Taking part in the meeting, among others, were acting Head of the National Security Council Gil Reich, Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon, and U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met today, at his Jerusalem office, with the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations @USAmbUN, Mike Waltz @michaelgwaltz.

I think that together, we can lead this and become not a secondary power, but a primary power in the advance of humanity. I look forward to our discussions. Welcome, Friedrich, welcome, friend.

I think we're at the cusp of a new age because I think that we will achieve the expansion of peace. I think we are at a new age, because I think that the possibilities of technology with their risks, especially in AI, but with their positive benefits are enormous in every field

The one thing we will always insist upon is that the sovereign power of security from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea will always be in Israel's hands. That means that Israel will control its destiny, continue to protect its security for our sake and for others as well.

And as you know, it's gigantic. It's 50 kilometers wide, 70 kilometers wide at its widest point. And we are obviously going to take care of our security.

We believe there's a path to advance a broader peace with the Arab states and a path also to establish a workable peace with our Palestinian neighbors. But we're not going to create a state that will be committed to our destruction at our doorstep.

On the question of 2 states, we have a different point of view, obviously, because the purpose of a Palestinian state is to destroy the one and only Jewish state. They already had a state in Gaza, a defective state, and it was used to try to destroy the one and only Jewish state.

We still have a job to do to explain what it is we're fighting, how we're fighting it, and why what we're doing is not only for our defense, but for Germany's defense and the defense of free societies everywhere. And I will say our non-radical Arab neighbors as well.

And as they try to put a noose of death around us, as Iran tried with its proxies, we roll them back. That's the big difference. And I think this truth will emanate and I commend the chancellor for speaking the truth in a number of important occasions.

We may not be able to control that, but we have changed Jewish history in the sense that those who vilify us can no longer annihilate us. Because when they come to do that, as they did on October 7, we roll them back.

I understand the enormous effect this has on the public in Germany and Europe, and to some extent America. But I will tell you, as I told the chancellor, there's one big difference.

People demonstrate for them and accuse Israel of bogus war crimes because Israel has gone to a length that no army in history has - asking the population to leave and Hamas shooting them to keep them there so the casualties can appear on the various international networks.

These people who tortured women, raped them, then beheaded them, burned children alive, babies alive, took hostages, Holocaust survivors, babies. This is outrageous.

A few decades where antisemitism was not done in polite company. Now it's done in every capital. And people carry the flags of Hamas. The flags of Hamas.

What has happened since , but some thought – that antisemitism was gone. It's not gone. That's cyclical phenomena, attacking the Jews in ways that prepare their destruction, de-legitimize them, was transferred from the Jewish people to the Jewish state. They just took a respite.

They suffered pogroms. They suffered expulsions. And they suffered wholesale massacres from a very large swathe from Spain to Ukraine. Enormous vilifications, enormous attacks culminating in the greatest massacre of them all, the Holocaust.

We were accused of poisoning the wells, of slaughtering Christian children to use their blood to bake Passover matza. We were carrying vermin. These were the accusations that were always, always preceded the actual annihilation that followed. And Jews were attacked.

We are undergoing vilification on a stark scale. A stark scale for the last eight years, but not for the Jewish people. We've been maligned through centuries. In the Middle Ages, in Germany, and throughout medieval Europe

Imagine that you had an openly declared attempt to annihilate Germany, an openly declared attempt to annihilate France, or Austria, or any other country. Israel faced with that, obviously, mustered its resources and fought a just war with just means.