Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday said Israel is "absolutely committed to protecting our future, and to ensuring a region of prosperity, security and peace, not just for us, but for all those who will join us," during a meeting with a delegation of ambassadors and diplomatic envoys to the United Nations visiting Jerusalem.
Israel's UN Ambassador Danny Danon, along with ambassadors and diplomatic envoys to the United Nations from across Europe, Africa, Latin America, and the Pacific, met at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem.
“Israel is a very small, but very powerful country, because of technology and science, but also because of the spirit of the people,” Netanyahu told the delegation.
The prime minister also warned about growing antisemitism in the world, saying that "people thought that after the Holocaust, anti-Semitism would disappear. No, it was a break, a short respite. It returned."
"The only thing that changed is that when they come to massacre us, we have the ability to defend ourselves," he added.
"We've just emerged from a seven-front war...They would have slaughtered all of us if they could, but they couldn't, because we rolled them back. But not only them, the whole Iran axis, which keeps them alive. Hamas, Hezbollah, the Assad regime, Houthis, Iran itself, these various militias, we rolled them back," Netanyahu concluded.
Herzog meets UN ambassadors' delegation
Earlier on Tuesday, the delegation met with President Isaac Herzog, who called out the United Nations for failing to show the "moral clarity" it must.
"The weakness of the international system is its lack of ability to fight terror without mercy, not accepting terror in any way, not justifying terror, and then blaming those who fight against terror, like us. In this respect, we see your visit as extremely important because the voice of your nations matters and is very influential and substantial as to the future of the international order and system," Herzog said.
“One of the things that has been very frustrating for me, for Israeli women, and Jewish women, is the denial by organizations, such as UN Women, of the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war. And it cannot be denied. The fact that some UN officials are still denying it is completely shocking and cannot be accepted," added First Lady Michal Herzog.
Finally, Herzog showed his support for US President Donald Trump's peace plan for Gaza, saying, "It's quite amazing" and "There is progress all the time." He also demanded Hamas's disarmament in order to continue implementing the plan and asked for a new mechanism that could "replace the two-state solution."
"We cannot go back to the old slogans of 'two-state solution' without understanding the pain, the trauma, and the new mechanisms that must be operational in order to bring peace with our Palestinian neighbors. I truly believe that the international community should adopt this model above all others. Why? Because for the first time, nations see for themselves and can judge and commit to a change on the ground in Gaza, and there is a plan that one can stick to," he said.