Netanyahu also referred to the security situation, saying that in the Middle East „the weak doesn’t survive and the strong can both survive and create alliances.“ He also said that radical Islam „threatens free societies in the 21st centuries. The Shi‘ite stream headed by Iran, and the Sunni one by Islamic State, want to place their flags atop of the ruins of the free world… My policy is well-founded, I inherited it from my father who inherited it from Jabotinsky – treatment by power.“