Netanyahu slams ‘weak-kneed’ Western leaders who ‘appease evil,’ dismisses false genocide accusations as ‘blood libels’

Regrettably, says Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, European leaders “send a very different message” than US President Donald Trump.

Right after October 7, he acknowledges, they showed support. “But that support quickly evaporated, what Israel did what any self-respecting nation would do in the wake of such a savage attack.”

“We fought back.”

In Gaza, he says, Israel is “wiping out the terror regime of Hamas and ensuring that this savagery will never threaten Israel again.”

He says that many world leaders “buckled under the pressure of a biased media, radical Islamist constituencies, and antisemitic mobs.”

For many countries, he says, “when the going got tough, you caved.”

“As we fight the terrorists who murdered many of your citizens, you are fighting us,” he laments. “You condemn us. You embargo us. And you wage political and legal warfare, lawfare, against us.”

“This is not an indictment of Israel. It’s an indictment of you. It’s an indictment of weak-kneed leaders who appease evil rather than supporting a nation whose brave soldiers guard you from the barbarians at the gate. They’re already penetrating the gate.”

“When will you learn? You can’t appease your way out of jihad. And you won’t escape the Islamist storm by attacking Israel.”

He addresses “the false charge of genocide.”

He quotes West Point urban warfare expert John Spencer, who said that Israel is “applying more measures minimizing civilian casualties than any military in history.”

The civilian-to-combatant ratio is “astoundingly low,” he argues, lower than NATOs ratio in Afghanistan and Iraq.

He says that in Gaza City, Israel dropped millions of leaflets, sent millions of text messages, and made countless phone calls telling civilians to leave the city.

Hamas, on the other hand, “uses civilians as human shields and as props in its propaganda war against Israel, a propaganda war that the Western media buys hook, line, and sinker.”

Almost 700,000 Gazans have evacuated Gaza City, he says. “Would we tell them, ‘Get out,’ if we wanted to commit genocide?”

“Did the Nazis ask the Jews to kindly leave, go out?”

Genocidal Hamas, he says, “is given a pass….While Israel, who does everything it can to get civilians out of harm’s way, Israel is put in the docket.”

“What a joke.”

He says the accusation that Israel is starving the people of Gaza is another Gaza, and that “Israel is deliberately feeding the people of Gaza.”

Hamas loots trucks and steals food, he says.

He says that those who “peddle blood libels and lies against Israel are no better than those who peddled blood libels against Jews in the Middle Ages.”

“These antisemitic lies, they have consequences,” he says, pointing to attacks on Jews in Canada, Australia, The Netherlands, France, the UK, and the US.

He praises the Trump administration for forcefully fighting antisemitism, while other leaders “reward the worst antisemites on earth.”