Daily Inspiration Quote by Benjamin Netanyahu

Netanyahu is doing something rhetorically shrewd here: he turns a supposedly civilizing instrument - the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty - into evidence of hypocrisy, even perversity. The line "day and night" isn’t policy language; it’s prosecutorial cadence. It implies relentless, habitual cheating, the kind that makes technical debates about enrichment levels feel naively detached from reality. The real target isn’t only Iran, Iraq, or Libya. It’s the international system that treats signatures as morality plays and inspections as a substitute for judgment.

The subtext is a familiar Netanyahu argument: regimes don’t become safer because they join clubs; they join clubs to game them. By stressing that the violators are "those who signed it", he undercuts the comfort of rules-based order and nudges listeners toward a harder conclusion: deterrence and preemption matter more than process. That’s why he pairs treaty violation with an existential frame - "calling for Israel’s destruction" - collapsing the distance between diplomatic paperwork and national survival.

Context sharpens the intent. This comes from an era when Israel, outside the NPT and widely assumed to have its own undeclared nuclear capability, faced growing scrutiny over Iran’s ambitions and the West’s appetite for negotiated restraint. Naming Iraq and Libya serves as a warning story: past signatories pursued illicit programs until outside pressure or force stopped them. The argument isn’t that treaties are useless; it’s that treaties are theater unless backed by credible consequences.