Former DNC chair calls PM’s planned speech ‘outrageous’

18 February 2015, 8:18 pm

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Former Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean calls House Speaker John Boehner’s invite to Netanyahu to address the US Congress “a stupid thing to do” and “outrageous.”

Speaking on MSNBC, Dean says, “Imagine Obama going to Israel two weeks before the elections and giving a speech to the Knesset where he told the Israelis how they should run their foreign policy.”

“I think Boehner was just trying to get some political advantage,” he says. “I think he made a mistake but the guy who really made a mistake was Netanyahu by accepting. I think it was a really stupid thing to do, and it has harmed US-Israeli relations greatly.”