If we don't quickly replace this government, Israel's foreign relations will be wiped out.

For every tear of an Israeli mother, a thousand Lebanese mothers must weep. All of Lebanon must burn!

With all due respect to the Americans, Israel must make it clear to the entire world that the blood of our sons and the security of our citizens are not forfeit. All of Lebanon must burn. Our supreme duty is to protect the citizens of Israel and the soldiers who of the IDF, and this commitment takes precedence over every other consideration.

I told the Prime Minister, even in our private meetings: For every tear of an Israeli mother, a thousand Lebanese mothers must weep.

Enough with the ping-pong. In the Middle East, you don't win with measured responses and restraint-you need to go berserk. To obliterate. To crush the terror.

The authors write that Trump told an associate: “Everyone needs to say fucking ‘obliterated.’ … That’s the word. Everyone just needs to copy what I say. Obliterated. Obliterated.”

Vance had told ABC News that Iran’s nuclear program had been “set back substantially,” adding he was unsure of the difference between “severely damaged” and “obliterated.”

The following day, he adopted Trump’s preferred wording, repeatedly using the term “obliterated.”

Time to speak with fire. To open the gates of hell.

Nobody can tell us what to do, and we've proven it.

The entire first line of Lebanese villages has been destroyed.

We are destroying all the houses. The residents will never see them standing before their eyes again.

In Lebanon, the 200,000 residents who lived in the "security zone" are not returning.

Not one of them is returning.

The IDF is there, it destroys the infrastructure and destroys the villages.

We are fighting there (Lebanon). We do not need al-Julani. Al-Julani, the terrorist in a suit, does not need to come and help us.

We saw his methods against the Alawites and what he tried to do to the Druze.

We know Syria well. He will not come to help us in Lebanon. He should stay in Syria, not interfere with us, and not make us interfere with him.

Do you know what really hurts the jihadists? Maybe it hurts them when you kill them personally, but they don't care as much about that.

What really hurts them is when you take territory from them and destroy their homes—and that's what we did.

We are already in more than 60% of the land in Gaza, and all of it is destroyed.

It is destroyed above ground and underground. That is the difference in the approach we introduced.

You remember the raids? They would go in and come out.

We go in, destroy, and do not leave. That's what we're doing now in Lebanon.

The IDF must be on the other side of the border, beyond the border, defending the State of Israel against jihadist organizations in Lebanon, in Syria, and in Gaza.

We will not move from the "security zones" — not in Syria, not in Gaza, and not in Lebanon.

Why are we on the other side in Syria?

Because we need to be there to protect ourselves against what we see in Syria.

In Arab society within the State of Israel, we're talking about hundreds of thousands of weapons, including machine guns, explosive devices, and anti-tank missiles. This is more dangerous than Iran.

Just imagine 3,000, not 300,000, just 3,000, Arabs with M16 rifles.

One hundred in Kfar Saba, one hundred in Ra'anana, one hundred in Be'er Sheva, one hundred in Afula — just 3,000 in total.

In the next multi-front war, that would be an existential event compared to which October 7 would pale. The State of Israel has lost its monopoly on the use of force.