Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu spoke at the cabinet meeting on Monday, providing a comprehensive political and security review during which he revealed details from his conversation last night with US Vice President J.D. Vance.

Netanyahu said that Vance called him on his way back to Washington from Pakistan and briefed him on the talks with Iran in Islamabad. Vance clarified that the main US goal in negotiations with Iran is to remove all enriched nuclear material from its territory and ensure that there will be no enrichment for decades.

Netanyahu declared at the meeting that Israel gives full backing to President Trump’s decision to impose a naval blockade on Iran, and rejected reports of a rift between Jerusalem and Washington, describing them as “completely false,” saying that the two countries are in constant coordination.

“The exact opposite is true,” Netanyahu stressed. “This level of coordination has never existed before, not in the history of Israel, and not in the history of the Jewish people.”

In his speech, given on the eve of Yom HaShoah, Netanyahu drew a comparison between the current operational situation and the threats of the past. Netanyahu said: “The most important thing on the eve of Holocaust Day is to say the following: if we had not acted, if we had not taken our fate into our own hands in the independent State of Israel, with the Israel Defense Forces and our security arms – the names Isfahan, Natanz, Fordow, and Bushehr would be remembered like Auschwitz, Majdanek, and Sobibor. That is exactly the whole difference. They come to destroy us – and we rise up against them.”

Netanyahu concluded that today the State of Israel has the active ability to thwart the threat of annihilation, in contrast to the helplessness that characterized the Jewish people during the Holocaust, and that standing up to Iran and its proxies is backed by decisive actions and government decisions.

“In every generation they rise up; in this generation we have risen up against them, and this is a huge change that all citizens of Israel should celebrate,” Netanyahu asserted. “This ensures the main thing: never again. Every year I stand at Yad Vashem, and I say: ‘There will be no more Holocaust.’ And today these things are backed by the mighty actions of the IDF, the steadfastness of the citizens of Israel, and the very strong determination of the government of Israel.”

(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)