Transcript [00:00] Hey everybody. Uh, a couple days ago, [00:03] Prime Minister Netanyahu uh, had a press [00:06] conference for foreign media. It was an [00:09] interesting press conference. He opened [00:10] it up by saying, "Hey, look, I'm alive." [00:12] And the media were in the room with him. [00:14] So, uh, that that put that ridiculous [00:17] conspiracy theory to rest. In case you [00:19] didn't hear, there was a conspiracy [00:21] theory going around the internet that [00:22] Prime Minister Netanyahu had been [00:24] killed. So, he put that to rest. But [00:26] then, uh, he gave an opening statement [00:27] and then he answered some questions. And [00:29] I'm I just want to play one one uh one [00:32] portion, a few minutes of the press [00:34] conference where he was being asked [00:36] questions because in this clip that I'm [00:38] going to show you, he dealt with a [00:40] number of issues that relate to what's [00:42] going on with the war. And at the end of [00:44] it, at the end of this clip, he he [00:46] addressed the issue of regime change. [00:48] So, I want to talk about those things in [00:50] light of what Prime Minister Netanyahu [00:52] said. Uh before we get to that, please [00:55] uh once again, there uh there are still [00:58] missiles flying all over the place uh in [01:00] Israel. There was a hit today uh in uh [01:03] in the town of Iraq that caused a lot of [01:05] damage. There dozens of people who were [01:08] injured. There's a lot of needs on the [01:10] ground. And uh Israel 365 has stepped [01:13] up. We're in touch with a lot of [01:15] charities with all the best charities [01:17] that are dealing with a lot of the [01:18] issues that are that are affecting the [01:20] homeront here in Israel. So, a great way [01:22] for you to contribute to that and to [01:24] help out is to go to [01:24] israel365charity.com. [01:27] Click on Israel under fire or scroll [01:30] down on the page to where it has current [01:33] projects. Israel is at warhelp now. You [01:35] can click there and you can help out or [01:37] you can check out some of the other [01:38] campaigns that we have there and it's a [01:41] great way again. It's a great way for [01:42] you to help and uh and participate. All [01:46] right, let's head over now to Prime [01:48] Minister Netanyahu. [01:50] At the end, what is the task of leaders? [01:52] If you're a leader, the most important [01:55] thing, the most important thing is to [01:59] assure the security of your people. And [02:01] that means identifying danger in time [02:05] and acting against it. That is a [02:08] prerequisite for the survival of any [02:10] biological organism. You have to [02:13] identify danger in time and act in time [02:15] against it. You either fight or flight. [02:18] that these are the two options you have [02:20] where can you flee nowhere because Iran [02:22] can reach any part of the world so you [02:24] have to at a certain point fight and [02:26] this is uh the juncture where we've [02:28] reached in time not too late but in time [02:32] uh I just uh will encourage all those [02:35] who agree with what President Trump is [02:38] saying with what I'm saying to act. I [02:41] didn't have to convince President Trump [02:42] of anything. He didn't need any [02:45] convincing. He acted as a great leader [02:49] does to protect his country and to [02:51] protect the future. [02:53] >> Okay. Very important point uh that Prime [02:55] Minister Netao made here about Iran [02:57] being able to reach all parts of the [02:59] world. So there was there was a missile [03:01] attack uh by Iran. There was a missile [03:03] fired a couple days ago at the Diego [03:06] Garcia base, which is uh further away [03:10] from the distance that they thought that [03:14] they thought Iranian missiles could hit. [03:17] And Iran has missiles. They now [03:19] determined they have missiles that could [03:20] reach up to 4,000 kilometers away from [03:23] them. And it should be pointed out that [03:25] Israel is way closer than that. Those [03:27] missiles were not designed to attack [03:29] Israel. they were designed to attack [03:31] other countries much further away. Uh he [03:34] also might be referring here to the fact [03:36] that Iran has tentacles and proxies [03:39] going as far as South America [03:42] and uh and and all over Africa. They [03:46] they're they're really everywhere and [03:48] that uh they really were a global [03:51] threat. So there's this there's this [03:52] perception out there that this war is [03:54] over Israel's