Netanyahu:

Iran is reliable on one thing—they lie and they cheat.

Netanyahu on Iran:

If a deal is to be reached, it should have several components—several components that we believe are important not only for the security of Israel, but for the security of the world: the United States, the region, the world.

The first is that all enriched material has to leave Iran.

The second is that there shall be no enrichment capability—not just stopping the enrichment process, but dismantling the equipment and the infrastructure that allow enrichment in the first place.

The third is to address the question of ballistic missiles. There's an MTCR limitation of 300 kilometers, and Iran is supposed to adhere to it—of course, it doesn't, as the Rising Lion Operation itself demonstrates, as everybody knows.

And the fourth is to dismantle the axis of terror that Iran has built. It's been smashed, but it's still there; it's trying to recover, as Iran itself is trying to do.

Netanyahu on Iran:

Trump is determined to exhaust the possibilities of achieving a deal, which he believes can be achieved now because of the circumstances that have been created—the force projection—and the fact that, as he says, Iran must surely understand that they missed out last time, and he thinks there's a serious probability that they won't miss out this time.

BIG: Dutch Defence Minister Gijs Tuinman hints that software independence is possible for F-35 jets.

He literally said you can “jailbreak” an F-35.

When asked if Europe can modify it without US approval:

“That’s not the point… we’ll see whether the Americans will show their true colors.”

And then he dropped this:

“I'm going to say something I should never say, but I'll do it anyway. Just like your iPhone, you can jailbreak an F-35. I won't say more about it.”

Source: BNR Nieuwsradio Podcast

READ MORE

Netanyahu on Hamas:

There are practically no heavy weapons in Gaza. There's no artillery, there are no tanks, there's nothing.

The heavy weapon, the one that does the most damage, is called an AK-47. Okay? That's it. That's how they execute people. That's how they shoot our people. That's what they use—assault rifles.

That's what they used in the massacre of October 7th. That's what they used. That's what they—they did the worst massacre of the Jewish people since the Holocaust with AK-47s.

60,000 of them. They have to go outside.

Netanyahu on Gaza:

They still have tunnels there. We dismantled about 150 kilometers of 500 kilometers of tunnels.

We have to complete the job.

Netanyahu:

Gaza will not pose a threat ever again to the State of Israel.

Netanyahu:

The Chancellor of Germany was here. In his initiative, we would like to talk to you about our defense industry, in which they want to invest a very, very large amount of money.

Who is coming here next week? Narendra Modi.

There is a tremendous alliance between Israel and India, and we are going to discuss all sorts of cooperation.

Netanyahu on India:

Israel is enormously popular in India, enormously popular!

Did you know that?

Netanyahu:

About 10 years ago, I said that Israel would be among the top three cyber powers in the world. I was wrong. Well, I was right — but it’s number two.

Israel — tiny Israel, with 10 million people — receives more foreign investment in cyber tech than any other country in the world, except the United States. I’m talking about absolute numbers. That’s what we achieved in 10 years.

Guess what? We’re going to do exactly the same thing in AI. We’re going to do the same in quantum.

Netanyahu:

The United States called Israel the model ally. The model ally!

Netanyahu:

We can afford to phase out the financial component of the military aid that we’re receiving (from the U.S). I propose a 10-year drawdown to zero.

In the three years that remain in the present memorandum of understanding, and over another seven years, we will draw it down to zero. Israel will support itself, just as we fight for ourselves.

Our goal is to build an independent arms industry in Israel.

Netanyahu:

We were blamed in antiquity, 500 years before the birth of Christ. People don't know about the Hellenistic antisemitism that was here in the diaspora. And then what happened in the Middle Ages—you are familiar with. And it happened in modern times.

These attacks on the Jews were always preceded by vilification—horrible vilifications that even so-called civilized and educated people adhered to. The Jews poison the wells, the Jews spread vermin, the Jews slaughter Christian children to use their blood for baking matzahs. And this goes into modern times. The Nazis basically said the same thing.

All these vituperations, all these slanders were always eventually accompanied by either exile or pogroms or mass murder. That's what happened to the Jews, one country after the other.

Netanyahu:

When you envy someone and you can attack them, then you do.

And that is essentially the story of the Jews. It’s a simplification of antisemitism, but it tells you a great deal about what underpinned it.

Angola's President João Lourenço:

We must ensure that young Africans can find work in their own land — not risk their lives in the Mediterranean.

Africa’s leaders bear responsibility — perhaps even more than Europe — to stop irregular migration.

Too many young people cross the sea searching for opportunities that often do not exist.

Many lose their lives before they ever reach those opportunities.

Netanyahu:

Minorities—whether it’s Blacks or gays or women—fought back.

And what we have to do as Jews, both here in Israel and in the various Jewish communities around the world, beginning with the United States, is to fight back.

Silence will not help. Fight back!

Netanyahu:

We also have to fight on the information level or the disinformation level as well.

Meloni distances herself from German Chancellor Merz’s harsh criticism of Trump, and rejects attacks on “MAGA culture”:

We must work toward greater integration between Europe and the United States.

It is very important to strengthen what unites us rather than what divides us.

When asked about Merz criticizing MAGA:

No, I would say no. These are political evaluations that belong to party politics — not to the competence of the European Union.

BIG: Trump told Netanyahu in December that he would support Israeli strikes on Iran’s ballistic missile program if nuclear talks between Washington and Tehran fail.

U.S. military and intelligence officials have since begun internal talks about how the U.S. could assist Israel, including providing aerial refueling and securing overflight permissions.

Source: CBS News

READ MORE

WATCH: Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) says it destroyed UAE-backed Rapid Support Forces (RSF) terror group’s air defense system (likely Chinese-made FB-10 mobile short-range air defense missile system) in Abu Zabad, West Kordofan.

China’s massive tree-planting campaign around the Taklamakan Desert has turned its once-barren edges into a net carbon sink, meaning they now absorb more CO₂ than they emit.

The Taklamakan — once described as a “biological void” — now shows measurable plant activity.