President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are going against the headwinds and doing what needs to be done to neutralize the Iranian threat, retired Lt. Army Col. Darin Gaub told Newsmax on Thursday.

“Headwinds are coming from every single direction. And, of course, Oct. 7 [2023] provided a lot of the impetus to get the people of Israel in general behind [Netanyahu], knowing that they had to do this now because this was just going to continue,” Gaub said on “The Record With Greta Van Susteren.”

“I agree, they’ve always had these kind of headwinds for years. [Former Palestinian leader] Yasser Arafat even said that war is deceit, and he used every single possible means in order to continue the fight against Israel through every means.

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