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Former prime minister criticizes his successor's public wrangle with Obama over Iran, claims Netanyahu tried to drive wedge between Congress and U.S. president.By Amos Harel | Dec. 1, 2013 | 9:43 PM
Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert warned that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's aggressive quarrel with the Obama administration over the agreement with Iran signed in Geneva endangers Israel, and panned Netanyahu for "losing his head."
Olmert accused the prime minister of "declaring war on the United States" and of attempting to incite the Congress against U.S. President Barack Obama.
Olmert spoke Sunday at a closed panel discussion on "the strategic implications of the interim agreement between the P5 + 1 and Iran," held at the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University.
Olmert said both his government and that of his predecessor Ariel Sharon wished to avoid public confrontation with the American administration over Iran. "At no stage did we want to do battle with Israel's number one ally and to incite the Congress against the president," he said.
Olmert called Netanyahu's acts and statements unprecedented. "The danger and the potential damage from it are incomparably larger" than the value of the public debate with the United States, he said.
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Turbineguy
(37,412 posts)Couldn't he find something harder, like tic-tac-toe?
karynnj
(59,510 posts)I really don't get why Israel seems to think it is safer having no agreement. War with Iran will worse than the Iraq war which inflamed the ME.
alfredo
(60,082 posts)to go to war with Iran. I don't blame them for that. Why send your people into harms way if you can get someone else to do the dying for you?
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)malaise
(269,278 posts)He won't even know when he loses.
2banon
(7,321 posts)Bbi seems dangerously psychopathic IMHO.
spanone
(135,924 posts)okaawhatever
(9,478 posts)enraged when he started the rumor he would come to Florida to campaign for Romney. He completely lost my support and respect then.
I believe a good number of Americans need to be reminded of the UN vote to allow Palestine recognition. Only the US and a few small countries who rely heavily on us voted in favor of Israel. Israel doesn't have the World support in this matter the neo-cons in America claim they do.
loudsue
(14,087 posts)of office.
In fact, I've wondered if they aren't using Black Box Voting over there. Who in their right mind would keep that asshole in power? Well, except the war profiteers.
iandhr
(6,852 posts)WowSeriously
(343 posts)iandhr
(6,852 posts)I said it was not new news.
Everyone knows that Bibi tried to interfere
WowSeriously
(343 posts)OnyxCollie
(9,958 posts)for providing raw intelligence to Israel with the non-binding agreement that they would not use it.
Submariner
(12,513 posts)Bibi's boy Mountain Meadows Mitt isn't in place to start WWIII with Iran like he had imagined it would be, so it's tantrum time. Bibi should probably stick with what he's good at, sketching Bomb pictures, and leave the diplomacy to the adults.
Sand Wind
(1,573 posts)malaise
(269,278 posts)nilesobek
(1,423 posts)MisterP
(23,730 posts)Capt. Obvious
(9,002 posts)He is! Vegetative state since 2006.