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Netanyahu on Gaza and the Genocide Charge

Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of the State of Israel / / 0:51

Accusing Israel of genocide is the greatest lie of the century.Spoken in English. No published official text was reachable; these words are from YouTube automatic captions of the UN broadcast.

Full address, 40:09. The dark mark is this excerpt; pale marks are the speaker's other excerpt.

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Play at the source from 25:18

United Nations channel on YouTube. Excerpt length 0:51.

Transcript

YouTube automatic captions of the UN broadcast (speech recognition, not a published UN text); obvious mishearings corrected in square brackets. Timecodes are source time; each opens the source at that second.

  1. 25:18And while Hamas did everything possible to keep Palestinian civilians in harm's way, often at gunpoint, Israel did
  2. 25:27everything possible to get them out of harm's way. We sent millions of text messages warning civilians to leave
  3. 25:35combat areas. We made millions of phone calls. We dropped millions of leaflets.
  4. 25:42I want to ask you some questions.
  5. 25:45What genocidal regime gives a million polio vaccinations to the enemy's population?
  6. 25:53What genocidal regime enables the distribution of 2 million tons of food into Gaza? That's a ton for every
  7. 26:01person.
  8. 26:03Accusing Israel of genocide is the greatest lie of the century.