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| Netanyahu looks up at the gallery in honor of Elie Wiesel. (Bergeron Screen Shot) |
Tuesday morning, the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin
Netanyahu, delivered an address to a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress.
He expressed his deep reservations about the nature and
risks of a nuclear agreement being negotiated between the Islamic Republic of
Iran and the United States by Secretary of State John Kerry on behalf of
President Barack Obama.
These talks are aimed at slowing – not halting – Iran’s
march towards the development, acquisition and stockpiling of nuclear weapons,
a goal that Iran’s leadership steadfastly maintains it has the right to do.
After carefully listening to Netanyahu’s message in its
entirety and to his firm objections to the terms and conditions which he outlined
as being at the core of the negotiations underway, I am able to confidently
summarize our president’s offer to Iran in two short paragraphs:
