President Barack Obama speaking on the telephone with Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu on June 8, 2009. (Photo by Pete Souza via Wikimedia Commons.)
Shifting Gears, Israeli Team Heading To US To Try To Shape Final Nuclear Pact -- Times of Israel
After speaking with Obama on Sunday, Netanyahu dispatching national security adviser to Washington; says permanent deal must dismantle Iran’s program
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday announced that he was dispatching his national security adviser to Washington to discuss the particulars of a permanent agreement with Iran. That permanent deal, he said, must ensure “the dismantling of Iran’s military nuclear capability.”
“I spoke last night with President [Barack] Obama. We agreed that in the coming days an Israeli team led by the national security adviser, Yossi Cohen, will go out to discuss with the United States the permanent accord with Iran,” Netanyahu told members of his Likud party.
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Update: Source: Netanyahu Scolded Obama in Phone Call on Iran Deal -- Breitbart
My Comment: The difference between the U.S. press and the Israeli press in covering this news story is startling to see. The U.S. press is framing these discussions as one in which President Obama called Israeli PM Netanyahu to assure him on their shared goal when it comes to Iran .... in the Israeli press this same story is being reported in a radically different tone (from Times of Israel) ....
.... Israeli TV news reported late Sunday that Netanyahu was “extremely angry” with Obama over the deal, that he fears the international sanctions regime will now crumble, that the US had not come clean to Israel over a secret back channel of talks with Iran, and that Israel’s military option for intervening in Iran is off the table for the foreseeable future now that the interim deal is done.
Who to believe?
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