Standing with Israel along side Netanyahu’s Unwavering Truth at the 2026 UN General Assembly:
The Unyielding Defiance at the Podium: A second speech Prime Minister Netanyahu might have given if he had the time.
Harry Liberman
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https://jewishvirtuallibrary.org/prime-minister-netanyahus-2026-un-general-assembly-speech
To the so-called international community gathered here today: I look at a global body that exists in a state of perpetual war with itself. You are divided by borders, fractured by ideology, and locked in primitive conflicts. Yet, in between every one of your internal battles, you routinely find a moment of collective consensus. You take a breath, pause your own wars, and collectively kick the Jew.
I watched you just moments ago. As I stepped up to this podium on September 24, 2026, a theater of coordinated departures took place before my eyes. Scores of delegates stood up, turned their backs, and staged a mass walkout. You intended it as a display of profound diplomatic protest. In reality, it was a display of profound moral cowardice—a collective flight from an inconvenient truth you lack the courage to look in the eye.
To those remaining in this hall, and to those who fled into the corridors to hide from the reality of a sovereign Jewish state: look closely at the empty seats left behind. They are the physical manifestation of an ancient pattern. For centuries, the world grew accustomed to a specific version of the Jewish people. We were a people without land, without sovereign resources, carrying only our contributions and a deep, tragic yearning to be accepted. For generations, the diasporic Jewish mentality was forced to ask the societies around us:
“Did I do a good enough job? Did I contribute enough to your medicine, your science, your economy? No? Okay… kick me. I will try harder. I will try again.”
I stand before you today to tell you that those days are permanently over. Your walkouts no longer move us. Your empty chairs do not break our resolve.
The circle has closed exactly as prophesied. If you listen closely, you can hear the echo of six million souls speaking out through the empty spaces of this assembly hall. They speak not in sorrow, but in absolute, thunderous awe of a reality they never lived to witness: a sovereign Jewish nation standing on its own feet, defending its own children, answering to no tyrant, and unfazed by the theater of diplomatic rejection.
For two thousand years, since the Roman Empire put Judea to the torch, renamed our land Palaestina to erase our name following the bloody conclusion of the Bar Kokhba revolt in 135 CE, and scattered us into the wind, we were told we were an anomaly destined for extinction. We survived the medieval Crusades, the Inquisitions, the Pogroms, and the systematic industrial slaughter of the Holocaust. Every single time, the world expected us to pass into “dream stuff” and fade away.
But the eternity of Israel does not falter. The six million who went into the night without a flag, without an army, and without a refuge are vindicated today by the very presence of an Israeli Prime Minister holding this podium, whether you choose to sit and listen or run away. We have returned to the soil where David ruled and Isaiah preached. We are no longer auditioning for your acceptance, we are no longer begging for a permission slip to exist, and we will never again cooperate with your wishful dream of turning the Jew into a perennial, helpless victim.
The Theological Axis: The Precision of the Law
Let us confront the philosophical distortion of the sanctity of human life that underpins this current conflict. There is a definitive theological and legal separation between our civilization and those who seek our destruction.
In the Jewish oral law codified in the late Roman era around 200 CE, the absolute value of life is universally and unconditionally proclaimed:
“Therefore, the human being was created single, to teach you that whoever destroys a single soul is considered by Scripture as if they destroyed an entire world; and whoever saves a single soul is considered as if they saved an entire world.” — Mishnah Sanhedrin 4:5
This legal framework establishes life as an absolute baseline. It has no footnotes. It has no ideological prerequisites.
Centuries later, this profound ethical baseline was adapted into the Quranic Islamic text, which explicitly notes that this decree was ordained for the Children of Israel. However, the foundational Jewish doctrine of absolute sanctity was fundamentally altered in the Quran by the introduction of a critical, elastic Islamic legal loophole: Mischief / Curiosity !
“Because of that, We decreed upon the Children of Israel that whoever kills a soul—unless it be for murder or for spreading mischief in the land—it is as if he had slain mankind entirely. And whoever saves one—it is as if he had saved mankind entirely.” — Quran Surah 5:32
This precise qualification of “mischief in the land” (Fasad fil-Ard) acts as a mechanism of total abrogation. It creates an administrative and religious justification to strip away the universal protection of life.
