US Voices Disagreement With Netanyahu’s Outlook At Un On Political Islam
WASHINGTON – The United States declined to endorse Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s outlook on the state of political Islam throughout the Middle East, responding to his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Monday.
In the speech, Netanyahu said that all of militant Islam – regardless of its sectarian affiliation, its governing structure or its popular support – poses a cohesive ideological threat to the Western world.
“Certainly we see differences,” State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said after Netanyahu’s remarks. “We would not agree with that characterization.”
Netanyahu said that Islamic State, a terrorist organization seeking a caliphate throughout Iraq, Syria and the Levant, shares a similar philosophy to Hamas, which seeks the destruction of the State of Israel.
So, too, does the Islamic Republic of Iran, Netanyahu continued, which has regional ambitions for its particular viewpoint on Islam.
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