‘This war is also yours’
Benjamin Netanyahu’s warning to America could not have been more timely.
Over the weekend, I sat down with the Israeli Prime Minister at the country’s security HQ in Tel Aviv for an exclusive interview. During it, he issued an urgent warning to the US.
“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. This is part of a major confrontation between the moderate axis of Israel and the moderate Arab states against Iran. Its proxies are killing Americans as we speak.”
I asked the Prime Minister if he meant the dozens of attacks on US bases in Iraq since Oct. 7. “Not just Iraq,” he said.
Hours later, news emerged of the drone strike on American soldiers in Jordan.
The Biden administration has already blamed Iran for the attack which left three US servicemen dead and at least 34 others injured.
It was a fast reminder of something Netanyahu has been warning about for decades, that the militant regime in Iran only attacks Israel as its first target. Not its last.
America — and the rest of the West — are next.
“Let me tell you,” Netanyahu said to me, “I think in America the great majority of people support Israel. They understand instinctively that Israel is fighting their battle. They understand instinctively what the terrorists, the radical Islamists, say. They say we’re the small Satan. America is the great Satan.”
But what of the Biden administration? Before Christmas, Secretary of State Antony Blinken was reported to have told the Israelis that they didn’t have the “credit” for a prolonged war in Gaza.
