Netanyahu Assails Iran Deal, Touts US-Israel Ties
Source: ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON Mar 2, 2015, 4:12 PM ET
By JULIE PACE and ARON HELLER Associated Press
Seeking to lower tensions, Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. officials cast their dispute over Iran as a family squabble on Monday, but the Israeli leader still claimed that President Barack Obama did not and could not understand his nation's vital security concerns.
"American leaders worry about the security of their country," Netanyahu said as he opened a controversial trip to Washington. "Israeli leaders worry about the survival of their country."
Netanyahu's remarks to a friendly crowd at a pro-Israel lobby's annual conference amounted to a warm-up act for his address to Congress Tuesday, an appearance orchestrated by Obama's political opponents and aimed squarely at undermining the White House's high-stakes bid for a nuclear deal with Iran.
Netanyahu tried to paper over his personal differences with Obama, insisting he was not in Washington to "disrespect" the president and saying that any reports of the demise of U.S.-Israel ties were "not only premature, they're just wrong."
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Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)On the eve of the speech intended to boost his own election prospects delivered overseas, so the domestic media has to tone down the rhetoric according to some "tradition" also applicable during election campaigns, I guess, NOW Bibi extends an olive branch.....too late, the American media has abandoned you....you still have Wolf Blitzer left......Gloria Borger...the RW media and Fox...I think.
rpannier
(24,329 posts)that the fault of this rift is totally Obama