interests. He also talked [03:56] about identifying a threat in time. And [03:59] I talked about this in another video [04:00] that I just made about this whole issue [04:04] you're hearing. Was there an imminent [04:07] threat from Iran to the United States of [04:08] America? Was the threat imminent? You [04:11] don't wait until someone who says every [04:14] day that they want to kill you has an [04:17] imminent threat before you do something [04:19] about it. You know, if I if there's [04:21] someone who wants to kill your family [04:23] and you know that they want to kill your [04:24] family, they say that they want to kill [04:26] your family and you you discover that [04:28] they have plans [04:30] that to [04:32] kill your family, you don't wait until [04:35] the threat is imminent, [04:38] till their capabilities produce an [04:40] imminent threat before doing something [04:41] about it. Anyway, that's just an obvious [04:44] point. [04:45] >> Thank you. Next question. Alex Traymond [04:47] from JNS. JNS right behind you. Yes. [04:50] Mr. Prime Minister, KZBA has opened up [04:53] another front against Israel, launching [04:55] rockets against Israeli Israeli [04:57] civilians. Uh now ground troops are [04:59] inside Lebanon. Is there any hesitancy [05:01] toward launching a full ground operation [05:04] uh to eradicate? And what would [05:06] eradicating do to transform Israel [05:09] Lebanon relations and the greater Middle [05:10] East? [05:11] >> Look, Alex, I can't divulge our battle [05:14] plans. Obviously, is not what had been. [05:18] I said in my opening remarks in Hebrew [05:20] that they're uh you know we they were [05:23] talking about 150,000 rockets and uh uh [05:26] and missiles that they had ballistic [05:28] missiles uh they had thousands of Rwan [05:32] uh terrorists right at our right next to [05:35] our fence underground ready to invade [05:38] and we knocked them back. We destroyed [05:41] the bulk of their missile capacity in [05:43] six hours. We knocked out Musla. We [05:46] destroyed uh the uh all the kamas or [05:50] rather all the redwan infrastructure [05:52] right next to our border. We now have a [05:55] security corridor, security zone that [05:57] we're uh uh that is there that prevents [06:00] this kind of invasion and we have plans [06:02] for the future. Uh obviously our number [06:04] one effort is geared towards Iran. Uh if [06:08] the regime goes, you know that goes. But [06:11] in any case, we're uh devising our plans [06:14] in such a way that we could uh remove [06:16] this threat as well. [06:18] >> Thank you. Final question from [06:20] >> Okay, two things I want to talk about in [06:22] that uh in in that answer that he gave [06:25] about Lebanon. One is uh where he talked [06:29] about creating a kind of security [06:30] corridor and a lot of people are looking [06:34] at that and saying, "Oh my gosh, this is [06:35] the greater Israel project. This is uh [06:38] you know, every time I go on Steve [06:39] Bannon's show, he brings that up. He's [06:41] like, "Oh, the Greater Israel Project. [06:42] Israel's taking territory." Look um you [06:45] know that Israel is taking Lebanese [06:47] territory. They're moving their soldiers [06:49] over the border into Lebanon and they're [06:51] holding positions. And he says, "We have [06:53] plans." And there was there was a number [06:55] of years that Israel held a security [06:57] zone in Lebanon. And there's a lot of [06:59] people who who view this as like u you [07:02] know, occupying the territory of another [07:04] sovereign nation. I want to talk a [07:06] little bit about the Lebanese Israeli [07:09] border. Now, how was the how was the [07:11] border between Israel and Lebanon even [07:13] set? Like, how did that even come to be? [07:16] Well, the way it came to be was the [07:20] Sykes Pico agreement. So, the Sykes Pico [07:23] agreement was an agreement made between [07:25] here, hold on, let me pull this down. [07:27] I'll pull down the Netanyahu video and [07:29] let's put this up here. Um, [07:33] here we have it right here. [07:37] Here, this is what happened was when the [07:39] Ottoman Empire uh fell after World War [07:42] I, the British and the French got [07:44] together and they chopped up the Middle [07:45] East. And the reason I'm showing you the [07:47] whole map of the Middle East here is to [07:50] point out these lines. [07:53] Look at the border of Jordan with that [07:55] with that sharp angle and these straight [07:58] lines and the border between Syria and [08:00] Iraq. that is