Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu: Obama Must Prevent "Iran From Gaining Nuclear Weapons" Or Israel Might Have To

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told The Atlantic that “the Obama presidency has two great missions: fixing the economy, and preventing Iran from gaining nuclear weapons." The Iranian drive for a nuclear weapon was a “hinge of history,” he said, emphasizing that all of “Western civilization” was responsible for preventing an Iranian bomb.

The Jerusalem Post reports that "Netanyahu suggested that Israeli preemptive strikes against perceived threats were the result of the Jewish people learning from a long history of grappling against those who threatened their collective existence. He cited Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s repeated calls to 'wipe Israel off the map,' as well as a recent remark by the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, to the effect that Israel was a 'cancerous tumor.'"
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