Central Florida's Independent Jewish Voice

Benjamin Netanyahu - a 'wartime prime minister'

(JNS) — U.S. President Donald Trump credited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for guiding the Jewish state to victory over a “force the likes of which very few countries could have handled.”

JNS asked Trump about his relationship with the Israeli premier.

“He’s a wartime prime minister,” Trump said of Netanyahu. “He’s taken Israel through a very dangerous period of drama.”

Standing alongside Netanyahu at a press conference outside the president’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla., Trump said that under other leadership, Israel “might not exist right now.”

“That’s a pretty big stat...

 
 

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