The Israeli Prime Minister stirred up a diplomatic crisis during a podcast interview last night.
According to Israeli channel C14, while referring to the demographic profile of Britain, Benjamin Netanyahu said that the country could well be renamed ‘The Islamic Republic of Britain’, adding that the ‘UK will become the first Islamic Republic in possession of nuclear weapons’.
On Iran, Netanyahu said he was working towards preventing the creation of yet another nuclear Islamic democracy in Tehran.
Following the Israeli PM’s remarks, British commentator Piers Morgan, with 9 million followers on X, called him ‘an idiot’, triggering a media storm, with hundreds of thousands people viewing his post and thousands commenting.
Omri Heim, a commentator on C14 responded to Morgan’s comment-‘Yes he’s stupid. How’s Birmingham doing; Don’t come crying when you feel the water boiling, frog’.
This was a reference to the fact that the Lord Mayor of Birmingham is a man of Pakistani descent.
