Following are Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s remarks at the start of the weekly Cabinet meeting today, Sunday, 12 Shevat 5772:
“We have received a reminder about what kind of a neighborhood we live in. We heard the Iranian ruler’s remarks about the elimination of Israel. We saw the Syrian army massacre its own people. We have seen bloody events in our region. Various leaders have no moral compunctions about killing their neighbors and their own people alike.
In such a region, the only thing that ensures our existence, security and prosperity is our strength. We are obligated to continue to develop the military, economic and social strength of the State of Israel. This is also the only guarantee for the existence of peace and the only defense for Israel should the peace unravel.
Developing Israel’s strength is this Government’s main issue.”
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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Kochi v’otzem yadi. Before the Zionists came the old yishuv lived in peace with their Arab neighbors, who by and large didn’t treat the Jews any worse than they treated each other. Rav Hutner zatzal pointed out that before the Zionists came and started to theaten to drive the Arabs out, the old yishuv enjoyed good relations with the Mufti, yemach shemo, but when that changed the Mufti went to Berlin and persuaded Himmler to stop the Jews from coming to Eretz Yisroel and the rest is tragic history.