Herzog Says Israel Is Fighting on Behalf of the ‘Free World’

00:00:00.000 —> 00:00:02.420 We have to understand in order to change 00:00:02.420 —> 00:00:03.830 the equation in the Middle East, 00:00:03.830 —> 00:00:06.500 and change the vision and the horizon in the Middle East 00:00:06.500 —> 00:00:08.640 towards a vision of peace, 00:00:08.640 —> 00:00:12.260 we have to uproot this machine of terror, 00:00:12.260 —> 00:00:14.180 this jihadist culture. 00:00:14.180 —> 00:00:16.180 This war was forced upon us. 00:00:16.180 —> 00:00:17.580 We didn’t want to go to war. 00:00:17.580 —> 00:00:18.870 We were a peace-loving nation. 00:00:18.870 —> 00:00:20.490 That’s the tragedy of it all. 00:00:20.490 —> 00:00:23.310 We were in a trajectory of peace in the Middle East. 00:00:23.310 —> 00:00:25.760 We opened up Gaza to tens of thousands 00:00:25.760 —> 00:00:29.120 of employees, Gazan people who broke bread and came 00:00:29.120 —> 00:00:29.670 back home. 00:00:29.670 —> 00:00:31.730 Now we know that many, many of them 00:00:31.730 —> 00:00:34.250 gathered information against their own, 00:00:34.250 —> 00:00:36.740 the people who employed them and worked with them 00:00:36.740 —> 00:00:37.800 and supported them. 00:00:37.800 —> 00:00:39.600 I mean, it’s mind boggling. 00:00:39.600 —> 00:00:42.380 We are doing whatever we can to have humanitarian aid 00:00:42.380 —> 00:00:44.690 and safety for the people of Gaza, 00:00:44.690 —> 00:00:49.690 but we have to do the job and get Hamas out of there. 00:00:49.690 —> 00:00:52.730 Israeli citizens who’ve left their homes by the hundreds 00:00:52.730 —> 00:00:56.550 of thousands, thery could be your age or much older than you. 00:00:56.550 —> 00:01:00.300 They put on their uniform in order to defend and protect 00:01:00.300 —> 00:01:01.540 the people of Israel. 00:01:01.540 —> 00:01:03.930 And therefore, because we have the obligation 00:01:03.930 —> 00:01:06.570 to defend and protect the people of Israel, 00:01:06.570 —> 00:01:08.860 we will do whatever is necessary. 00:01:08.860 —> 00:01:11.820 We are also doing it on behalf of the free world 00:01:11.820 —> 00:01:14.820 because if it weren’t for us, Europe would be next, 00:01:14.820 —> 00:01:17.910 because these jihadists are out there to get all of us 00:01:17.910 —> 00:01:19.990 out and wipe us off the map. 00:01:19.990 —> 00:01:23.330 And that is the real battle the world is facing.