I am not bemoaning this; I'm stating this as a fact: Israel is besieged on the media front, on the propaganda front, and we have not done well in the propaganda war.

We have to fight back against these lies, this propaganda, with the only weapon we have: the truth. I'm trying to do that now, and we'll try to do that in a much greater effort because we've left the battlefield to our enemies, and, boy, do they lie all the time.

Israel is the one country in the Middle East that protects Christians, that values Christians, that embraces Christianity.

We have common roots. We appreciate them.

There's an attempt not only to falsify our common history but also to falsify current events, to seize on these, you know, these aberrations and pretend that this is Israeli policy. That's ridiculous.

I now see the possibility of the expansion of the Abraham Accords and the deepening of the agreements we do have to alliances with Arab states of the kind that we never even dreamed of.

That's the result of the change in the relative power of Israel, the fact that we face down this neighborhood bully, this killer regime in Iran, and that's brought quite a few of the Arab countries closer together with Israel, and that's good for peace.