Netanyahu Sparks Diplomatic Row with Controversial Claim: 'Islamic Republic of Britain'

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has stirred up international diplomacy with a highly controversial statement. Netanyahu has taken a hard line against Britain, calling it the "Islamic Republic of Britain." The prime minister made this startling claim during a podcast interview in which he described Britain as the first Islamic republic to acquire nuclear weapons. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said this during an Israel Army Radio podcast interview. During the conversation, he praised journalist Randolph Churchill for his pro-Israel reporting decades ago, and took a sharp dig at Britain's position, saying that it is impossible to find such a thing in today's Britain, as it is now being called an Islamic republic. When the show's host asked him if he thought of the whole of Europe, Netanyahu stuck to his point, saying that only someone with the truth said that the "Islamic Republic of Britain with nuclear weapons" would be the "first historically significant leader of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan."