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Netanyahu called Britain the first Islamic country with nuclear weapons

2026-08-15

He ain't wrong.

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited
[Regnum] On August 14, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, speaking on Israel Army Radio, called Britain the "Islamic Republic of Britain" and the first Islamic country with nuclear weapons. This was reported by The Guardian.

Netanyahu stated that Britain's attitude toward Israel has deteriorated significantly in recent decades. He noted that "in today's Britain, in what is called the Islamic Republic of Britain," the support London once provided to Israel is no longer to be found.

“Isn’t all of Europe like this?” asked the program’s host.

Netanyahu answered in the affirmative.

US Vice President J.D. Vance previously called Britain "the first Islamic country with nuclear weapons." In his speech, he drew attention to the risks of the spread of Islamism in several European countries, including Britain.

The authors noted that relations between Britain and Israel have worsened since the appointment of Andy Burnham as British Prime Minister. Shortly before his confirmation, Burnham publicly apologized for the Labour Party's previous support for Israel's attacks on Palestine.

Burnham took office as British Prime Minister on July 20. Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova noted that Moscow does not expect relations with the UK to improve following the resignation of Burnham's predecessor, Keir Starmer. She indicated that London will continue its anti-Russian course, which is determined by the consensus of the British establishment, not by the prime minister's personality.

‘Completely unacceptable’: UK condemns Netanyahu for calling Britain an ‘Islamic republic’
[IsraelTimes] Britain hits back at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu derisively calling the country an “Islamic republic” in an interview, branding the remarks “completely unacceptable.”

“These comments are completely unacceptable and we have raised them with the Israeli government,” a UK government spokesman says.

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. You poor darlings.

In an earlier BBC radio interview, Israeli government spokesman David Mencer appeared to downplay Netanyahu’s comments.

“He [Netanyahu] was making a quote that someone else had given,” Mencer said, noting United States Vice President JD Vance had “made those comments” previously.

“He was quoting what the vice president had said.”

I don’t recall hearing the British government complaining about VP Vance’s statement. What possibly could be the reason they’re fussing about BIbi instead?

Related — about an hour long at the link because I don’t want to tie up Rantburg’s site for that long for each viewer.

Ask Haviv Anything (YouTube): Why antisemitism works, with Prof. Ruth Wisse.
Antisemitism is no mere prejudice. It's a potent political technology, perhaps the most effective negative campaign and coalition-builder in modern politics. Prof. Ruth Wisse, professor emerita of Harvard, now a senior fellow at the Tikvah Fund, joins the podcast to help us trace the “politics of the pointing finger” from Wilhelm Marr’s Antisemitenliga to the Arab League, from the Harvard campus’s grievance coalitions after October 7 to the rising figures on the progressive left and the populist right who find Jews the easiest, least costly villain on which to foist their anxieties and fears. Wisse argues that Jews cannot win this fight by trying argue with the charges being leveled at them; that Israel’s creation remains the great modern resurrection of a people; and that Jewish (and American) self-confidence is the only real answer to this challenge.

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