00:00We are not fascists. We're all ordinary people.
00:04I work in a museum, I'm educated,
00:07and I've got no problem about people that want to come here
00:11and integrate with all the other people in this country.
00:15But the Islamic community just won't integrate.
00:20They keep themselves to themselves.
00:24Britain has hit back at Benjamin Netanyahu
00:27after the Israeli Prime Minister called Britain
00:30an Islamic Republic with nuclear weapons,
00:33triggering a sharp diplomatic backlash.
00:36And the UK government has now called the remark
00:39completely unacceptable.
00:41Here's what happened.
00:43The controversy began after Netanyahu
00:46criticized Britain's position on Israel
00:48during an interview on an Army radio podcast.
00:51While discussing how Britain's political attitude
00:55towards Israel has changed,
00:57Netanyahu referred to Winston Churchill's grandson
01:00who had strongly supported Israel during the 1967 Arab-Israeli War.
01:06Then came the controversial line.
01:09Netanyahu said someone had once described Britain
01:12as the first Islamic Republic with nuclear weapons.
01:16He then added that Israel was making sure
01:19there would not be another one in Iran.
01:21That comment immediately triggered a response from London.
01:25A UK government spokesperson said the remarks were
01:29completely unacceptable and confirmed that the issue
01:32had been raised with the Israeli government.
01:35But there's another layer to this controversy.
01:38Israeli government spokesman David Menser
01:41later tried to put Netanyahu's words into context,
01:44saying the prime minister was quoting someone else.
01:48Menser pointed to U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance,
01:52who made a similar claim at the 2024 Munich Security Conference.
01:57Vance had warned that Britain could become the first truly
02:00Islamist country to acquire a nuclear weapon.
02:04That earlier comment had itself sparked criticism from senior
02:08British politicians.
02:09So why is Netanyahu's latest remark especially sensitive?
02:14Britain has increasingly disagreed with Israel over the
02:18Gaza War and the broader Middle East.
02:20The UK was also among the European countries that recognized
02:24a Palestinian state last year, a move that angered Israel.
02:29And Britain has kept more distance from the U.S.-Israeli
02:32military campaign against Iran.
02:35Netanyahu, meanwhile, has repeatedly said that preventing Iran
02:39from obtaining nuclear weapons is a central Israeli security objective.
02:44There's also a major nuclear dimension here.
02:47Britain and the United States are recognized nuclear powers.
02:51Israel is widely believed to possess nuclear weapons,
02:55although it has never officially acknowledged having them.
02:59Pakistan became the first Muslim-majority nuclear power
03:03when it tested nuclear weapons in 1998.
03:06So was Netanyahu making a serious warning about Britain's political direction?
03:12Was he repeating a provocative argument made previously by J.D. Vance?
03:17Or was the Islamic Republic phrase itself an unnecessarily inflammatory attack on Britain?
03:24What is clear is that the remark has opened another diplomatic dispute between two countries
03:30countries that have historically maintained close ties?
03:33And this time, the flashpoint is not a military operation or a nuclear facility.
03:39It is a single phrase that has now turned into an international political controversy.
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