Uri Ariel, the hawkish minister of housing (Jewish Home), responds to Obama’s statements by declaring that “In Tehran, they’re opening the champagne, and switching into a higher gear en route to nuclear weapons.”
MK Uri Ariel from the Israeli National Union party (photo credit: Abir Sultan/Flash 90)
Ariel notes the 100,000 corpses in Syria, accuses the world of doing nothing, and concludes that, “facing real dangers, no one in the world will stand with us.”
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