The prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, He assured this Sunday that he has maintained three calls with the elected president of USA, donald trumpfrom his election last Tuesday and emphasized the “Iranian threat” as one of the key themes in them.
“We see the Iranian threat in all its components and the danger it represents,” said Netanyahu, within the framework of the growing tension in Middle East with the wars waged by Israel Loop and Lebanon against the Islamist organization Hamas and the Shia group Hezbollah, respectively.
The Israeli president assured that they were “good and very important” conversations in which they also discussed great opportunities for the country “in the field of peace and its expansion, but also in other fields”, about which he did not give more details.
After the magnate’s re-election as president of the United States, Netanyahu was one of the first to call him and then both agreed to “work together for Israel’s security” and addressed the “Iranian threat”.
In the same video statement in which he spoke about his relationship with Trump, Netanyahu again condemned the episode of violence in Amsterdamin which pro-Palestinian protesters attacked supporters of the Maccabi Tel Aviv, who had previously toured the city chanting anti-Arab slogans and burning Palestinian flags.
Trump’s return to White House marks a question mark over the course of the Gaza and Lebanon wars. On the one hand, he maintains constant support for Israel, which materialized in his previous mandate when move the US embassy to Jerusalem or to suspend financial support to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA).
On the other hand, in his first speech after winning the elections, the Republican leader assured that he did not want wars: “I am not going to start a war. I am going to stop them.”
Since the end of September, Israel has maintained an intense campaign of bombings in Lebanon against the pro-Iranian group Hezbollah, to which he incorporated a ground invasion from the south of the country the past October 1st.
He September 27one of the bombings He killed Hezbollah leader in Beirut, Hasan Nasrallahwhich triggered a response from Iranwith the launch of 180 ballistic missiles against Israeli territory that caused one fatality (a Palestinian in the West Bank city of Jericho).
Then, the Islamic Republic claimed responsibility for the attack also as retaliation for the explosion that killed the former leader of Hamas in Tehran. Ismail Haniyehin an operation that Israel never denied or confirmed.
The Israeli Army, for its part, responded to these attacks with a series of airstrikes in the early hours of October 26 against Iran, in which they died five soldiers of the Islamic Republicwhich could lead to another Iranian retaliation.
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