Netanyahu: Israel is world's 'most threatened country'

to allow itself to be threatened and attacked almost daily now for endless months. Israel has made a choice to allow an unfit American President to continue endless dialogue games with an Iran hellbent on nuclear power status. If Israel and the US are clever enough to persuade Iran through diplomacy to abandon its drive for nuclear power, then why hasn't it worked ? Every day that passes, Iran gets closer to achieving its nuclear weapons goals.

...Peace between Left and Right...! Then I'll be safe too, in the Center...

I can't help but feel this is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Part of Israel's collective narrative is 'everyone is out to get us'. Of course there are wars and rhetoric, but I wonder how healthy it is for a nation (not only Israel) to always view the outside world as 'enemies, animals, terrorists'. How do you negotiate with such an entity?

by Iran on 2 borders,Syria a client state of Iran on another border to mention just a few. Then there are foreign terrorists using EU,US etc passports trained in Pakistan and elsewhere. The Israelis have to be on their guard permanently.Why ?Just read what Ahmadinejad,Hezballah and Hamas say.

Would be funny to see Netanyahu sharing the same room with Ahmadinejad or Chavez :)

and puts the case as it is. Is is truly unbelievable how deep the anti-Israel anti-Jewish sentiment is and lets fact it, it is NOT dependent on what Israel does or does not do. Reminds me of how the rich and the poor Jews in pre-war Europe, the assimilated and the unassimilated were hounded. A repetition is going on. Now it has to do with arms, countries, politics. The theme is the same. Bibi is correct. Israel is the most threatened country and the Jews are once again, a threatened people. The world is going mad (again.) Stand up and be counted, whoever in the world has moral fibre. Open your eyes and be honest: Israel is intrinsically protective of itself and defensive, not aggressive. Not like the countries that surround it.

never a foe-even if you and i have many disagreements. ultimately, what we share is more than what we do not share.

who says: "No matter what Israel does or not, a HUGE proportion of world populace - believing Christians and Muslims - MUST deny Jews validity in order to validate their HUGELY populous faiths." First of all, not all Christians or Muslims, or Jews, are interested in tearing down the validity of other's faiths. Some of them are too busy living their faith to bother about stuff like that, a lot of religious people think it's a matter of same God, different names. But even when Christians or Muslims do think their faith is the true one, that's a religious challenge, not necessarily a challenge to Israel's existence. The majority of evangelical Christians, for their own reasons, have been very strong supporters, not only of Israel, but very unfortunately of Israeli sovereignty over Palestine.

Till the Mullah dictaors took over there were no problems between Iran and Israel. In fact Israel imported oil from Iran. Now Iran supports a proxy war against Israel as part of its Shiite M.E.power play. It can continue to make Israel bleed at minimal risk to Iran.Denial is the only defence they need in the Arabist circus called the UN GA

Obviously the Prime Minister has not been to Afghanistan or Pakistan, or Lebanon, Kosovo, Georgia or The Ukraine. Without American troops the Iranians would attempt a proxy takeover over Iraq. The fortress mentality of Israel is dooming entire generations of Israeli and Arab children to a world of conflict and zero peace. Which country in the Middle East has the best army and airforce? Which country has a nuclear weapon? Is Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon, or even Syria real threat to Israel? Syria would lose a war and be smashed to pieces within forty eight hours. Are the Gulf States a threat to Israel? Yes, Iran is a threat. Iran, from over 1,000 miles away but if Israel really wanted to it could have destroyed Lebanon in 2006 and could do the same with every other country. The best time for Israel to strive genuinely for peace is when Israel is so strong and its enemies are so weak. Playing the victim in this conflict no longer is real. This is 2009, not 1967.

Why Does Israel Have "Borders" that are a 1948-9 Armstice Line? 1) Palestinian/Arab rejection of 1947 Partition Agreement and War Agression, Lines of A Cease Fire (not peace treaty) are called ARMSTICE LINES. Why Was No peace Treaty Signed? Cause of Israel or Arabs 2) 1967 6 Day War - Why No Peace Treaty? I DO Remember Khartoum 3 No's Shall I Continue? Cause this will go on for a long while. But, you say that Israel is attacked because it has no borders, I say Israel has given more than a fair deal on several occassions to have those borders. Its amazing, if you wish to argue the borders argument, then you will have to place blame on Arabs for constant rejection, and if you reject the offer and I endure for 30 years I am not going to offer you a better or equal deal I am going to offer you a worse one beucase I have endured your terrorism for 30 years.

How is israel threatened compare to say the people of gaza? By the small rockets fired by hamas, which have killed only a few people. Or the rockets fired by hezbollah that killed 40 people or the very few long range rockets which iran have and is extremely unlikely to fire unless attacked first. So from statistics alone it is clear that both Lebanon and the palestinians are far more threatened than israel.

No Joke at all. Israel is not terrorist or aggressive except in the face of terror and is certainly not a terrorist state. Let me refer you to the US State Dept. list of names of countries that sponsor terror or are active in the practice of terror: Iran, North Korea, Darfur, Somalia, hamas, hezbollah, Syria. Israel doesn't even get an honorable mention...

I wonder who is threateningIsrael,that's a joke.Nobody believes that, the world is not that stupid.

By the way, the US is actually the most threatened country. See, because we have the most freedom, we are the most hated, so we must kill more people so we are less hated. Get it? And the more weapons you have, the more people seem to be a threat to you - even people with NO WEAPONS are portrayed as being existential threats. So, the way it works is, you tell people you can only be safe once you get this defense budget to keep up with the bottle rockets and...rocks...and you can then perform joint military exercises above the imprisoned people in Gaza to show them how incredibly awesome you are, how big your phallus is.

Netanyahu is beginning to sound like a paranoid schizophrenic with comments like this. Has anyone suggested he needs to see a mental therapist? A person sounding like this is not fit to be Prime Minister.

If the Prime Minister really believes this, it is time for him to take a good long rest from political office. His sanity, not to mention simple good judgment for making such a statement, is in question. He is undoubtedly aware that army chief Azkenazi has been talking about a second blitz on Gaza. And HE feels threatened ?!

rafiq said "I can not immagine any (western) country which town(s) and civilians are attacked by rockets". I think the answer to that is self-evident. None of the western nations have decades old border disputes that have gone unresolved. So of course there are no rockets flying over any western nation's undefined borders. Because none of them have undefined borders. If you want to compare Israel with western nations, do as ALL western nations have done and negotiate clear recognized borders around 100% or your country. Negotiate peace treaties with ALL of your neighbors like EVERY civilized western nation has done. All the western nations have done the hard work to accomplish this. If Israel wants the western luxury of not having rockets fired at them out of neighboring non-state territories, Israel has no choice but to negotiate state-to-state borders and to make peace agreements. Behave like a western nation, and you will reap the benefits of being a western nation.

Been saying it over and over - it is simple math odds. No matter what Israel does or not, a HUGE proportion of world populace - believing Christians and Muslims - MUST deny Jews validity in order to validate their HUGELY populous faiths. This historic fact runs so deep and long that many so-called SECULARISTS are in fact DEEPLY influenced by those multitudes of the later faiths which say Jews are WRONG at best and EVIL at worst. What else is new? Reborn Israel has clearly become the new Jewish ghetto in the global village - due to stupendous sheer mathematical odds of BILLIONS (and their obviously HUGE INFLUENCE) who MUST say the Jews are WRONG in order to say that their faiths are RIGHT. Think objectively on these odds alone and it becomes clear that it is no wonder that one tiny state and people which INHERENTLY contradict SO MANY others is the world's most threatened country by far.

Your: "Do you remember the 1956 coup that deposed the democratically elected Mr Mossadeq and installed the shah? It was organized by Israeli zionists, UK and US..." Israel had no part whatsoever in the coup. Besides, the coup was in 1953, not 56. Maybe you should check Wikipedia if you are writing about history. Finally your calling a stranger "stupid" shows what a barbarian you are.

Are you kidding me? Israel is the most aggressive, racist, terrorist entity in the world, Israel is a cancer!

We Israelis are sheep. Let some untruthful PM lie to us and we believe it because like children all Israelis love a good lie. We have caused more than our share of instability in the Middle East no thanks to our IDF army of war criminals. The UN are going to start arresting them soon enough and Bibi will have something to fear for a change especially when they come for him and Ehud Barak.

