Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tells a ceremony in Jerusalem marking ten years since the Second Lebanon War that Israel would respond with an “iron fist” if it is attacked by the Hezbollah or Hamas terror groups.
Netanyahu tells the service at Mount Herzl military cemetery that Israel is ready to meet quiet with quiet, but is prepared for war.
“If the quiet is preserved, those who stand against us will also enjoy quiet. But if we must respond to aggression, the response will be powerful. Anyone who thinks they will find here a ‘spider’s web’ will come up against an ‘iron wall,’ and will feel an iron fist.”
(From L to R) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Reuven Rivlin, Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman and IDF Chief of Staff General Gadi Eizenkot attend an official memorial ceremony marking the tenth anniversary of the 2006 Second Lebanon War at the Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem on July 19, 2016. (AFP PHOTO/THOMAS COEX)
Hezbollah and Hamas, he says, “have established forward bases for Iran on our border. Everything that has happened in the Middle East in recent years is part of the same trend: radical Islamic terror that seeks to shatter liberty and culture with its sword thrusts.
“This terror strikes not only Sarona [market in Tel Aviv] or Otniel [settlement] — it strikes in Paris and Nice, Brussels and Orlando. We are in a global campaign. Just as we are well aware of the character of the threats, so we are preparing for every contingency.”
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