Bibi in slap at world leaders

WASHINGTON — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called out two-faced world leaders who privately agree with him that Hamas must be smashed before backing down in the face of widespread pro-Palestinian protests.

Asked by author and longtime TV host “Dr.

Phil” McGraw on Thursday whether he had ever spoken with a head of state who “does not agree that Hamas has to be taken down,” Netanyahu responded that “many of them agree with it privately.

“And then when they’re faced with the, you know, the pressure of all this propaganda — all this madness in the [college] campuses and the various capitals of the West — they begin to fray, some of them,” he added.

“But I don’t fray, I have to do what we have to do to protect ourselves and to make sure that these atrocities are not repeated.”

Netanyahu (inset) did not mention any leaders by name, but the interview was recorded one day after President Biden confirmed he had “paused” a shipment of 2,000-pound bombs prepared for Israel in disapproval of the way that Netanyahu has planned to invade Rafah, Hamas’ last Gaza Strip holdout where roughly 1 million civilians are sheltering.

McGraw, who ended his popular talk show in May 2023 after 21 years, said he traveled to Jerusalem to interview Netanyahu after becoming frustrated with a shift in public sentiment and media coverage of Israel since Hamas’ brutal assault on Oct. 7, in which an estimated 1,200 people were slaughtered by terrorists, including 33 Americans.