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Verbal War between Bibi, Olmert over Iran

Verbal War between Bibi, Olmert over Iran
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"Israeli" Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his predecessor Ehud Olmert battled over the Zionist entity's Iran policy Sunday, with Olmert slamming Netanyahu for "waging war" against the US administration and Netanyahu responding that he would speak out loudly when "Israel's" security is at stake.

Verbal War between Bibi, Olmert over Iran"As opposed to others, when I see that interests vital to the security of Israel's citizens are in danger, I will not be quiet," Netanyahu said in Rome in a clear reference to comments Olmert made earlier in the day.

Netanyahu further stated it was "very easy to be silent, very easy to get pats on the shoulder from the international community, and to bow one's head."
Earlier in the day, Olmert slammed Netanyahu for his outspoken opposition to the US's support of the recent international agreement reached in Geneva with Iran over its nuclear program.
"You have to handle this decision with wisdom, quietly - without bombastic declarations - and quiet dialogue as we used to do in the past," Olmert said.
Speaking alongside MK Tzachi Hanegbi, Olmert said efforts to lobby members of Congress and the public questioning of the US's commitment to "Israel" are errors by Netanyahu's government.

"We waged war on the American administration. You cannot blur it. We waged war," he said. "They were always on our side," he added, emphatically banging the podium. "What do you want from them?"
Olmert's comments came exactly a week after world powers announced a nuclear agreement in Geneva.

Olmert said Netanyahu had changed the cautious policy set by him and his predecessor Ariel Sharon on Iran, which was to work quietly and cooperatively with the US administration behind the scenes.

Instead, Olmert said, repeating criticism he first voiced in January during the heat of the election campaign, when Netanyahu took power in 2009 the policy became one of "declarations, threats, and also of financial expenditures of more than NIS 10 billion that were earmarked to prepare something that there was no need to prepare, never really existed, and was money that was wasted."

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team


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