this long fairly straight [08:03] line. Okay, that's not a river or [08:05] anything. It's just a long straight [08:07] line. Um, when if you see straight lines [08:11] and sharp angles on a map, you know that [08:14] you're not dealing with actual borders [08:15] because that's not the way the world is. [08:17] Step outside, look at the topography. [08:18] That's not the way the world works. [08:20] These lines were drawn by French and [08:23] British diplomats who took a map of the [08:25] Ottoman Empire out and they drew lines [08:28] on it and carved it up. the the green [08:30] area was under French control. The [08:32] orange area was under British control. [08:34] Then there was an international zone. [08:36] Okay? And they created all these new [08:39] countries that had never existed before [08:40] like Iraq, like Jordan, Syria, Lebanon. [08:44] None of these had ever been countries. [08:46] Never. They had never been states. There [08:48] was ne there had never been a Syrian [08:50] people, a Syrian government, a Syrian [08:52] nation. There had never been an Iraq. [08:54] There was never a human being on the [08:56] planet before this that called [08:57] themselves an Iraqi citizen. No such [08:59] thing never existed. There had never [09:01] been a Jordan. No one in the world was [09:03] ever a Jordanian. They made up that [09:05] name. In fact, they named it Trans [09:06] Jordan. It then got shortened to Jordan. [09:09] There had never been a Lebanese state. [09:11] These are all brand new states. Uh they [09:13] were brand new countries be for [09:16] centuries going back from time in [09:17] memorial before that. These were just [09:19] vast tracks of land that were governed [09:21] by different empires. Whoever ruled the [09:23] area. There were there were warlords and [09:26] and and ethnicities that defended [09:29] themselves and controlled their areas. [09:31] There was no countries and states the [09:34] way we know them today. Okay. And then [09:37] one so one of the countries they created [09:38] was Lebanon. [09:40] Okay. And then in a few years after the [09:43] Sykespico agreement, they finally [09:45] decided on what the border between [09:47] Lebanon and Israel would be. Lebanon and [09:50] what what was this this uh this [09:54] international zone that would later [09:56] become Israel would be and these and [09:58] these two lieutenant colonels one French [10:00] and one British named Pai and Nukem [10:04] deci they these two so again two [10:06] westerners two European lieutenant [10:08] colonels came into the picture and [10:11] they're the ones who decided what the [10:12] border between between Lebanon and the [10:17] international zone that became Israel [10:19] would That's they decided on it. But [10:22] then in 1948, in 1947, the state of [10:25] Israel was u was voted on. It was voted [10:27] to create a Jewish state in late 1947. [10:29] In 1940 and and then in 1948, Israel uh [10:34] uh announced its its independence [10:37] and immediately was attacked by Arab [10:40] armies. And one of the one of the armies [10:42] that attacked Israel in 1948 was [10:45] Lebanon. And then when the when the dust [10:48] settled after the fighting, there was an [10:49] armistice line. But the Lebanese [10:52] government never ever recognized the [10:54] right of Israel to exist and still [10:56] doesn't recognize the right of Israel to [10:58] exist. What all this means is that by [11:01] international law, there actually is no [11:04] border between Israel and Lebanon. I [11:07] know that might sound weird. What do you [11:08] mean? Of course there's a border. Let me [11:10] explain. [11:11] You only have a bo a recognized border [11:13] between two countries that recognize [11:15] each other's right to ex they recognize [11:17] each other as as sovereign nations. So [11:19] you have a border. [11:22] If you don't if if one country does not [11:25] even recognize the other country as as [11:26] legitimate and as existing, then you [11:29] don't really have a border because they [11:30] don't recognize a border with Israel. [11:32] Just like we don't have a real border [11:34] with Syria because they've never [11:35] recognized our right to exist. We do [11:36] have a border with Jordan because we [11:38] have a peace deal with Jordan. Jordan [11:40] recognizes the state of Israel. We have [11:41] a border with Egypt because Egypt [11:43] recognizes the state of Israel. There is [11:45] a border between two sovereign nations [11:46] that recognize each other. Lebanon does [11:49] not recognize Israel and declared war on [11:51] Israel in which it then and then there [11:55] was an armistice line. There was a [11:56] ceasefire and Lebanon still does not [11:59] recognize the state of Israel's right to [12:01] exist. So there's absolutely no legal [12:04] basis to say that Israel is invading [12:07] Lebanon or taking Lebanese territory. [12:10] These borders are all fictitious and [12:12] don't even really exist. There's no it [12:15] it it there is no real border between [12:17] the two countries. Israel is going to [12:19] take territory that it needs to secure [12:22] the safety of its citizens, which goes [12:25] back to the opening thing that that [12:26] Prime Minister Netanyahu said in this [12:28] clip, which is that the number one [12:30] responsibility of a leader is to secure [12:33] is to secure the safety of its citizens. [12:35] Israel is going to do that and they'll [12:37] hold that territory until they know that [12:38] they're totally secure from any threats [12:40] coming from Lebanon. Because if the [12:42] Lebanese government is not going to step [12:43] up to the plate and disarmah, [12:46] Israel is going to do it. Israel is [12:47] going to do what it needs to do to [12:48] protect its citizens. And then [12:49] afterwards, if the Lebanese want to make [12:51] peace and recognize the state of Israel, [12:53] I'm sure Israel will be more than happy [12:55] to withdraw to a line that's agreed upon [12:57] and then there will actually be a [12:59] border. Okay, I hope this cleared that [13:02] up. Let's go back to Prime Minister [13:04] Netanyahu.N [13:08] >> Mr. Prime Minister, Jeremy Diamond, CNN. [13:10] Nice to see you. Um, you've assassinated [13:13] Iran's Supreme Leader and dozens of [13:15] other senior Iranian officials. The [13:17] result of that so far has been the [13:19] appointment of a new Supreme Leader [13:20] considered to be even more hardlined [13:22] than his father. Uh, the Iranian regime [13:25] is not showing any signs of collapse as [13:27] of now. So, I I wonder what do you say [13:29] to those who say that killing those [13:31] individuals uh is in fact empowering the [13:34] hardliners in Iran and are you confident [13:37] that your strategy will still lead to [13:39] regime change? And then secondly, if I [13:41] may, you you've also indicated today [13:43] that you made a commitment to President [13:45] Trump not to strike these uh uh oil and [13:48] gas facilities in the future. Should [13:50] President Trump come to you one day and [13:52] say, "Oil prices are too high. It's time [13:54] to end this war, will you listen to him? [13:56] And do you need the United States in [13:59] order to continue this campaign alone?" [14:02] >> Was that a single question? [14:05] >> Jeremy really hogged it, but I'll answer [14:08] your questions. Uh [14:12] I'm not sure who's running Iran right [14:14] now. [14:16] Much [14:19] the replacement Ayatollah [14:21] has not shown his face. [14:25] Have you seen him? We haven't. And we [14:29] can't vouch exactly what is happening [14:31] there. There is um [14:34] um [14:35] there is a cloud here that's not clear. [14:38] What we see is that there is a lot of [14:42] tensions inside the the people who are [14:46] edging for the top. It's not a uniform [14:49] position. You see that sometimes with [14:51] the contradictory orders that are given. [14:54] You know, they do one thing and then [14:56] they withdraw it and so on. I think it's [14:58] important that they know that if they [15:00] think they're going to target the world, [15:03] target the president of the United [15:04] States and so on, they themselves are [15:06] being targeted. That creates a lot of [15:08] uncertainty. We found that that can have [15:11] an effect. The u removal of uh of sorry [15:17] of NASA has never been uh really u has [15:21] never really been replaced because some [15:24] people are not replaceable. Okay, let me [15:27] explain what he's talking about here. It [15:28] seems like a nonsequittor. The removal [15:30] of NASA. He's talking about Hassan [15:32] Nasallah who was the head ofah for [15:35] decades and was eliminated during [15:38] Israel's attacks onbah [15:41] during the uh during u you know whatever [15:44] it was like a more than a year ago. [15:46] Okay. And he when he says he wasn't [15:49] really he wasn't really replaced, he was [15:52] technically replaced by Naim Kasim. [15:55] And notice the Israelis have never tried [15:57] to take out Naim Kasam. You know why? [15:59] Because Naim Kasam