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Benjamin Netanyahu: “We helped bring down [the Assad regime].”

Featuring: Benjamin Netanyahu, Likud | Prime Minister of Israel | International

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Extended interview: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Published | Video Starts at 53:41

I saw it as it was an attack by the Iran axis to try to annihilate us through a noose of death. So I knew we'd had to tackle Hamas and then Hezbollah and then the Assad regime, which We helped bring down [the Assad regime]. and then Iran itself and the Houthis. That came later. And I said, on the second day of the war, I said, we're going to change the Middle East. (53:41–53:43)

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Asserts that Israel played a role in the downfall of the Assad regime.

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