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Five Years On: Israeli Envoy Says ‘Abraham Accords 2.0’ Is Key to Lasting Peace | American Jewish Committee | YouTubeToText
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The speech argues that Israel's actions against Hamas in Doha are a necessary response to terrorism, drawing parallels to historical events and framing the conflict as a broader ideological battle between Western/Judeo-Christian civilization and those seeking to destroy it. It emphasizes the importance of pursuing terrorists to enable future peace and cooperation, particularly through an expanded Abraham Accords.
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It's lovely to be with you.
I'd like to begin with a uh a prayer.
Uh I heard on the way here that a
important influencer on the American
scene, Charlie Kirk, was shot while he
was speaking in the University of Utah.
Uh it's horrific when political violence
occupies uh our streets.
We're particularly sensitive this year
after two of our employees, Errol
Lashinsky and Sarah Mgrim, were shot
dead at an AJC
event just a few blocks from here. We
pray for um his recovery. We pray that
we don't have to face political violence
at all of any form at any time. Uh
Uh
kudos to the A on this event.
uh my compliments on all the work you do
uh across the globe.
I was pretty surprised not to see Ted
here, but I understand that he's in
Israel, so uh we'll forgive him this
time, but please tell him that I miss
him. Uh it's a great privilege uh to
have um his excellency the ambassador
from Azar Rajan and I understand now his
excellency the ambassador of Armenia.
This is a historic moment, right? I mean
uh how many occasions have there been
since they met at the White House and
signed an agreement and of course the
special adviser to the president of
Azabrajan my dear friend Dr. Um,
Um,
my staff, and I've got the best staff of
any embassy in Washington,
prepared remarks for me,
and it's a fair it's a good speech. I
got to tell you, I I was impressed.
But um
I'm going to ask forgiveness from my
staff because I'm I'm going to speak um
extemporaneously. We say
not really because these are issues that
I I you know 24/7 live, eat and breathe. Um
Um
and I'd like to address the elephant in
the room.
It's a little elephant called Doha.
I I don't know if you saw this, if you
had a vision that, you know, it would
you'd have this conference one day after
Doha and one day before September 11th,
but you'll see in a few minutes, if I
can do it in a few minutes, how this is
related to a 5-year anniversary of the
Abraham Accords. Okay, I'll try to weave
it very quickly.
We should be cognizant of the importance
of time, where we are in time. So when I
think of September, the first thing I
think of is black September.
in 1970
when King Hussein of Jordan
decided that he had enough of
Palestinian terrorism
and uh he launched a military campaign
against the Palestine Liberation Organization.
Organization.
uh a result of Black September was
somewhere near 20,000 people who were killed,
killed,
very short amount of time, and up to
30,000 people who were evicted from Jordan.
Jordan.
Some might have said at the time that it
wasn't proportional.
Have you ever heard that expression
before? Proportionality.
But apparently when he was contending
with a terrorist organization intent on
destroying his kingdom threatened his
country, he acted with determination and
rid the country of that terrorist threat.
we send a delegation to the Munich Olympics.
and Palestinian terrorists murder
murder
our athletes.
Then there was another prime minister of Israel,
Israel,
Goldmeier. May she rest in peace.
And as a result, she gave an order to
track down every single one of the
terrorists and eliminate them.
And the state of Israel didn't rest
until that was done.
because she, like King Hussein,
understood that terrorists are hunted
September 11th,
in Israel. That would be the equivalent
of uh our our October 7th
is u about 40 times September 11th.
Just do the math. We're a country of 10
million people. You're a country of 330
million people. Do the math. It's 40
September 11th.
And we all know that the United States
We also know that the proportionality in
Fallujah and Mosul
was um shall we say disproportionate to
the proportionality
of our campaign in Gaza.
But what I want to point out in particular
particular
is that on September 28th, that same month,
month,
the United States presented a United
Nations Security Resolution 1373.
1373.
And the resolution reads, "It obligates
states to prevent
and suppress the financing and support
of terrorism,
including the harboring of terrorists.
It was a response to September 11th and
it was adopted by the UN charter
under chapter 7, I repeat, to prevent
and suppress the financing and support
of terrorism, including the harboring of terrorists.
terrorists.
Now, what is Qatar doing if not
financing and supporting terrorism by
playing host to Hamas, the very people
who sent the terrorists who murdered six
people sitting at a bus stop in
Jerusalem waiting to go about their
business. They were husbands. They were
fathers. They were sons. And one
who sent them, the terrorists we
targeted in Doha.
They celebrated the murder of these six
innocents the same way they celebrated
on camera the slaughter of 1,200
innocents on October 7th.
So Israel acted in the context of what
any normal country does. It pursues
terrorists and eliminates them like King Hussein,
Hussein,
like Golden Mayir, like the United
Why is that so important to understand
as we celebrate five years of the
We're standing alone right now. It's
lonely out there, right? Abraham stood
alone. Abraham was a very lonely guy.
Abraham said to a world that believed
that man made God. As historian Max
Deont wrote, Abraham said to a world
that said man made God, he said, "No,
no, no. God makes man." It was a
revolutionary idea. The Abrahamic faiths
Judaism, Christianity and Islam followed
that Abrahamic message.
But for a time it was lonely. He was a
revolutionary thinker, Abraham.
We led
the ideational battle.
Jesus picked it up,
moved it forward to the masses, as did
Christianity had a reformation 1500
years after Jesus.
