Posted on 04/08/2015 1:22:12 PM PDT by Nachum
Israel on Wednesday flatly rejected Obama administration explanations and clarifications of the president’s remarks a day earlier, in which he appeared to acknowledge that Iran would be able to break out to the bomb almost immediately when key provisions of the new nuclear deal expire in 13-15 years.
A senior official in Jerusalem told The Times of Israel that “we share his assessment.”
And the director general of Israel’s Ministry of Intelligence praised the president for telling “the truth” about “a very bad deal.”
In an interview with NPR, Obama, whose top priority at the moment is to sell the framework deal to critics, was pushing back on the charge that the deal being negotiated by US-led world powers fails to eliminate the risk of Tehran breaking out to the bomb, because it allows Iran to keep enriching uranium. He told NPR that Iran will be capped for a decade at 300 kilograms of enriched uranium — not enough to convert to a stockpile of weapons-grade material. He then added: “What is a more relevant fear would be that in Year 13, 14, 15, they have advanced centrifuges that enrich uranium fairly rapidly, and at that point, the breakout times would have shrunk almost down to zero.”
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King Putt's not gonna like that.
Bibi knows where Israel stands with Obama. And so do the Arab states. Start stocking up on popcorn.
"The Obama administration made it clear Monday that it wasn’t letting Netanyahu off the hook for either the anti-Arab statements, in which he urged his supporters to turn out because Israeli Arabs were voting in “droves,” or remarks in which he vowed that a Palestinian state wouldn’t emerge under his watch, effectively rejecting the two-state solution that’s long been the internationally recognized framework for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict."
“We cannot simply pretend that these comments were never made,” White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough told a national convention in Washington of J Street, a left-leaning, pro-peace group that’s positioning itself as a counterweight to more traditional pro-Israel lobbying groups such as AIPAC."
BY JOEL GREENBERG AND HANNAH ALLAM--McClatchy Foreign Staff March 23, 2015
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