English transcript

I said, Mike, that we are fighting today the

battle that the Maccabees fought. They fought

for the survival of the Jewish people and the

Jewish faith... against an enemy that wanted

to extinguish us... wipe us out from the face

of the earth. We were fighting our battle. But

we were also fighting the battle of civilization.

Because our civilization is based on the Judeo-Christian

tradition. And if the Maccabees had failed...

there'd be no Judaism... there would be no Judeo-Christian

civilization. There would be no Huckabees. There

would be no United States... there wouldn't

be the civilization of freedom... the respect

for our common traditions, our common values...

all of that would not happen if it weren't for

those... five brave brothers. They actually

made the whole difference. So that spirit animates

these brave soldiers that are here today...

and their comrades... who are fighting in Gaza

or in Lebanon or in Iran... wherever is necessary

to not only preserve the Jewish nation and the

Jewish state... but preserve civilization against

the barbarians. The barbarians are out there.

They did a horrible thing to us on October 7th.

They'll never do it again. But they're doing

it against Jews in Sydney... and Jews elsewhere,

in America and elsewhere. This is our common

battle against the barbarians. We have won it

here, we're winning it here... we'll win it

everywhere. Chag Sameach. Chag Hanukkah Sameach

lekulchem. Toda raba lachem. Toda raba.