Netanyahu's Trade Corridor and Criticism of Israel's Actions

Israel and its Arab partners,

forming a land bridge,

connecting Asia and Europe between the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea.

Across this bridge,

we will lay rail lines,

energy pipelines, fiber-optic cables, and this will serve the betterment of two billion people.

Now look at this second map.

It's a map, look at the second map, it's a map of a curse.

It's a map of an arc of terror that Iran has created and imposed from the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean.

Iran's malignant arc has shut down international waterways.

It cuts off trade. It destroys millions,

destroys nations from within, and

inflicts misery on millions.

On the one hand,

on the one hand,

a bright blessing, a

future of hope. On the other hand, a

dark future of despair.

He talks about an arc of hope from the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean,

with fiber-optic cables, and oil and gas being piped through from one continent to another.

He says that at the same time as we're looking at images of downtown Beirut,

population two million, very densely populated, urbanized city center,

civilian casualties, God knows how many, and he's calling that hope.

He's calling the tens of thousands of people in Gaza, maybe many, many more, he's calling that hope.

And he's trying to appeal to an Indian audience, or

a South Asian audience, or a European audience by saying, we can get fiber-optic cables.

Don't worry about these people.

Don't worry about the children that have been maimed and martyred and lost their eyes and their legs and their parents.

Don't worry about that. I can get you faster fiber-optic cable.

By any definition, it is the arch-rogue state one can think of.

They unilaterally develop nuclear weapons.

That one thing apparently that if Iran does it, it's evil.

They've done it. They did it decades ago.

They're occupying land which isn't theirs.

They're breaching international laws by occupying more land, which isn't theirs, and trying to settle it constantly, illegally.

They kill the leaders of the political wing of Hamas, in the case of Hanea, when they're in a sovereign territory.

They take out diplomatic buildings in Syria.

They engage in assassinations on the streets of places like Tehran and Baghdad.

This is wanton criminality. And that's before even talking about all of the killing they're doing in Gaza.

It is the definition, the dictionary definition of a rogue state.

Not only can some people in this country not see that, they see the precise opposite.

They think they're the good guys.