Zionist Union’s candidate for the role of defense minister, Amos Yadlin, says Prime Minister Netanyahu’s speech at the US Congress last week “destroyed the possibility of recruiting Democratic senators and representative for a majority which could overrule a presidential veto.”
Amos Yadlin at an IsraPresse event for the French-speaking community at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center, Jerusalem, February 22, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
A responsible government, Yadlin tells Israel Radio, needs to come to an understanding with the US that if Iran breaks any agreement signed with it, the sanctions regime should be immediately reinstated and a military attack of nuclear facilities considered.
Yadlin says Netanyahu’s speech drove a wedge in Congress and leaves no option for a two-thirds majority which has the power to overrule a veto by the president.
Likud MK Ze’ev Elkin, who was interviewed alongside Yadlin, says the Americans “can’t be trusted” to increase sanctions on Iran, “let alone attack its nuclear facilities.”
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