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Netanyahu in US to address UN, meet with Trump

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu landed on Thursday in New York, where he will address the United Nations General Assembly before meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House.

“At the Assembly, I will speak the truth—the truth of Israel’s citizens, the truth of IDF soldiers, the truth of our state,” said Netanyahu before his departure early Thursday morning. “I will denounce those leaders who, instead of condemning the murderers, rapists and child-burners, seek to grant them a state in the heart of the Land of Israel. That will not happen.”

Danny Danon, the Jewish state’s representative to the United Nations, hailed Netanyahu’s trip to the United States in a social media post as “an important visit for the State of Israel, especially at this moment in time, when we hear too many false voices from the U.N. podium.”

“Tomorrow, the prime minister’s speech at the General Assembly will strengthen our position and make clear to the world: Israel is fighting on all fronts, and its security is not up for debate,” according to Danon.

 

IDF ordered to broadcast Netanyahu’s UN speech across the Gaza Strip, reports say​


The Prime Minister’s Office has instructed the IDF to hook up loudspeakers throughout the Gaza Strip so that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to the UN General Assembly can be broadcast live to its residents, Hebrew news outlets are reporting.

According to Channel 12, the army has voiced opposition to this order, as it would require soldiers to leave their posts and enter areas of the Gaza Strip that put them at increased risk of being targeted by Hamas operatives.

Still, the Haaretz newspaper reports that the army will not defy the PMO’s request, and is preparing to broadcast Netanyahu’s speech across Gaza.

One military official tells Haaretz that the move is an act of psychological warfare.

Netanyahu’s speech is scheduled to begin at 4 p.m. Israel time, and is expected to primarily focus on blasting Western recognition of an independent Palestinian state.

 
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