By World Israel News Staff
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lobbied on behalf of President Donald Trump’s Gaza resettlement plan on Sunday, urging American Jewish leaders to back the proposal to find new homes for the roughly two million Gazans currently living in the coastal enclave.
On Sunday evening, Netanyahu addressed the Conference of Major American Jewish Organizations, lauding President Trump’s policies vis-a-vis Israel, while touting Israel’s accomplishments in the 15-month war on Hamas.
Working with the Trump administration, Netanyahu vowed to “change” the Middle East, continuing the transformation begun after October 7th.
“Within a year and some months, the courage of our soldiers, the stalwart position of our people and the decisions that we made turned things around. We decimated much of Hamas,” Netanyahu said.
“We haven’t finished the job, we will. Israel will destroy Hamas’ military and governing capabilities; Gaza will look differently.”
“We changed the Middle East,” Netanyahu continued.
“Now comes President Trump, and Secretary Rubio, who’s a great friend of Israel as well. I’ve seen him over the years, and we had a great discussion today. And we talked about how do we complete the change in the Middle East.”
“We have the greatest friend of Israel in the White House now. We have, we see eye to eye on the main tasks that we have to accomplish, and we’re in a position to change the Middle East and give Israel the kind of horizon, the kind of hope, the kind of security and the kind of peace that would have been unimaginable, and in fact was unimaginable from the day of the founding of the State of Israel.”
The Israeli premier said Israel is on the cusp of “victories” greater than any before in its history, including the Six Day War.
“We intend to pursue them to the full.”
Trump’s proposal to resettle the entire population of the Gaza Strip in third-party countries, Netanyahu said, is a “bold new vision and the only plan that I think can work.”
Defending Trump’s plan from accusations of ethnic cleansing, Netanyahu argued that most Gazans want to leave the Gaza Strip.
“Why not give Gazans a choice? Everybody said this is the largest open-air prison in the world. Not because of us. We let people leave.”
“In fact, if you want to know, over the last couple of years, two years I think, 150,000 Gazans left. You know how they left? Because they bribed their way out, not through us. They bribed their way out.”
“The rich could leave, but if other people wanted to leave, give them a choice, not forcible eviction, not ethnic cleansing. In a war zone people leave.”
“We tried to get the population to leave, to get them out of harm’s way, and Hamas, with rifles, with gunfire, tried to prevent them from leaving. So we moved them around so that they would get out of harm’s way. But if people want to leave, if they want to emigrate, it’s their choice. And I think President Trump’s plan is right on the dot.”
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