Israel’s fighter pilots may soon face “challenges in other sectors” than Gaza, according to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who visited an air base in a thinly-veiled threat to Iran.
“We have determined a simple rule: Whoever harms us, we will harm them,” Netanyahu told Israel Defense Forces (IDF) personnel on Thursday. “We are prepared to meet all of the security needs of the State of Israel, both defensively and offensively.”
Netanyahu visited the IDF base as Israeli officials brace for a potential attack from Iran, which has vowed to punish Israel for the bombing of an Iranian diplomatic annex in Syria that killed a key senior Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps general. Iranian officials maintain that retaliation is “imperative,” but a widening array of regional and
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