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Statement of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu regarding the proposed framework for a deal with Iran, as posted in the facebook Official Page of The Prime Minister of Israel:
“I just came from a meeting of the Israeli cabinet. We discussed the proposed framework for a deal with Iran.
The cabinet is united in strongly opposing the proposed deal.
This deal would pose a grave danger to the region and to the world and would threaten the very survival of the State of Israel.
The deal would not shut down a single nuclear facility in Iran, would not destroy a single centrifuge in Iran and will not stop R&D on Iran’s advanced centrifuges.
On the contrary. The deal would legitimize Iran’s illegal nuclear program. It would leave Iran with a vast nuclear infrastructure. A vast nuclear infrastructure remains in place.
The deal would lift sanctions almost immediately and this at the very time that Iran is stepping up its aggression and terror in the region and beyond the region.
In a few years, the deal would remove the restrictions on Iran’s nuclear program, enabling Iran to have a massive enrichment capacity that it could use to produce many nuclear bombs within a matter of months.
The deal would greatly bolster Iran’s economy. It would give Iran thereby tremendous means to propel its aggression and terrorism throughout the Middle East.
Such a deal does not block Iran’s path to the bomb.
Such a deal paves Iran’s path to the bomb.
And it might very well spark a nuclear arms race throughout the Middle East and it would greatly increase the risks of terrible war.
Now, some say that the only alternative to this bad deal is war.
That’s not true.
There is a third alternative – standing firm, increasing the pressure on Iran until a good deal is achieved.
And finally let me say one more thing.
Iran is a regime that openly calls for Israel’s destruction and openly and actively works towards that end.Just two days ago, in the midst of the negotiations in Lausanne, the commander of the Basij security forces in Iran said this: “The destruction of Israel is non-negotiable.”
Well, I want to make clear to all. The survival of Israel is non-negotiable.
Israel will not accept an agreement which allows a country that vows to annihilate us to develop nuclear weapons, period.
In addition, Israel demands that any final agreement with Iran will include a clear and unambiguous Iranian recognition of Israel’s right to exist.”
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Well, after reading Obama’s ‘fact sheet’, I couldn’t agree less to Prime Minister Netanyahu’s statement. In fact, I have been critical of the Iran Nuclear Deal from the very beginning of the negotiations.
Iran’s top officials have never stopped threatening to annihilate Israel, from its Supreme Leader down to the commander of Iran’s Basij security forces.
Just a few days ago, Iran advanced its troops towards Israeli border. Abu Ali, a fighter with Lebanon’s Iranian-backed Hezbollah terrorist organization said:
“Iran will be so close to the Israelis that it will no longer need long-range missiles to hit them.”
This surprise military move by Iran was made worse by its commander of the Basij security by issuing this statement, amidst the Iran Nuclear Deal negotiations:
“The destruction of Israel is non-negotiable.”
It’s an obvious threat to annihilate Israel –something that Iran is one step closer to achieving through the signing of the final draft of the nuclear deal.
Well, I believe the Iranians are serious in wiping Israel from the face of the earth –they have been saying it all through the years. But, I believe more in the seriousness of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cryptic message,
“The survival of Israel is non-negotiable”.
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