“Olmert stated, ‘I am tired of winning’ and that’s good, because his party is expected to lose,” opened Caroline Glick in her presentation at the Likud Anglos Rally attended by five hundred Likud enthusiasts. “The person that I am supposed to present to you now, is not tired of victories and he is expected to win.”
“The majority of the people in the nationalist camp see me as prime minister,” began Netanyahu. “And they want to see the country led by the Likud’s chosen leader. They believe in the power of Likud, in its strength and its people.”
“But the problem is that they believe that I am going to be prime minister no matter what and if they think that, then they will vote for another party. Likud won’t then have as many seats and the difference between it and Kadima will be much small. In this situation we would wake up to a problematic reality.”
“Many small parties say: We want to encourage and strengthen Likud and therefore we will weaken it. I don’t understand how this is possible,” Netanyahu stated and promised that a Likud government would end the era of confusion and commence an era of strength and clarity for the state of Israel.
“I always believed that the key is in being truthful. There are people who say that you need to tell people what they want to hear, I believe that you need to give them the truth,” stated Netanyahu and cited his announcements about “Hamastan” during the period of the Disengagement and the Iran threat about which he warned beginning in ’96.
“We have had a government that sold us illusion after illusion,” announced Netanyahu and described the sprinkle of Kassams that became more like a rain and then a flood of Grad rockets. “A policy of weakness as a way to fight for peace has only brought more terrorism and in sum led Israel to this mission in Gaza.”
“Kadima’s mistake was that they thought that Hamas was just another terrorist organization and if they attack it hard enough and enough times it will fall. However, Hamas is actually a different kind of terrorist organization. We’re talking about a fundamentalist Islamic terror organization. The only way to stop the terror is to end the Hamas’ rule of Gaza.
“Militant Islam is the first problem on Israel’s agenda and we need to look reality in the eyes in order to deal with it.”Netanyahu emphasized that the Iranian nuclear threat is the most serious threat on world peace, “We haven’t seen a threat like this since the beginning of the nuclear era, because nuclear weapons were never held by fundamentalist and extremist bodies like Iran. I spoke about this with President Obama and I understand from our discussion that Iran’s attempt to arm itself with nuclear weapons is seen as unaccepted by the United States.”
