Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday welcomed to Jerusalem what his office described as the largest-ever bipartisan delegation of American lawmakers to ever visit the Jewish state.

“We value and cherish your support,” Netanyahu told the delegation of some 250 U.S. state legislators gathered at the Foreign Ministry, noting that there was an “active effort” ongoing to erode the ties between the two countries.

These efforts are “orchestrated by the same forces that supported Iran,” he continued, accusing China and Qatar of spearheading attacks on the Jewish state’s very legitimacy in the United States and on social media.

“We can break this siege, and we will,” the prime minister vowed.

According to Netanyahu, Jerusalem’s ongoing seven-front war against Iran and its regiona

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