"attacks not experienced by any other state since Britain in World War II," Lets see... Pakistan, India, Iraq, Iran, Koeweit, Algeria, Lebanon, Egypt, Congo, Angola, Zimbabwe, Kosovo, Servia, Spain, Britain, Bosnia, Kroatia, Nepal, Columbia, Rwanda, Etheopia, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Korea, Cambodja, Laos, Syria, Guatamala, Peru, Nigeria, Gaza, Jordan, Rusia ... Maybe it is not true.

I think it was you who wrote not long ago that famous saying BEKARA ES BOSAMAK KOLAYDIR (It is easy to divorce a wife for a bachelor). In your case Turkey is not even bachelor. One can easily say that if Turkey pulls out from North Cyprus and especially the host town of Famagusta the world will respect them more. However it does not work that way. You have to resolve the issues with your enemies on the table by negotiating. Just like Turkey has to negotiate with Greece, Israel needs to negotiate with the Arabs to decide on the final borders, refugee issues and other issues. As I said to Swiss(Dino) Israel made a big opening (ACILIM in your nowadays popular word) at Camp David but Arafat turned it down.

... will have enough "justification" for its own belligerence...

During Bill Clinton's presidency at Camp David Israel offered a Palestinian state in all of Gaza, 96% of WB plus Israeli Land capital in East Jerusalem. Arafat refused. Israel pulled out of Sinai when Anwar Sadat made a genuine please for peace. Israel will compromise when the Arabs are sincere about peaceful coexistance and willing to make equal compromise. But they have to start by stopping the threats to Israel's existance first.

It is just amazing how all you need to do is read the Torah to see why Israel has its' back against the wall- "a wild ass of a man, his hand against every man and every man's hand against him," but also that he will be the father of a people who "cannot be numbered" "Pereh adam.... yado bekol, ve yad kol bo" Whomever has a tough time believing in the Torah and it's authenticity does not need to look further. This has all been written. And in the end, we will still be standing.

Make peace, not war. Israel has the economic and military power to foster peace. Why keep this focus on building Israeli settlements when the longer term survival of Israel is dependent on building relationships with its neighbors? Israel is reaping what it has sown, but it is not too late to foster peace.

What is wrong with this man?

That's good stuff, muttface. I look forward to you honing your comedic chops at the next celebrity roast of sociopathic murderers, which will one day honor your contributions to the art of mass murder. I haven't had such a hearty laugh since Chavez brilliant Devil bit at the UN following Lil Dubya. Huh? You mean Bibi isn't a comedian? He's the WHAT? Prime Minister of Israel? Is that short for Ministry of Comedy?

Congrats Jason!! you fell for it hook, line and sinker. You bought into one of the biggets lies told today. None of Israels' enemies could harm it with "home made rockets" or "water baloons". Yeah, cause thats all they have- forget about the shihab or the zilzal from Iran, or the countless other tons of munitions handed over to syria by Russia. Israel constantly has her back to the wall (or mediterranian in this case). You can only be a fool to think that Israels enemies are harmless. Even countries who have peace treaties with them are not sharing a REAL peace. Both Jordan and Egypt harbor some of the most anti Israeli terrorists out there. Wake up and smell the rocket fuel dummy.

As a nation built on a foundation of murder and deception, it is natural that Israel should feel this way.

Yes you are right Mr. Netanyahu. The reason for that is because Israel continues to occupy and oppress the Palestinian s, steal lands from the Paslestinians and with the help of the USA continues to threaten other countries like Lebanon, Syria and Iran, which Israel has previopusly attacked. As well as continuing to build settlements on occupied Palestinian territories that leads to breaking down the peace talks and delays any hope for a resolution. Israel created itself as the world's most threatened country by continuing to commit crimes against the Palestinian people and it's neighbours.

Please notice that the overwhelming amount of vitriolic, hate-filled responses on this forum prove yet again that indeed Israel IS the most threatened country IN HISTORY. Not only by a long list of Muslim governments, but by groups and individuals from literally every single country on earth. What Netanyahu asserts is AXIOMATIC. To argue this is like trying to argue that the earth is flat.

