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Benjamin Netanyahu: “We're going to change the Middle East.”

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

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Extended interview: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Published | Video Starts at 53:50

So I knew we'd had to tackle Hamas and then Hezbollah and then the Assad regime, which we helped bring down, 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. We're going to change this condition where they're ganging up on us, thinking they are going to wipe out the one and only Jewish state, wipe out 3,500 years of Jewish history. (53:50–53:53)

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Asserts an intention to alter the geopolitical landscape of the Middle East.

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