(July 14, 2026 \/ JNS)\n <\/p>\n
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Sid Rosenberg, host of 77 WABC radio\u2019s \u201cSid & Friends in the Morning,\u201d that he was in \u201ctatters\u201d over the sudden death of U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.). <\/p>\n
In the Monday interview, Netanyahu expressed shock at Graham\u2019s sudden death, saying he had spoken to the senator only a few days earlier about how best to finish off the surviving remnant of the Islamist regime in Iran, and move to a \u201cbroader peace, which he very much believed in and devoted his life to.\u201d<\/p>\n
The prime minister said Graham was a \u201cstaunch supporter of Israel,\u201d who \u201cunderstood that the security of Israel and America are intertwined.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIsrael\u2019s strength is America\u2019s strength. He understood that. And he followed through on that also in the senate,\u201d said the prime minister. \u201cHe actually often said to me, \u2018You\u2019re not getting enough aid.\u2019 And I, said, \u2018Well, Lindsey, I think we are.\u2019 He said, \u2018No, I\u2019m going to up it and don\u2019t interfere.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Asked by Rosenberg if he is satisfied with Israel\u2019s position vis-\u00e0-vis Hezbollah and Iran, Netanyahu argued that since the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack, Israel has seen the \u201cgreatest comeback in history.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHamas tortured our people, raped and then murdered our women, burned our babies alive. … People thought that this is the end of Israel,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd that was Iran\u2019s plan, to use its proxies for simultaneous invasions and to to carpet bomb us with ballistic missiles and rockets. It didn\u2019t work out that way, because when you see where we are three years later, Iran has been itself hurt very badly by our joint operations\u2014America and Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hamas is \u201ca shadow of its former self; Hezbollah\u2019s leadership is decimated\u2014its missile arsenal, which numbered 150,000, reduced to a mere 8% of its former capacity; Syria\u2019s Assad regime is no more; half of Yemen\u2019s Houthi leadership has been \u201cknocked out,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The Iran terror axis has been shattered. \u201cParts of it are still there, still present, but it\u2019s nowhere near where it was before,\u201d Netanyahu said.<\/p>\n
Commenting on U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s willingness to sell F-35s to Turkey, Netanyahu said he has discussed the issue with the president and expressed his opposition to providing the advanced fighters to Ankara. <\/p>\n
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his senior officials have made hostile statements about Israel, supported Hamas and pursued expansionist ambitions reminiscent of the Ottoman Empire, he said, also citing Turkey\u2019s military occupation of northern Cyprus and its tensions with Greece.<\/p>\n
As Netanyahu plans to address the U.N. General Assembly in September, Rosenberg inquired whether he was \u201cnervous\u201d about coming to Manhattan, the seat of the United Nations, given New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s threats to arrest him for war crimes.<\/p>\n
Netanyahu said he wasn\u2019t worried and advised Mamdani to rethink which side he\u2019s on, noting that he condemns Israel, the only democracy that fights \u201cshoulder to shoulder\u201d with America, while praising Hamas, which calls for death to every Jew on the planet.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s with the terror axis. And I think the problem is, you know, that he doesn\u2019t recognize that those who hate the Jews and Israel ultimately hate America. And in fact, I think secretly he hates America,\u201d said Netanyahu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(July 14, 2026 \/ JNS) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Sid Rosenberg, host of 77 WABC radio\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-540525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}