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Donald Trump: “Israel would have been terminated. I think the whole Middle…”

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President Trump holds a press conference at G7 summit — 6/17/2026

Published | Video Starts at 12:31

This was a short term lease. It expired long ago. Had I let it run, it expired, you wouldn't have been around. A lot of people wouldn't have been around. But Israel would have been terminated. I think the whole Middle East would have been terminated. You saw that when everybody was shocked that all these missiles, they were aimed at these different places. Qatar, Saudi Arabia, uae. Think of it, Bahrain, Kuwait. They got hit. (12:31–12:35)

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Asserts that the JCPOA would have led to the destruction of Israel and the Middle East.

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