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March 2012

RUTHIE BLUM: YES, PRIME MINISTER ****

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=1488

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his team were working hard to refine and edit the speech he had prepared to present to AIPAC’s annual conference in Washington on Monday evening. Though the text had been ready prior to Netanyahu’s arrival in the United States, it was understood that it was not the final draft. This is because the prime minister had to wait to hear U.S. President Barack Obama’s address – as well as meet with the American leader face-to-face – before finalizing his own public statements.

Meanwhile, speculation ran rampant about whether Obama was going to give Netanyahu the usual wrist-slap and tongue-lashing – this time about Iran, rather than the Palestinians – or merely tell him in no uncertain terms that it would be in everyone’s best interest to give Tehran another chance to relinquish its nuclear ambitions and program.