Israel says won’t allow Iran to join ‘nuclear weapons club’

Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu unleashed a harsh condemnation of the worldwide nuclear deal with Iran on Thursday, in an aggressive speech at the United Nations General Assembly.

At the time, PLO Executive Committee member and veteran Palestinian negotiator Hanan Ashrawi told Middle East Eye that Netanyahu’s willingness to put aside conditions was a euphemism for Palestinians to accept his conditions.

“I am prepared to immediately resume direct peace negotiations with the Palestinian Authority without any preconditions whatsoever”, Netanyahu said.

“Iran’s ruler promised to destroy my country, murder my people“. “I hope we can share also the efforts going forward to reduce and maybe ultimately one day eliminate any families that have to go through these bad losses”. “And I’m gravely concerned that the nuclear deal with Iran will prove to be the marriage certificate of that unholy union”.

“This deal doesn’t make peace more likely”, he remarked. It said the praise the deal had earned internationally was a misjudgment.

Accusing the organization of “Israel-bashing” and repeatedly passing resolutions against Israel while all but ignoring the savagery of the civil war in Syria, Netanyahu said the U.N.’s attitude toward Israel was unjust and disproportionate.

Speaking at the annual gathering of world leaders at the UN General Assembly, Netanyahu reiterated Israeli criticism of a deal between Iran and major world powers aimed at curbing Tehran’s nuclear program.

Lauder made the comments after Abbas said in a United Nations speech on Wednesday that the Palestinians no longer consider themselves bound by the Oslo peace accords.

“If the world leaders gathered at the UN General Assembly would pause and absorb what Prime Minister Netanyahu said, the potential for collectively and constructively addressing common threats would be enormous”, said AJC Executive Director David Harris. And the response from this body, from almost every one of the governments here, has been absolutely nothing. “Utter silence. Deafening silence”, Newsmax reported. Israel will not permit any force on earth to threaten its future, he declared.

Although Israel and the USA dismissed the move as a symbolic gesture that would not further peace, Mr Ban said symbols were important and could lead to action.