Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly said that the Islamic State (IS), Hamas and Iran are all competing with each other to be the dominant militant Islamist group in the Middle East.
He further said that the IS has got to be defeated because it's doing what all the other militant Islamists are trying to do. They want to dominate their part of the Middle East and then go after their "twisted" ambition of dominating the world, reported Fox News.
Netanyahu said that the greatest threat to both the United States and Israel is the possibility that one of the groups would "marry their mad ideologies to weapons of mass death.
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