If he had not withstood intense international and domestic pressure during the seven-front war against Iran and its proxies, particularly Hamas, “there would be no Israel,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on the Standpoint With Gabe Groisman podcast produced by JNS in his first in-depth interview since the Oct.10 Gaza ceasefire.

The Israeli premier said that the Jewish state, with U.S. help, “smashed the Iran axis,” reshaped the Middle East and paved the way to “finish off” Hamas.

“When you’re in the eye of the storm, you have to decide if you’re going to be swept by the storm or you’re going to be a rock in the storm,” the Israeli premier told me on Sunday in his Jerusalem office. Had Israel been “swept in the storm,” he added, it “would have suffered an enormous defeat,

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