Britain on Friday hit back at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu derisively calling the country an “Islamic republic” in an interview, branding the remarks “completely unacceptable”.
UK PM slammed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over for calling Britain an “Islamic republic” in an interview.
The diplomatic tit-for-tat came after the right-wing prime minister made the reference in an army radio podcast interview the previous day, in which he criticised the UK’s stance on Israel. “We’re making sure there’s not another one here in Iran.
“These comments are completely unacceptable and we have raised them with the Israeli Government,” a UK government spokesman said Friday. “Someone once said that the first Islamic republic with nuclear weapons would be the Islamic republic of Britain,” he added with a smile. “He [Netanyahu] was making a quote that someone else had given,” Mencer said, noting United States Vice President JD Vance had “made those comments” previously. “He was quoting what the vice president had said. More recently, its new prime minister Andy Burnham has said that his predecessor Keir Starmer did not put enough pressure on Israel to halt its offensive in Gaza.
