Benjamin Netanyahu's speech at the renaming ceremony for the Shimon Peres Negev Nuclear Research Center (from 2018) - based or cringe?

Based or cringe?


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Shimon aspired toward peace but he knew that true peace can be achieved only if our hands strongly grasp defensive weaponry.
In the Middle East, and in many parts of the world, there is a simple truth: There is no place for the weak. The weak crumble, are slaughtered and are erased from history while the strong, for good or for ill, survive. The strong are respected, and alliances are made with the strong, and in the end peace is made with the strong.

This process, of normalization by leading countries in the Arab world with the strong State of Israel, is happening before our eyes on a scale that would have been impossible to imagine a few years ago. This process bears hope within it that, in the end, the cycle of peace will be completed. But it is impossible to deny the fact that there are yet many enemies in this region and beyond. We're working to prevent Iran from establishing military presence in Syria. We won't relent in pursuit of this goal as we did not relent in bringing about the cancellation of the bad nuclear deal w/ Iran, a goal seen impossible when I put it on the intl agenda several years ago. In the diplomatic sphere, we'll continue to apply pressure on the dangerous, extremist regime in Iran.

Yesterday we saw the fruit of this pressure in remarks by the Iranian President who said many Iranians lost hope in the future and strength of Iran due to the economic sanctions. In the military sphere, the IDF will continue to take strong and determined action against Iran's attempts to station forces and advanced weapons systems in Syria. No agreement between Syria and Iran will deter us; neither will any threat deter us.

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-https://twitter.com/IsraeliPM/status/1034849454032134144

  • If we want a strong Germany, you must one day be strong, too. If we want a powerful Germany, you, too, must one day be powerful. If we want an honorable Germany, you must one day uphold this honor. If we want order in Germany, you must maintain this order. If we want to once again create a loyal Germany, you yourselves must learn to be loyal. You are the Germany of the future, and thus we want you to be what this Germany of the future must and will be.
  • Truly, this earth is a trophy cup for the industrious man. And this rightly so, in the service of natural selection. He who does not possess the force to secure his Lebensraum in this world, and, if necessary, to enlarge it, does not deserve to possess the necessities of life. He must step aside and allow stronger peoples to pass him by.
    • Speech to officer cadets at the Berlin Sportpalast, 18 December 1940. Domarus, Max (1997). Hitler: Speeches and Proclamations, 1932-1945 (English Volume III: 1939-1940). Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers. p. 2162. ISBN 0865166277.
  • Providence shows no mercy to weak nations, but recognizes the right of existence-only of sound and strong nations...
    This Jewish bolshevist annihilation of nations and its western European and American procurers can be met only in one way: by using every ounce of strength with the extreme fanaticism and stubborn steadfastness that merciful God gives to men in hard times for the defense of their own lives...
    We have suffered so much that it only steels us to fanatical resolve to hate Our enemies a thousand times more and to regard them for what they are destroyers of an eternal culture and annihilators of humanity. Out of this hate a holy will is born to oppose these destroyers of our existence with all the strength that God has given us and to crush them in the end. During its 2,000-year history our people has survived so many terrible times that we have no doubt that we will also master our present plight.
I mean, it certainly sounds like AFPAC but I think even AFPAC would try to sound less well, on the nose, then Israel apparently. As to whether it is based or cringe? Marx had a phrase. how does it go? "History repeats itself first as tragedy then as farce" (He said Hegel remarked that somewhere, but Marx says that in all his works)

He bluffs, his people took the West of Jerusalem from Women and Children after slaughtering their men. When the Arab armies came, the result was Israel signing separate armistices with Egypt on February 24, Lebanon on March 23, Transjordan on April 3, and Syria on July 20. Did they honor those agreements and what was Israel's Operation Susannah? How did the Second Arab–Israeli war begin? On June 5th 1967, when Israel launched a series of airstrikes against Egyptian airfields, was their claim that they had been attacked by Egypt true, or were their airstrikes preemptive? Were there War Crimes Committed Against the U.S. Military, June 8, 1967? Was the Yom Kippur War about the Sinai Peninsula or not? These are questions he bluffs don't matter because polite people don't ask them, they obey like frightened mice.

Today those women and children pushed from West Jerusalem into East Jerusalem lost their homes, because supposedly its Israeli land to be administered by Israeli Courts. Did they receive their West Jerusalem Homes from prior to 1947? No, because giving the Palestinians fully their rights would not be fully safe and so not in the interest of the Israeli government. So Israeli courts handle Palestinians like second class citizens while claiming jurisdiction over their homes. I wonder what that could be called?

Mind you, its just the hypocrisy of this which bothers me. These people try to rule what is polite to talk about in my own country while sounding like Hitler whenever they please in theirs. It drives a man from mainstream politics to hear them, to suffer them.
 
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Mind you, its just the hypocrisy of this which bothers me. These people try to rule what is polite to talk about in my own country while sounding like Hitler whenever they please in theirs.
I too am bothered by the corruption, but I'm also bothered by the evil of the acts themselves, not just that they lie about them.
 
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