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Israeli President Herzog: Europe Should Back Effort to Eradicate Hizbullah
(AFP-Le Monde-France-Times of Israel) Israel's President Isaac Herzog told AFP on Monday that "Europe should support any effort, any effort, to eradicate Hizbullah now. They should understand that if you want to get anywhere, sometimes you need to win war." Israeli officials have repeatedly criticized Lebanese authorities for what they say are failures to honor a commitment to disarm Hizbullah. On the broader U.S.-Israeli war with Iran, Herzog said: "There comes a moment that after well over a generation of endless wars, bloodshed and terror, the root cause of it, which comes from Tehran, will be blocked and stopped, and the whole direction of the region will change." He insisted defeating the clerical authorities in Iran was "in the innermost national security interests of Europe." Herzog said that Iran had been seeking "10 times the amount of ballistic missiles, which would have threatened Europe big time." "After talking and talking for a whole generation, it's about time for doing." "Where is the whole world? Rather than all the time criticizing Israel, let's help us. Let's help the Americans. Let's help us bring a real change so that there will be a different future in the region."