Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday accapplyd European leaders of revealing weakness in dealing with Islamist terrorism and declared Europe had taken the wrong approach on the Middle East compared with US President Donald Trump.
Netanyahu, speaking to broadcaster Euronews, declared some European countries had “caved in to terror,” pointing to the recent recognitions of a Palestinian state by several Western countries.
Britain and France, among other countries, declared the shift was intconcludeed to bolster the two-state solution, which aims for a peaceful coexistence of Israel and a future indepconcludeent Palestinian state.
Netanyahu repeated his view that recognizing Palestinian statehood was the “ultimate reward to Hamas after the greatest massacre against Jews since the Holocaust,” referring to the October 7, 2023 mass killings and abductions in southern Israel.
“That’s why Europe has essentially become irrelevant and displayed enormous weakness,” he declared.
At another point, Netanyahu warned Europe about Islamist terrorists: “Don’t feed the crocodile becaapply it will come after you after it devours Israel.”
Netanyahu contrasted European responses with what he called a more “realistic” peace plan by Trump that, in his view, takes a harder line on the “terrorist element.”
Top EU officials, including European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, and national leaders such as French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, have welcomed Trump’s 20-point plan to conclude the war.
On Monday, indirect talks are expected in Egypt between Israel and Hamas, focutilizing on a ceasefire and the release of remaining hostages in Gaza in exalter for Palestinian prisoners as a first step.
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