Posted on 03/02/2015 2:54:16 PM PST by Nachum
US President Barack Obama said on Monday that the bond between the US and Israel is unbreakable, despite tensions over differences in opinion with regard to efforts to seal a landmark atomic deal with Iran.
In an interview with Reuters at the White House, Obama said that a rift over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's planned speech to Congress opposing the Iran deal on Tuesday was a distraction that would not be "permanently destructive" to US-Israeli ties.
But he said there was a "substantial disagreement" between his administration and the Israeli government over how to achieve their shared goal of preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.
"If, in fact, Iran is willing to agree to double-digit years of keeping their program where it is right now and, in fact, rolling back elements of it that currently exist ... if we've got that, and we've got a way of verifying that, there's no other steps we can take that would give us such assurance that they don't have a nuclear weapon," Obama said.
The US goal is to make sure "there's at least a year between us seeing them try to get a nuclear weapon and them actually being able to obtain one," he added.
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What the heck is wrong with Bibi?
Doesn’t he realize he could screw up Obama’s effort to steal the Israeli election?
/s
if we’ve got that, and we’ve got a way of verifying that, there’s no other steps we can take that would give us such assurance that they don’t have a nuclear weapon,” Obama said.
So I guess bombing the crap out of their nuclear
installations is just NOT on the table???
Would that be too mean or something?
so Bibi made a mistake by accepting a speaking invitation
well, Obama is America’s mistake
now we’ll see which mistake helps and which mistake hurts us
It’s Israel’s election, dufus.
I’m sure Bibi can determine the wisdom of making the speech.
Me thinks the undocumented president doth protest too much.
The US and NATO are involved in regime change all over the place. Even Israel (by other means).
Netanyahu is Really Making Obama FREAKOUT !!!!!!!! LOL
The administration sure does have a bad feeling about this, they seem awful scared that a Real Man might tell the US how we have been sold out by a Muslim.
Either way they are SCARED OF SOMETHING, and Netanyahu appears to be the messenger they want Silenced.
Kinda makes you wonder why
why is this even an issue? remember during the VP debate between Biden and Ryan--Joe Biden assured us that Iran could not possibly acquire nuclear weapons... he laughed it off... he made Paul Ryan seem like a chicken little declaring that the Sky is Falling! and no journalists questioned Biden... something THAT IMPORTANT, and the band the played on...
They've proven themselves trustworthy, so where do we sign?
Oh, and what happens after ten years?
Obama needs to get off his high horse.
Thats rich coming from a guy who has made a habit of knocking over governments around the middle east on behalf of Muslim Brotherhood.
And has his campaign team in Israel right now trying to throw Netanyahu out of office.
Lil Barry is a crybaby.
Ich Bin Israeli.
I’m sure glad Bibi gave ‘bams a way to respond to the tension.
A country that bombs just a mockup of a US warship during negotiations is gonna keep its word on not bombing Israel...
yeah, right.
“”If, in fact, Iran is willing to agree to double-digit years of keeping their program where it is right now and, in fact, rolling back elements of it that currently exist ... if we’ve got that, and we’ve got a way of verifying that, there’s no other steps we can take that would give us such assurance that they don’t have a nuclear weapon,” Obama said. “
Translation: “ We already know that Iran has a secret facility, and are building the bomb, so this phony agreement will give them the money to complete it “
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