I would correct the headline as Israel and India are the most threatened countries on this planet.

Would you care to provide us with some details that substantiate your claims? If you're going to add your voice to a debate you really should have some verifiable facts to back up your boilerplate opinions. Is there some sort of AIPAC talking points memo they send out daily?

What is pathological, John, is the tendency of jew-haters to distort the facts and completely disregard the truth and thousands of years of history. Iran is only the latest in a long, constant line-up of those who have continuously tried to eradicate the jewish nation.

The most threatened country is Iran, and the ones doing the threatening are the same ones who are currently occupying other peoples lands. So, correction, Bonehead Bibi, it is Iran that is most threatened by YOU, not the other way around. People aren't buying it anymore, so why are you still trying to sell your stale product?

Netanyahu said "They first attack us physically and then attack our right of self defense". Is that not precisely what happened to the Pals? In 1948 80 % of Pals were driven out and Pals lost 72 % of their country. Continued settlement building threatens the rest. Gaza was attacked physically. The unarmed Pal state that was proposed is an attack on the right of self defense. How does Netanyahu arrive at such a complete reversal of the actual situation?

Will someone please wake me up the day we don't have a histrionic, made up and vapid pronouncement from this guy? He is becoming increasingly ridiculous with his desperation to get before the cameras and spout daily propaganda. The military case is of course nonsense. Israel is the region's only nuclear power. Iran has no nuclear weapons and couldn't use them if it did, due to the US security umbrella. Israel has the largest and - thanks solely to the USA - most technically advanced air force in the Middle East. It has more missile defence systems than the whole of the EU 27 combined. The comparison with the London blitz is a nonsense too. Over 50,000 civilians lost their lives in the UK, compared to 50 in Israel. What IS he talking about? The only threat Israel faces it the one it has been energetically creating in the region through its unending occupation, land theft and bullying. Live with it Bibi, it's your policy.

Countries that have STATED/WRITTEN that they will wipe Israel/Jews off the map: Iran, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Syria, PLO, hezbollah, hamas, Venezuela, Lebanon, Libya...I am sure that I left a few out. Then of course there is the ongoing campaign of so called academics, petty politicians, trumped up UN reports that seek to deligitimize the only Jewish state. Israel has never threatened its neighbors in this manner. EVER.

if this is the case, and comparing Israel to the blitz on London is ludicrous, then it is because netanyahu and his like need to create this myths to justifiy their occupation and expansionism. The claim is nonsense, nothing but hot air and the world is sick and tired of this comparisons which are without any foundation in fact or history.

So Let's examine those a little more closely. Which States are directly threatened by Israel: Lebanon Syria Iran Which States Have people's who dislike Israel and as such but GOV has ok relations, and as such GOV is threatened should they act contrary to populus: Jordan Egypt Which States are threatened in that they indirectly or directly support terrorism: Sudan Saudi Arabia Iraq Afghanistan UAE Which States Have Sent Armies to Attack Israel in her 61 years of existence without Israel Attacking First: Egypt, Jordan, SA, Libiya, Iraq, Iran, Lebannon, Syria, So Most Threatening? No. Only to those who have waged war in past against Israel, maybe.

Israel is a self pitying, self righteous, self referential, delusional, dysfunctional, dangerous society. They will have no friends soon and then hopefully we'll see one state...one person...one vote. Obama keeps telling Israelis that the USA will guard their security to try and calm their jittery nerves down and get them into peace talks. Don't think for a moment that he won't abandon them when he becomes convinced they are recidivist criminals. This is all coming to a head and when it does it won't be pretty.

Israeli claim: "Israel is the most threatened country"- actually cross border fighting is common around the world (Thailand, Saudi Arabia, Uganda, Pakistan) with many more deaths than between Israelis or Palestinians. Palestinian claim: "Gaza is the worst humanitarian crises in the world"- actually most countries in Africa are in worse situations with MILLIONS killed in West Africa in the past years.

Maybe Israel should tone down it,s threats and claims of purity and better than thou atitude if it wants to be seen as a normal run of the mill country. Not the Pariah war mongering entity that it is.

With the world's forth strongest army, bristling with nukes, he has the nerve to compare Israel with England during WW@, for goodness sake! Bibi has taken playing the victim to an art form...

