Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu has gone ballistic over President Trump’s friendly meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan today. Netanyahu took to CNN News to rant about Türkiye, calling Erdogan a tyrant, infesting the country with the Muslim Brotherhood, who threatens his neighbors, including Israel. “He wants to restore the Ottoman Empire,” he said. Providing Erdogan with F-15 jets, said Bibi, would be “destabilizing” for the region.
Asked by CNN host Dana Bash (who was quite combative, unlike most such interviews) whether he had spoken to President Trump about his concerns about Erdogan, Bibi said, “Yes, several times,” and babbled on and on about what dear friends he was with Trump, and how Israel and the United States were each other’s closest allies; they only had an occasional difference of opinion. On the MOU with Iran, he said that Trump should “have a chance” to get Iran to stop its terrorist ways, but thought it would not work, and implied that if it doesn’t work, Israel still has the right and the power to stop the Iranian nuclear program on its own.
Bash played a quote from New York Mayor Mamdani, who, when asked if he supports Israel as a “Jewish State,” answered that “any country which favors one religion over another, be it Saudi Arabia or Israel, I can not support. Bibi’s response was a tirade against Mamdani and his supporters, “who support blood-thirsty terrorists like Hamas.”
