Netanyahu to Trump: ‘Israel Has Never Had a Better Friend than You’

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NETANYAHU: “But before I go, Mr. President, it was so kind of you to invite me to come here. It was so important for me to come here to the White House and to thank you. Mr. President, over the years, Israel has been blessed to have many friends who sat in the Oval Office, but Israel has never had a better friend than you. You show this time and again. You showed this when you withdrew from the disastrous nuclear deal with Iran. I remember in one of our first meetings, you said, this is a horrible deal. I will leave it. You said it, you did it. You showed it when you restored sanctions against a genocidal regime that seeks to destroy the one and only Jewish state. You said, I will restore those sanctions. You said it and you did it. You showed that when you recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and moved the American embassy there and gave us a tremendous ambassador. You said it, you did it. And you showed it once again today, Mr. President, with your official proclamation recognizing Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights.”