Bibi: We’ll do what we need to do
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he is ready to “do it alone” when it comes to the war in Gaza, as President Biden is accused of sending mixed messages on the US stance over the conflict.
Netanyahu, in a recent interview with British TalkTV’s Douglas Murray, said, “A nation has to do what it has to do to survive.
“If they cannot stand the heat of public opinion, then we’ll just have to do it alone. We will do what we need to do,” he said of other world leaders — as the Biden White House takes heat for wobbling between declaring it has Israel’s back and then appearing to backpedal amid anti- Israel protests at home.
“This is what Iran is doing without nuclear weapons,” Netanyahu (inset) said of the war, as Iranian-backed militants launch attacks on the US and its allies in the Mideast in retaliation for their support of Israel.
“Now imagine nuclear weapons . . . What does it mean when you have a country that is aggressive and intent and has nuclear weapons? They’re very aggressive. And they have a theology, a radical Islamic theology which points them in direction not only of the conquest of the Middle East, but of global domination,” he said. “Too many countries and too many leaders have been asleep too long. We have to act to assure that Iran will not have nuclear weapons, and I certainly intend to do so.”
The prime minister characterized the bloody war against the Palestinian terror group Hamas as just one fight in a much broader struggle for the future of global domination — with Iran on one side and the Western world on the other.
“I’ve told President Biden, I’ve told all the leaders who came here, ‘This is your war as well because this is not merely a minor skirmish,’ ” Netanyahu said. “This is part of a major confrontation between the moderate axis of Israel and the modern Arab states, against Iran, the terror axis of Iran.
“The whole world is now watching. Who’s going to win? They’re sitting in the bleachers, who will win, will Iran win? Or will Israel win? Will they win or will the West win?” he said.
Iran is the primary backer of Hamas, the extremist Muslim group that attacked Israel on Oct. 7, sparking the war that has waged between Gaza and the Jewish state since.
Iran backs numerous extremist groups in the Middle East known as the Axis of Resistance, which effectively serve as proxy forces in a wider campaign to annihilate Israel, expel Western influence from the region and reshape the geopolitical map with Iran at its center.
Other terror groups doing Iran’s bidding include the Houthis in Yemen — who have disrupted global trade and drawn strikes from US forces by raiding merchant ships in the Red Sea — and Hezbollah along the Israeli border in Lebanon, which has been on the brink of opening a second front in the Gaza war for months.
“For them this is all one big battle of civilization. Our civilization, against their wanton aggression, their violence, their rejection of all the values that we hold dear, the ideas of liberty of choice of freedom,” Netanyahu said. “The rights of women, the rights of minorities, the rights of gays, all of that they want to sweep away. And the question is, do we stand or do we fall?”