Yechiel Leiter's son Moshe, a soldier in the Israel Defense Forces IDF was killed in fighting in northern Gaza last year
Leiter was Netanyahu’s guest when the prime minister visited Washington this summer during a contentious speech before a joint session of Congress
At Leiter's son’s funeral at the Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem last November, Leiter addressed Joe Biden and the,
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“rumors that you are putting pressure on Israel to hold off, to cease the offensive”
Leiter continued,
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“If those rumors are true – I hope they’re not – but if they are true, Mr President, I respectfully ask of you, here on my son’s grave, to cease and desist”
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“Stand back, Mr President: don’t pressure us"
"Let us do what we know how to do Indeed what we must do, to defeat evil"
Leiter added,
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"This is a war of light against darkness, of truth against lies, of civility against murderous barbarism“
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"Take it from one plain-speaking Scrantonian to another – we’re going to win this one, with you or without you”
“We’re going to win it hands down because we are a people of survival and this battle is one of survival”
