40 graduates of Flight No. 179 stood on the flight deck and received the wings of the air, in the eyes of their excited family members • Defense Minister assured course graduates: "You are protecting us, we will protect you" • Further added: "Strengthen Air Force strength to unprecedented offensive ability "
Bennett visiting Air Force // Photo: Ariel Hermoni, Ministry of Defense
Defense Minister Naftali Bennett made a speech Wednesday afternoon in a wing-fixing ceremony and attacked the decision of the International Court of Justice in The Hague to open an investigation against Israel's crimes against humanity: "The Hague is a house that creates modern anti-Semitism. terrorism".
Defense Minister turned to the new pilots: "I know that when you go out and make up our long hands that accurately harms our fellow applicants, you are coping with heavy pressure. This pressure has been added in recent days: The International Court of Justice in The Hague.
"I am clearly addressing the IDF fighters and their commanders here, past and present: The State of Israel will provide a legal Iron Dome for its soldiers and officers. You protect us, we will protect you. No soldier or commander will be deterred from protecting his people and his family by the Hague Tribunal.
"Know one thing - even though the arguments are said in a belligerent language, when stripped of them - remains anti-Semitic. This anti-Semitism cannot be allowed into Cockpit.
"Because this is the starting point of the tribunal, we will lose any discussion of it, not because we did evil, God forbid, but simply, because we are the Jewish state. Our every attempt to try to please this body, appease it and flatter it, will not succeed. That we are rebuked by the painted world and humbly accept his rebuke, they just want more. The Hague is the home of modern anti-Semitism. And now that the picture is clear, we should treat them as such. We will fight terror as if there is no Hague and fight Hague as if there is no terror. "
Bennett also said that "over the next few years, we will strengthen the Air Force's strength to unprecedented offensive ability: more deadly, more accurate and with a longer arm, more powerful, and at longer ranges."
The Minister congratulated the graduates and concluded: "It is good for us, the citizens of Israel to ask that they be their soldiers and commanders, and it is good that it has an air force with such outstanding pilots and navigators. ".