... must be the brain... ... Hi!... whether friend or foe...

Whenever Israel is attacked, and responds in self-defense, the Israel bashers come out to criticize Israel as the "neighborhood bully." Israel IS in fact the most threatened country - threatened by hostile neighbors, including Iranian-backed terrorists who are armed to the teeth, a soon-to-be nuclear armed Iran that wants Israel wiped off the map, Arab countries that still have never accepted its existence, a UN that is stacked against itl, a world that turns its back whenever Israel is atacked, and a vocal left (and far right) that are all too quick to jump down Israel's throat whenever it tries to protect its citizens (many who are motivated by anti-Semitism and an anti-Israel bias, at the very least).

The PM is not stupid but his hands is tight up by his RW colleagues. He is the Pm he can reshuffles his cabinet, OK.

...lebanon threatening to flatten israel and send it back to the stone ages! or perhaps was it the other way round?!

The PM have to stop all settlements on WB,GH and acome to Negociations table to withdraw from occupied territories.It is all + if he has the courage to be a STATESMAN. Bibi should not forget that Hamas already accepted a Palestinian State on pre67 borders, so after the birth of that State of Palestine, if HAMAS continue their horrible attacks as condemn by the GLADSTONE REPORT too, then the world will condemn Hamas and accept the STRONG defence of the Israelis population. What The PM Netanyahu have to loose? Nothing, but a NOBLE PRIZE for his endeavours for PEACE.

would try to anayse what facters make their country achieve this unenviable status;and then,at least try to eliminate,by any means, fair and foul,those threatening factors.

staying its course,israel may well,in the run of centuries rather than decades,be in grave danger.the present course being one that entails inherent instability and volatility.the danger is not necessarily from foreign military superiority.again,apres moi le deluge.

I think Netanyahu is rigth, I can not immagine any (western) country which town(s) and civiliens are attacked by rockets like our civiliens in Sedrot are almost every day and this already for years!. So we Israeli according to some here, should stop complaining, cause we have such a strong army that "they" never will be able to wipe us of the map... For these I ask give me one example of an other country that allows neigbour to rocket for year after year day by day one of it's towns??? So cause they will not be able to kill us all they are allowed to kill some of us?? And we should not complain about this???

being the only "victim"( and the only one who has the right to defence itself) but also very narcissist (require being the center of attention and create situations where it can receive attention).

Yes, Palestenians have killed thouthands of Israeli people during the Gaza invasion by their pripmtive rockets. Gradually everyone be sured that Israel couldn't keep breathing without the current Conflict, and the Peace will mean its death!

That is exactly why Israel should make it clear we will stand no nonsense-we do not threaten- we act. That applies to the negotiating table as well as elsewhere That exactly is the problem: See Moshe Sharett's Personal Diary, 11 January 1961, 769: The phenomenon that has prevailed among us for years and years is that of insensitivity to acts of wrong ... to moral corruption.... For us, an act of wrong is in itself nothing serious, we wake up to it only if the threat of a crisis or a grave result the loss of a position, the loss of power or influence is involved. We don't have a moral approach to moral problems but a pragmatic approach to moral problems. . . . Once, Israeli soldiers murdered a number of Arabs for reasons of blind revenge ... and no conclusion was drawn from that, no one was demoted, no one was removed from office.... All this must bring about revulsion in the sense of justice and honesty in public opinion; it must make the State appear in the eyes of the world as a savage state that does not recognize the principles of justice as they have been established and accepted by contemporary society.

Israel seems determined to increase international criticism and hostility and to stir up resentment; look at its latest East Jerusalem housing plans provocation. What is Netanyahu playing at?

I agree with you Binny, well said. An Israel that wihdraws back to the 67 borders and respects its neighbours soverignty will have no better friend than them. Gulf arab and Israeli entrepeneurs are impatient to do business with one another. Israel should understand that in the long run it cant rely on the US for financial and military aid forever. Israel talks as if they are this innocent little country that is being attcked for no reason and wants to be destroyed and that they dont understand why. The occupation and israeli interference in its neighbours affairs is what has created Hamas and hizbullah, intifadas and other resistance in the first place.The Saudi peace proposal is a great opportunity if Israel really wants peace.But with the settlements still going it doesnt seem like they do.

