Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s remarks on the torch lighting ceremony of the 76th Independence Day for the State of Israel (filmed prematurely):
“Expensive residents of Israel, 76 years in the past, within the Warfare of Independence, we stood alone. Few in opposition to many. 5 Arab armies invaded our territory to remove the nation that had simply been born. We had been poor in weapons, nearly with out means. However we had one secret weapon: the spirit of the generations, The life drive of an historical individuals who refuses to die, a individuals who stand up for his or her souls. Because the psalmist says: “I can’t die as a result of I’ll reside.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s remarks on the torch lighting ceremony of the 76th Independence Day for the State of Israel (filmed prematurely):
“Expensive residents of Israel, 76 years in the past, within the Warfare of Independence, we stood alone. Few in opposition to many. 5 Arab armies invaded our territory to remove the nation that had simply been born. We had been poor in weapons, nearly with out means. However we had one secret weapon: the spirit of the generations, The life drive of an historical individuals who refuses to die, a individuals who stand up for his or her souls. Because the psalmist says: “I can’t die as a result of I’ll reside.”
Due to this spirit we defeated our enemies and ensured our existence. In the present day we’re infinitely stronger. However the need to destroy us has not gone away, it’s nonetheless right here. We noticed it this yr on October 7. That is no peculiar Independence Day. The battle remains to be occurring. It was imposed on us on a black day of a horrible bloodbath. Lots of our brothers and sisters are nonetheless being held in Hamas basements. Their households are struggling terribly. We are going to convey all of them residence – the residing and the areas alike.
Residents within the south and north are nonetheless being evacuated from their properties because of the battle. We are going to return them safely to their settlements. Our greatest warriors fell in heroic battles. The households of the fallen are laid low with the ache of irreparable loss. Our wounded face their battle wounds with an unparalleled the Aristocracy of spirit. I hug everybody with love. I want a full restoration to our wounded.
After I meet a lot of them and likewise lots of the households of the fallen, they inform me: ‘Our heroes didn’t fall in useless’, ‘Our heroes weren’t wounded in useless’. ‘Proceed to the tip, proceed till the Hamas monsters are eradicated.’ And I promise you – that is how we are going to do it.
Though this isn’t a traditional independence day, it’s a particular alternative to grasp the which means of our independence. The independence to be a free individuals in our nation. The independence to guard ourselves on our personal. The independence to appreciate the decree of the generations: by no means once more!
We do all this collectively, solely collectively. Simply as our heroic troopers combat collectively, shoulder to shoulder, in a tank, in an APC, in tunnels, in planes, in ships. Within the second of fact, a whole nation mobilized. What a beautiful era we’ve got. The era of the heroes of victory.
The beacons that we are going to mild tonight will shine a fantastic mild on the splendor of our nation. They write in letters of fireside the great story of our individuals. We elevate a miracle and a candle in honor of this individuals.
In honor of the Israelis who run into hazard to avoid wasting one another.
In honor of the troopers, the commanders, the policemen, the ladies and the members of the safety forces – all of them added new hyperlinks to the chain of heroism of the defenders of our nation.
In honor of the Druze, Christian, Muslim, Bedouin and Circassian warriors. We’re all proud Israelis. We’re brothers!
In honor of the devoted reserve servants, who need to combat till victory.
In honor of the households on the house entrance, who’re a stable help for girls and boys on the entrance.
In honor of the rescue and emergency organizations that saved so many lives.
In honor of the hundreds of residents who come of their hundreds to the funeral of a single soldier.
In honor of the volunteers who wrap the IDF troopers with love.
In honor of our brothers and sisters within the diaspora and in honor of our non-Jewish pals who stand on one entrance along with us with their heads held excessive in opposition to the hatred of Israel.
In honor of our beloved individuals, “the individuals of Calvia will rise and the individuals of Israel will likely be raised.”
And for the glory of the State of Israel!”
