In what can be viewed as the harshest statement he has ever made toward the United States, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed last night to put a stop to Iran's nuclear program by whatever means necessary -- even in outright defiance of American objections -- the Times of Israel website reports today (November 6, 2012).
Netanyahu said President Barack Obama had stated that Israel has a right to defend itself as it sees fit, and that Israel dare not entrust its future to others -- even to the United States.
He added that Israel's prime ministers had ignored U.S. disapproval in establishing the country in 1948 and preempting the Arab attack in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.
Netanyahu was interviewed last night as part of an investigative TV report that traced Israel's efforts over the past decade to thwart Iran's march toward the nuclear bomb. In the TV report, Netanyahu described Israel's 2007 air strike that destroyed Syria's nuclear reactor as "a general rehearsal for an attack on Iran."
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad --Iran's current president -- has publicly called for the total destruction of Israel.
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