(Sep. 25, 2025 / JNS) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu landed on Thursday in New York, where he will address the United Nations General Assembly before meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House.

“At the Assembly, I will speak the truth—the truth of Israel’s citizens, the truth of IDF soldiers, the truth of our state,” said Netanyahu before his departure early Thursday morning. “I will denounce those leaders who, instead of condemning the murderers, rapists and child-burners, seek to grant them a state in the heart of the Land of Israel. That will not happen.”

On Wednesday night, Netanyahu condemned the recognition of a Palestinian state by several Western countries—including France, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Portugal, Belgium, Luxembourg, Malta and Monaco—as a “shameful surrender,” asserting that capitulating to Palestinian terrorism would not obligate Israel in any way.