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Netanyahu: “Ben-Gurion Founded the State, I've Ensured Its Survival”

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a pointed statement Thursday evening, saying: “Ben-Gurion decided to establish the state; I have decided to ensure its survival.” The remarks come amid escalating military operations against Iran and signal Netanyahu's framing of current events as historically defining. In a follow-up, Netanyahu addressed questions surrounding U.S. cooperation in the strike on Iran. “The American position was uncertain,” he said. “But that wasn’t a factor. Even if we had received a ‘Don’t’, we would have acted.”