Netanyahu met the passenger who helped stop the Flydubai cockpit attack, telling him "without you it could have been another 9/11."

Yaniv Hayoun, a plumber still in a blood-stained shirt, said he put the attacker in a chokehold and pulled the controls back.

He told Netanyahu he watches air-crash investigation shows on TV, and that's how he knew to pull back on the controls.

He has no aviation or military background mentioned in reports.

Netanyahu says the Israeli plumber who saved the Flydubai plane “prevented another 9/11.”

Netanyahu:

There’s some who have fallen prey to this propaganda, you know, primarily carried out on social media that vilifies Israel.

Israel is the David here fighting this Goliath of global Islamic fundamentalism that seeks death to Israel, death to America — that’s what they chant — death to everything in between.

Netanyahu:

The first casualty of 9/11 was a brilliant Israeli entrepreneur, Daniel Lewin. He had been an officer in my unit, special unit in the military.

What happened then is that Lewin basically attacked the attackers, the hijackers, that were en route to the White House with one of those suicide planes, and he was then stabbed in the back by another hijacker.

He was the first casualty of 9/11, an American-Israeli. He was the first casualty.

Netanyahu:

I don't know if you're next hijacked, make sure an Israeli is sitting next to you.

Netanyahu on Britain:

We gave the Brits the intel that there was going to be an attack, an Iranian-sponsored attack, and pretty much the next day they slapped sanctions on us.

So it’s wild. I mean, the caving in, the collapse before the Islamist-Marxist alliance is very dangerous for the future of the West.

Netanyahu on Iran:

See, we’re just in their way. We’re in their way of conquering the entire Middle East, but the real goal is you, America.

That’s why they chant — they call us the Little Satan and you’re the Big Satan, and they’re out to get the Big Satan.

Netanyahu on Iran:

It’s no secret that Iran wants to target Israelis abroad, wants to target Israel here. We understand that.

And, in fact, we see signs not only from them but from their proxies that they’re interested in perpetrating attacks, certainly by Hamas and by Hezbollah, right before the elections. We have clear evidence of that.

But I think that whether or not this was carried out as part of that plan, that we don’t know yet.

Netanyahu:

We’ll get to the root of this attacker, whether he had accomplices, whether Iran was behind it. I think we’ll find out very soon.

Trump:

Congratulations to the GREAT Boeing Company for producing a plane, the 737 Max, that was able to withstand G Forces and Strain far beyond what it was designed and expected to do. It was an amazing show of precise and powerful structural planning and design.

It is about time that The Boeing Company, which builds, by far, the finest commercial airliners in the sky, was given credit for this airplane’s incredible “genius!”

To Kelly Ortberg, and all of his officers and associates at Boeing, congratulations on a job well done!!!

Netanyahu:

We’ve had signs that Iran, and particularly through its proxies, was intending to heighten terrorist attacks against Israel and Israeli nationals abroad.

I think it’s too early to say whether there was Iranian collusion here.

Netanyahu:

The first thing is you want a background check on pilots.

Even if you have metal detectors, they’re usually for the passengers, and it’s quite possible that pilots just don’t go through that.

So obviously, that’s a loophole that has to be corrected.

Netanyahu:

A million Israelis have visited the United Arab Emirates. I don’t think people know that.

And that’s been the case throughout the war. The war didn’t stop it. This alliance, or this relationship, withstood the Iran war.

Netanyahu on Iran:

They’re trying to develop nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them to every city in the United States.

It will take them some time, but they’re working on this.

Netanyahu:

I didn’t ignore any warnings before October 7 because I didn’t receive any warnings. I mean, that’s a complete hoax.

It’s politically propagated by certain countries or by certain elements abroad, and they’re simply false.

Q: You control, by the latest estimate I saw, 60% of Gaza. Is the intention still to give all of that back?

Netanyahu: No. The intention right now is to make sure that that horrific attack which occurred on October 7th… never happens again.

Q: But Mr. Prime Minister, that’s not the question. The question is this 60% hold that the Israeli military has inside Gaza. Is your intention today still to reach a point where all of that is given back to the Palestinians?

Netanyahu: No. My goal right now is to make sure that the Hamas terrorists who are still in Gaza… don’t have the capacity to do another attack.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio ordered Iran’s UN delegation, including Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, to leave New York immediately after U.S.-Iran talks stalled Monday.

Qatari mediators had tried to broker a compromise, but neither side moved. Araghchi’s delegation left for Doha hours later, though one source said he had already been scheduled to depart that night.

Source: Axios

Netanyahu on Hamas:

People are giving Hamas a pass. I mean, these are murderers, murderous monsters who raped our women and then murdered them, beheaded men, burnt babies alive in front of their parents.

And I challenge you, Tony, and everyone else listening to me. What would America do if, from a neighboring territory, you had that kind of attack on Americans?

You’d make sure that never happens again. And that’s what we’re doing in Gaza right now.

Netanyahu:

We’re not in Gaza because we have great colonialist impulses. It’s ridiculous.

Netanyahu on Lebanon:

Lebanon would make peace with us in two seconds if Hezbollah wasn’t there.