is a weak pathetic [16:01] leader. [16:03] >> And that's what he means that Nasallah [16:05] was not really replaceable because part [16:07] of's current weakness is the replacement [16:11] for for Hassan Nasallah who's been so [16:13] ineffective. [16:15] Uh so that's what he meant by that. [16:17] Let's keep going. Uh I think the [16:19] authority and the hold that Kmeni has [16:22] had is not going to be translated to [16:24] anyone. Not to Mudabai if he's there and [16:26] not to anyone else. Uh but I think this [16:29] is part of the effort to uh uh to crack [16:33] the regime. It's not going to happen in [16:35] one day. We're 20 days into uh into this [16:37] war. Yes. Yes. We're seeing cracks. [16:40] We're seeing cracks. Uh and we're trying [16:42] to propagate them as fast as we can. Not [16:44] only in the top command, we're seeing [16:46] cracks in the field. uh you know, it's s [16:49] sort of like a hollowed out rotten [16:52] uh piece of wood that's holding on the [16:54] outside, but there's a lot of rot [16:56] inside. We're seeing u uh some [16:59] defections. We're seeing fear and [17:01] trepidation in the IRGC units that are [17:04] manning the uh uh the ballistic [17:06] missiles. You know why? Cuz they're [17:09] afraid to die. They're not they're not [17:12] all suicidal. In fact, most of them are [17:13] not. So, we're seeing cracks, but uh [17:18] we're going to hit them again and again. [17:20] The minimum thing we want to do is again [17:22] erase the industrial capacity that they [17:24] had to produce these weapons. They'll [17:27] have to build it from a a start. And [17:29] that's very hard. It's very hard to do [17:30] underground, too. Uh so, they're not [17:33] going to be able to just take the pieces [17:34] and move them below below the earth. [17:36] It's going to be a lot harder for them. [17:38] Uh but ideally if it cracks enough and [17:43] with some other things that I won't get [17:45] into, yes, the regime could change. Is [17:47] it guaranteed? No. And is it up to the [17:50] Iranian people in the final accounting [17:53] to [17:54] make use of the conditions that we're [17:56] doing in [17:58] because the [18:01] Yeah. Okay. [18:04] So, he said a lot there. Um, [18:09] first of all about the the idea of the [18:11] that the regime is being hollowed out. [18:13] All of the you know you know the [18:15] questioner was making it seem like well [18:17] you know there's no sign of the regime [18:18] collapsing. And his answer basically was [18:21] uh there's a lot of signs of the regime [18:23] collapsing but it takes time. We're only [18:26] a few weeks into this. This is a massive [18:28] this isn't the Assad regime where Bashar [18:31] Assad gets on a plane and flies to [18:33] Russia and the regime's gone. That's a [18:35] tiny little place. If you add up the [18:39] populations of Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, [18:42] Israel, Jordan, [18:45] put them all together, [18:47] you still don't have anywhere near the [18:50] size of the population of Iran. Iran is [18:52] a massive country. So when you see [18:55] regime change in a place like Libya or [18:57] Iraq or Syria, which is where you have [19:00] like a little mafia that's running this [19:02] small country, the mafia gets taken out, [19:05] the regime is gone. It doesn't work that [19:06] way in in Iran. It's going to take time. [19:10] So Prime Minister Netao is laying out [19:13] here, look, [19:14] you know, we're we're taking out their [19:16] leadership. We're seeing defections on [19:18] the ground. We're seeing we're seeing [19:20] cracks. It's going it it's going to take [19:23] time, but it's going to happen. But also [19:26] then notice what he did. He pivoted back [19:29] to saying the goal here is the main [19:32] objective is to take out all of their [19:33] industrial capacity to create missiles. [19:36] He's he's what he what he's basically [19:38] doing in that comment was pivoting away [19:40] from regime change being the goal. He's [19:42] saying, "Listen, our goal here is to [19:44] make sure that they have no ability to [19:46] produce weapons, to remove the threat. [19:49] That's the goal and we're doing it. If [19:52] the regime falls, great. That's the [19:53] ideal. That's the ideal. But even if the [19:56] regime doesn't fall, what he was [19:57] essentially saying there is that even if [19:59] the regime doesn't fall, whatever is [20:00] left of it is not going to have any [20:02] ability to threaten anybody. It probably [20:04] it probably will fall at some