Netanyahu compares battle between Iran and IS to ‘Game of Thrones’

During his controversial speech to Congress on Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made several unexpected references, including an apparent name-check of HBO’s “Game of Thrones.”

“In this deadly ‘Game of Thrones,’ there’s no place for America or for Israel, no peace for Christians, Jews or Muslims who don’t share the Islamist medieval creed, no rights for women, no freedom for anyone,” Netanyahu said while comparing Iran to the Islamic State militant group. “So when it comes to Iran and ISIS, the enemy of your enemy is your enemy.”

The prime minister’s pop culture nod did not go unnoticed.


ABC News’ Alexander Mallin went as far as to label Netanyahu a “secret millennial.

The prime minister wasn’t the only person to invoke a Hollywood fantasy Tuesday.

CNN’s Christiane Amanpour called Netanyahu’s address “a very dark, Strangelovian speech,” a reference to Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 Cold War-era comedy “Dr. Strangelove.”

“It was a very dark, Strangelovian speech, painting the picture of a dystopian world, raising the specter of a genocidal nation, a genocidal regime spraying nuclear weapons to annihilate the whole world and the whole region,” Amanpour told Wolf Blitzer. “Now, obviously many people are very concerned about Iran, and there is a deep lack of trust, but surely the same was said of the Soviet Union all those years ago.”