Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu refers to Britain as an “Islamic republic” during a lengthy podcast interview with Army Radio.
Discussing Winston Churchill’s son Randolph Churchill and grandson Winston Spencer Churchill, who like the World War II-era UK prime minister were journalists, Netanyahu says the pair “came here and covered the Six Day War in a very positive way for us.”
“Try to find that now in Britain, which you could call the Islamic republic of Britain,” Netanyahu chuckles (Hebrew link).
He then responds “yes” when the interviewer asks “if all of Europe isn’t already like that, no?” apparently referring to Muslim communities in countries there and many European governments’ increasingly critical postures toward Israel in recent years .
“The first nuclear Islamic republic will be the Islamic republic of Britain,” Netanyahu further jokes. “We’re making sure there won’t be another one in Iran.”
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