Hebrew → English transcript

You said, “There are no innocent children,” that’s the sentence you said.

I said that there are no innocents in Jenin, there are no innocents there.

You said, “There are no innocent children.”

There, fighting has been going on for so many years

by murderers who came out of there, who butchered men, women, and children, the children of the Fogel family.

That whole area is full of enemies.

And therefore there are soldiers there, and there is peace there.

But these are not the children in question who were killed.

And coexistence, we soldiers were not supposed to be walking around there.

One can recommend to the residents of Judea and Samaria, the Arabs who live there,

who do not want to be in a combat zone,

that they can move their place of residence wherever they want around the world.

They do not have to live within our ancestral heritage.

But I say, in Judea and Samaria there are terror organizations, there is an authority there that supports terror,

and there are those there who seek terror.

You are saying that all the Palestinians who live in Judea and Samaria,

it is their responsibility if they are killed by IDF forces,

because they are not supposed to be there at all, and if they do not want to die,

So they need to leave, is that what you are saying?

I am saying that in Judea and Samaria there is an area that has territories under Palestinian Authority control,

there are terror organizations there, including the Authority itself,

and from there attackers constantly come out who want to slaughter me and you just the same.

And therefore there are soldiers there who protect me and you,

and if they are in a combat situation, where they feel a threat and danger to their lives,

I demand that first of all they protect themselves, protect their own lives,

protect the civilians who were sent there in order to guard them.

And if there is something that endangers their security, they need to strike it and endanger it.

So you cannot express sorrow or simply express sorrow that children were killed?

I express sorrow about the hunger in Africa,

I express sorrow about many natural disasters that happen in many countries around us.

But not those that happen to Palestine.

I am not interested in expressing sorrow for my enemies.

I do not express sorrow for the deaths of my enemies, sorry.

I can remind you that a seven-year-old child in Jerusalem stabbed someone almost to death,

A fifteen-year-old boy, not that long ago.

But that is not a seven-year-old child who was killed, I am trying to understand what you really think and it is not…

Minors in Judea and Samaria who go and try to harm IDF soldiers day after day, hour after hour.

But it is not those minors, I am talking to you about the ones who were killed.

I am not talking to you about stone throwers.

But you are supposed to know…

A stone thrower also wants to kill.

I will say this again.

In the combat zone where I send IDF soldiers,

as far as I am concerned they are entering a combat area, enemy territory,

and there I am not supposed to express sorrow or sympathy with the enemy.