Alon Liel: “The Killing of Israelis by Israelis Is More Dangerous Than the Iranian Problem”

Dr. Alon Liel, a scholar of international relations and an Israeli diplomat, spoke this morning (Thursday) with Yossi Mizrahi on Radio North 104.5 FM. He argued that the internal wave of violence is more severe than the Iranian threat and estimated that the meeting between Netanyahu and the U.S. President did not focus solely on Iran, but also addressed other sensitive issues.

Liel first discussed priorities, comparing the crime wave in Israel to the Iranian threat:“Priorities — that’s the problem. The internal issue this morning turned out to be five fatalities, and that is more serious than the Iranian issue. This crime, both in terms of the number of deaths and in terms of the threat it poses to Israeli society — what is happening now, the killing of Israeli citizens by other Israeli citizens — is more dangerous than the Iranian problem.”

He also spoke about the Netanyahu–Trump meeting and the topics discussed there:“A meeting lasting two and a half to three hours — the President of the United States, especially the one we know, does not have the attention span to listen to evidence against Iran for hours; that’s not possible. He can absorb about fifteen minutes of that kind of material — we know the man, he won’t go into such fine details. I believe most of the meeting did not deal with Iran at all. I believe there were other issues that Netanyahu may have found more comfortable to conceal. Such as the West Bank issue. Before Netanyahu entered the room, there was a statement from the U.S. State Department opposing annexation and calling for stability in the West Bank — that happened before he went in. I also think Gaza came up in the conversation. It suits Netanyahu — and perhaps Trump goes along with it — that he supposedly took two hours of Trump’s time on Iran. I do not believe the meeting dealt only with Iran.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3n1Gkqpf18

12/02/2026