«Iranian containment begins with a victory in Gaza». Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said this in an interview published by Repubblica, according to which “we must do everything possible to prevent the Iranians from gaining possession of the atomic bomb” because “if they obtained it, they would upset the Middle East and then Europe.” And, he insists, “the regime has a precise ideology” which is to “submit the entire world to its extremist Shiite Islam”. “The mullahs challenge our civilisation”, he urges, convinced that “the majority of citizens in the West” have “understood that our civilisation, based on freedom and tolerance, is at stake”.
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After Joe Biden’s plan for a ceasefire in Gaza, Netanyahu reiterates that “we accepted a temporary ceasefire, to free the hostages” but “Hamas refuses to accept it because it demands a permanent ceasefire that will leave those terrorists as masters of Gaza, ready to repeat massacres like that of 7 October 2023” and “no responsible government would accept it”. For the “near future”, Netanyahu states that “Israel will have to maintain control of security, from the Jordan to the sea” because “if we abandoned the control we have over Judea and Samaria, Iran would immediately take it over, through Hamas or others Islamist groups”. «You Westerners need to understand well that this is a war of civilizations – he says – Israel is on the front line. Her victory against terrorism will be yours too.”
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While, he claims, the ICC is wrong and “if the ICC judges followed the prosecutor and accused Israel of famine and murder of civilians, such slander would fuel anti-Semitism around the world and damage the reputation of the ICC.” On the northern front of Israel, on the border with Lebanon, Netanyahu says that the “crisis can only be resolved in two ways”, with “diplomacy or war”. Finally, on the recognition of the Palestinian state by Spain, Ireland and Norway, Netanyahu states that “the Palestinian state does not exist and those three countries rewarded Hamas for the massacres of 7 October 2023”, a step that “is equivalent to a moral failure and intellectual of the governments of those three European countries”.
