(7 Feb 2025)
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Washington DC -7 February 2025
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House:
President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu both understand that peace is secured through strength, not appeasement, and not by turning our backs on our allies. Before he even took office in January, President Trump and his team helped secure the ceasefire agreement and returned the return of American and Israeli hostages. This week, he announced a plan to exert maximum pressure on Iran and its proxies, who terrorize the Israeli people and the world. This is what decisive leadership looks like. And with President Trump back in the White House and Republican control of Congress, America will not turn its back on our national security priorities. Our support for Israel remains ironclad."
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel:
"The American Israeli alliance has never been stronger. I’m now concluding a week in which, which began with an extraordinary meeting with President Trump and under his leadership, the, critical decisions that show his commitment and the American people’s commitment to Israel have come to the fore instantly. First, you renewed immediately the supply of weapons that had been stopped, which we need as we’re fighting for our future, for our existence, and for the broader Middle East in a seven front war. He immediately released those weapons. He issued yesterday these sanctions on this scandalous and corrupt organization of the ICC that threatens the right of all democracies to defend themselves by themselves. And he’s done so many things in the interim, just in two weeks. But I was,, deeply moved by the reception that we got, the substantive things that we discussed, making sure that Iran never gets a nuclear weapon, and also making sure that Hamas is destroyed. We’re not going to have a future for Gaza or for a future for peace in our part of the world if Hamas remains there. We agreed on many things, but I think it sets the tone for this great strengthening of the American Israeli alliance."
3. Cutaway of Johnson and Netanyahu shaking hands and walking away
STORYLINE:
House Speaker Mike Johnson welcomed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Capitol Hill on Friday.
Their meeting is a make-up date because Johnson missed a scheduled meeting with Netanyahu at the Capitol.
That’s because the speaker and other congressional Republicans were at the White House Thursday in a meeting with Trump and other officials that stretched well into the late afternoon.
Netanyahu thanked President Donald Trump for signing an executive order imposing sanctions on the International Criminal Court over investigations of Israel.
Trump signed the order at the White House on Thursday. Neither the U.S. nor Israel is a member of or recognizes the court.
The court has issued an arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over his actions toward Palestinians in Gaza after the Hamas attack against Israel in October 2023.
Israel is a close ally of the U.S. Trump’s order says the ICC’s actions set a “dangerous precedent." Sanctions include blocking ICC officials from entering the United States.
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