I think many of them (Arab countries) are afraid of a Palestinian terrorist state.

Many of them privately tell us how they want to see Hamas eliminated from the scene.

I think we can get to a solution that protects Israel's security and also gives the Palestinians the ability to govern themselves but not to threaten Israel.

What comes the day after [war] is a de-radicalized Gaza, a de-militarized Gaza, and a disarmed Gaza, in the sense that Hamas will no longer run the show.

The people who will run the show in Gaza, and those are not Israelis, they have to be those Palestinians supported by others who want peace with Israel and not the destruction of Israel.

Europe has been absent because Europe has basically caved in to Palestinian terrorism, to radical Islamist minorities in their midst.

And they basically said, let's just give them a Palestinian state, which would be the ultimate reward for Hamas after doing the greatest massacre against the Jews since the Holocaust.

That's why Europe has essentially become irrelevant and displayed enormous weakness.

I think it caused enormous damage first here in the Middle East because it's the ultimate prize for terror you attack Jews and as I said the worst attack since the Holocaust and you're given a state.

And remember, the Palestinians had a state in Gaza, a de facto state, which resulted in the greatest terrorist attack in history since 9/11.

Imagine that after 9/11 people would say, "Okay, now let’s give Bin Laden and al-Qaeda a state. Not only will we give them a state — it’ll be one mile from New York" which is what they're suggesting.

After the October 7th massacre we'll give the Palestinians a state one mile or a few miles from Tel Aviv.

That's not going to promote peace. But that's effectively what those European leaders who suggested a Palestinian state are saying.

Now what these European leaders are saying is, "Let's weaken Israel to the point where it's fighting for its survival against another Palestinian state," this time right at the outskirts of Jerusalem, in fact within Jerusalem, and on the the hills above Tel Aviv.

That's absurd. So Europe is lost. Those European leaders unfortunately caved in to the terror of Hamas, and I think that's the wrong way to go.

I'm in constant touch with them. I can say that some of them have been more, I would say, more respectful of our positions than others.

Others, basically, they're under tremendous pressure.

The media is very tilted against Israel.

It just accepts Hamas propaganda, including whatever numbers or facts they provide, even when those are the exact opposite of the truth.

There have been these demonstrations from day one of the massacre, when women were raped and men were beheaded and babies were burned by these Hamas monsters.

There were mass demonstrations on the streets of Europe's capitals on behalf of Hamas.

And with this combined pressure of distorted media and internal Islamist pressure supporting Hamas, quite a few of them caved in and that's not good for Europe.

We brought down by our action the murderous Assad regime that had murdered half a million of its own population and served as a main access for the Iran terror bridge to the Mediterranean.

We have a whole Iran terror axis, which we have rolled back not only for our own security, but for the future of the world.

We are actually fighting the barbarians who want to destroy our free societies. They want to destroy you. And we are standing at the front lines while we are being attacked from people in Europe who we are protecting.

It's not only against these monstrous Hamas terrorists. It's against the whole monstrous terror axis that Hamas has built, not only to destroy Israel, conquer the Middle East, but to attack you.

Few Europeans perhaps understand it, but it doesn't make it less true.

We are fighting the battle of the free world. We are fighting the battle to prevent the barbarians from storming into Europe, first from conquering all the Middle East, storming into Europe, and then attacking the United States.

Now, whether or not people see it, it's true. And I'm very proud of our soldiers who, in defending ourselves so courageously, are also defending all of free civilization.