Get out of LA from time to time and meet up with palestinians. I'm sure they'll teach you a few things. Palestinians NEVER "gained autonomy" over Gaza. They NEVER "had a chance to build a country" as Israel occupies THEIR land and continues to expand on it. You see Ori, occupation is not a lie but reality.

my religion forbids me from making idols from clay. however, i do use my brain, and in the process i make quite a few enemies on this very site and among the readership.

since Aunty Mabel had her accident with her Mangle. So Bibi believes that Israel can be directly compared with Somalia, Zimbabwe, Iraq and Pakistan. Gawd I need to breath can someone tell him to stop it please. Obviously Bibi is following up on his comments yesterday when he stated that failure to serve in the IDF and to follow orders blindly is a threat to Israeli society. I think a lot of posters are confusing Netanyahu's comments as referring to an external threat when in fact the real threat is an internal one.

"are you stupid enough to believe that they want the bomb in order not to use it" Iran, if it wants a bomb, probably wants it for the same reason Israel wanted its bomb. As security against its destruction. Having seen how its neighbour fared without a bomb and how North Korea avoided a similar fate, it is not an unreasonable policy. As for your simplistic assumption that Iran will want to 'use its bomb', it is not the reading of any serious military strategist [rather than bellicose Israeli war hawks] that I am aware of. Try reading A.Cordesman on this very issue. You are simply not sufficiently well informed to make your assumptions sound credible. Iran would be about as likely to target Israel with a nuclear device as Pakistan. For all their woes they are still more stable than Pakistan. http://csis.org/files/media/csis/pubs/071119_iran.is&nuclearwar.pdf

Sorry Bibi, but it's the other way around: Israel is the world's most 'threatening' country, and the biggest danger to world peace, a wolf masquerading in sheep's clothing.

True. That is exactly why Israel should make it clear we will stand no nonsense-we do not threaten- we act. That applies to the negotiating table as well as elsewhere

You are repeatimg stories started by some government scholar. A story that has risen in status to be an urban legand. A simple internet search will verify this. Israael is to be "erased from the pages of history" as cited from the speech "wiped of the map" is nowhere to be found in the speech.

.. and as the occupying force, rightly so. Netanyahu would like to compare himself to the victims of the London Blitz, but this is not how the rest of the world views Israel, its apartheid and the unlawful ongoing expansion in all directions. Now that negotiations are completely off the table, he should rather give the victims of Dresden a thought. Is is not the Palestinians who are occupying Israel. It is the Israelis who are occupying Palestine.

Israel has been out to get Iran for years and it's disgraceful the US and EU have become involved in this bullying of Iran by Israel. Iran has never threatened the US nor the EU and it hasn't threatened Israel militarily-- only verbally. Thus all this fear mongering has been blown out of proportion to serve the needs of Israel and people need to say "enough" to the bullies in Israel and their friends in the streets, if necessary. Dutch

Victims or oppressors? Who can believe in such a evident lie. The poor heroic israelis surrounded by hostile and mean arabs? C'mon, not even Obama could take it. Israel is the bad neighbour, akeed.

is the most threatened country in the world. Yeah right, and thats a cow flying past my window. Somalia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Zimbabwe and Iraq are obviously more healthy places to live in the world than Israel in Netanyahu's world. Which should make Israelis very worried about the calibre of leadership it currently has. If he is openly acknowledging that Israel is a worse place to live in than Somalia.

The reality is that the people who propose Israel is the aggressor have truly forgotten history- we asked for peace and friendship in 1949 and it has been rejected year by year... Could you please name one date when Israel was asking for peace without demand for more land? http://unispal.un.org/unispal.nsf/vDateDoc?OpenView To get your history straight you should read Sharett's Personal Diary or the study based on the diary by Livia Rokach.

He is about to get a major kicking from the Americans for announcing the building of 900 houses on occupied territory that is not Israel's. He is going for the sympathy vote, whilst deflecting criticism of say his failure to pass a budget onto the International Community. Netanyahu is presiding over the demise of the Israeli State.

Palestine is the most threatened people in the world !!

