Some of the Arab states say, and I never heard that before, "Let's strengthen our alliance with Israel because that, in fact, deters Iran. Let's strengthen our alliance with Israel because we can work up our defenses as a result of it. Let's strengthen our alliance with Israel because we can do amazing things with Israel."

Iran not only wants to kill Americans; they have killed and wounded them by the thousands, burned up your embassies, killed your Marines, burned your flags, tried to assassinate President Trump and some of your chief officials several times.

They're committed to destroy America.

I think it's at the weakest point it's been since it hijacked the Iranian people.

It's the weakest it's been. The hardliners are just as hardline as they were before, but there are fissures in the regime. There are cracks in it because they've been hit very hard by our joint efforts, our joint military efforts.

Hezbollah still hold Lebanon hostage — it's basically a proxy of Iran. Iran holds Lebanon.

We have no quarrel with Lebanon. We can make peace with Lebanon and want to make peace with them tomorrow, no yesterday, but you have this foreign body, this Iranian-backed terrorist organization that hijacked the country.

Hezbollah had 150,000 ballistic missiles and rockets before the war — that's the densest concentration of these projectiles on the planet.

They were all aimed to destroy our cities, not only to harass the north of the country with rockets, but to destroy our cities, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa, you name it, with ballistic missiles that come raining down—each one has half a ton or a ton of explosives—it's like a bus coming down with amazing speed, and the destruction is terrible.

We destroyed more than 90% of that, but that still leaves them with thousands of rockets and some ballistic missiles, and that's still a big issue.

The Lebanese would like us to eradicate Hezbollah because they want freedom.

Who would want a country to be taken over by these killers, these murderers? Of course they want to be free, but they've not shown yet the capacity to fight them.

What we're talking to them about is how do we work together, to militarily and politically, possibly splitting up the work to get rid of Hezbollah. It's not yet been done. It has to be done as well.

Contrary to what people said, I didn't go to the White House and said to Donald Trump, "It's guaranteed it can be done."

I didn't really have to tell him. He knew that we were approaching a situation where Iran could produce a nuclear weapon.

He knew that we were approaching a situation where Iran's ballistic missile capability after "Rising Lion" was going to be reconstructed, and Khamenei wanted to put it underground, the factories underground, not the missiles, the factories underground to produce more and more and more ballistic missiles and to do the same with his nuclear industry, put them underground, under a heavy mountain where even B-2s couldn't reach it.

So he knew that we have to take action, and he did.

I am not bemoaning this; I'm stating this as a fact: Israel is besieged on the media front, on the propaganda front, and we have not done well in the propaganda war.

We have to fight back against these lies, this propaganda, with the only weapon we have: the truth. I'm trying to do that now, and we'll try to do that in a much greater effort because we've left the battlefield to our enemies, and, boy, do they lie all the time.

Israel is the one country in the Middle East that protects Christians, that values Christians, that embraces Christianity.

We have common roots. We appreciate them.

There's an attempt not only to falsify our common history but also to falsify current events, to seize on these, you know, these aberrations and pretend that this is Israeli policy. That's ridiculous.

I now see the possibility of the expansion of the Abraham Accords and the deepening of the agreements we do have to alliances with Arab states of the kind that we never even dreamed of.

That's the result of the change in the relative power of Israel, the fact that we face down this neighborhood bully, this killer regime in Iran, and that's brought quite a few of the Arab countries closer together with Israel, and that's good for peace.