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President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered stern but much-needed addresses to the United Nations General Assembly during this year’s annual General Assembly High-Level Week. Both leaders presented stark truths rather than the platitudes and strident rhetoric that normally permeates the General Assembly Hall.
President Trump asked the fundamental question about the UN today. What is its purpose? “The UN has such tremendous potential,” he said. “All they seem to do is write a really strongly worded letter, and then never follow that letter up. It’s empty words — and empty words don’t solve war. The only thing that solves war and wars is action.”
Even worse, the UN has created problems of its own. “Not only is the UN not solving the problems it should,” President Trump said, “too often, it is actually creating new problems for us to solve.” He noted, for example, that the United Nations is “funding an assault on Western countries and their borders,” including spending in 2024 “$372 million in cash to support 624,000 migrants to journey into the United States to infiltrate our southern border.”
President Trump denounced in his speech what he called the “double-tailed monster” of uncontrolled open borders and the “green energy scam.”
“In the United States,” he said, “we reject the idea that mass numbers of people from foreign lands can be permitted to travel halfway around the world, trample our borders, violate our sovereignty, cause unmitigated crime and deplete our social safety net.” He called upon other nations, particularly in Europe, to follow his administration’s example or risk losing their countries.
What President Trump made crystal clear in his speech is his insistence that each nation is sovereign with its own history, heritage, traditions, and culture that “makes each nation majestic and unique” in its own right.
President Trump reminded the global assemblage that so-called climate “experts” and environmental activists have been making apocalyptic predictions for years that unchecked climate change would wreak catastrophic devastation unless humanity quickly reverses course. According to the fearmongers, we must abandon fossil fuels and convert to total reliance on green energy before it is too late.
“All of these predictions made by the United Nations and many others,” President Trump said, “often for bad reasons, were wrong.” All that “brutal green energy policies” do, he added, have been to “redistribute manufacturing and industrial activity from developed countries that follow the insane rules that are put down to polluting countries that break the rules and are making a fortune.”
President Trump is not an isolationist, despite what some of his political opponents and legacy media have charged. He believes in a global trading system but one that is fair to the United States. He believes in a strengthened NATO but one in which other members besides the United States pay a reasonable share of its cost. He believes in a strong U.S. military but will use it only when he deems it necessary, such as the precision operation that destroyed Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities.
President Trump also believes in global cooperation, even facilitated by the UN when possible, but only if it makes sense. He provided a concrete example where he felt that international cooperation is important – the eradication of biological weapons. He announced “that my administration will lead a[n] international effort to enforce biological weapons convention, which is going to be meeting with the top leaders of the world by pioneering an AI verification system that everyone can trust. Hopefully, the UN can play a constructive role…”
However, America First means that the American people will decide for themselves the direction that America will take, without interference from meddling globalists.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a powerful defense of Israel’s military actions in fighting a seven-front war against the Iranian network of terrorist proxies and in devastating the Iranian regime’s nuclear enrichment and ballistic missile programs. He correctly identified the fundamental cause of the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict – the persistent rejection by Palestinian leaders of Israel’s right to exist in security and peace as a Jewish nation in the Jews’ historic homeland. He refuted with evidence and sheer logic the blood libels accusing Israel of committing genocide in Gaza and deliberately starving the civilians living in Gaza.
As President Trump did in his speech, Prime Minister Netanyahu strongly criticized the decisions by Britain, France, Canada, Australia, and other countries to recognize a Palestinian state at this time.
“What you’re doing is giving the ultimate reward to intolerant fanatics who perpetrated and supported the Oct. 7 massacre,” Israel’s prime minister said. “Giving the Palestinians a state, one mile from Jerusalem, after Oct. 7, is like giving Al Qaeda a state one mile from New York City after Sept. 11. This is sheer madness, it’s insane and we won’t do it.”
Prime Minister Netanyahu delivered loud and clear his message to the craven leaders of Western countries who are throwing Israel under the bus: “Israel will not allow you to shove a terrorist state down our throats, we will not commit national suicide because you don’t have the guts to face down a hostile media and antisemitic mobs. Astoundingly, as we fight the terrorists who murdered many of your citizens, you are fighting us. You condemn us, you embargo us, and wage legal and political war against us. It’s an indictment of you, of weak-kneed leaders who appease evil.”
Despite the globalist attempts to isolate Israel, Prime Minister Netanyahu knows that he can count on President Trump’s continuing support. The two leaders met at the White House on September 29th and reached agreement on President Trump’s 20-point peace plan to end the war in Gaza. The president warned Hamas that if it refuses to accept the plan, “Israel would have my full backing to finish the job of destroying the threat of Hamas.”
The Palestinians are incapable of governing an independent state of their own while Hamas and other Islamist Palestinian terrorists remain armed, dangerous, and in control of Palestinian territory. The Palestinian Authority is hopelessly corrupt, with a weak president who has been in office for twenty years. Its word is not worth the paper it is written on.
October 7, 2023 was a watershed moment for Israel. The Jewish state rightly stands up for its own survival, whatever the cost, and condemns the meaningless UN resolutions and cowardly Western countries’ announcements in support of a Palestinian state. Unless and until Hamas releases all hostages, fully disarms, and is precluded from having any role in a future Palestinian government, there can be no durable peace.
As President Trump said in his UN General Assembly speech, “empty words don’t solve war. The only thing that solves war and wars is action.” In other words, peace through strength!
