Netanyahu: World leaders recognizing Palestine are encouraging terrorism against Jews and innocent people everywhere

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in his UN address, denounces the leaders of “France, Britain, Australia, Canada, and other countries” for recognizing Palestinian statehood this week.

“They did so after the horrors committed by Hamas on October 7,” he fumes. “Horrors praised on that day by nearly 90% of the Palestinian population,” he claims. “They celebrated. They danced on the rooftops. They threw candies. That’s both in Gaza and in Judea Samaria, the West Bank, as you call it.” He says the Palestinians did the same on 9/11.

He says leaders who recognized Palestine this week sent the message to the Palestinians that “Murdering Jews pays off. Well, I have a message for these leaders. When the most savage terrorists on Earth are effusively praising your decision, you didn’t do something right. You did something wrong, horribly wrong. Your disgraceful decision will encourage terrorism against Jews and against innocent people everywhere. It will be a mark of shame on all of you.”

He derides the world leaders’ talk of a two-state solution, “where the Jewish state of Israel will live side by side in peace with the Palestinian state. There’s only one problem with that. The Palestinians — they don’t believe in this solution. They never have. They don’t want a state next to Israel. They want a Palestinian state instead of Israel,” he declares.

“Every time they were given territory, they used it to attack us,” Netanyahu charges. “They effectively had a Palestinian state in Gaza. What did they do with that state? Peace? Coexistence? No. They attacked us time and time again. Totally unprovoked. They fired rockets into our cities. They murdered our children. They turned Gaza into a terror base from which they committed the October 7 massacre.”

“Here’s the uncomfortable truth,” he sums up on this issue. “The persistent Palestinian rejection of a Jewish state in any bout is what has driven this conflict for over a century. It is still driving it. It’s not the absence of a Palestinian state. It’s the presence and existence of a Jewish state.”

He says the Palestinian Authority, and not just Hamas, rejects a Jewish state. “You should know that the Palestinian Authority pays terrorists to slay Jews,” he declares. (The PA has insisted that it has halted this policy.)

“The more Jews the terrorists slay, the more the Palestinian Authority pays. The Palestinian Authority names its government buildings, its public squares, its schools after the mass murderers of Jews, which they glorify as martyrs.”

As for PA promises of reform, Netanyahu says, “We’ve heard these promises for decades. They always promise. They never deliver… They use the same textbooks as Hamas… They teach their children to hate Jews and destroy the Jewish state. Christians don’t fare much better.”