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STORY: GA / ISRAEL NETANYAHU
TRT: 02:29
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 22 SEPTEMBER 2023, NEW YORK CITY / RECENT
19 SEPTEMBER 2023, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations Headquarters
22 SEPTEMBER 2023, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu walks up to General Assembly podium
3. Wide shot, audience applauding
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister, Israel:
“I've long sought to make peace with the Palestinians. But I also believe that we must not give the Palestinians a veto over new peace treaties with Arab states. The Palestinians could greatly benefit from a broader peace. They should be part of that process, but they should not have a veto over the process.”
5. Wide shot, Israeli delegation
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister, Israel:
“So, when the Palestinians see that most of the Arab world has reconciled itself to the Jewish state, they too, will be more likely to abandon the fantasy of destroying Israel, and finally embrace a path of genuine peace with it.”
7. Wide shot, Netanyahu at the podium
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister, Israel:
“There is no question, the Abraham accords heralded the dawn of a new age of peace, but I believe that we are at the cusp of an even more dramatic breakthrough, an historic peace between Israel and Saudi Arabia. Such a peace will go a long way to ending the Arab-Israeli conflict. It will encourage other Arab states to normalize their relations with Israel. It will enhance the prospects of peace with the Palestinians. It will encourage a broader reconciliation between Judaism and Islam, between Jerusalem and Mecca, between the descendants of Isaac and the descendants of Ishmael. All this…”
9. Wide shot, Israeli delegation
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister, Israel:
“Let us harness our resolve and our courage to stop the curse of a nuclear Iran and rolled back its fanaticism and aggression. Let us bring forth the blessings of a new Middle East that will transform lands once written with conflict and chaos into fields of prosperity and peace.”
11. Various shots, applause
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today (22 Sep) said, “we must not give the Palestinians a veto over new peace treaties with Arab states.”
Addressing the General Assembly’s annual high-level debate, Netanyahu said, “Palestinians could greatly benefit from a broader peace. They should be part of that process, but they should not have a veto over the process.”
“He said, “when the Palestinians see that most of the Arab world has reconciled itself to the Jewish state, they too, will be more likely to abandon the fantasy of destroying Israel, and finally embrace a path of genuine peace with it.”
The Israeli Prime Minister told the Assembly that the Abraham accords “heralded the dawn of a new age of peace, but I believe that we are at the cusp of an even more dramatic breakthrough, an historic peace between Israel and Saudi Arabia.
Such a peace, he said, “will go a long way to ending the Arab-Israeli conflict. It will encourage other Arab states to normalize their relations with Israel. It will enhance the prospects of peace with the Palestinians. It will encourage a broader reconciliation between Judaism and Islam, between Jerusalem and Mecca, between the descendants of Isaac and the descendants of Ishmael.
Netanyahu concluded by saying, “let us harness our resolve and our courage to stop the curse of a nuclear Iran and rolled back its fanaticism and aggression. Let us bring forth the blessings of a new Middle East that will transform lands once written with conflict and chaos into fields of prosperity and peace.”
The Abraham Accords are a series of bilateral agreements signed between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, as well as Morocco.
