Netanyahu: The West Must Be Strong To Survive, “Jesus Christ Has No Advantage Over Genghis Khan”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu explained why the U.S. and Israel have attacked Iran during a press conference on Thursday, and quoted historian Will Durant in “The Lessons Of History,” who wrote that “Jesus Christ has no advantage over Genghis Khan.”
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU: You know, if people want to be naive, that they don’t see the kind of world we’re living in- In this world, it’s not enough to be moral. It’s not enough to be just. It’s not enough to be right. You know, one of the greatest writers of the 20th century-someone that I admire a lot-was the historian Will Durant. Now, he wrote many volumes. I read most of them. He also wrote The Lessons of History, a very brief, 100-page book, in which he said, well, history proves that, unfortunately and unhappily, Jesus Christ has no advantage over Genghis Khan. Because if you are strong enough, ruthless enough, powerful enough-evil will overcome good. Aggression will overcome moderation. So you have no choice, if you look at the world as it is today-you have to be blind not to see-that the democracies, led by the United States, have to reassert their will to defend themselves and to oppose their enemies in time, while there’s still time, before the jarring gong of danger wakes them up-and wakes them up too late. This is where we are now. The fact that people don’t see that-the fact that a lot of the news media are hawking a lot of fake news, but also a lot of short-sightedness, and do not see the historic period and the historic struggle that we are engaged in now-doesn’t obviate these truths. We have to be strong. We have to be armed. We have to be more powerful than the barbarians-or they will not be merely at the gate; they’ll crash our gates and destroy our societies. That’s what Israel is doing now with the United States.