point. Let [20:06] me tell you what I think is going to [20:07] happen in terms of the regime change [20:10] issue. Here's here's what I'm this is my [20:13] conjecture, my prediction [20:16] that [20:18] the Americans are focused on the Straits [20:19] of Hormuz, on keeping that shipping lane [20:21] open and when that's secured, they might [20:24] actually say, "Okay, we're kind of done [20:25] here." The Israelis are focused much [20:27] more on the mainland in Iran and [20:30] degrading the IRGC, taking out [20:32] leadership, hitting the besiege, hitting [20:34] the hitting the, you know, hitting IRGC [20:37] targets and weakening and weakening and [20:39] weakening the regime. And that's why [20:40] every day you're hearing, if you follow [20:42] this, every day in the headlines or on [20:44] Twitter, you'll see it on the news that [20:46] more and more commanders in Besiege and [20:48] IRGC are being taken out. Layer after [20:51] layer of the leadership is being taken [20:52] out. [20:54] And the Iranian people have not been [20:56] called back out into the streets yet. [20:58] And that's great. They shouldn't be. If [21:00] you're sitting at home wondering how [21:01] come the Iranian people haven't come out [21:02] into the streets yet, it's because [21:04] there's no reason to. There's no reason [21:06] for them to come out. What do you mean? [21:08] Don't we want the regime to collapse? [21:09] This is not a Netflix show. It doesn't [21:11] have to happen quickly. It's going to [21:13] take time. [21:15] It's very simple. The worst thing that [21:18] could happen in this war, the worst [21:20] thing that could happen is the Iranian [21:22] people coming out into the streets too [21:23] early. If they come out into the streets [21:26] and they start getting mowed down, if [21:28] they come out into the streets and [21:29] there's still enough strength left in [21:31] the regime in the besiege in the IRGC to [21:33] suppress those protests, it'll set [21:35] things back tremendously. It'll make it [21:38] way way more difficult for them to come [21:40] out yet again. [21:42] So, so long as there's nothing, let me [21:46] let me say it another way. With every [21:48] passing day, [21:51] the IRGC and the besiege are getting [21:52] weaker. the regime is getting weaker [21:55] without people being in the streets. [21:58] Which means the best time for them to go [22:01] into the streets is [22:04] when the IRGC and the besiege when the [22:06] regime is at its absolute weakest. And [22:09] that means they should just wait. They [22:12] should wait and wait and wait. Let the [22:13] Israelis do their thing. Let the [22:16] Americans do their thing. Degrade the [22:18] regime as much as possible. And then at [22:21] some point at some point that we don't [22:24] know when it is going to be yet. What [22:25] I'm predicting is that President Trump [22:28] is going to make some sort of [22:29] announcement calling on the Iranian [22:31] people to come out. It'll probably [22:33] probably be echoed by Prime Minister [22:35] Netanyahu [22:37] and then probably also be echoed by I [22:39] don't know Crown Prince Raza Palv or [22:41] whatever. And that's when the people are [22:43] going to come out. And when they do, [22:46] when they do, there will be air cover, [22:48] drones, maybe helicopters. There will be [22:52] air cover over the protests, protecting [22:55] the people from the regime. [22:58] Okay? And that's what that's how I see [23:01] things playing out. That's what my [23:03] expectation of what's going to happen. [23:05] All right, that's enough for this one. [23:08] Thanks for watching. I hope you found [23:09] this helpful. Hope you found it [23:10] interesting. I think I'm going to make a [23:12] a whole separate video about the Sykes [23:14] Pico agreement and the history of the [23:15] modern Middle East just so that people [23:17] understand, you know, how we got to [23:21] where we are and why this whole this [23:24] whole chopping up of the Middle East [23:25] that was done by these by these French [23:27] and British diplomats 100 years ago has [23:30] actually caused a lot of the problems. [23:32] Uh well well at least it's been part of [23:34] a lot of the problems that we have in [23:36] the Middle East today. That would be an [23:38] interesting topic. Maybe I'll address [23:39] that. Let me know in the comments what [23:40] you think about that idea. And uh thanks [23:43] a lot. Thanks for watching. Thanks for [23:45] sharing. And thanks for subscribing. God [23:47] bless.
