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Extended interview: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Published May 10, 2026 | Video Starts at 28:18

I'm hearing different things. I'm hearing the fact from Arab countries, which I won't get into all of them, no, but some of them, and I never heard that before. Let's strengthen our alliance with Israel because that in fact deters Iran. Let's strengthen our alliance with Israel because we can work up our defenses as a result of it. Let's strengthen our alliance with Israel because we can do amazing things with Israel. (28:18–28:24)

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“The proportion of civilian casualties, non-combatants to combatants, is one of the lowest in the history of modern urban warfare.”
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“Knocking out 20 top nuclear scientists who are working on the atomic bombs to be used against Israel, America and anyone else.”
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“When we controlled [Bethlehem], it was 80% Christian. When we did the Oslo Accords, we handed over Bethlehem to the Palestinian…”
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“There's still nuclear material, enriched uranium that has to be taken out of Iran.”
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“There are still proxies that Iran supports.”
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“There are ballistic missiles that they still want to produce.”
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“They [Iran] have internal fights. They're worried.”
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“We've degraded a lot of it, but all of that is still there and there's work to be done.”
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“We certainly want to get the enrichment sites dismantled.”
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“We've curbed a lot, we've degraded a lot of the missile production sites.”
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“Both the United States and Israel, we both agree, President Trump and I, that if necessary, we can re-engage them militarily.”
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“They were very close to developing a nuclear bomb, okay? Very close.”
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“If we hadn't done the two military operations that we did, they'd have a bomb within now or within a month or two.”
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“You don't want Iran to have ballistic missiles to reach any city in the United States with nuclear warheads.”
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“They stopped exporting oil, you know, just reduced it completely.”
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“They went back to enrichment. They went back to full. Their full efforts on nuclear.”
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“The Iranian regime is at the weakest point since it hijacked the Iranian people in 1979.”
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“We destroyed a lot of [Iran's] money machine, their petrochemical plants, their steel plants.”
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“Hezbollah is basically a proxy of Iran.”
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“We have no quarrel with Lebanon. We can make peace with Lebanon and want to make peace with them tomorrow.”
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“Hezbollah from Lebanon was planning to do even more [than Hamas]. They had 5,000 Redouan Force terrorists ready to invade the Galilee.”
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“We've got a security belt now that prevents [Hezbollah] from doing that or shooting anti-tank missiles into our kitchens, into our living…”
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“What Iran would like to do is to say no, you know, if we achieve a ceasefire here, we want a ceasefire here.”
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“The regime [in Iran] has been weakened, but it's not guaranteed [to collapse].”
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“Our planes controlled the skies over Tehran, which was unthinkable before that.”
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“We were approaching a situation where Iran could produce a nuclear weapon.”
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“Iran's ballistic missile capability after Rising Line was going to be reconstructed.”
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“Khamenei wanted to put it [ballistic missile factories] underground.”
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“We have been accused of indiscriminate attacks. We're the most discriminating military on the planet in history.”
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“It's incorrect in the sense that I said, oh, well, it's guaranteed, we can do it, and so on. I didn't say that.”
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“We both understood that we have little time to act because otherwise they'd get nuclear weapons.”
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“We cannot let Iran get a nuclear weapon because that's enormously dangerous to the United States.”
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“Iran was surrounding us with a noose of death, of simultaneous invasions from Gaza, from Hamas and from, from Lebanon by Hezbollah.”
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“We smashed the terror axis. It's not finished. We have still work to do.”
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“Israel has emerged as the most powerful country in the Middle East.”
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“We're preventing militant Islam from taking over [European] countries.”
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“Anti Semitism, which has shown its ugly head recently. You see it in America, you see it in Europe, you see it in Australia.”
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