Lapid says PM will be guilty for Iran becoming a nuclear threshold state

“Because of [Netanyahu’s] speech, Congress will not hit Iran with additional sanctions,” says former finance minister and Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid at the Institute of National Security Studies annual conference. “Iran,” Lapid says, “will be much closer to becoming a nuclear threshold state.”

Lapid says “an empty will get up to the podium to speak. A real prime minister, one who holds the country’s good in the highest regard, would not bet in a casino on our national security and would not make this speech. The Americans are now no more eager to share information with Netanyahu, because they do trust him or his motives.”

Lapid says Netanyahu “foiled moves with the Americans out of hysteria that [Jewish Home leader Naftali] Bennett would steal on of his Knesset seats. He is not listening to the Americans, but only to the person who does his polls, a man who probably told him voters love it when he fights with Obama. It is a Greek tragedy: What he warned about for years, will eventually come to pass because of him.”