Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hails the Israel-US tag team he says is working to counter Iranian efforts to acquire nuclear weapons and back proxy groups in Middle East countries.
“President Trump is acting against Iran on the economic front and we here in Israel are acting against Iran on the military front,” he says in a speech at Bar-Ilan University.
The comments come a day after Trump said Iran “can do what they want” in Syria following his decision to withdraw US troops operating there, a move that has sparked consternation in Israel.
Speaking to cadets in the IDF’s officers course, Netanyahu says Israel is “surrounded by enemies on a couple of fronts.”
“We’re acting determinedly against anyone seeking to endanger us,” he says, pointing to Israeli campaigns against Iran’s military efforts in Syria and against cross-border attack tunnels being dug by Lebanon’s Hezbollah and the Gaza’s Hamas.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan on January 3, 2018. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)
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