Benjamin Netanyahu
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Now, I think that people are loathe to use nuclear weapons, and I'm not sure that I would think that the Russian side would use them with happy abandon. I don't think that's the question. But you see how the whole configuration changes when that happens. So you have to be very careful on how you resolve this conflict so it doesn't Well, it doesn't go off the rails, so to speak.
By the way, the corollary is here. We don't want Iran, which is an aggressive force with just aggressive ideology of dominating first the Muslim world and then eliminating Israel and then becoming a global force, having nuclear weapons. It's totally different when they don't have it than when they do have it.
By the way, the corollary is here. We don't want Iran, which is an aggressive force with just aggressive ideology of dominating first the Muslim world and then eliminating Israel and then becoming a global force, having nuclear weapons. It's totally different when they don't have it than when they do have it.
By the way, the corollary is here. We don't want Iran, which is an aggressive force with just aggressive ideology of dominating first the Muslim world and then eliminating Israel and then becoming a global force, having nuclear weapons. It's totally different when they don't have it than when they do have it.
And that's why one of my main goals has been to prevent Iran from having the means of mass destruction, which will be used atomic bombs, which they openly say will be used against us. And you can understand that. How to bring about an end to Ukraine? I have my ideas. I don't think it's worthwhile discussing them now because they might...
And that's why one of my main goals has been to prevent Iran from having the means of mass destruction, which will be used atomic bombs, which they openly say will be used against us. And you can understand that. How to bring about an end to Ukraine? I have my ideas. I don't think it's worthwhile discussing them now because they might...
And that's why one of my main goals has been to prevent Iran from having the means of mass destruction, which will be used atomic bombs, which they openly say will be used against us. And you can understand that. How to bring about an end to Ukraine? I have my ideas. I don't think it's worthwhile discussing them now because they might...
I think it's a combination of that, but I think it's the question of interest and whether you have to get both sides to a point where they think that that conversation will lead to something useful. I don't think they're there right now.
I think it's a combination of that, but I think it's the question of interest and whether you have to get both sides to a point where they think that that conversation will lead to something useful. I don't think they're there right now.
I think it's a combination of that, but I think it's the question of interest and whether you have to get both sides to a point where they think that that conversation will lead to something useful. I don't think they're there right now.
Yeah, I don't think they're in a position to enter a room right now, realistically. I mean, you can posit that it would be good if that could happen, but entering the room is sometimes more complicated than what happens in the room. And there's a lot of pre-negotiation on the negotiation. Then you negotiate endlessly on the negotiation. They're not even there.
Yeah, I don't think they're in a position to enter a room right now, realistically. I mean, you can posit that it would be good if that could happen, but entering the room is sometimes more complicated than what happens in the room. And there's a lot of pre-negotiation on the negotiation. Then you negotiate endlessly on the negotiation. They're not even there.
Yeah, I don't think they're in a position to enter a room right now, realistically. I mean, you can posit that it would be good if that could happen, but entering the room is sometimes more complicated than what happens in the room. And there's a lot of pre-negotiation on the negotiation. Then you negotiate endlessly on the negotiation. They're not even there.
It took a lot of work for you to get to Handshake in the past. It's an interesting question. How did the piece, the Abraham Accords, how did that begin? I mean, we had decades, 70 years or 65 years where these people would not meet openly or even secretly with an Israeli leader.
It took a lot of work for you to get to Handshake in the past. It's an interesting question. How did the piece, the Abraham Accords, how did that begin? I mean, we had decades, 70 years or 65 years where these people would not meet openly or even secretly with an Israeli leader.
It took a lot of work for you to get to Handshake in the past. It's an interesting question. How did the piece, the Abraham Accords, how did that begin? I mean, we had decades, 70 years or 65 years where these people would not meet openly or even secretly with an Israeli leader.
Yeah, we had the Mossad making contacts with them all the time and so on, but how do we break the ice to the top level of leadership? Well, we broke the ice because I took a very strong stance against Iran. And the Gulf states understood that Iran is a formidable danger to them. So we had a common interest.
Yeah, we had the Mossad making contacts with them all the time and so on, but how do we break the ice to the top level of leadership? Well, we broke the ice because I took a very strong stance against Iran. And the Gulf states understood that Iran is a formidable danger to them. So we had a common interest.
Yeah, we had the Mossad making contacts with them all the time and so on, but how do we break the ice to the top level of leadership? Well, we broke the ice because I took a very strong stance against Iran. And the Gulf states understood that Iran is a formidable danger to them. So we had a common interest.
And the second thing is that because of the economic reforms that we had produced in Israel, Israel became a technological powerhouse. And that could help their nations, not only in terms of anything, just bettering the life of their peoples.