What constitutes “mischief”? To the totalitarian mind, resisting subjugation is mischief. Sovereign Jewish defense of ancestral land is mischief. Rebellious existence is mischief. The immediate following Islamic verse clarifies the exact physical penalties reserved for this highly subjective offense:
“Indeed, the penalty for those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and strive upon earth [to cause] mischief is no less than that they be killed or crucified or that their hands and feet be cut off from opposite sides or that they be exiled from the land.” — Quran Surah 5:33
By transforming an absolute, unconditional Jewish moral imperative into a conditional framework dependent on ideological alignment, the original value of life in Judaism Babylonian Talmud was replaced by an elastic Quranic pretext for state, religious, and asymmetric violence.
This is why Hamas can livestream the slaughter of families on October 7, 2023 with sadistic joy. Under their doctrine, the victims are not souls; they are creators of “mischief” who have forfeited their humanity.
The Cultural Grifters: “Mackleless” Humanitarianism
Look at the profound hypocrisy that fills the halls of international diplomacy, Western media, and popular culture. Following the horrors of October 7, young Jewish soldiers have sacrificed their lives on the battlefield. Let us be entirely transparent about the strategic reality: Israel possesses the military capability to wipe a hostile population off the map in a single day without losing a single Jewish soldier. Yet, because we hold to the unconditional sanctity of life, we do not.
Instead, the Israel Defense Forces entered the most densely populated urban warfare environment in human history, facing an enemy that openly uses its own children as human shields. Our soldiers took the ground view, risking their own lives to minimize civilian casualties, executing operations under a standard that independent military analysts acknowledge has set a historic precedent for minimizing civilian-to-combatant ratios in urban warfare, as detailed by experts at the Modern War Institute at West Point.
Yet, what do the modern cultural arbiters do?
We live in an era of unprecedented information disorder, where commercial artists like Macklemoreweaponize fake news imagery, grifting off the “Children of Gaza” with social media protest tracks like “Hind’s Hall” released in May 2024. His brand of activism completely omits the core tactical reality of the Hamas doctrine of asymmetric baby shields. It is entirely Mackleless—devoid of courage, stripped of historical context, and completely dependent on an illiterate, selective outrage designed to trend on social media algorithms.
These cultural figures perform a curated, sanitized version of empathy that costs them absolutely nothing. They stand on Western stages, wrapped in historical ignorance, singing anthems for a population governed by a terrorist regime that would throw them from the nearest rooftop for their lifestyles. They scream into megaphones about oppression, yet they are entirely silent about the actual, undeniable atrocities taking place in front of their lying eyes.
Where is the track from Macklemore for the ongoing Christian genocide in Nigeria, where international tracking indicates over 52,000 believers have been targeted and butchered by radical Islamist forces since 2009? Where is the anthem for the mass graves and systemic ethnic cleansing in Sudan, where the Rapid Support Forces have generated a staggering humanitarian collapse and displaced millions since April 2023? Where is the outcry for the quiet, brutal erasure of Christianity across the modern Middle East?
And look at your deafening silence regarding the people of Iran!
Hundreds of thousands of brave Iranian civilians have taken to the streets since the September 2022 killing of Mahsa Amini, shouting “Woman, Life, Freedom” to free themselves from the fundamentalist tyranny of the Ayatollahs. The massive, brilliant diaspora of Iranians living across the globe knows this pain intimately. They cry out for the freedom of their families back home. Yet their plight is invisible to the illiterate anti-Semites marching on Western campuses. Why? Because a tragedy carries zero political currency within the halls of academia or the music industry unless a Jew can somehow be blamed for it.
The Biafran Precedent: A Blueprint for Nigerian Oil and British Silence
This selective conscience is not new. The weaponization of imagery used against Israel today relies on a cynical blueprint pioneered during the Nigerian Civil War (the Biafran conflict) from 1967 to 1970.
Declassified documents from the British National Archives expose how British economic interests and international apathy allowed a blockade to systematically destroy an entire generation for oil. Driven by geopolitical influence, the United Kingdom secretly flooded the Nigerian federal government with heavy weaponry and strategic backing while millions of Biafran Children starved.
Let us look directly at the cold, legally airtight words etched into history via declassified British Foreign Office logs.
