President Rivlin: Mr. President, Madam First Lady
I hope that you enjoyed your time, I
appreciate the opportunity to learn about your
thoughts and visions.
I believe that unbreakable bond between us along with
your determination will open up new possibilities
for the state of Israel and the entire region.
Mr. President we are happy to see that America is
back in the area, America is back again.
You marked the defeating of isis as one of
your top missions.
This most important objective Israel will do
everything in its power in order to assist
you in this mission.
Israel appreciates Americas leadership and
administration in the action you took in Syria.
There are red lines it happens in Syria that must
never be crossed there is a price that must be paid
by those who violate the most basic values
that makes us human.
Further action must be considered in face of the
horrors that is still taking place on the other
side of our borders.
Mr. President the Jewish people we turn to the
historic homeland after two thousand years of exile.
We created a miracle a technological miracle and
an economical miracle a human miracle and even
during our most difficult times we never gave up on
our dream of living here in peace
with our neighbors.
We reached a peace agreement with our
neighbors in Jordan and with our neighbors in
Egypt, but we have not yet achieved our mission of
living in peace with our neighbors
the Palestinians.
And the rest of the Arab world.
Our destiny, Palestinians and Jews is to live
together in this land, Mr. President.
We must build trust and cooperation between us but
in order to achieve this we need new ideas, new
energy that will help us move forward together.
We can have here an oasis and international center
of reason a start up plant, silicon valley from
the Jordan to the Mediterranean but we must
be sure that we don't go to sleep with a dream and
wake up with a nightmare with Iran I see
(inaudible) with our borders.
In order to dream we need to be sure that Iran is
out, out of our borders, out of Syria, out of Lebanon.
I welcome you and I welcome your willingness
to help us move forward we want to move forward,
Mr. President we want to move forward.
And must do it together.
Together with America.
Thank you.
President Trump: Thank you very much and shalom, I am
honored to be in the great state of Israel the
homeland of the Jewish people, I am awed by the
beauty and majesty of this sacred and very holy land.
President Rivlin, Mrs. Rivlin, thank you so much.
Thank you.
Thank you for opening your wonderful home and
welcoming Malania and myself to your amazing
country and that's what it is, it is an
amazing country.
What you have done is perhaps has virtually
never been done before, on my first trip overseas
I've come to this ancient land to reaffirm the
enduring friendship between the United States
and state of Israel and it will always be enduring.
And that's number one to me.
Were not only long time friends we are great
allies and partners.
We stand together always, this moment in history
calls for us to strengthen our cooperation as both
Israel and America face common threats from isis
and other terrorist groups to countries like Iran
that sponsor terrorism and fund terrible violence,
not only here but all over the world.
Together we can work to end the scourge of
violence that taken so many lives, here in Israel
and around the world, most importantly the United
States and Israel can declare with one voice
that Iran must never be allowed to posses a
nuclear weapon, never ever.
As must cease its deadly funding and training and
equipping of terrorists and malicious.
And must seize immediately, on those
issues there is a strong consensus among the
nations of the world, including many in the
Muslim world, I was deeply encouraged by my
conversations with Muslim world leaders in Saudi Arabia.
Including King Solomon.
Who I spoke to at great length.
King Solomon feels very strongly and I can tell
you would love to see peace between Israel and
the Palestinians.
Many expressed their resolve to help end
terrorism and the spread of radicalization.
Many Muslim nations have already taken steps to
begin following though on this commitment.
There is a growing realizations among your
Arab neighbors that they have common cause with you
in the threat posed by Iran and it is indeed a
threat, there is no question about that.
I thank both you and Prime Minister Netanyahu for
your commitment to achieving peace between
the Israelis and the Palestinians, I also look
forward to discussing the peace process with
Palestinian president Abbas.
Young Israeli and Palestinian children
deserve to grow up in safety and to follow their
dreams free from the violence that destroyed
so many lives.
The United States and Israel can also bring
safety and greater prosperity to our people
through stronger ties of trade and commerce,
already our two countries do a great deal of
business together, we have a strong foundation on
which to build an even closer trading
relationship that benefits both of our countries, I'm
going to try and narrow down that trade deficit
just a little bit, is that okay?
(laughter)
He does mind, he wants to keep it
the way it is.
I understand.
Today we have so many incredible opportunities
before us and my hope for this visit is that we
seize every single one of them.
I am thrilled to be here on behalf of the
American people.
I know Israel and America share the same goals and I
have great confidence that we can achieve tremendous
success together we can achieve all of
our goals together.
President Rivlin I look forward to working with
you and to seeing more of this sacred land and
getting to spend time with the remarkable people of
Israel thank you very much.
Thank you.
(applause)