Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that Arab countries viewed Israel as an "indispensable ally" fighting Iran and the Islamic State group.
That evaluation, he told Brazil's Globo TV during a visit to Rio on Monday, has caused "a revolution in relations with the Arab world."
Israel, he said, had shown itself to be active in battling "radical Islam, violent Islam -- either the one led by radical Shiites led by Iran, or the one led by the radical Sunnis led by Daesh (IS) and Al-Qaeda."
Asked if he could ever contemplate sitting down with an Iranian leader to talk peace, Netanyahu replied: "If Iran remains committed to our destruction the answer is no."
The only way, he said, would be "if Iran undergoes a total transformation."
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