Hebrew → English transcript

It does not matter how we define the front in Lebanon, or the front in Iran.

If we have lost a city in the State of Israel, this is the first time that a city in the State of Israel is gone.

There are ten thousand residents today in Kiryat Shmona.

And you expect them, for another month, or I do not even know how long, like I said before, we do not even know how much longer,

to stay in this grim reality.

Do you think they will stay there?

If they had an evacuation,

and they can maybe be glad for a short memory,

and they can also remember the legends at the pool, and not you having to run to the shelter every ten minutes, with a boom every second,

then that is what made ten thousand come back.

And if you expect that in another month, I do not know exactly what I said, that they will stay like this, there will be seventeen people left.

Those who simply cannot leave.

Because by then the kids will remember the booms every day.

And people keep telling me, this is Hezbollah’s victory with the evacuation.

A Hezbollah member will say he won, no matter what.

His victory will be that people do not remain in the State of Israel.

Whether there is an evacuation or no evacuation, that is not my consideration.

And if I have four thousand seven hundred apartments without proper reinforcement, or without any reinforcement at all.

What kind of victory is that?

You did not approve reinforcement for them yet, so reinforce them in real time.

If you cannot, remove them from danger.

You do not send a soldier into battle without a vest, right?

So why put a civilian on the front line without protection?

This is the minimum, this is the basic bond between a state and a citizen.

To provide us with security.

You failed!

I have a person in Shlomi and Ahiud that I need to brief about how the shelter door works,

because I operate it this way every time.

And that is how our souls stay alive.

Does any of you know what ten seconds is?

With kids at home, disabled people, people with limited mobility, with elderly people.

How do you expect the eighty-year-old neighbor from last week,

who lives on the third floor,

to make it to the shelter in ten seconds?

How did they tell that poor bus driver he would stop the bus, let the passengers off, and reach a shelter?

These were my main casualties in the recent attacks.

And we should say thank you, we got off cheap.

If that bus had been full of people, I would have had a disaster,

Without any medical response, not even to give this treatment.

Without any idea, without a future.

Tell me, are you normal? What are we? What kind of citizens are we?