{"id":313683,"date":"2025-08-15T06:20:44","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T06:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=313683"},"modified":"2025-08-17T08:25:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T08:25:46","slug":"netanyahu-brags-about-defying-the-u-s-with-impunity-with-or-without-u-s-approval-it-doesnt-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=313683","title":{"rendered":"Netanyahu Brags About Defying The U.S. With Impunity: &#8216;With or Without [U.S.] Approval, It Doesn&#8217;t Matter&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in an interview in Hebrew with i24NEWS on Tuesday, bragged about how he has defied America with impunity and dragged us into war after war.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Chris Menahan \u2013 Information Liberation Aug 13, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8220;With or without [US] approval, it doesn&#8217;t matter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, in an interview in Hebrew, brags about how he has defied America with impunity and dragged us into war after war. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Xv8aJ7XuKK\">pic.twitter.com\/Xv8aJ7XuKK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chris Menahan \uf1fa\uf1f8 (@infolibnews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/infolibnews\/status\/1955595377866047957?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 13, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Commanders and security forces in Israel didn&#8217;t want to go into Rafah but &#8220;I said we were going in, in the face of an American embargo by the US president,&#8221; Netanyahu told the Israeli news outlet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They said we shouldn&#8217;t do the pager operation, or at least we should tell the Biden administration beforehand, and I said, no. We&#8217;re going in and doing it,&#8221; Netanyahu said. &#8220;The same thing happened with the elimination of [Hezbollah leader Hassan] Nasrallah.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They said that we had to tell the Americans and that meant that it wouldn&#8217;t happen. It could be leaked. I said, no,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>On launching a war with Iran, Netanyahu said it had to be done &#8212; regardless of what the US wanted &#8212; to stop Iran from getting nukes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was mandatory to do it and there were high-ranking officials in our security establishment who said, &#8216;that&#8217;s fine, we should of course act, but we need approval from the Americans.&#8217; And I said, no. With or without approval, it doesn&#8217;t matter &#8230; with or without approval &#8212; we are doing it,&#8221; Netanyahu said.<\/p>\n<p>He also said Israel is making plans to finish the job in Iran &#8220;with the Americans, or without the Americans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu knows our government will do whatever he wants (the partial arms &#8220;embargo&#8221; the Biden administration enacted was all for show to try and quell domestic uproar over he and Kamala Harris&#8217; support for Israel&#8217;s genocide campaign). He also knows our media won&#8217;t even report on statements like these where he&#8217;s openly bragging about owning us.<\/p>\n<p>We pay for Israel&#8217;s military and supply nearly all of their weapons &#8212; they openly mock us as &#8220;thanks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That is our &#8220;special relationship.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>During the same interview, Netanyahu&#8217;s also said he&#8217;s &#8220;very much&#8221; attached to the vision of &#8220;Greater Israel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">When Bibi talks religion, it\u2019s time to get worried<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Says he\u2019s on a \u2018historical and spiritual mission\u2019 to realize \u2018GREATER ISRAEL\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">(\u2018Greater Israel\u2019 involves colonizing at least the West Bank, Gaza, and the Sinai Peninsula) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AGAB3JZBAB\">pic.twitter.com\/AGAB3JZBAB<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u2014 RT (@RT_com) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RT_com\/status\/1955379811091878321?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 12, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>i24NEWS only translated half this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CZH6f15C7dE\">31 minute interview<\/a> for their English audience and cut that statement out.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u8xhaxo2JJY?si=v1YS4jvnhWuz-mSW\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&#8212;<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.informationliberation.com\/?id=65009\">Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netanyahu said Israel is making plans to finish the job in Iran &#8220;with the Americans, or without the Americans.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":313687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=313683"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313688,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313683\/revisions\/313688"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/313687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=313683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=313683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=313683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}