The Times of Israel reports: “In a video statement on Tuesday summing up the war against Iran, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that Israel ‘achieved a historic victory’ that would ‘abide for generations’ following the US-brokered ceasefire to end the 12-day conflict.

He said Israel removed ‘two existential threats — the threat of destruction via nuclear weapons and the threat of destruction via 20,000 ballistic missiles’ that Iran was moving to build. Israel would have faced destruction in the near future ‘if we hadn’t acted now.’

US President Donald Trump acted ‘in an unprecedented fashion,’ the prime minister said, thanking him for ‘his part in defending Israel, and removing the Iranian nuclear threat.’

Netanyahu said the historic development — a US strike on Iran in support of Israel — was ‘the fruit of a diplomatic campaign I led with [Strategic Affairs] Minister Ron Dermer,’ and praised the American forces who ‘destroyed’ the underground Fordo enrichment site…”