Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister-designate of Israel, is returning to power for a reason – to stop Iran. Erick Stakelbeck, host of the TBN news program “The Watchman,” recently interviewed Netanyahu.
“I said, ‘What are your goals for this new government?’ “ Stakelbeck reported. “He said, ‘number one, stopping Iran’s nuclear program. Number two, expanding the Abraham Accords peace treaties’ — and he specifically mentioned Saudi Arabia. He said that would be ‘a quantum leap’ for Israel and Saudi Arabia to make peace.’ Number three, he wants to continue to build Israel into an economic powerhouse with the scientific, the high tech, the medical breakthroughs. So those are his three big goals going forward. But overshadowing our whole conversation is Iran.”
He pointed out that Netanyahu easily could have retired at age 73
“He could have gone off into the sunset,” Stakelbeck said. “He already accomplished so much as Israel’s longest-serving prime minister. Much of the left-wing media there are completely against him and his family, and yet he came back. He came back — the main reason he made clear — was to stop Iran.”
Netanyahu “sees himself as a figure of destiny,” he said.
“He’s a big admirer of Winston Churchill, the great British prime minister, and he sees himself, I believe, as sort of a modern-day Churchill,” Stakelbeck said. “Churchill saw the gathering storm of Nazi Germany during the 1930s. Netanyahu has seen the gathering storm of Iran when no one else wanted to listen.
“Israel is the first line of defense for the West. Israel’s enemies and America’s enemies are one and the same — and Israel is right there in the belly of the beast on the front lines.”
The interview comes as the Biden administration continues to push forward with a failed Iran nuclear policy that many say will encourage production of weapons.
Iran is currently supplying Russia with powerful rocket drones that have destroyed much of Ukraine’s power grid and other public utility infrastructure.
–Dwight Widaman | MV
