The following is the text of a speech delivered by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a U.S. Embassy in Israel event on Tuesday night at the Museum of Tolerance in Jerusalem celebrating 249 years of American Independence. (The event was originally scheduled for July 4 but was postponed due to the Israel-Iran war in June.) The address was given hours after an Israeli strike in Doha, Qatar targeted Hamas’s political leaders.

Ambassador Huckabee, Janet, and all the friends of Israel and America, of the Israeli-American alliance who are here, I want to first tell you that Sara and I planned to be here earlier, but we were, well, I was otherwise engaged.

But it’s not too late, even on this belated day, to say Happy Birthday, America.

Now, I said a few more words in a video that I h

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