President hints at opposition to Netanyahu Congress speech

15 February 2015, 9:35 pm

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Speaking at the opening of the INSS Security Conference in Tel Aviv, President Reuven Rivlin hints that he is against Netanyahu delivering a controversial speech to the US Congress next month.

“I believe that if we think it’s correct to speak on relevant international stages on the dangers awaiting us and the dangerous threats, then the more so we should take it upon ourselves to speak honestly, patiently, in Hebrew to our citizens at home,” he says. “We have no other voters and we don’t have any other elections and we don’t have any other parliament. Citizens of our land first. Anything we have to say can be said also here at home.”