Netanyahu on Jerusalem Day: “All Jerusalem will be ours forever”

In a brief statement from the Jerusalem Daythe Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahucompared this Wednesday to the current war in Gaza strip with the Six Day War 1967, when Israel He occupied the eastern half of that city and declared that “All Jerusalem will be ours forever.”

“57 years have passed since Six Day War and we are once again caught in the storm of war. Then they attacked us on different fronts and the same happens with our enemies today.“, indicated the prime minister in a video message on your social networks.

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Netanyahu spoke on occasion Jerusalem Daywhich celebrates the “conquest” by Israeli troops from the eastern part of the city after winning the Six-Day War, which began with a simultaneous attack on Israel by E.Egypt, Jordan and Syria and culminated in the Israeli military occupation of West Bank, LinkO Syrian Golan Heights and Egyptian Sinaiwhich he returned in 1982 after the Camp David Accords 1978, while the Strip withdrew in 2005, although it maintains a severe blockade on it.

“Then they tried to strangle us with hostility and violence and today they want to destroy us in a siege of terror. Then we knew that only total victory would allow us to exist and today we also strive to achieve total victory“, said the prime minister.

In the speech of Netanyahu is full of comparisons with the current war in Linkabout to complete eight endless months on the post-war horizon or plan, with 1967, Israel’s great military triumph that changed the landscape of Middle East and its consequences are still palpable.

“After the war, we found ourselves in our ancestral land, within defensible borders. We will not give up on these achievements, because otherwise we would be inviting new attacks against us, worse than those of October 7th.”, he stressed.

Jerusalem Day is widely celebrated among the most extremist and far-right groups in Israel, especially the settler movement, which carries out the March of Flags recreating the route taken by Israeli troops in 1967, when “unified”the capital and entered the Old City through Damascus Gatecrossed the Muslim quarter and arrived at the Western Wall and Mosque Esplanade.

“Everything changed in an instant, when our heroic warriors touched the stones of the Wailing wall and when we hear the words ‘o Temple Mount (Esplanade of the Mosques) is in our hands’. Then the barriers were lowered and all of Jerusalem expanded before us. All Jerusalem has become ours again and all of Jerusalem will remain ours forever”, he concluded.

“He Temple Mount It’s in our hands” is the phrase uttered by the then lieutenant colonel Mordechai (Moti) Guruin command of the forces of Brigade 55 of reservist paratroopers, who were the first troops to take the area in June 1967 after expelling the Jordanian units and who have since become something of an icon in the history of the Israel.

Source: Elcomercio

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