Do you remember the 1956 coup that deposed the democratically elected Mr Mossadeq and installed the shah? It was organized by Israeli zionists, UK and US. Now tell me again who is threatening whom?

change the word threatened to hated and he just about has it right.

Israel has been a historic failure in providing a safe haven for Jews and it should no longer be upheld with US tax dollars....

Yes, it's true, Israel has been and probably still is (because of idiots like Ahmadinejad + Co.), the country, whose existence has been most questionned over the past decades. But unfortunately over the past years, Israel has also become the country in this world, which is threatening most world peace, security and stability. Why...??? Because Israels chronical incapability/unwillin- ness to accept compromise on the 3 core issues of the Arab-Israel conflict keeps on inflaming the hatred of the Arab/Muslim world against the West (especially the U.S. of course) and makes the so called "war against terror" absolutely impossible to win for us. And is thereby clearly a threat to the security of innocent human beings on this planet....

"Only Iran threatens Israel and that is only because Israel has threatened Iran" Unbelievable! Wasn't it Iran who started the Holocaust story and shouted that Israel should disappear from the map? The Iran who is arming Hezbollah and Hamas?

I believe you are quite right in your assertion that both Iraq and Afghanistan are more threatened, as you say , with disintegration. Where can I find your posts to these countries showing your deepest concerns?

Yeah, you sound pretty much experts about (dis)proportionality. So here it's a matter of a tiny state threatened by the greatest terrorist organizations in the world, with both of them holding government power in their territory next to the enemy, both free to act and funded by a giant and gasoline-abundant state: Iran. If that's not a threat, then the few F-18 Israel owns are totally not one.

Wow, talk about historic revision - John, please show us any proof that Israel threatened Iran before the first time Iranian leaders called for Israel to be wiped off the map. It didn't happen. The entire news story today centers on Irans threat to destroy Israel and Iran's quest for nuclear weapons. Iran is a country that endorses suicide bombings as a means of jihad - are you stupid enough to believe that they want the bomb in order not to use it? Israel had open relations with Iran until the Islamic revolution. You may not like what the relations were, but that's not the issue. Since the Iranian revolution, Iran has constantly threatened Israel, not the other way around. Rant and rave and post all you like, but when you lie in your postings you'll be outted like you were this time.

... every settler, every settlement is causing us expotential danger...

As usual the PM is almost right. It is the population of Israel that is threatened - but by its elected government and its no talent debased politicians. True, there are others whose political leadership is worse than second rate, but even Italy is looking pretty good right now.

I think Israel's military keeps it safe enough right now, though it is true that there are lots of threats right now, almost definitely more voiced threats against Israel than any other country.

I am tired of hearing "occupation this, occupation that." The argument is facile and illegitimate. The Palestinians gained autonomy over Gaza and screwed it up without anyone's help but themselves. They had the chance to build a country and instead proved they are too tribal in thought and culture to create anything other than a broken society that blames others for their weaknesses. The more people who spout lies about an occupation of the Palestinians the greater Palestinian weakness will be since it keeps them in a "victim mentality." Then again, when it is all you have and can contribute to the world you should...

I find your proposal that Palestine and Lebanon are the most threatened countries...Nice spin but the truth is that Lebanon created its own mess without Israel's involvement. Israel did not fire the first rocket...simply put Lebanon a haven for terrorists. As for Israel being a large army- grow up people- missiles are the future...remember the London Blitz. The reality is that the people who propose Israel is the aggressor have truly forgotten history- we asked for peace and friendship in 1949 and it has been rejected year by year...Amazing how history actually illuminates the real victim- Israel.

Those rockets really do a lot of damage - as one can see from all the fatalities it caused...

Netanyahu must have a miserable life being on the cross all the time.

Israel and Palestine will be threatened together or safe together.

the sooner is the better. I dont wanna risk my kids life. Esta pronto Israel, אנחנו אוהבים אותך, we love you, te amo, on vous aime, wir lieben Sie, le amamos!!! Shalom if possible

If israel is the world's most treatened country..the palestinains are the most oppressed people on earth.

Wow! This will justify even more destruction of our fragile environment. Progress, progress.

