Israel will make its own decisions about how to defend itself, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday, as Western countries pleaded for restraint in responding to a volley of attacks from Iran.

The United States, European Union and G7 group of industrialised nations all announced plans to consider tighter sanctions on Iran, seen as aimed at mollifying Israel and persuading it to rein in its retaliation for the first ever direct Iranian strikes after decades of confrontation by proxy.

Netanyahu met the German and British foreign ministers, who both travelled to Israel as part of a coordinated push to keep confrontation between Israel and Iran from escalating into a regional conflict fueled by the Gaza war.

Netanyahu’s office said he thanked David Cameron and Annalena Baerbock for their support, while telling them: “I want to make it clear - we will make our own decisions, and the State of Israel will do everything necessary to defend itself.”

  • wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works
    115·
    7 months ago

    While it’s easy to blame Bibi, I truly believe this is generalized to the Zionist mind. They did the same fucking thing in 1967. They knew that Nasser was not going to attack, they knew that he posed no existential threat to the State, but they attacked first anyway and claimed self defense.

    While he is a vile person, scapegoating him personally will allow Israel to continue with this behavior as they did before him. He’s a symptom, not a cause.