Netanyahu: Jews have no future without Israel

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warns that “the Jewish people have no future without the State of Israel.”

Speaking at a Memorial Day service at Yad Lebanim, an NGO representing bereaved families, the prime minister adds, “And they have a future — if we agree to safeguard our nation.”

The prime minister tells the gathered families: “The more our enemies threaten to destroy (our) home, the more we are resolved to defend home. The spirit with which we are imbued has not waned over the years and keeps growing stronger.”

Netanyahu adds that this spirit was apparent during Israel’s last war, 2014’s Operation Protective Edge in the Gaza Strip. “What courage, what friendship, what unity, what sacrifice,” he says of the soldiers who fought in those battles.

“When the pain swells and the torment of loss rises up, we shall console ourselves with the fact that (our) sons and daughters fell on a mission nobler than any other — to ensure the existence of our nation,” he says.