And I think it's important for the Europeans to understand what Chancellor Mertz said in a broader context. We are actually fighting the barbarians who want to destroy our free societies.

Axar.az informs this was stated by Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu in an exclusive interview with Euronews.

"They want to destroy you. And we are standing at the front lines while we are being attacked from people in Europe whom we are protecting. It's quite amazing. So obviously, there has to be a change, I think, in the understanding of what battle is being fought here.

It's not merely against the Hamas terrorists who hide behind civilians, who use their civilians as human shields, who shoot the civilians, who want to get out of harm's way when we tell them to leave the area, the zone of combat. It's not only against these monstrous terrorists, it's against the whole monstrous terror axis that Hamas has built, not only to destroy Israel, conquer the Middle East, but to attack you. And that is what Israel is fighting.

Few Europeans perhaps understand it, but it doesn't make it less true. It's just when, as Churchill warned the world, that was celebrating the Munich Agreement, celebrating the giving (German Nazi leader Adolf) Hitler control, basically, of a part of Czechoslovakia.

Everybody said, it's peace in our time. And he said, no, it is not, it's not. This will bring a war, the likes of which we haven't seen. And people condemn them as a warmonger, just as they are condemning Israel, just as they’re condemning me. But in fact, we are fighting the battle of the free world.

We are fighting a battle to prevent the barbarians from storming into Europe, first from conquering all the Middle East, storming into Europe. And then attacking the United States. Now, whether or not people see it, it's true.

And I'm very proud of our soldiers, who in defending ourselves so courageously, are also defending all of free civilisation," PM noted.