Coming to a Theater Near You

Scott Johnson of Power Line gives us three Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu quotes from an interview conducted in Israel by Sean Hannity, for his Fox News program.

For the Islamist radical groups, remember, we’re the small Satan; you’re the great Satan. You’re ultimately the target. They attack us because they believe that we are you and that you are us…and in one sense of things, they are right. We are you and you are us. We are that enlightened, civilized, beleaguered democracy, not without fault, trying as best as we can to to stop the hemorrhaging to protect ourselves against these vile enemies.

I think the future of our free civilization depends on our ability to have not only the weapons, but the moral clarity to fight this evil when we see it. And now we see it.

I think the greatest danger we face is that these Islamist terrorist groups or nations have the weapons of mass death. Look at the danger that we face when they have rockets and missiles. Now imagine what kind of danger we’d have if they can put a nuclear warhead on top of these missiles. That’s the danger that is coming from Iran. If in this great melee, this great conflagration, this great battle, one of these militants, in this case the Shiite militants, backed by Iran, sponsored by Iran, if they have an Iranian nuclear umbrella, if Iran itself can intimidate the U.S. with intercontinental ballistic missiles carrying a nuclear warhead, then we bring history to a different threshold altogether…It’s not a spin. It’s not a whim. It is a clinical diagnosis of a pathological movement that is sweeping our area but will soon come to a theater near you. It has to be stopped now.

Bibi makes a realistic appraisal of a brutally ugly situation.