Speech on Jewish Survival and Civilization

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 Haccabees.

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 seventh.

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.

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