Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slams the ongoing Iran nuclear talks, April 1, 2015. (screen capture: YouTube)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday panned the nuclear talks in Switzerland.
He quoted an Iranian general who said earlier this week that “Israel’s destruction is nonnegotiable.”
What was evidently negotiable, the prime minister said bitterly, was giving Iran’s murderous regime a clear path to the bomb.
Watch the full brief, furious statement, delivered by Netanyahu on Wednesday as negotiators worked past their self-declared Tuesday night deadline, here:
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Netanyahu later Wednesday extended a very warm welcome to US House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner, who arrives just shy of a month since Netanyahu spoke, following Boehner’s invitation, at the US Congress:
Meanwhile, on the BBC, Jeremy Bowen interviewed Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal, who denounced Israel while portraying the terror group he leads as “moderate and open-minded”:
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