Israel is the most threatened "fake" country in the world

There's Georgia, for example. There's also Lebanon. It's next to the world's fourth largest nuclear power, which has invaded it twice in the past thirty years, regularly threatens to do so again, and openly and continually violates its airspace. On the other hand, Israel has total military supremacy over all possible adversaries and the unqualified support of the world's only superpower. So you tell me.

Pardon me, but since when did Hamas or FATAH acquire F-18s? Since when did they have huge bombs that can be dropped on civilian areas? Since when did they have a huge amount of tanks like the Merkava? The rockets are puny. How many people were killed in Gaza during a short time? Around 1,300. A fraction of Israelis get killed in comparison. Who is threatened by ethnic cleansing and settlement construction? Israelis or Palestinians? It's clear that Palestinians are far more threatened than the military power known as Israel. You must be joking, Netanyahu.

zionist want to bring on armaggedon

Israel is perceived to be the biggest threat to the Middle Eastern countries, hence the world. Give the Paletinians their legitimate rights then Israel will be at peace with its neighbours and the rest of the world will be peaceful.The occupation makes Israel corrupt and insecure.

The Israeli Defense Force is the fifth most powerful war machine in the world,yet Natanyahoo:"Israel is world's most threatened country." I would have thought it was Israel doing all the threatening.

Has he Heard of the Goldstone Report on Gaza? Has he heard of the Millions of Bomblets Israel showered on Lebanon 2006? If His audience is Israeli Right Wingers - They all Agree. If His audience is non- Jewish foreigners - Then let me assure him that they are of the opinion that He is not good at lying.

Bibi is absolutely right. If any other country had to face what Israel does, they, and the rest of the world would be up in arms. Ofcourse the naysayers say it because of the so called occupation. This is a lot of drivel. The Arabs have been murdering Jews since time immomorial and have tried to destroy Israel since its inception, with nary a peep from the rest of the world.Its only because Israel can defend herself, the rest of the world are sitting up and taking notice that Israel can't so easily be destroyed.

...that Israelis haven't lynched this guy. There is only one explanation: Israelis don't care that their prime minister is without doubt the biggest, smarmiest liar that has ever graced the world stage. I defy anyone to find a single thing Netanyahu has ever said that even by accident resembled the truth. Have you know concept of what this says about the Jews?

Bibi to Earth! Bibi to Earth! "Israel is 'the most threatened country in the world,' " Earth to Bibi! Earth to Bibi!..... No, that would be "Palestine", whose neighbour not only refuses to accept its legitimacy but has maintained a decades-long occupation to ensure it can keep refusing to accept that legitimacy. And if you don't like that choice then I'd say both "Afghanistan" and "Iraq" rate higher in the "under threat" category, since not only are they both under occupation but they are also under threat of disintegration (Afghanistan) and/or dismemberment (Iraq). And, to be honest, even the most casual appraisal of the India/Pakistan situation would show that both of those countries are under a much greater and more terrible threat from each other than Israel currently is. Or ever was. Still, thanks for the hyperbole, Bibi. I'm sure it will play exceptionally well to the Cheap Seats. You know, where the paranoids sit.....

I think that Mr. Netanyahu made a mistake with his suffix. He meant to use "ing" instead of "ed".

I find this difficult to swallow. Israel's enemies are not even capable of firing anything more than out-dated, uselss and misguided old rockets that have expired batteries. Bibi is a great prpoagandist who always cries wolf. I am not suggesttiing that he is a liar, but he does stretch the truth.

what is this guy thinking? that people are stupid or maybe he is in deeeeeeeeeeeep denial!

Besides that fact that only by ignoring scores of wars could anyone claim that Israel suffered "attacks not experienced by any other state since Britain in World War II".... (Israel doesn't need to go any further than Lebanon to see damage on a level far worse than Israel has experienced, much less go back to WWII.) Israel happens to be the country where the MOST other countries are openly calling for negotiating peace treaties with them. No other country in the world has a line of nations so long hoping for peace talks than does Israel. So stop complaining about being so threatened, and SIGN SOME PEACE TREATIES ALREADY!!! Stop making up excuses and do it.

This is really a sad state of affairs. Only Iran threatens Israel and that is only because Israel has threatened Iran....who else can touch Israel.This is pathological