"Congress is the only place where a bad deal can be stopped. It is the right and essential thing to do to safeguard Israel’s security and existence."Any question about his motives seem answered.
Perhaps in response to that, someone leaked the information that in 2012, the Israeli spy agency Mossad actually had assessed Iran's nuclear program as much less alarming than Netanyahu claimed in his address to the United Nations.
As quoted by Ian Deitch in the World Post, "Netanyahu had brandished a cartoon drawing of a bomb and said Iran was moving ahead with plans that would allow it to potentially build a nuclear bomb within a year or so."
But in the leak provided both to The Guardian and Al-Jazeera, Mossad's assessment was that "Iran at this stage is not performing the activity necessary to produce weapons." That was in 2012.
Mossad is known world-wide for its fierce effectiveness; it is not likely to play down a threat. It's far easier to believe that Netanyahu is exaggerating the threat . . .
. . . And intends to do so when he speaks before the U. S. Congress, hoping to induce them to pass further sanctions that will provoke Iran into walking away from our negotiations. Netanyahu rejects such criticism, saying that it is his duty to lobby against the nuclear deal.
Fine. Let him criticize and lobby all he wants in his own country. But not before our Congress at such a sensitive time . . . and when President Obama has warned of the consequences of sanctions at this stange of sensitive negotiations with Iran.
Ralph
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