Peres to Obama: We trust you on Iran

Hanegbi again: Netanyahu will be making the point to Obama, when they meet later, that “words don’t stop missiles.” In Hebrew that works better: “Milim lo otzrim tilim.”

Peres and Obama are back out in public now. Peres says he’s confident that “your version can transform the Middle East.”

Peres thanks him for the long days and sleepless nights that you spent caring for our country. “There is a common vision uniting us: to confront the dangers, to bring peace.”

On Iran, “We trust your policy which calls to try by nonmilitary means with a clear statement that other options remain on the table.”

On the Palestinians “we have already agreed” that there is no better solution than two states for two peoples.” Peres says Israel considers Mahmoud Abbas “a partner in that effort to stop terror and bring peace,” but warns of the dangers posed by Hamas, by Hezbollah which “is destroying Lebanon.”

Fortunately, the Syrian nuclear capacity was destroyed,” Peres says, but there is still the danger of Syrian WMD.

The Arab spring “may bring peace to the region, freedom to the people… We pray it will become a reality.”

For the skeptics on peace, “your voice will encourage belief” in the “possibility” of peace. “Your vision is a historic step in that direction.”