to do. So, Hamas has got to go.
Just imagine, for those who say Hamas has to stay, it has to be part of a post-war Gaza—imagine, in a post-war situation after World War II, allowing the defeated Nazis in 1945 to rebuild Germany? It’s inconceivable. It’s ridiculous. It didn’t happen then, and it’s not going to happen now.
This is why Israel will reject any role for Hamas in a post-war Gaza. We don’t seek to resettle Gaza. What we seek is a demilitarized and de-radicalized Gaza. Only then can we ensure that this round of fighting will be the last round of fighting.
We are ready to work with regional and other partners to support a local civilian administration in Gaza, committed to peaceful coexistence.
As for the hostages, I have a message for the Hamas captors: Let them go. Let them go. All of them. Those alive today must be returned alive, and the remains of those whom you brutally killed must be returned to their families. Those families here with us today and others in Israel deserve to have a resting place for their loved ones. A place where they can grieve and remember them.
Ladies and gentlemen, this war can come to an end now. All that has to happen is for Hamas to surrender, lay down its arms, and release all the hostages. But if they don’t, we will fight until we achieve victory. Total victory. There is no substitute for it.
Israel must also defeat Hezbollah in Lebanon. Hezbollah is the quintessential terror organization in the world today.
It has tentacles that span all continents. It has murdered more Americans and more Frenchmen than any group except Bin Laden. It’s murdered the citizens of many countries represented in this room. And it has attacked Israel viciously over the last 20 years.
In the last year, completely unprovoked, a day after the Hamas massacre on October 7th, Hezbollah began attacks against Israel, which forced more than 60,000 Israelis on our northern border to leave their homes, becoming refugees in their own land.
Hezbollah turned vibrant towns in the north of Israel into ghost towns. So I want you to think about this in equivalent American terms. Just imagine if terrorists turned El Paso and San Diego into ghost towns.
Then ask yourself: How long would the American government tolerate that? A day, a week, a month? I doubt they would tolerate it even for a single day.
Yet Israel has been tolerating this intolerable situation for nearly a year. Well, I’ve come here today to say enough is enough.
We won’t rest until our citizens can return safely to their homes. We will not accept a terror army perched on our northern border, able to perpetrate another October 7th-style massacre.
For 18 years, Hezbollah brazenly refused to implement UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which requires it to move its forces away from our borders. Instead, Hezbollah moved right up to our border. They secretly dug terror tunnels to infiltrate our communities and indiscriminately fired thousands of rockets into our towns and villages.
They fire these rockets and missiles not from military sites—they do that too—but they fire those rockets and missiles after they place them in schools, in hospitals, in apartment buildings, and in the private homes of the citizens of Lebanon. They endanger their own people. They put a missile in every kitchen.
A rocket in every garage. I said to the people of Lebanon this week: Get out of the death trap that Hezbollah has put you in. Don’t let Nasrallah drag Lebanon into the abyss. We’re not at war with you. We’re at war with Hezbollah, which has hijacked your country and threatens to destroy ours.
As long as Hezbollah chooses the path of war, Israel has no choice. And Israel has every right to remove this threat and return our citizens to their homes safely, and that’s exactly what we’re doing.
Just this week, the IDF destroyed large percentages of Hezbollah’s rockets, which were built with Iran’s funding for three decades. We took out senior military commanders who not only shed Israeli blood but American and French blood as well.
And then we took out their replacements. And then the replacements of their replacements. And we’ll continue degrading Hezbollah until all our objectives are met.
Ladies and gentlemen, we’re committed to removing the curse of terrorism that threatens all civilized societies. But to truly realize the blessing of a new Middle East, we must continue the path we paved with the Abraham Accords four years ago. Above all, this means achieving a historic peace agreement between Israel and Saudi Arabia.
And having seen the blessings that we’ve already brought with the Abraham Accords, the millions of Israelis who have already flown back and forth across the Arabian Peninsula over the skies of Saudi Arabia to the Gulf countries, the trade, the tourism, the joint ventures, the peace—I say to you, what blessings such a peace with Saudi Arabia would bring.
It would be a boon to the security and economy of our two countries. It would boost trade and tourism across the region. It would help transform the Middle East into a global juggernaut.
Our two countries could cooperate on energy, water, agriculture, artificial intelligence, and many, many other fields. Such a peace, I am sure, would be a true pivot of history. It would usher in a historic reconciliation between the Arab world and Israel, between Islam and Judaism, between Mecca and Jerusalem.
While Israel is committed to achieving such a peace, Iran and its terror proxies are committed to scuttling it. That’s why one of the best ways to foil Iran’s nefarious designs is to achieve the peace.
Such a peace would be the foundation for an even broader Abrahamic alliance, and that alliance would include the United States, Israel’s current Arab peace partners, Saudi Arabia, and others who choose the blessing of peace.
It would advance security and prosperity across the Middle East and bring enormous benefits to the rest of the world. With American support and leadership, I believe this vision can materialize much sooner than people think. And as the Prime Minister of Israel, I will do everything in my power to make it happen. This is an opportunity that we and the world should not let go by.
Ladies and gentlemen, Israel has made its choice. We seek to move forward to a bright age of prosperity and peace. Iran and its proxies have also made their choice. They want to move back to a dark age of terror and war.
And now I have a question, and I pose that question to you: What choice will you make? Will your nation stand with Israel? Will you stand with democracy and peace? Or will you stand with Iran, a brutal dictatorship that subjugates its own people and exports terrorism across the globe?
In this battle between good and evil, there must be no equivocation. When you stand with Israel, you stand for your own values and your own interests. Yes, we’re defending ourselves, but we’re also defending you against a common enemy that, through violence and terror, seeks to destroy our way of life. So there should be no confusion about this, but unfortunately, there is a lot of it in many countries and in this very hall, as I’ve just heard.
