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Netanyahu: With Iran, "Diplomacy Can Only Work If It's Coupled with a Credible Military Threat"
(Sky News-UK) Alistair Bunkall - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Sky News on Friday that diplomacy has failed to stop Tehran from developing its nuclear capabilities. "I don't think that diplomacy by itself will work. I think diplomacy can only work if it's coupled with a credible military threat or the willingness to apply the military option if deterrence fails." "Iran is openly committed to repeating the Holocaust and destroying the six or seven million Jews of Israel and we're not going to sit idly by and let them do it. (If) these ayatollahs think that they could threaten us with a nuclear holocaust, they're wrong. We will do whatever we need to do to defend ourselves." The prime minister described as "completely false" a recent statement by the U.S. State Department condemning the building of a Jewish religious school on West Bank land as "violating Israel's commitment to the Biden administration." "For God sake, this is the Land of Israel, it's our country, so I completely disagree with that, but I think one thing is true - the Palestinians are here and we're not going to push them out. We're here and they're not going to push us out."