“To our Christian friends around the world, Merry Christmas.
“Christmas is supposed to be a time of good will to all men and peace on Earth. Well, we don’t have peace on Earth, not in our part anyway, and we certainly don’t see good will to all men.
“We’re facing monsters, monsters who murdered children in front of their parents and parents in front of their children, who raped and beheaded women, who burned babies alive, who took babies hostages.
“This is a battle, not only of Israel against these barbarians, it’s a battle of civilization against barbarism. And I know in this that we have your support.
“I want to thank you for your support. I want to thank you for your prayers.
“And I want to assure you, that as we stand together, we will also prevail.
“We shall win this war and secure our common values and our common future.
Thank you”.
Image: By Avi Ohayon / Government Press Office of Israel, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=128577654
