At Memorial Day ceremony, Bennett warns Iran: ‘Do not try us’

In comments at an English-language Memorial Day ceremony at the Latrun Armored Corps Memorial west of Jerusalem, Education Minister Naftali Bennett says, “We are surrounded by enemies. Only a few weeks ago Iran sent an armed drone towards us. The Iranian octopus is trying to strangle us and break our spirit. We have a 3,800-year-old nation, with the strongest spirit on earth. Israel is stronger than those against us. From here I tell the leaders of Iran, Syria, Hamas, and Hezbollah – do not try us.”

He opens the speech comparing Memorial Day with Holocaust Remembrance Day.

“Last week, we remembered the price we paid for not having a state,” Bennett says. “Now we remember the price we have to pay for having a state. In two days at Auschwitz we lost the same number of soldiers we lost since the founding of Israel. Never will we depend on anyone but ourselves.”