"Thank you for standing with Israel; Thank you for standing with the Jewish people; Thank you for standing with the forces of civilization against the forces of barbarism."
Perhaps the history of the 20th century and the fate of multitudes, including six million Jews, would have been different if more had paid heed to such warnings at the time.
Today we issue a similar warning. The fate of free societies is tied to their willingness to fight the scourge of antisemitism. For antisemitism legitimizes and unleashes wanton violence against a part of human society just because of the identity of its members. Not because of anything they do, but because of who they are. And once this principle is practiced on one group, it has no limits.
Eighty years ago, this deadly virus destroyed a third of the Jewish people. Its virulent mutations under the Nazis claimed the lives of millions more, until it was stamped out by unrelenting allied military force.
Now this hatred has re-emerged. It has re-emerged through its radical Islamist carriers in Yemen, Iran, Lebanon, Gaza and elsewhere.
These antisemites wish to destroy not only the Jewish state. They seek to destroy the forces of modernity, and the Arab and Muslim world, they seek to drag it back to a primitive and violent medievalism.
Nowhere was this fanaticism better demonstrated than on October 7th. The Hamas monsters who attacked us on that day beheaded our men, raped our women and burnt our babies. They took 251 innocent people hostage, including grandmothers, including their grandchildren.
We brought back 196 of these hostages, 147 of them alive. We are determined to bring all of them home.