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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed his nation on Thursday evening in the wake of confirmation that Israel Defense Forces (IDF) troops had killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, saying a chance had arrived for peace. Netanyahu began by discussing the 101 remaining Israeli hostages, saying Sinwar’s death meant that a unique opportunity had arrived to free them, and that Israel would attempt to use this moment to press for their freedom.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a message of hope and resilience on Monday to his country’s official memorial to the victims of the terror attack of October 7, 2023, including the 100 hostages still in Gaza. His full speech follows (translated from Hebrew by the Government Press Office): Citizens of Israel, A year ago, on October 7th, we were all hurled into a critical battle. That day, a Saturday, the Sabbath and the holiday of Simchat Torah, will be etched in the history of our nation as a day of grief and loss, of unimaginable agony. On that day,...

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu published a video Monday in which he addressed the people of Iran and expressed solidarity with them against their leaders. Netanyahu published the video as the Israeli military continued attacking Iran’s proxy, Hezbollah, in Lebanon, in an unexpected military rout that could leave Iran without a deterrent against an Israeli attack on its nuclear program. The Prime Minister’s Office published his speech, in full:

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the United Nations a “joke” in his address to the opening of the General Assembly in New York on Friday, as he noted its obsession with attacking Israel, inverting good and evil. Netanyahu spoke after a countless heads of state had demonized Israel for “genocide” in Gaza, and with his country facing a war on seven fronts against Iran and its terrorist proxies. “In this swamp of antisemitic bile, there’s an automatic majority willing to demonize Israel on anything,” he noted, calling it an “anti-Israel flat-earth society.”