my guest is a member of parliament in mr netanyahu s likud party, and former minister, danny danon. is the great survivor netanyahu nowjeopardising the future of israel? danny danon injerusalem, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me, stephen. it is a pleasure to have you on the show. would you agree that right now israel appears to be in a very perilous position? you have deep political turmoil at home and a security crisis at the very same time. the former makes it more difficult to deal with the latter, doesn t it? well, it is never boring here in israel. we are a very dynamic democracy and as you mentioned we don t have the best neighbours in the world and we have to face with the security issues and indeed in the last few days we ve seen attacks from different directions and we believe it is not a coincidence. we think it is all coming from the same source, from iran, that is why we are dealing together with ourforces pushing back our enemies. surely the real lesso
rocked by mass protests and civil disobedience at home and unprecedented criticism from allies overseas. my guest as a member of parliament in mr netanyahu s likud party, danny danon. is the great survivor netanyahu nowjeopardising the neta nyahu now jeopardising the future netanyahu nowjeopardising the future of israel? danny danon in jerusalem, welcome danny danon injerusalem, welcome to hardtalk. danny danon in jerusalem, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for havin: welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me, stephen. - welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me, stephen. it- welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me, stephen. it is- welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me, stephen. it is a i for having me, stephen. it is a leasure for having me, stephen. it is a pleasure to for having me, stephen. it is a pleasure to have for having me, stephen. it is a pleasure to have you - for having me, stephen. it is a plea
nationalist government led by benjamin netanyahu has been rocked by mass protests and civil disobedience at home and unprecedented criticism from allies overseas. my guest is a member of parliament in mr netanyahu s likud party, and former minister, danny danon. is the great survivor netanyahu nowjeopardising the future of israel? danny danon injerusalem, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me, stephen. it is a pleasure to have you on the show. would you agree that right now israel appears to be in a very perilous position? you have deep political turmoil at home and a security crisis at the very same time. the former makes it more difficult to deal with the latter, doesn t it? well, it is never boring here in israel. we are a very dynamic democracy and as you mentioned we don t have the best neighbours in the world and we have to face with the security issues and indeed in the last few days we ve seen attacks from different directions and we believe it is not a coincid
Inside the country. Uk Prime Minister rishi sunak has used a Telephone Call with Israels Benjamin Netanyahu to appeal for calm heads, after irans missile and drone attack over the weekend. While he emphasised the uks support for israels security, mr sunak said a significant escalation in tensions was in no one s interests. Lucy williamson reports from jerusalem. Israels Prime Minister is weighing up the risks of another war before hes finished the existing one. Today, he told new army recruits that operations in gaza were just one part of a wider conflict. Translation its part of a bigger system. You can see it. Iran stands behind hamas, behind hezbollah, behind others. But we are determined to win there and defend ourselves in all arenas. New footage released by the army shows the moment the military focus here changed. The first interceptions of iranian missiles ordered from this control room. Israels ongoing conflicts with iranian backed groups have been pushed into the shadows by a
Thank you for having me again, stephen. Israel has a vital choice to make right now with regard to iran. Does it respond again, up the ante, escalate, or does it not . What do you believe the choice will be and should be . Frankly speaking, stephen, i dont think we have a dilemma here. We have to retaliate. The question is how we do it, when we do it, against whom. But i dont think we can sit idly by after the attack we saw two nights ago here in israel, 300 projectiles that came from iran directly into israel. Im not familiar with any other sovereign nation that will not retaliate after such an aggressive attack. And we have to make it very clear. Iran chose to send those rockets, missiles and uavs from iran. For many months and years, they use their proxies in the region. They built a very Massive Force around israel, but they decided to escalate. They decided to create a new equation by sending all of those rockets from iran into israel. They decided to escalate, you say. How would