U.S.CRIME WATCH

Netanyahu answers Obama on video; the reply is the whole story

Israel's prime minister posted the video Friday on X, answering the former president's remarks on Israel's founding and Palestinian displacement; it is mostly one man and one phone.

On air: Rosa Ticks and Hank Ledger on BBN Crime Watch
Published 8:16 PM ET, Saturday, October 17, 2026
Updated 1:36 AM ET · aired 3 times

Photo: Official White House Photo by Pete Souza · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · altered by BBN

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Photo: Official White House Photo by Pete Souza · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · altered by BBN

Photo: Barack Obama — Photo: Official White House Photo by Pete Souza · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · altered by BBN

At a glance

First reported by Newsmax: “Netanyahu to Obama: 'Our Land Is Not Stolen Land'”.
Covered on BBN on Saturday, October 17, 2026, at 8:16 PM ET on BBN Crime Watch, by Rosa Ticks and Hank Ledger; aired 3 times.
Topics: Netanyahu, Obama.
BBN covered this story before: Netanyahu praises Trump's 'wicked sense of humor' ahead of Israel vote (October 17).

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NewsmaxNetanyahu to Obama: 'Our Land Is Not Stolen Land'

What BBN said about it

Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe Israeli prime minister has now answered former President Obama's remarks on Israel's founding, and he did it in a video posted Friday on X.
Rosa Ticks · Live ReporterThe scene is a social media feed, and I have been scrolling it since the break!
Rosa Ticks · Live ReporterThere is a quote, there is a video, and there is a suspicious absence of crumbs!
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorBenjamin Netanyahu said Jews are not foreign occupiers in their ancestral homeland. That part is on the record.
Rosa Ticks · Live ReporterAllegedly the most replayed sentence on the whole desk!
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorReplayed by us. It's one video and one day. There is no second suspect.
Rosa Ticks · Live ReporterAnd the original remarks that set it off? Still out there, Hank!
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThey are. I'd like to issue a recall notice for the Friday posting time. Nobody should have shipped that into a weekend.

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