And as Professor Bernard Lewis often said,
said,
Islam has not yet had its reformation.
And we are now 1500 years after Muhammad.
Muhammad.
And there is a battle within Islam.
That battle is over whether or not
there's going to be an accommodation of
Western civilization or not.
Are we intent on conquering Western
civilization? Are we intent on
conquering the Judeo-Christian
civilization? or are we going to
accommodate and live side by side
Islamic civilization,
the great Islamic civilization next next
to the great Judeo-Christian
civilization. That's the battle taking
place. And the terrorists,
whether in Black September in Jordan or
in Munich
or in Doha or in Gaza, represent an
ideology which says,
"No, we're not going to accommodate
Western civilization. We have to defeat it."
it."
And so if you want to defeat
Western civilization, what would be the
first thing you do?
Listen to what they say. Listen. Listen
to what they say. The first thing you're
going to do is destroy Israel. Because
Israel is this Judeo-Christian
civilization transplant in the middle of Islam.
Islam.
So what you've got to do is destroy it.
Remember that expression that Ahmed Nad was
propagandizing around the world. We're
the little Satan. America's the big
Satan. That's exactly what he means.
We're first. And that's why the first
ballistic missiles they built were fired
at us. But the distance that they create
in their ballistic missiles is enough to
believe it or not
Manuel Macron listening hit France their
end of Europe.
But their space program they called it
was an intercontinental ballistic
missile program to hit the United States.
States.
And what Iran did because the Abraham
Accords was moving forward and because
they feared that within this battle
within Islam, the Abraham Accords, the
accommodationist approach to Israel and
the West would win out. It created this
idea of a ring of fire.
And the ring of fire meant that Iranian
proxies with kamas in the southwest and
the Houthis in the southeast and thebala
in the north and kisbala Syria andbala
Iraq and the Assad regime would attack
all together.
And then as our borders
were attacked and our civilians
slaughtered, Iran would fire missiles to
the center of the country, preventing
our reser called up. You know the size
of Israel. Israel is a tiny little
country. I just flew back from Indiana.
Israel fits into Indiana. Indiana one
state of the United States four and a
half times. We're tiny little country.
Our whole width with Judean Samaria is
40 miles.
So if we were going to get hit with
missiles, ballistic missiles in the
center of the country while we're being attacked
attacked
all around our periphery, the idea was
this ring of fire would overcome
Israel's conventional power.
And that's why the significance of
taking down Iran's nuclear program and
its ballistic missile program through
Rising Lion
and through Midnight Hammer
and by defeating the proxies that are
still standing, predominantly that of
kamas, what we're doing is advancing
not only Israel's security, but the
possibility of going into an Abraham
Accord mode 2.0. zero because we are
empowering the moderate elements within Islam.
Islam.
There are those visionaries who have
already seen that right a predominantly
Shi Muslim country that is not only
working towards deepening the
relationship on all levels military
cultural but is actually serving as a
bridge for Israel into Central Asia.
Imagine that. all of these Muslim
countries adopting, embracing Israel and
Israel embracing them. Think of how much
we can accomplish. I heard Senator Rosen
think talk about water. If we work
together to solve food insecurity,
think about it, ladies and gentlemen, in
a 5 kilometer radius of Tel Aviv, we
have all the technological solutions to
food insecurity. We just need to work
together. And if we still have an idea
out there that Israel can be destroyed
and we have people working towards that
end, the destruction of Israel, we're
not going to be able to get there. So
when we hit terrorists in Doha, we are
acting in the context of
of
UN charter
of international law
in the
cause of sanity and morality.
How can we have people sitting having
Thanksgiving dinners every day as they
direct their minions to slaughter
innocent people?
And as the prime minister said, as we
mark this fifth year of Abraham Accords,
we have put terrorists on notice
like King Hussein and like Golia before us.
us.
And like the United States, in pursuit
of those responsible for September 11th,
we're going to pursue them.
And we're going to destroy those who
will destroy us, which will enable us to
live and bring Western civilization into
an area which has barely penetrated to
live side by side with our Muslim
neighbors to develop a future in which
humanity will benefit. Together we'll
raise the human development index and
advance humanity. That's what Abraham
had in mind back then when he said,
"It's not man who creates God, it's God
who creates man." We're acting in his
shadow and we have the possibility. It's
we're in the battlefield now. It's hard
to raise our heads and see the sunlight
because the war isn't over. But it's
going to be over soon. And when it's
over, we're going to be able to see a
path forward.
There are those who say, "Why aren't you
preparing the day after?" Well, let me
tell you, we're preparing the day after.
The day after is going to be brilliant.
And for it to succeed, we can't talk too
much about it. And it certainly can't be
an Israel sponsored day after to ensure
its success. So, we'll push forward.
We'll take the criticism,
but we're going to work together with
you, together with wonderful
organizations like the A
There has never been a closer
collaboration between Israel and the
American government and the American
people as there was on the days leading
up to Rising Lion and Midnight Hammer.
And that continues to take place despite
issues that you might hear here and
there. The collaboration is deep. It is broad.
broad.
It is ideological. It is ideational. it
is interestbeared and we're going to
move forward please God to Abraham
Accords 2.0 and um I don't know where
I'll be in five years but I know AJC
will be here ever stronger than you are
today and I would ask you to please
invite me even I'm just like a little
guy in a think tank to come here and
celebrate Abraham Accord's 10th
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