Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu spoke with French Ambassador Patrick Maisonnave and expressed the solidarity of the entire country with France following the latest and by far the worst terrorist attack in Paris.
He said:
The people of Israel stand with the people of France. Ambassador, this is not a figurative stance, it’s not just lip service….
It’s difficult for civilized men and women to recognize that our cities, our airways, sometimes our waterways are prowled by beasts that devour the innocent in their way. And the forces of civilization…have no option but to unite very clearly and defeat these beasts.
The beasts increasingly have a name – it is radical Islam.
The Prime Minister spoke at the Jerusalem Post Diplomatic Conference, where the newspaper’s Herb Keinon asked him if Israel would consider unilateral measures in light of the diplomatic stalemate with the Palestinian Authority.
Prime Minister Netanyahu answered that there are various ways to do so, but he declined to clarify what he meant.
