Valuetainment - August 27, 2025


＂You DON'T Make Trump Do ANYTHING＂ - Netanyahu PRESSED On 'AIPAC Controls America’ Accusations


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5 minutes

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186.92409

Word count

994

Sentence count

68

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Hate speech

13

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Learn English with the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks about his relationship with President Donald Trump and his vision for the future of the Middle East and the relationship between Israel and the United States.

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00:00:00.000 Prime Minister, what do you say to the critics who say, you know, Israel owns America, you know, Israel is who makes America do things they want them to do, whether it's through AIPAC, you know, whether it's through, you know, funding, money, you'll typically hear this.
00:00:15.580 This has been overly said the last couple of years in a major way.
00:00:19.440 And there's a big there's a there's a community of Americans that at this point believe that whatever Israel wants, they make a phone call to America, America better do or else. 0.52
00:00:28.340 Do you agree with that?
00:00:30.000 Absolutely not.
00:00:31.300 I think it's full of hokum. 1.00
00:00:32.700 First of all, do you know President Trump?
00:00:34.900 I mean, sort of.
00:00:36.360 I've known him for many years.
00:00:37.420 Sure.
00:00:37.660 Okay.
00:00:38.380 You don't make him do anything.
00:00:39.980 He does what he thinks is in America's interest.
00:00:42.440 And he's very forceful about it.
00:00:44.040 When he sees allies who don't who don't step up to the plate, you know, he's not shy about saying it.
00:00:50.600 And we have a different relationship altogether.
00:00:53.960 It's not of one of coercion or manipulation.
00:00:57.780 It's one of common interests and common values.
00:01:00.000 And I think that people understand that because Israel, Israel is different.
00:01:05.280 It really is.
00:01:06.360 You know, we know that we have to fight for ourselves.
00:01:09.180 And we do.
00:01:09.800 But when we fight for ourselves, we fight for you, too.
00:01:13.760 Because we fight Iran. 0.91
00:01:15.800 Iran tried to murder President Trump not once, but twice. 0.75
00:01:20.400 Iran killed and wounded thousands of Americans with their IEDs, explosive devices, in Iraq and Afghanistan. 0.66
00:01:27.300 Iran killed 241 Marines in Beirut.
00:01:30.520 They bomb your embassies.
00:01:31.820 They burn American flags.
00:01:33.480 They have mobs chanting, death to America, death to America.
00:01:36.460 So when we fight Iran, we're not just fighting our war, we're fighting your war. 0.98
00:01:41.320 But we are fighting that war here in the Middle East.
00:01:44.460 And let me tell you what would happen.
00:01:45.880 And as someone who had been in the Middle East as a child, I think you can appreciate this.
00:01:50.220 It's not only we who are threatened by Iran. 0.74
00:01:53.600 It's our Arab neighbors, too.
00:01:55.520 They know that Iran wants to conquer them, pillage their oil fields, take over the Middle East, the maritime routes that control world trade. 0.92
00:02:05.900 So they know that.
00:02:07.720 But if you look at who's actually fighting Iran, it's Israel.
00:02:12.140 It's Israel. 0.51
00:02:12.960 Our brave soldiers, our incredibly brave soldiers.
00:02:15.340 And this tiny country, you know, President Trump asked me, how do you guys do this?
00:02:20.980 I mean, you're such a small country.
00:02:22.920 You know, we're the size of New Jersey, bigger than Rhode Island, but that's it.
00:02:27.540 We're slightly smaller than New Jersey.
00:02:29.740 And we take on this enormous empire with all its proxies, this anti-American empire that threatens to kill the president and chance death to America.
00:02:39.140 How do you do this?
00:02:40.180 And I said, well, you know, you're like an enormous lion, like almost like a prehistoric saber-toothed tiger.
00:02:48.600 You're enormous.
00:02:50.000 We're not.
00:02:51.280 But we are, you know, we're the, you know, the badger, you know, this little animal.
00:02:56.360 Absolutely.
00:02:57.140 And you see a badger being, you know, some tiger or lioness is trying to kill it.
00:03:03.580 And it sort of turns around, it has very sharp teeth, and it knows how to go to the weakness points, you know, to the points of vulnerability of the enemy.
00:03:11.940 And you see these things, you know, I watch NGO Wild when my wife lets me because she likes to watch cooking shows, okay?
00:03:19.440 So late at night, after we have this argument, we settle on some compromise.
00:03:23.580 And on NGO Wild, I see these films of this badger, this tiny creature, it's about this big, taking on a lion, and the lion runs away.
00:03:33.500 So Israel is the badger of the international scene. 0.99
00:03:36.660 It has the fortitude, the will to fight our enemies because of our history, because for so long we were, we didn't have a state, we didn't have an army, we didn't have the ability to defend ourselves,
00:03:49.280 which culminated in this crescendo of massacres that culminated in the worst massacre of them all, the Holocaust in which a third of our people were annihilated.
00:03:59.300 We have that in our bones, in our hearts, in our soul, and we fight.
00:04:04.920 And that's a very, I think President Trump would like to see more Israels around the globe because, you know, everybody who says, you know, America first, I can respect that, but I don't think they want America alone. 1.00
00:04:18.180 And if you can have allies that actually share your values and fight for them in various parts of the world, and especially in the Middle East with Iran trying to take over the world, I think that's a valuable addition. 0.94
00:04:30.740 So, you know, it'll take time for this to sink in, but it will sink in.
00:04:35.260 You know, the topic of America first, it's become a little bit more clear where people are being put in different groups.
00:04:42.400 America first and America only, and that debate's going on right now, which is a great debate.
00:04:46.060 I actually like listening to both sides make their argument.
00:04:48.640 Well, you said, do you think President Trump is a type of a man that you can get anything you want and make him do what he wants?
00:04:54.480 I don't think President Trump is, but I do think Biden and others are.
00:04:58.680 So the whole criticism of the fact that Israel, whatever they want, they can call America and have favors being done, I would agree with you on Trump, but with Biden. 0.85
00:05:06.060 So if you like this clip and you want to watch the entire interview, click here to watch it.
00:05:09.620 And if you may have any questions for me, you want to ask me directly, download the app, ask me the question there.
00:05:14.860 I will respond back to 100% of people that asked me the question.
00:05:17.820 Take care, everybody. Bye-bye, bye-bye.