Good is portrayed as evil, and evil is portrayed as good.
We see this moral confusion when Israel is falsely accused of genocide when we defend ourselves against enemies who try to commit genocide against us. We see this too when Israel is absurdly accused by the ICC Prosecutor of deliberately starving Palestinians in Gaza.
What an absurdity. We help bring in 700,000 tons of food into Gaza. That’s more than 3,000 calories a day for every man, woman, and child in Gaza. We see this moral confusion when Israel is falsely accused of deliberately targeting civilians.
We don’t want to see a single innocent person die. That’s always a tragedy. And that’s why we do so much to minimize civilian casualties, even as our enemies use civilians as human shields.
And no army has done what Israel is doing to minimize civilian casualties. We drop flyers. We send text messages. We make phone calls by the millions to ensure that Palestinian civilians get out of harm’s way. We spare no effort in this noble pursuit.
We see yet another profound moral confusion when self-described progressives march against the democracy of Israel. Don’t they realize they support the Iranian-backed goons in Tehran and in Gaza, the goons who shot down protesters, murder women for not covering their hair, and hang gays in public squares? Some progressives.
According to the U.S. Director of National Intelligence, Iran funds and fuels many of the protesters against Israel. Who knows, maybe some of the protesters or even many of the protesters outside this building now?
Ladies and gentlemen, King Solomon, who reigned in our eternal capital, Jerusalem, 3,000 years ago, proclaimed something that is familiar to all of you. He said: There is nothing new under the sun.
Well, in an age of space travel, quantum physics, and artificial intelligence, some would argue that’s a debatable statement. But one thing is undeniable: there is definitely nothing new at the United Nations.
Take it from me. I first spoke from this podium as Israel’s ambassador to the UN in 1984. That’s exactly 40 years ago. And in my maiden speech here, I spoke against a proposal to expel Israel from this body. Four decades later, I find myself defending Israel against that same preposterous proposal.
And who’s leading the charge this time? Not Hamas, but Abbas.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. This is the man who claims he wants peace with Israel, yet he still refuses to condemn the horrific massacre of October 7th. He’s still paying hundreds of millions to terrorists who murdered Israelis and Americans.
It’s called Pay for Slay. The more you murder, the more you get paid.
And he still wages unremitting diplomatic warfare against Israel’s right to exist and against Israel’s right to defend itself. And by the way, they amount to the same thing, because if you can’t defend yourself, you can’t exist. Not in our neighborhood, certainly. And maybe not in yours.
Standing at this podium 40 years ago, I told the sponsors of that outrageous resolution to expel Israel: Gentlemen, check your fanaticism at the door. Today, I tell President Abbas and all of you who would shamefully support that resolution: Check your fanaticism at the door.
The singling out of the one and only Jewish state continues to be a moral stain on the United Nations. It has made this once-respected institution contemptible in the eyes of decent people everywhere. But for the Palestinians, this UN house of darkness is home court. They know that in this swamp of antisemitic bile, there’s an automatic majority willing to demonize the Jewish state for anything. In this anti-Israel flat-earth society, any false charge, any outlandish allegation can muster a majority.
In the last decade, there have been more resolutions passed against Israel in this hall, in the UN General Assembly, than against the entire world combined. Actually, more than twice as many. Since 2014, this body condemned Israel 174 times.
It condemned all the other countries in the world 73 times. That’s more than 100 extra condemnations for the Jewish state. What hypocrisy. What a double standard. What a joke.
So, all the speeches you heard today, all the hostility directed at Israel this year—it’s not about Gaza; it’s about Israel. It’s always been about Israel. About Israel’s very existence. And I say to you, until Israel, until the Jewish state, is treated like other nations, until this antisemitic swamp is drained, the UN will be viewed by fair-minded people everywhere as nothing more than a contemptuous farce.
And given the antisemitism at the UN, it should surprise no one that the prosecutor at the ICC, one of the UN’s affiliated organs, is considering issuing arrest warrants against me and Israel’s defense minister, the democratically elected leaders of the democratic state of Israel.
The ICC prosecutor’s rush to judgment, his refusal to treat Israel with its independent courts the way other democracies are treated, is hard to explain by anything other than pure antisemitism.
Ladies and gentlemen, the real war criminals are not in Israel. They’re in Iran. They’re in Gaza, in Syria, in Lebanon, in Yemen. Those of you who stand with these war criminals, those of you who stand with evil against good, with the curse against the blessing, those of you who do so should be ashamed of yourselves.
But I have a message for you: Israel will win this battle. We will win this battle because we don’t have a choice.
After generations in which our people were slaughtered, remorselessly butchered, and no one raised a finger in our defense, we now have a state. We now have a brave army, an army of incomparable courage, and we are defending ourselves.
As the book of Samuel says in the Bible:
“נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר”
“The eternity of Israel will not falter”.
In the Jewish people’s epic journey from antiquity, in our odyssey through the tempest and upheavals of modern times, that ancient promise has always been kept and it will hold true for all time.
To borrow a great poet’s phrase:Israel will not go gently into that good night. We will never need to rage against the dying of the light because the torch of Israel will forever shine bright.
To the people of Israel and to the soldiers of Israel, I say:Be strong and of good courage.
“חִזְק֣וּ וְאִמְצ֔וּ אַל־תִּֽירְא֥וּ וְאַל־תַּעַרְצ֖וּ מִפְּנֵיהֶ֑ם כִּ֣יה’ אֱלֹקיךָ ה֚וּא הַהֹלֵ֣ךְ עִמָּ֔ךְ לֹ֥א יַרְפְּךָ֖ וְלֹ֥א יַעַזְבֶֽךּ”
עם ישראל חי!
The people of Israel live now, tomorrow, forever”.
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