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“Up until several months ago, when we said that ISIS was carrying out actions on our borders, people were skeptical. And here we see before our very eyes ISIS operating with unusual brutality on both our northern and southern borders.

Our hearts are with the Egyptian people and we send our condolences to the Egyptian government and to the families whose loved ones have fallen in the struggle against vicious terrorism. The actions that we have seen from ISIS are nothing compared to the capabilities being built by the Iranian regime.

It is clear that nobody in their right mind would give ISIS nuclear weapons.

But in the major powers’ current talks with Iran they are giving it – this extremist state that is exporting terrorism around the world – the ability to develop an arsenal of nuclear weapons, of very many nuclear bombs along with the means to deliver them – long-range missiles. Therefore, we now face two threats – from ISIS and from Iran.

We need not strengthen one at the expense of the other. We need to weaken both and prevent the aggression and arming of both.  (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaking during a tour of the Beer Sheva Cyber Park, 02/07/2015)