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Bennet at Davos: Building Bridges

  •   PM Bennett participates in Davos World Economic Forum virtual conference
  • 1/18/2022
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    (Communicated by the Prime Minister's Foreign Media Adviser)
     
    Prime Minister Naftali Bennett participated in the Davos World Economic Forum virtual conference, today (Tuesday, 18 January 2022), along with WEF President Borge Brende.
     
    In his remarks, Prime Minister Bennett discussed the coronavirus and dealing with the Omicron strain, the Abraham Accords and the situation in the Middle East, the Iranian issue and other topics.
     
    Following is an excerpt from his remarks: 


    "My approach is to build bridges, build bridges in the region. And I think we've been doing that for the past few years. We have a common foe in the region and that's Iran. We need reasonable-minded countries, that want to fight extreme Islam, collaborating. And I think more and more regional partners are coming to see Israel as an anchor of stability in a very tumultuous region, and not only in the security sense but also in economy."

     
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  • "Iran is an octopus of terror and instability. Their head is in Tehran and they send their arms all across the Middle East and get involved in Lebanon with Hezbollah, in Iraq, in Syria, in Yemen with the Houthis."
     
    "How very comfortable it is for the mullahs in Tehran to cause despair and I think that we see a very similar situation with the Houthis."
     
    "The last thing you want to do with this sort of octopus is pour tens of billions of dollars into this apparatus. Because what will you get? You'll get terror on steroids. Right? Everything we've seen will be doubled and tripled because they'll be much stronger."
     
    "I'm a businessman. I came to age as a businessman in hi-tech, etc. I would say that investing in Iran is not a sound investment, whether there's a deal or not a deal."