PM Netanyahu to the Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes' Remembrance Day Torchlighters: "If we need to stand alone - we will stand alone."
Israel - Prime Minister's Office
Events and Speeches
The 37th Government
02.05.2024
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara, today, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, met with the Holocaust survivors who will serve as the torchlighters (https://www.yadvashem.org/remembrance/archive/torchlighters.html?id=4332) at the opening ceremony for Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem.
Prime Minister Netanyahu:
"Izi (Itzhak Kabilio, one of the survivors) said here: 'The State of Israel is the one and only sanctuary of the Jewish people.' This is so correct, and Michael (Michel Bar-On, one of the survivors) said: 'We cannot rely on the nations of the world who make promises.'
If it is possible to receive the assistance of the nations of the world, I am always for it. However, in the greatest Holocaust, great leaders like Roosevelt, who was told what was happening at Auschwitz and Birkenau and in the [other] death camps, they told him and he knew, his answer was that he would not lose a single pilot and refused to accept the Jews. They were great leaders. Churchill, who I greatly admire, tried to recruit his army but his army rebelled against him.
If we need to stand alone - we will stand alone. If it is possible to recruit the nations of the world, how much the better. But if we do not defend ourselves - nobody will defend us.
The strength at our disposal is the strength that I have heard here, we have no other."
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