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Monday, March 9, 2015

Netanyahu Gambles on His Survival—and the Special Relationship

Netanyahu Gambles on His Survival—and the Special Relationship

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took the biggest gamble of his long political career this month, by staking his March 17 re-election campaign on a partisan speech before a joint session of the US Congress.  Working through former US Republican Party operative Ron Dermer, his Ambassador to the United States, Netanyahu arranged the invitation to address a joint session of the United States Congress, on the pending P5+1 deal with Iran, with the Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives, John Boehner, bypassing the White House and the State Department altogether.

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