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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Mon Mar 2, 2015, 05:39 PM Mar 2015

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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Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/netanyahu-us-officials-face-off-iran-29322069

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Netanyahu Assails Iran Deal, Touts US-Israel Ties (Original Post) DonViejo Mar 2015 OP
The AP reported it this way. I am in shock. The fact of an Israeli election in two weeks just too undeniable Fred Sanders Mar 2015 #1
And they'll always have Alan Dershowitz and Joe LIEberman to spew rpannier Mar 2015 #3
They may be old war horses but they are reliably predictable, plug and play old war horses. Fred Sanders Mar 2015 #4
Liar. n/t Jefferson23 Mar 2015 #2
F you Bibi! NYtoBush-Drop Dead Mar 2015 #5

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
1. The AP reported it this way. I am in shock. The fact of an Israeli election in two weeks just too undeniable
Mon Mar 2, 2015, 06:10 PM
Mar 2015

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

(24,304 posts)
3. And they'll always have Alan Dershowitz and Joe LIEberman to spew
Mon Mar 2, 2015, 06:38 PM
Mar 2015

that the fault of this rift is totally Obama

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