Prime Minister Netanyahu is going to the US to discuss the Iran nuclear threat, and Congress is the right place for that.
It doesn't matter that US President Barack Obama has refused to meet with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in March, since�the�Israeli leader is going to�Washington to speak to Congress and meet with members of AIPAC, said Likud MK Ze'ev Elkin.

Netanyahu is going for a very specific purpose -�to discuss�the�Iran nuclear threat and to urge American leaders to do everything possible to stop Iran before it passes�the��red line.�

And�the�place to do that, said Elkin, is�in Congress.

Speaking to�the�Yisrael Hayom�newspaper, Elkin said that �Congress isthe�ultimate venue for a discussion on Iran.�The�West is set to sign a very bad agreement with Iran which will allow Tehran to basically continue its nuclear program unimpeded, and�the�Americans are becoming swayed to do this as well. Congress is�the�final arbiter of any deal�the�US would sign, so it is�the�Prime Minister's responsibility to use whatever influence he has to prevent this."

The�Politico�website�revealed last week�that Netanyahu's invitation to�address Congress�was extended�by House�Speaker�John�Boehner without�consulting�the�White House or�the�State�Department. Instead, Boehner�s and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell�s staff coordinated with Israeli Ambassador Ron Dermer only.

The�White House originally�gave an icy response�to news that Netanyahu was invited to address Congress, saying it was a departure from diplomatic protocol.

On Wednesday, President Obama told�CNN�he would�not meet with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in March because his trip to Washington comes too close to Israel's upcoming elections.

"I'm declining to meet with him simply because our general policy is, we don't meet with any world leader two weeks before their election," Obama told Fareed Zakaria in an�interview�which will air Sunday and of which excerpts were released Wednesday. "I think that's inappropriate, and that's true with some of our�closest�allies," he added.

By Arutz Sheva

 

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