From the Liveblog of
Tuesday, March 3, 2015
Ya’alon indicates PM won’t reveal details of talks
Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon indicates that Netanyahu won’t reveal any confidential information during his speech.
He tells Army Radio he knows the content of Netanyahu’s speech, and says he will only be able to watch part of it.
“I know what will happen there; I think the Americans can also anticipate what will happen there,” he says.
“And without revealing any new information” one can successfully convey that Iran is working toward a nuclear bomb, “and the bad deal” concerns us, he says.
He is asked directly by the interviewer whether Netanyahu will reveal new information about the talks.
“Listen, you can’t claim on the one hand that we aren’t partners, and don’t know anything [about the negotiations with Iran], and on the other hand to fear that we will reveal new information,” he replies, referencing the mixed messages from Washington.
“The prime minister is responsible. He knows what to reveal, what not to reveal. You don’t burn intelligence sources, etc.” he adds.
Ya’alon also addresses the Obama interview to Reuters, in which the president said Netanyahu “made some claims” about the interim deal, and was wrong.
“He certainly wasn’t wrong,” he says. “This bad deal is rooted in the interim deal, so to say that until now there is no bomb as a result of the interim deal…” he trails off. He says there are a lot of “manipulations” of the facts “in recent history” and in history in general, and concludes “the prime minister was not wrong.”
