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\"\"<\/a>\u2018If I capitulated, there\u2019d be no Israel,\u2019 Netanyahu says<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

Gabe Groisman<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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In a one-on-one interview in his office, the Israeli prime minister puts Hamas on notice, saying the Jewish state can do things the easy or hard way.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with Gabe Groisman in the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem, Oct. 26, 2025. Photo by Yona Groisman.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

If he had not withstood intense international and domestic pressure during the seven-front war against Iran and its proxies, particularly Hamas, \u201cthere would be no Israel,\u201d Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on the Standpoint With Gabe Groisman podcast produced by JNS in his first in-depth interview since the Oct.10 Gaza ceasefire.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Israeli premier said that the Jewish state, with U.S. help, \u201csmashed the Iran axis,\u201d reshaped the Middle East and paved the way to \u201cfinish off\u201d Hamas.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you\u2019re in the eye of the storm, you have to decide if you\u2019re going to be swept by the storm or you\u2019re going to be a rock in the storm,\u201d the Israeli premier told me on Sunday in his Jerusalem office. Had Israel been \u201cswept in the storm,\u201d he added, it \u201cwould have suffered an enormous defeat, and America would have suffered an enormous defeat.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt would have been a triumph for the Iran axis if we accepted all the pressures that were put on us, both from abroad and from inside, domestic pressure by the deep state, by the left and others,\u00a0to stand still,\u201d Netanyahu said, \u201cbasically surrender to Hamas demands.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Had the Jewish state yielded, Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah would still be alive, Bashar Assad would still run Syria, and the Iranians would still \u201clord it\u201d over the region, \u201cthinking that they\u2019re going to have, in two seconds or in two minutes, atomic bombs to annihilate everyone inside,\u201d according to Netanyahu.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe reason I could withstand the storm is that I knew that if I capitulated to it,\u00a0there would be no Israel,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s as simple as that, and when you\u2019re in a leadership position, you have to do what is not only what is right but what is absolutely necessary. So I had no qualms about that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The Trump plan<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Addressing the proposed international force slated to oversee Gaza\u2019s stabilization as part of U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s\u00a0plan<\/a>, Netanyahu put Hamas on notice.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re willing to give it a try, but if not, as President Trump has said, it\u2019s going to be done one of two ways,\u201d he said. \u201cEither the easy way, with the international force, or the hard way, with Israel, and it\u2019ll be done.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Netanyahu said that Jerusalem would only accept participants in the international stabilization mission that are \u201cacceptable to Israel<\/a>,\u201d suggesting that he refuses to repeat what he calls the \u201cfailure of the U.N. forces that were put into place in Lebanon after 1978.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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