In FCO 65/367, British diplomats laid out their priorities with shocking transparency. Michael Stewart, the British Foreign Secretary, wrote directly to Prime Minister Harold Wilson, stating that the primary objective of British policy was to safeguard their economic footprint in Nigeria.
“The regional oil production of Nigeria is critical to the United Kingdom’s balance of payments. Our direct financial stake in Shell-BP represents an investment of over £200 million. To stop arms shipments would not only jeopardize this supply but destroy our political leverage over Lagos, regardless of the humanitarian outcries.”
Think about that.
As a total land, sea, and air blockade intentionally cut off food to an entire region, turning protein deficiency into a calculated weapon of war, the British Cabinet met to protect their balance of payments. In the declassified Cabinet meeting logs under UK National Archives, CAB 128/43, Prime Minister Harold Wilson privately maintained that stopping arms shipments would damage British trade interests, stating:
“We cannot allow our broader commonwealth policy or domestic emotionalism over the unfolding famine to dictate our strategic arms agreements with the Federal Military Government.”
The result? Over 1.5 million Biafran civilians were starved to death in less than three years. Let that number sink in. 1.5 million people. That is equal to the entire population of Gaza being completely systematically wiped off the face of the earth inside a three-year window.
Where is the historical reporting on this? Where are the front-page retrospectives? Where are the encampments on Western university campuses? Where are the students occupying administrative buildings at Harvard, Columbia, or Oxford screaming for justice for the 1.5 million Black children whose bellies were distended by a British-backed artificial famine?
There are no encampments. There is no historical outrage. There are no viral social media trends. Why? Because no British or American illiterate “celebrities and artists” can use that tragedy to grift. There is zero political currency in a humanitarian catastrophe—even one that starved an entire population equivalent to Gaza in three years—unless a Jew can somehow be blamed for it.
The Virus Resurgent: Never Again is Now
You take a legal concept explicitly codified in international law—a word invented by a Polish-Jewish lawyer, Raphael Lemkin, who coined the term in 1944 and tirelessly lobbied the United Nations to adopt the 1948 Genocide Convention. You take the word “genocide”—forged from the ashes of our own destruction—and you weaponize it against the very people who suffered it, turning his legacy into a grotesque tool of antisemitic propaganda.
This is the return of the ancient virus. It mutated from a religious virus in the Middle Ages, to a racial virus in the 19th and 20th centuries, and today it has returned as a political virus under the guise of “anti-Zionism.” It is the exact same pathogen. It aims for the exact same result: the delegitimization, isolation, and eventual destruction of the Jewish people.
October 7, 2023 was not a political dispute over borders. It was the virus breaking through the skin of civilization. It was the Roman torch, the Spanish stake of the 1492 Inquisition, and the Nazi gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau operating in real-time on social media streams.
To the anti-Semites of the world who think this campaign of lies, campus riots, and diplomatic theater will terrify our people—whether they sit in this hall or in the office of the anti-Semitic mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani—I have news for you. The days when Jews were defenseless victims, marched to the slaughter while relying on the hollow promises of an international community, are over.
The six million souls who look down upon this hall today do so with a holy awe, witnessing the prophecy fulfilled through the very defiance of our survival. Go ahead and walk out. Empty this room. Turn your backs. Asking to be recognized by this broken assembly is a joke.
The post-colonial Roman era over Judea is finished. The era of the helpless Jewish victim is buried. Today, Israel stands resilient, sovereign, and fully equipped for self-defense. We will persist in building, standing, and prevailing without apologizing for our existence or your recognition.
Primary Factual Appendix & Document Logs
- Israeli Prime Minister UN Address (Sept. 24, 2026): Jewish Virtual Library Archive
- Roman Palestine Retitling (135 CE): World History Encyclopedia – Bar Kokhba Campaign
- Mishnah Sanhedrin Codex (circa 200 CE): Sefaria Bilingual Database – Sanhedrin 4
- Quranic Exegetical Texts: Quran.com – Surah Al-Ma’idah Verses 32-33
- Urban Warfare Standards (Gaza Metrics): Modern War Institute at West Point
- Biafra Arms Log Policy Cables: UK National Archives Record FCO 65/367
- British Cabinet Meeting Minutes (Wilson Administration Famine Memo): UK National Archives Record CAB 128/43
- UN Genocide Convention Formulation (1944-1948): United Nations Office on Genocide Prevention
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