Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday evening that Israel was collectively in danger of annihilation, but that the threat has been pushed away for years, according to a report by journalist Yinon Magal. The statement was the second security-themed remark from Netanyahu to emerge within minutes.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a stark security assessment Monday evening, saying Israel "was all in danger of annihilation" and that the country has "removed it from us for years, saving us from extermination." The remark, reported by journalist Yinon Magal on Channel 14, came roughly simultaneously with another report from N13 journalists Moriah Asraf and Doron Kadosh in which Netanyahu told the reporters he intends to run and win the next election. The two reports appear to come from separate exchanges with journalists within a short span, underscoring the Prime Minister's dual effort to project personal political resolve and a message of successful deterrence. The reference to an existential threat — without specifying a particular adversary — echoes a string of recent statements from Netanyahu regarding Iran, as The Zioneer has reported. The two short clips together emerge from a single evening's exchanges between the Prime Minister and Israeli journalists, without an official Prime Minister's Office readout as of publication.
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