Romney slams Obama for ‘lecturing Israel’s leaders’

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney issued a sweeping indictment Tuesday of President Barack Obama’s conduct of foreign policy, including key critiques of the president’s handling of Israel and the Middle East.

The stunningly sharp attack on Obama, issued in a Reno, Nevada, speech to the national convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, sets up Romney’s journey this week to Israel and Europe.

Among the vast array of attacks on Obama, the Republican candidate said:

— The president was “fond of lecturing Israel’s leaders” and that his administration was among the “chorus of accusations, threats and insults (against Israel) at the United Nations.”

— Foreign aid to Egypt should be tied to peaceful relations between Egypt and Israel.

Romney closed his fiery attack by saying he would “use every means necessary” to prevent Iran from building a nuclear weapon.