We are not the collapsing Christian empire. Jerusalem is not Constantinople, which you conquered when you built the Ottoman Empire.

We are here forever. Jerusalem is ours forever. We know how to defend ourselves, and we are strong.

Don't mess with us. My advice to Erdoğan is not to mess with us and not to put himself in the position that Iran put itself in. He still has plenty of room to avoid that.

Instead, he should take care of Türkiye and its own affairs. We will take care of our own interests, and we will continue to do so.

We very much want to strike Iran's energy targets.

The United States is not approving it at the moment because of the concern that Iran would attack neighboring countries and trigger a global oil crisis.

Saudi Arabia needs peace with the State of Israel much more than we need peace with Saudi Arabia.

Today everyone sees the State of Israel as the strongest power in the Middle East.

If you look at the map, you'll see that ground infrastructure can be laid from the Gulf states all the way to the Mediterranean — and from the Mediterranean, it can flow to Europe.

This is a very big interest for the Saudis, because the Saudis understand oil is their main source of income. The last war shows that you need not only a source of energy but also a route to export it.

I estimate that in a few years, if a confrontation breaks out in our region, the Straits of Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb will no longer be able to be a threat or a card for Iran.

I estimate four to five years for the alternative to be ready.

"Netanyahu will come; he'll make his promises, and then we'll have to check everything out," one senior U.S. official said.

Lindsey Graham loved golf, but he wasn't born to be a golfer.

He was born to be a politician, not a golfer.

Lindsey Graham was a hawk on Iran, but over the last few weeks, he started to think that a deal would be better than destroying the rest of Iran.

Lindsey Graham was very militant about Ukraine.

Lindsey liked war, to be honest with you.

He has never seen a war that he didn't like. He was very much into that.

I don't need Bibi to tell me that. Bibi is telling me that because he wants me to stay involved.

With the Space Force, we have the greatest cameras in the world focused. We know exactly what's going on.

I heard Bibi announced it. I said, "Why didn't you just tell it to me? Why do you have to announce it to the world?”

I know exactly what's going on at Pickaxe Mountain. It's not a big problem.

We’ll have to take out Pickaxe if we don't make a deal. We can take it out very easily.

If I go back and finish up the job, as some people would like, with the bridges — very easily I could take out most of their bridges in less than an hour.

But you know, it takes them 10 years to build a bridge. Bridges take the longest, and power plants are second.

I can knock out the power plants within one day. All of their power plants would be gone. I think about 91 million people without power, without bridges, would have to live. And it's a very, very delicate balance.

They know I'm going to do that if they don't make a deal.

The bridges are going to be gone — literally. In less than—I would say in two hours, most of the bridges, the major bridges, will all be gone. And the power plants in one day.

If I can avoid doing that, I would like to avoid that.