‘Israel is fighting your fight,’ Netanyahu tells world leaders who oppose Gaza war

Lazar Berman is The Times of Israel's diplomatic reporter

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a sign as he speaks during the General Debate of the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York City on September 26, 2025. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a sign as he speaks during the General Debate of the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York City on September 26, 2025. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that the war in Gaza has “everything” to do with people around the world. “Our enemies are your enemies,” he argues.

He says he is going to do a pop quiz, then holds up a poster with the question, “Who shouts ‘Death to America’?”

The answer is All of the Above – Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and Iran.

The audience shouts out a similar answer for the question, “Who has murdered Americans and Europeans in cold blood?”

“Our enemies hate all of us with equal venom,” he says. “They want to drag the modern world back to the past, to a dark age of violence, fanaticism, and terror.”

“You know deep down that Israel is fighting your fight,” he says, adding that leaders who publicly condemn Israel say behind closed doors that they value Israel’s intelligence services that have repeatedly prevented attacks in their capitals.

President Trump, he says, understands better than any other leader that “Israel and America face a common threat.”

He showed Iran that “there is a price to pay” for funding armed terrorist groups, killing Americans, and plotting to assassinate him, says Netanyahu.

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