Close To Being Elected Israel’s Next PM, Netanyahu Vows ‘No Nukes For Iran’
JERUSALEM - Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s leading candidate for prime minister, said Saturday that Iran “will not be armed with a nuclear weapon.”
In an interview with Israel’s Channel 2 TV, Netanyahu said if elected prime minister his first mission will be to thwart the Iranian nuclear threat. Netanyahu, the current opposition leader and head of the hardline Likud party, called Iran the greatest danger to Israel and to all humanity.
When asked if stopping Iran’s nuclear ambitions included a military strike, he replied: “It includes everything that is necessary to make this statement come true.”
Iran has denied it is seeking to acquire nuclear weapons and says it is pursuing nuclear power for peaceful uses. It also denies it is engaged in terrorism, instead accusing Israel of terrorist policies against the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, which were occupied by Israel after the 1967 Mideast War.
The Channel 2 TV broadcast interviewed all three candidates for prime minister ahead of the Feb. 10 election. The three did not debate each other and appeared one after the other to answer questions posted by Israelis in YouTube videos.
Tzipi Livni of Kadima and Ehud Barak of Labor were both asked about how they intended to deal with the continuing rocket threat from Hamas militants in Gaza. Both took a hard line.
“Hamas was hit like it was never hit before,” Barak, the defense minister, said. “If they try us again, they will be hit again.”
Israeli launched a massive three-week offensive against Gaza militants on Dec. 27 to stop eight years of near-daily militant rocket fire at southern Israeli towns. Nearly 1,300 Palestinians were killed in the fighting, about half of them civilians, according to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights. Thirteen Israelis were also killed, three of them civilians.
Livni, the foreign minister, said if Hamas “hasn’t gotten the message yet” Israel would strike it again.
Regardless, she said Hamas could not be negotiated with and called on the people of Gaza to overthrow their regime.
“I do not intend to reach any agreements with Hamas. Agreements I make with people who accept my existence,” she said. “They do not recognize Israel and do not renounce violence and terrorism. They will not be a party to an agreement and therefore the people of Gaza have to expel the Hamas from within them.”
(AP)
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this is not campaign talk. im pretty much positive that BN will take care of Iran if/when elected. he sure wont take any of Hamas’ bullshit either.
Dont stop now,IDF..Get some..Get it ALL !!
Death to islam
Netan-YAHOO! Get in and GET SOME! The world will thank-you for it even though the liberal assholes in every country will squawk loudly for a while. When it is all over, the libs will go about their business of finding something else to squawk about.
Netanyahu is Israel’s Reagan.
I have always been nothing but impressed by Netanyahu, and Israel will need her best in the upcoming years.
Hey Israelis want to trade heads of state? We do not check citizenship any longer. Our Kenyan 2008 model has not even had the nubs worn off the tires yet. Not a bad trade for that old battle and leadership worn (proven) model of yours. We will return Rahm at no extra charge. No warranty, or exchanges.
i totally agree with BN. Treat iran the way President Ronald Reagan would. Afterall islam does command its followers to do the sadistical such as in surah 8:12 where their followers are commanded to amputate every finger off, which means assault and battery as well as the saditical.
Give islam what they deserve BN. i am one hundred and ten percent with you about destroying those sadists.
Netanyahu is Israels last best hope. Where is ours?
Netanyahu is Israels last best hope. Where is ours?
Good question. Who knows? Perhaps we will find out this year. Maybe not. (I would not be surprised if we did not.)
Bibi is the man that will protect Israel and in a back-door kind of a way, The Unitied States.
Iran needs to be put in its lousy place. No nuke Iran in 2009.
islam sucks.
Mohammed was a pedophile.
Death to islam.
“I do not intend to reach any agreements with Hamas. Agreements I make with people who accept my existence,†she said. “They do not recognize Israel and do not renounce violence and terrorism. They will not be a party to an agreement and therefore the people of Gaza have to expel the Hamas from within them.â€
Well, there it is. Isreal will take care of business while the PO(S)TUS wrigns his pinkies and does nothing.
I’ll tear a page out of the libtard’s book and apologize to the world for the torment our ball-less president will put them through. In particular to Isreal and Poland, I’m sorry. Let me buy you a